AP Photo: Cops at Checkpoints Point Guns at Americans’ Heads

6 officers were injured Friday night in Roseville, CA during a shootout with wanted parolee, Samuel Nathan Duran. Residents of a suburban Sacramento city were subject to terrorizing checkpoints in which cops were aiming weapons directly at their faces.

The photo, (credited to AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton) is captioned, “A California Highway Patrol officer and another emergency responder stop a vehicle at a checkpoint near the neighborhood where a federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded during a violent confrontation with a suspect in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013.”