Female law enforcement officers prove their mettle

November 7, 6:07 PMSpokane Homicide ExaminerDoyle Wheeler

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Officer Kimbery Munley
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Female law enforcement officers have proven their mettle.
This week started out with a Student Officer Britt Sweeney in Seattle acting like a “ten year veteran” said Jim Pugel, Seattle Police Assistant Chief.

Her and her senior partner came under intense semi automatic rifle fire by a domestic terrorist.

Officer Brenton was killed instantly, while wounded Sweeney radioed for help, returned fire, and got a description of the fleeing vehicle.

Without her presence of mind to actually look at the suspect vehicle  making a mental note of the type of vehicle, this case may not have been solved.

Officer Sweeney providing the information that suspect vehicle was a small light colored import like a Toyota allowed detective to focus their search as they looked at hundreds of video tapes.

It was from an officers dash camera that they spotted their suspects vehicle. It was the releasing of the vehicle information that brought the tip that led to the shootout, and arrest of the assassin.

This not only solved the murder of Officer Sweeney’s partner, but it also solved the bombing of the police vehicles that occurred in the preceding weeks.

She has earned the respect, admiration, as well as best wishes of every law enforcement officer in America.

Understandably there is no photo available at this time of Officer Sweeney as the Seattle Police department want to protect this officer.

Fast forward to Thursday, Fort Hood Texas. Sergeant Kimbey D. Munley was on her was to get her car repaired when a call of a shooting in progress at the base came over the radio.

She responded immediately,arriving first she pulled up and saw the suspect chasing a wounded soldier while brandishing a gun.

He jumped out of her car immediately firing a shot at the suspect, Major Hassan witnesses said.

At this point Hassan, turned toward her shooting. They ran at each other shooting multiple rounds, both going down in a hail of gunfire.

Sergeant Kimberly Munley, though struck a number of times managed to hit the suspect four times with her own rounds, bringing to an end this bloody carnage.

While she is a civilian law enforcement officer, she was engaged in combat on a military installation. She should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor!