Two Memphis-area cops killed

[Inky_Wretch]

Two more county sheriffs injured. Two suspects killed.

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-west-memphis-shot,0,192061.story

(Warning: Link has photo of dead suspect)
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/20/west-memphis-police-officer-killed-another-injured/

 

[playthrough]

Very powerful photo.

Police chief's son and nephew were the killed officers. Damn.

 

[imjustagirl]

That's what jumped out to me too. Not that it's obviously what should be the top thing right now, but aren't there generally nepotism rules or some such? Weird he could have TWO direct relatives working for him.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Very powerful photo.

Police chief's son and nephew were the killed officers. Damn.

I'll be interested to see if the Commercial Appeal (or any paper for that matter) runs that in print.

 

[Pancamo]

Looks like the other dead suspect's arm is by the real wheel.

 

[Small Town Guy]

My cousin's a cop up in the Twin Cities and was involved in a huge manhunt recently. A few weeks ago, two guys carjacked a guy. An officer came upon them awhile later. The guys killed him before he even got his seatbelt off. Like this, it was one of those situations where whichever cop would have been there would have been killed. Just pure dumb luck. Short time later, one of the suspects attacked another cop with a pipe and beat the hell out of him. They fought for his gun, the cop won and killed him. They found the other suspect a short time later.

Cops get a ton of criticism and much of it is warranted. But then you hear stories like this one and it just drives it home again how even their most routine days can end in horror.

 

[YankeeFan]

Absolutely terrible. Such a tragedy for the families.

An off duty officer was killed last night in Chicago, so I was already upset about this kind of thing. This story doesn't help.

The Chicago cop was apparently killed during an attempted robbery of his motorcycle right in front of his home. His father, a retired cop, killed one suspect and wounded another.

The guy had just gotten back from his second tour of duty Iraq.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/05/chicago-police-officer-shot-during-possible-robbery.html

Sorry for the threadjack, just didn't think we need two similar threads.

 

[Blitz]

Asshole gangbanger/thugged-out/drug dealing slimeballs.
Damn that's a sorry story to have to read.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Van registered to a white supremacist church ...

http://www.wnewSportsJournalists.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=184165

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Very powerful photo.

Police chief's son and nephew were the killed officers. Damn.

BUY THIS PHOTO

 

[Inky_Wretch]

More on the cop-killers ...

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/21/relatives-id-west-memphis-suspects/

 

[Care Bear]

It appears that photo, if the details in the story are accurate, depicts the dead body of the 16-year-old boy involved. I'm not avocating not running it, but that's what immediately struck me about the picture.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Not sure why the kid is in handcuffs though. He's not going anywhere.

 

[YGBFKM]

Is he? Could just be the way his body fell.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Is he? Could just be the way his body fell.

If that's the case, that's a heck of a way for the arms to stay after getting shot.

 

[User 4332]

Not sure why the kid is in handcuffs though. He's not going anywhere.

I'm assuming they slapped them on him before checking his vitals, and I'm fairly certain he is cuffed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

In a video posted to YouTube, Jerry and Joe Kane can been seen at one of their seminars. They would teach that all debt contracts are the responsibility of the U.S. government, not the debt-holders because, they teach, American currency really doesn't exist.

Web sites touting the two Kanes reinforce their teaching that only debt exists, and the U.S. government is responsible for it because it really holds all gold and property.

In fact, at one seminar posted on YouTube, Kane says a driver's license is a debt contract with the federal government.

"It's a promise to pay," Kane says in the video. "It's a bond...You've committed, uh, you've already guaranteed, uh, confessed guilt on anything they want to charge you with."

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12521732

 

[Batman]

Not sure why the kid is in handcuffs though. He's not going anywhere.

I'm assuming they slapped them on him before checking his vitals, and I'm fairly certain he is cuffed.

Probably so. That photo is already spawning conspiracy theories, though, based on the comments on the CA website.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Not sure why the kid is in handcuffs though. He's not going anywhere.

I'm assuming they slapped them on him before checking his vitals, and I'm fairly certain he is cuffed.

Probably so. That photo is already spawning conspiracy theories, though, based on the comments on the CA website.

The right-wing conspiracy theorists are already saying they were assassinated by the Feds for teaching people how to erase all their debts.

 

[User 4332]

Helicopter footage of the aftermath. You can see the kid slumped over in the car and then a little while later they drag him out. The camera zooms out, but it looks like a deputy is doing something with the body, perhaps putting cuffs on, but it's too far away to see.

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