http://www.seattlepi.com/local/411951_shooting07.html
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Last updated 2:07 p.m. PT
“Suspect in police shooting ‘lone domestic terrorist’
Bomb making materials found in man’s apartment”
By CASEY MCNERTHNEY and CHRIS GRYGIEL
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
SNIPPET: “The man who is a suspect in the Halloween night slaying of a Seattle police officer is a “domestic terrorist” who had explosive devices in his apartment, police officials said Saturday.
Christopher J. Monfort is believed to have worked alone in the fatal shooting of Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton, as well as the Oct. 22 firebombing of four Seattle police vehicles, said Jim Pugel, Seattle Police assistant chief.
“This man, from everything that we can tell, appears to be a lone domestic terrorist,” Pugel said at a news conference.”
SNIPPET: “At one point Monfort wanted to be a policeman, according to people who knew him. He studied law enforcement issues at a local community college and the University of Washington. A former advisor said he was a “natural leader,” but a neighbor called him “weird.””
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/11/christopher_monfort_suspect_in.php
“Christopher Monfort, Suspect in the Murder of Officer Tim Brenton, Wanted to be a Cop”
By Caleb Hannan in Crime & PunishmentSaturday, Nov. 7 2009 @ 2:38PM
SNIPPET: “Rosemary Stevens rented a room to Monfort 18 years ago in Pasadena. The actress tells the P-I that while he was working as a waiter in a steakhouse, Monfort’s dream was to wear a badge for the L.A.P.D.”
SNIPPET: “While in the UW scholarship program, Monfort focused on the work of Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University. Butler is a proponent of a controversial tactic known as jury nullification, whereby a jury can ignore a judge’s instructions and acquit defendants, especially black defendants convicted of a non-violent crime, no matter how strong the case against them.
“It is the moral responsibility of black jurors to emancipate some guilty black outlaws,” Butler wrote in a 1995 Yale Law Journal article, adding: “My goal is the subversion of American criminal justice, at least as it now exists.”
As the Times reports, Monfort, who is half-black, wrote in his project abstract that he wished to “illimunate and further” Butler’s scholarship.
Wegner is the last person quoted to have spoken at length with Monfort. He says they touched base five or six months ago. Monfort was “driving truck” and volunteering his Friday’s at a juvenile detention center.”
SNIPPET: “Attempts to reach Monfort’s mother Suzan have thus far been unsuccessful. But the Times did speak with Vicki Malone, her business partner in a Curves in Bethel, Alaska, who said that Suzan was on her way to Seattle to check on the condition of her only child.”