Two police officers were ambushed in New Orleans on Friday, with one officer getting shot in the head and the other sustaining injuries during the attack. This is just the latest attack on police officers in the United States after the numerous calls to defund and even abolish police departments in different cities. Those calls for abolishing police departments have been supported by many Democrats trying to pander to the far-left.

The man who shot the two police officers in New Orleans was riding a pedicab and was arrested right after the incident. “Two of our officers were ambushed,” NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson told reporters. “This is a dark day. Merely driving down the street … can lead to gunfire,” he added. “These two officers were not responding to a call for service. They were not looking for an armed subject on a pedicab. They were driving around in the French Quarter on routine patrol.”

One of the officers was shot in the head with the bullet lodging in his skull. He was able to walk into the emergency room under his own power after they were brought into the hospital after the ambush. The other officer sustained minor injuries that resulted from the attack.

Witnesses described how the attack took place. They said that as a pedicab approached the victims’ patrol vehicle, then someone stood from the pedicab and started firing into the vehicle. Good thing that the attacker was unable to carry out any task in a competent manner, which is typical of leftists who like to threaten physical violence but are not capable of carrying out an attack properly.

According to witnesses, other police officers on the scene were able to corner the suspect right away, who suddenly started faking some kind of medical episode as he flailed around when he was being arrested. Most likely, he is just faking the episode so he can get some privilege accorded to mentally ill suspects.

This is the kind of violence supported by the Democrats through their calls for more protests.