Cop's Shooting Death May Upend Debate Surrounding Government Shutdown ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2018/299/3384c1bc-4a31-42f2-af38-bd44edce5e6e.jpg ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump found a strong political issue in a brutal and needless crime on Thursday when he tweeted about the murder of a central California police officer at the hands of a man believed to be an illegal immigrant. This awful crime is likely to upend the debate surrounding a government shutdown that began because Trump rejected a compromise budget -- which the White House had signaled he would sign -- that did not include some $5 billion for border wall funding. For their part, Democrats don't want to give him that victory. That could change. On Friday, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson announced that authorities had arrested a suspect, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, in connection with the shooting death of Newman police Cpl. Ronil Singh. Singh had pulled over Arriaga for suspected drunk driving Thursday at 1 a.m. The suspect, he said, had two prior convictions for drunk driving, a "known gang affiliation" and was trying to flee to Mexico. "We can't ignore the fact that this could have been preventable," the sheriff said. Christianson faulted California's sanctuary state law that prohibits local enforcement from communicating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless authorities are holding an undocumented immigrant convicted of certain felonies within 15 years. "Ladies and gentlemen" he warned, "this is not how you protect the community." Singh was the personification of the American dream -- a legal immigrant from Fiji who "came to America to become a police officer," a grief-stricken Police Chief Randy Richardson told reporters. ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ ( Full story below )⤵ ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2018/12/30/cops-shooting-death-may-upend-debate-surrounding-government-shutdown-n2538225