5 Seattle Area Cops Assassinated in a month

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archiv ... ?ref=fpblg

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....The man local police are seeking for questioning is Maurice Clemmons, 34, a man with a lifetime history of violence, burglary, theft and rape. Clemmons was serving what was essentially a life sentence in Arkansas before having his sentence commuted by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee.

[82_28]

KOMO4 has dug up some footage of Clemmons filmed last July 4th. He was being interviewed as an apartment manager bitching about something.

hmmm hmm hmm

[Project Willow]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010385617_webmansought29.html

Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers this morning, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.

Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.

"This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County said Sunday night when informed that Clemmons was being sought in connection to the killings.

Clemmons' criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.

Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child.

He was released from custody just six days ago, even though he was wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas and was staring at eight felony charges in all out of Washington state.

Clemmons posted $15,000 with a Chehalis company called Jail Sucks Bail Bonds. The bondsman, in turn, put up $150,000, securing Clemmons' release on the pending child-rape charge.

Clemmons lives in Tacoma, where he has run a landscaping and power-washing business out of his house, according to a police interview with his wife earlier this year.

He was married, but the relationship was tumultuous, with accounts of his unpredictable behavior leading to at least two confrontations with police earlier this year.

During the confrontation in May, Clemmons punched a sheriff's deputy in the face, according to court records. As part of that incident, he was charged with seven counts of assault and malicious mischief.

In another instance, Clemmons was accused of gathering his wife and young relatives around at 3 or 4 in the morning and having them all undress. He told them that families need to "be naked for at least 5 minutes on Sunday," a Pierce County sheriff's report says.

"The whole time Clemmons kept saying things like trust him, the world is going to end soon, and that he was Jesus," the report says.

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As part of the child-rape investigation, the sheriff's office interviewed Clemmons' sister in May. She told them that "Maurice is not in his right mind and did not know how he could react when contacted by Law Enforcement," a sheriff's report says.

"She stated that he was saying that the secret service was coming to get him because he had written a letter to the President. She stated his behavior has become unpredictable and erratic. She suspects he is having a mental breakdown," the report says.

Deputies also interviewed other family members. They reported that Clemmons had been saying he could fly and that he expected President Obama to visit to "confirm that he is Messiah in the flesh."

Prosecutors in Pierce County were sufficiently concerned about Clemmons' mental health that they asked to have him evaluated at Western State Hospital. Earlier this month, on Nov. 6, a psychologist concluded that Clemmons was competent to stand trial on the child-rape and other felony charges, according to court records.

Clemmons moved Washington in 2004, after being released from prison in Arkansas, state Department of Corrections records indicate. That would mean he had gone five years or so before landing in serious trouble with authorities here, according to a review of his criminal record.

Clemmons started Sea-Wash Pressure Washing Landscaping with his wife, Nicole Smith, in October 2005. The license for the business expired last month.

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more at the link

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Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons

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Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.
"This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County said tonight when informed that Clemmons was being sought for questioning in connection with the killings.
Clemmons' criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.

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If you wanted to Dukakisize Huckabee out of contention for 2012, Clemmons would be the perfect guy for the job.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html
Man sought in slayings granted clemency by former Gov. Huckabee

[lupercal]

If you wanted to Dukakisize Huckabee out of contention for 2012, Clemmons would be the perfect guy for the job.

Seriously. Then there's the question of why family-values guy Huckabee would let a convicted child rapist out in the first place. The only answer I can see is that the guy is an Oswald-type patsy being led around on a string by some intel outfit nobody can say no to. That would also explain how he handily gets blamed for the witness massacre. Wonder what those cops were investigating? Guess we'll never know.

[Jeff]

Huck's been here before:

Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release
12- 4-07

Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.

Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.

While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.

"There's nothing any of us could ever do," Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner's release. "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."

But the confidential files show that Huckabee was provided letters from several women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond and who indeed predicted that he would rape again - and perhaps murder - if released.

In a letter that has never before been made public, one of Dumond's victims warned: "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." Before Dumond was granted parole at Huckabee's urging, records show that Huckabee's office received a copy of this letter from Arkansas' parole board.

The woman later wrote directly to Huckabee about having been raped by Dumond. In a letter, she said that Dumond had raped her while holding a butcher knife to her throat, and while her then-3-year-old daughter lay in bed next to her. Also included in the files sent to Huckabee's office was a police report in which Dumond confessed to the rape. Dumond was not charged in that particular case because he later refused to sign the confession and because the woman was afraid to press charges.

Huckabee kept these and other documents secret because they were politically damaging, according to a former aide who worked for him in Arkansas. The aide has made the records available, deeply troubled by Huckabee's repeated claims that he had no reason to believe Dumond would commit other violent crimes upon his release from prison. The aide also believes that Huckabee, for political reasons, has deliberately attempted to cover up his knowledge of Dumond's other sexual assaults.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/0 ... 75362.html

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I see police officers in coffee shops almost every day. Different officers; different coffee shops. But they all have one thing in common. You can tell that they were wearing bullet-proof vests on their chests. Haven't seen an officer, without one, in years.

If these officers had theirs on, then head shots were probably involved, since they were all killed. And it is damn hard to do a head shot on just one person, never mind four. Even if you're a religiously practicing gun owner.

I'm still scratching my head re. how a child rapist was able to tragically gun down four on-duty, uniformed police offers... who, I assume, were wearing their vests.

[Project Willow]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html

Troyer said investigators have learned that the gunman stood in line the Forza Coffee Co. outlet at 11401 Steele St. South as if he were there to buy some coffee.

When he reached the counter, the barista saw him pull a gun our of his coat. She fled, thinking the gunman was about to target her.

Instead, he turned and fired point-blank at the four uniformed officers as they were working on their laptop computers.

Two officers were hit before they had to react. One officer was shot as he attempted to struggle with the gunman. Another officer fired off some shots toward the gunman as he fled, and may have hit him, Troyer said.

"We believe there was a struggle, a commotion, a fight ... that he fought the guy all the way out the door," Troyer said. "We hope the suspect was shot, because that would tell us who it is. There aren't a whole lot of people running around with gunshot wounds." Two baristas and a handful of other customers were inside the coffee shop at the time of the attack, but none of them were shot or injured. The suspect fled without taking any money.

[nathan28]

Cf. Henry Lee Lucas & Matamoros. By way of Huckabee connection, see also Mena. I smell something rotten.

Back into hiding.

[lupercal]

Two baristas and a handful of other customers were inside the coffee shop at the time of the attack, but none of them were shot or injured.

It sounds like an ultra-professional hit job, and Clemmons sounds like a garden variety patsy. His Jack Ruby moment may be nigh.

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If it is what you suspect it is, then it won't involve another civilian a la Jack Ruby.

SWAT will probably fill that requirement.

Two baristas and a handful of other customers were inside the coffee shop at the time of the attack, but none of them were shot or injured.

It sounds like an ultra-professional hit job, and Clemmons sounds like a garden variety patsy. His Jack Ruby moment may be nigh.

[Project Willow]

SWAT is now in the CD, 3 blocks from the scene of the Halloween Brenton killing, surrounding a house they think Clemmons is in.

[lupercal]

surrounding a house they think Clemmons is in.

Any bullet-riddled corpse will do...

[Nordic]

HUCKABEE?

Wow, this is a really weird one.