One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

[BigBagel]

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The assassination of police officers for political reasons is not unknown. During the 1970's in New York the Black Liberation Army engaged in attacks on police officers without prior interaction with the officers. They'd approach the cops and start shooting. They liked to target black/white partners.

[don]

Re: One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

November 15, 2009

Seattle Official Says Man Waged ‘War’ on the Police

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE (AP) — A man waged a “one-man war” against law enforcement, starting with the firebombing of four police vehicles and continuing after the fatal shooting of a Seattle police officer on Oct. 31, a prosecutor said last week as the man was charged with murder.

The man, Christopher Monfort, 41, was charged Thursday with aggravated first-degree murder in the death of the officer, who sat in his cruiser discussing a traffic stop with a trainee, who was grazed by a bullet.

“This case is unique in that Monfort deliberately planned to confront police and kill as many officers as he could,” said Dan Satterberg, the King County prosecutor.

Mr. Satterberg has 30 days from Mr. Monfort’s arraignment, scheduled for Nov. 24, to decide whether to seek the death penalty.

Mr. Monfort was also charged with one count of arson and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. The attempted murder charges stem from the wounding of the trainee, Britt Sweeney; what prosecutors said was an attempt to kill officers during the firebombing of police vehicles nine days earlier; and attempts to shoot officers who approached him outside his apartment in suburban Tukwila last week.

Mr. Monfort ran from a sergeant and two other homicide detectives and then produced a handgun, which did not fire when he pulled the trigger, Mr. Satterberg said. The gun was loaded, but Mr. Monfort had neglected to put a round in the chamber, Mr. Satterberg said.

“This oversight saved the life of the police officer, who was only a few feet away,” he said.

Mr. Monfort then ran for his apartment door, and the detectives fired, striking him in the cheek and the stomach, the prosecutor said. Mr. Monfort remains at Harborview Medical Center in satisfactory condition.

The Seattle Times last week quoted a statement by Mr. Monfort’s mother, Suzan Monfort, saying the shooting had left her son paralyzed.

Inside Mr. Monfort’s apartment, the police said, they found an arsenal: three rifles, including the one used to kill the officer, Timothy Brenton; a pistol-grip shotgun; and several bombs consisting of propane bottles wrapped in duct tape with nails protruding.

No clear motive has emerged, but Mr. Satterberg said Mr. Monfort left fliers about police brutality when the police vehicles were bombed at a maintenance yard on Oct. 22.

Mr. Monfort studied criminal justice at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Wash., and the University of Washington, and the police believe that he had recently been fired from a job as a security guard.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us...le.html?ref=us

[Slimprofits]

Re: One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

Posted on November 29, 2009 at 9:41 AM
4 officers killed in Parkland, WA

PARKLAND, Wash. - Four police officers have been shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says that the officers were in a coffee shop near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.

Troyer says the officers were preparing for their shift when a suspect or suspects opened fire.

Troyer called it an "ambush."

[flintlock]

Re: One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

Posted on November 29, 2009 at 9:41 AM
4 officers killed in Parkland, WA

PARKLAND, Wash. - Four police officers have been shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says that the officers were in a coffee shop near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.

Troyer says the officers were preparing for their shift when a suspect or suspects opened fire.

Troyer called it an "ambush."

I saw this today and immediately thought of the original post on this thread.

Bad times bring out the worst in people. Expect to see more of this type thing.

[lurker]

Re: One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

That the same type of argument the gun-phobics made when many states began liberalizing concealed carry laws: it will turn Florida/Virginia/(insert state name here) into the "Old West," minor fender benders will escalate into shoot-outs, etc. None of the hysterical rhetoric came to pass.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita

Murder rate in US is 3 times that in Canada, UK, most of western Europe. Arming the general population does not make us safer.

Concealed carry permits are a different matter because they are much more strictly policed than are gun sales. Thus owners of concealed weapons pose much less of a threat than the average gun owner.

I'm on the fence regarding concealed carry permits ... I can see valid arguments either way. But simply arming the general population, and doing so with minimal checking of backgrounds etc ... I think that has been proven to be a disaster as evidenced by the US vs Europe murder and suicide by firearm rates.

[lurker]

Re: One officer killed, one wounded in Leschi shooting

That the same type of argument the gun-phobics made when many states began liberalizing concealed carry laws: it will turn Florida/Virginia/(insert state name here) into the "Old West," minor fender benders will escalate into shoot-outs, etc. None of the hysterical rhetoric came to pass.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita

Murder rate in US is 3 times that in Canada, UK, most of western Europe. Arming the general population does not make us safer.

Concealed carry permits are a different matter because they are much more strictly policed than are gun sales. Thus owners of concealed weapons pose much less of a threat than the average gun owner.

I'm on the fence regarding concealed carry permits ... I can see valid arguments either way. But simply arming the general population, and doing so with minimal checking of backgrounds etc ... I think that has been proven to be a disaster as evidenced by the US vs Europe murder and suicide by firearm rates.

[Jim Nickerson]

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http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita

Murder rate in US is 3 times that in Canada, UK, most of western Europe. Arming the general population does not make us safer.

Concealed carry permits are a different matter because they are much more strictly policed than are gun sales. Thus owners of concealed weapons pose much less of a threat than the average gun owner.

I'm on the fence regarding concealed carry permits ... I can see valid arguments either way. But simply arming the general population, and doing so with minimal checking of backgrounds etc ... I think that has been proven to be a disaster as evidenced by the US vs Europe murder and suicide by firearm rates.

If you cannot get assistance with being euthanized, what the fock is wrong with suicide by pistol, rifle, or shotgun other than the mess?

[pwcmba]

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http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911...rom=blog_last3



Here it is, the lone wolf. Watershed event.

After seeing these last few incidents I think Sapiens was right!:eek:

[bcassill]

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We just had another one over the holidays down in Tacoma. This time four officers were gunned down in a coffee shop by a lone shooter. All are dead.

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Poli...-78089882.html

[bcassill]

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Here's another piece of news on the guy that they are looking for. Apparently his life sentence when he was locked up in Arkansas was commuted by none other than right winger Mike Huckabee. Aren't these guys supposed to by tough on crime?:eek:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Susp...-78182797.html

[Chomsky]

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Here's another piece of news on the guy that they are looking for. Apparently his life sentence when he was locked up in Arkansas was commuted by none other than right winger Mike Huckabee. Aren't these guys supposed to by tough on crime?:eek:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Susp...-78182797.html

Clemmons is dead:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...s-Shot.html?hp

NYT also has piece on Huckabee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us...ckabee.html?hp

[flintlock]

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I'd say this is a career killer for Huckabee. At least as a politician.

[Sapiens]

Officer responding to Pa. home disturbance killed

Officer responding to Pa. home disturbance killed

8 mins ago

PENN HILLS, Pa. – A police officer responding to a domestic disturbance was shot dead outside a suburban Pittsburgh home where another man was killed inside, authorities said.

Neighbors reported hearing 10 gunshots at the home in Penn Hills, an Allegheny County township of about 50,000 residents.

The civilian was shot in the home, but not by the officer, and the officer was shot in his patrol car apparently by someone using an assault rifle, county police Superintendent Charles W. Moffatt said. Police had no suspects, he said.

He wouldn't comment on earlier claims by emergency dispatchers that police wanted to question a man believed to have been carrying an assault rifle.

The officer, Michael Crawshaw, was parked two or three houses away from the scene while waiting for backup when he was shot, Penn Hills police Chief Howard Burton told WPXI-TV. He had been on the Penn Hills police force for two years.

Neighbor Nancy Salera, who lives about four houses away from where the shooting happened, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette she was "absolutely horrified" by what sounded like the firing of a machine gun. She said police swarmed the area minutes after the gunfire stopped.

The slain officer is the fourth to be killed on duty in Allegheny County this year. Pittsburgh Officers Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo were shot dead while responding to a call at a home in April.

The shooter in that case, Richard Poplawski, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was armed with a variety of weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle, when the officers arrived at his mother's home, police said. He shot Sciullo inside the home and Mayhle on the front stoop within seconds and shot Kelly in the street as he arrived as backup, prompting a four-hour gun battle before he was taken into custody, they said.

Poplawski is being held in the Allegheny County jail on homicide and related charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

The last time a Penn Hills officer was killed in the line of duty was in 1972, when Sgt. William Schrott and Officer Bartley Connolly Jr. were shot while trying to catch an armed robber at a shopping center.

No losses since 1972...until now. Odd how these officers are being attacked. :rolleyes:

[raja]

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Murder rate in US is 3 times that in Canada, UK, most of western Europe. Arming the general population does not make us safer.

The point of having guns is to make us safe from the government :eek:

[llanlad2]

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In response to

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quincy K Do you have any proof of this? I am not asking you for links, just numbers you have seen to justify your position.

The UK does have a violent crime problem:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...of-Europe.html

The National Statistics don't support what you say at all.
The British Crime Survey is an annual survey of the population and has asked the same questions since 1981 and so can't be "fixed" by the Police.

The report covers 1981-2006 and shows

1981 Crimes in total(reported and unreported)- 10million
1996 (peak) - 19 million
2005 -10.9 million.

Thereport does show that the perception of crime has increased.From the report tabloid newspaper readers are twice as likely to assume crime was rising in their area.

Amongst people who quote from the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail the results are probably higher.