Andrew H. Mickel/McCrae, the Seattle-area POS and admitted cop killer, appeared in court this week. Just a few reported tidbits stood out for me...
Judge admonishes suspect
He was extradited to Red Bluff last week.
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McCrae, 23, had asked for more time to study the law in preparation for his arraignment and preliminary hearing.
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"Your explanation is not very good," Scheuler replied. "It does not represent a significant - or for that matter - any grasp of the law. . . . Sir, I can't continue this for three years while you get a legal education. Do you understand that?"
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McCrae's next court appearance is scheduled for [8:00 AM] Feb. 25.Slaying Suspect Assigned Counsel:
A .40-caliber Sig Sauer semiautomatic pistol thought to be used in the killing has been recovered. The gun was purchased by McCrae on Oct. 30, 2002
- [that's six days after Muhammad/Malvo's arrest was plastered all over the news. No doubt the sniper shootings influenced this guy's decision to buy a gun and murder a cop.]
- [two days later; October 22, 2002, was designated a "National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation". The organizers of this event put out hate-speech similar to Mickel/McCrae's. Their website says they got signicant media coverage on October 20th.]
- [two weeks earlier: October 6, 2002, the 'Not In our Name' rally in Seattle also put out similar anti-police hate speech that Mickel/McCrae apparently soaked up like a sponge]
McCrae admits to killing officer, and tells why
"I picked California specifically. I didn't want to do this someplace I lived in because it would just be viewed as a local act; what I'm fighting for is a national problem," he explained.
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"I know what I did, and I would do it again," he said.
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McCrae believes he has a message for the world that he developed while attending Evergreen. The school is known for its liberal policy of not having majors, but allowing students to develop their own courses of study.
- [that's Evergreen State College, with a campus in Olympia, and branch campus in nearby downtown Tacoma - in the heart of John Allen Muhammad's neighborhood]