***UPDATE****Please drop by and sign the condolences page for Sgt Reyka it would mean a lot to the family and friends who knew this hero well.

Screw habeas corpus. The sack of crap that did this should be brought in and locked in a cell with at least ten deputies who can do whatever they please.

“A Broward County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Friday in Pompano Beach, the second shooting of a Broward deputy this week.

The deputy was identified as Chris Reyka, 51, of Wellington. Early reports said that he had been shot in the head.

The shooting happened near a 24-hour Walgreen drug store at 960 S. Pompano Parkway as Reyka was running tags looking for stolen vehicles about 1 a.m., said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mike Jachles.

Reyka pulled his cruiser next to two cars in the parking lot. As he got out of his vehicle, someone got out of one of the cars and immediately opened fire, Jachles said. The shooter got back into the vehicle and headed north toward Atlantic Boulevard.

The Sheriff’s Office set up a large command post in the area as deputies searched for the killer. Just after the shooting, police concentrated their search along Interstate 95 and in the neighborhood surrounding the scene.

During the morning rush hour, BSO patrol cars were on every entrance ramp along I-95 with lights flashing as they searched for the suspect’s car. Helicopters, deputies, police officers and canine patrols were mobilized from Palm Beach County south into Broward.

A $20,000 reward was offered.

“There is a massive manhunt for this cop killer,” Jachles said.”

Authorities were looking for a white, full-sized American-made passenger vehicle with tinted windows and stolen Florida tag F16 8UJ, Jachles said. The car, which has two unknown occupants, was believed to have been manufactured within the last 10 years and was not new, he said. The suspects were considered armed and dangerous.

It’s time to increase the minimum mandatory in Florida.

Kill a cop and you get the needle - no appeal. There is simply no excuse for this and it’s time to stop it.

Here is a picture of my friend, the father of four children.