On Sunday, a career criminal went into a coffee shop in Lakewood, South of Tacoma frequented by Police, pulled out a gun, and murdered four Police Officers. One of the officers managed to get his weapon out and return fire. This is the single worst attack on Police in the history of the State of Washington.
The gunman hopped into a waiting car and sped away. All four of the Officers had family: husbands, wives, kids, brothers, sisters, parents. All were respected members of the Lakewood Police Force. They were not known to the gunman. The cowardly viscous unprovoked attack seems to have been entirely random.
Maurice Clemmons was out on bail from charges of child rape and assault. He had had a lengthy prison sentence commuted by Gov. Huckabee in Arkansas, where he was in prison for multiple counts of burglary and one for assault on a police officer.
At 2:45 this morning, he was shot and killed in South Seattle, a short distance from where I live. Having murdered four Police Officers, there was little hope he would be apprehended alive. My personal opinion is that the human gene pool has been improved by his removal from it.
There is no way that this scumbag should have been walking the streets. With his extensive record and the pending charges against him, he should have still been in jail.
It was quite evident that he had been helped by several people to evade police. He had been woulded in the abdomen by the one officer that managed to get off a shot before being murdered. The wound had been dressed and treated by someone. He was driven away from the crime scene by an accomplice (who can be charged with accessory to Myrder of the four officers) he was hidden, and moved from place to place. Conspiracy to aid a fugitive, aiding and abbetting a fugitive and other charges are being filed. I believe they currently have four people in custody on a variety of charges. I hope they all get apropriate sentences, if found guilty.
This comes a couple of weeks after two Seattle Police Officers were murdered in their patrol car.
Way too much tragedy, murder, violence and death.
A tragedy of major proportions. No one wins and there is NO happy ending.
2 comments:
Is this what you and R and i drove by the other day? I'm so glad you're all safe, and very, very glad that he has been eliminated from the gene pool. Maybe people should think twice before (a) letting dangerous criminals out of jail and (b) helping them! Gah!
Sarah: What we drove by the other day was something else. Still, with everything that has gone on lately, it makes me want to get the heck out of Dodge.
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