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Four police officers shot dead at Lakewood coffee shop [Washington State]
The News Tribune ^ | November 29, 2009 | The News Tribune Staff

Posted on 11/29/2009 9:50:38 AM PST by DakotaRed

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department has reported that four police officers have been shot dead in an ambush at the Forza Coffee coffee shop at 11401 on South Steele Street in Lakewood Sunday morning.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said investigators are immediately offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the suspect, and that number is expected to grow.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewstribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: ambush; blamehuckabee; huckabee; huckster; lakewood; lakewoodshooting; police; tacoma
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To: SeanOGuano

“I can’t believe an American city has a statue of Lenin, (Seattle.)”

Freemont district - imported from Russia in the 90s if I remember correctly.

“I wish someone would dump it in the sound.”

Only if they bring a 65 ton crane to lift the bronze larger-than-life-sized abomination...


61 posted on 11/29/2009 10:16:58 AM PST by PIF
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To: jersey117
Being familiar with the area, what is your take on this?

Don't know, but I do know that Lakewood has a HUGE drug problem, mainly meth.

62 posted on 11/29/2009 10:17:47 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Snurple

***Why no description of the shooter? Never mind I know the answer.***

Two white guys in a white van? Sarc/off


63 posted on 11/29/2009 10:17:49 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: SeanOGuano

I know. Every time I think PDX is bad, I just think of our neighbors to the north (and south).


64 posted on 11/29/2009 10:18:08 AM PST by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: classified
"Controlled media is not covering it. If this were a car chase involving drugs it would be all over the news!"

It's finally starting to show up as breaking news on all the media sites now. I can't imagine that this won't be a HUGE story. I'm in my 50s, and I can't remember anything similar to this, not even during the peak of the NYC mob wars.

65 posted on 11/29/2009 10:19:00 AM PST by OldDeckHand (Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
“Blame Canada” eh, Sparky. Oh yeah, it’s all Canada’s fault.

Welllllll, there is a theory that 0bama was born in a home for unwed mothers in Vancouver BC.

After all the very first confirmed itty-bitty Barack sighting was just across the border on Mercer Island...

66 posted on 11/29/2009 10:19:52 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 312 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

Do you have any actual statistics on the amount of blonds who go missing versus other hair colors? For all you know...blond women in America disappear at a higher rate.

So do you have any actual numbers or do you just have a problem with blond people in general?


67 posted on 11/29/2009 10:20:33 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

“Your well written post...”

Gee, thanks! We try! :)

Lived there for 30 years. Fled when overwhelmed by liberal Democrates intent on destroying the once beautiful state - the Lenin statue being a case in point - Freemont used to be a sort of hippy area, but after the statue arrived I never went there again.

As for the monsters, well, in time they will go too far and that will be the end of the road for them nationwide.


68 posted on 11/29/2009 10:21:16 AM PST by PIF
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To: Just Lori
Lakewood is just a bit south of Tacoma. The coffee shop is right across the street from McChord AFB, where my husband works.

And of course, we can't carry firearms on base because of their commie-like rules, so if we go off-base to eat, we go unarmed.

69 posted on 11/29/2009 10:21:31 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: null and void

70 posted on 11/29/2009 10:21:45 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Spike Knotts

Fox News reporting 2 shooters. 1 black male, 1 white male. No other descriptions given.


71 posted on 11/29/2009 10:21:58 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Snurple
Why no description of the shooter? Never mind I know the answer.

Latest information (subject to change) is two males, one white, one black.

72 posted on 11/29/2009 10:23:37 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Socialism is the plundering of the productive by the unaccountable)
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To: null and void

“just across the border on Mercer Island...”

is 75 miles to the southeast and either a very long car / ferry ride or both depending on route chosen.


73 posted on 11/29/2009 10:23:46 AM PST by PIF
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To: DGHoodini

The report on CNN.com or google news said they were sheriff’s deputies, preparing for their shift at their laptops in the coffee shop.


74 posted on 11/29/2009 10:24:16 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: PIF

I wonder how this all will play out nationwide, as people leave Calif. for Texas and NJ for Fla,...there may well be a repositioning of the cultures and voting blocks that alter some states...Now if they don’t ‘bail out” the liberal , loser states, things could change.


75 posted on 11/29/2009 10:25:46 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: OldDeckHand
I can't imagine that this won't be a HUGE story.

This story could end up buried this afternoon under the avalanche of coverage of Tiger Woods and his "accident". The country is waiting breathlessly to hear him speak.
76 posted on 11/29/2009 10:25:53 AM PST by Deo volente (Sarah Palin was right. There ARE death panels in the bill.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

According to this article it was “one male and one black male”. Odd, but ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577691,00.html


77 posted on 11/29/2009 10:25:58 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
What part of Washington state is this? near seattle?

South end of Tacoma. The shop is literally accross the road from the airfield at McCord AFB.

Forza Coffee Co
11401 Steele St S Ste 108
Tacoma, WA.

Fox reporting two suspects, one "black", one "white". Hmm, that's only about 3 miles from the Islamic Center of Tacoma. Wonder if either or both of the killers shouted "Alahu akbar"?

Regular gang banger types would not be out at 0830, nor would you have a mixed "race" team. Another possibility would be latino gangs, but the same 0830 issue applies there, but you could get a dark guy and light guy and think you had a black and a white.

Time will tell.

78 posted on 11/29/2009 10:26:02 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Let's Roll

Probably their morning routine. I’m sure the shooters knew right where to find them at that time of day. Straight up execution.


79 posted on 11/29/2009 10:27:22 AM PST by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: BunnySlippers
it was “one male and one black male”

One Black Muslim and one not-so-black Muslim?
80 posted on 11/29/2009 10:28:55 AM PST by Deo volente (Sarah Palin was right. There ARE death panels in the bill.)
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