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Published on: 7/30/2005
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Greg Johnston, president of the U.S.Park Ranger Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police and a ranger at Blueridge Parkway in Virginia, said shootings are more common than that, and park rangers are the most frequently assaulted federal law enforcement officers.
Johnston noted that in January, 2003, a ranger shot and killed a carjacking suspect at the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Maryland, and a ranger was shot and killed Aug. 9, 2002 while chasing drug smugglers on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
Johnston added that the deadly force policy for park rangers allows them to shoot when they feel they or others are in imminent danger of serious injury or death, and rangers are trained to take into account the danger to the area behind their target.
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