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SEATTLE, Washington (Nov. 8) - A suspect in the shooting of a Seattle, Washington, police officer is also believed to be behind the bombing of four police cars, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said at a press conference Saturday. Christopher Monfort, 41, remained hospitalized in serious condition after being shot by officers during a confrontation Friday. "This man, from everything that we can tell, appears to be a lone domestic terrorist," Pugel said. Monfort was in custody at the hospital, but no charges had yet been filed, a Seattle police spokeswoman told CNN. Charges could be filed as early...

Not only is Fox News Contributor Marc Lamont Hill an admirer of convicted cop killer and radical Icon Mumia Abu-Jamal, he's also his publisher. AIM's Cliff Kincaid discovered that Abu-Jamal has been promoted on Hill's now-deleted myspace site; but it goes even further. For two years, I read Hill's blog daily. His views are indeed radical. He frequently praised Castro and Khallid Muhammed, along with other criminals and dictators. Here's Abu-Jamal's warm introduction by Hill: "I am thrilled to announce that Mumia Abu-Jamal has joined the Barbershop as a weekly contributor!! His column, 'Live from Death Row', will appear every...

About 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland on Wednesday to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday.

A bloody robbery attempt brings a roundup of '60s fugitives The armored Brink's truck pulled up to the Nanuet National Bank near suburban Nyack, N. Y., shortly before 4 p.m. and two guards began loading $1.6 million in cash. Suddenly three armed men in ski masks jumped out of a red van and opened fire. One guard was killed instantly and the other critically wounded. The three bandits and an accomplice dashed off with the loot. "They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away." The robbers changed conveyances at a...

While Barack Obama’s friends and supporters in the news media downplay his friendship and business relationship with former terrorist and Marxist university professor Willam Ayers, one aspect of the Ayers terrorism saga that’s totally ignored is his reputation as a cop-killer. For instance, in Nyack, New York, Ayers’ terrorist group the Weather Underground launched an armored-car robbery that left two Nyack, NY police officers—Officer Waverly Brown and Sergeant Ed O’Grady—mortally wounded. In addition, the Brinks armored-car driver, Peter Paige was also shot to death by the Weathermen. Quite simply, Ayers’ group of killers left five children without fathers as a...

For the past two years, The Bulletin has been campaigning for more accountability by parole boards and judges. Numerous articles have documented light sentencing and early paroles for those who have murdered Philadelphia police officers during this period. What follows is the account given by confidential sources concerning the criminal history and prison records of four murderers of Philadelphia police officers:

KABUL: In an attack claimed by the Taliban, two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Afghanistan's most high-profile female police officer on Sunday as she prepared to leave for work in the southern city of Kandahar. The police in the city said she died instantly from gunshot wounds to her head. Her 18-year-old son, driving her car, was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. The police officer, Malalai Kakar, who was in her mid-forties with six children, was an iconic figure among women's groups in Afghanistan and abroad. Often profiled in the Afghan and foreign news media, she...

Guess what the Philadelphia cop killers all have in common? http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20136673&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

A 30-year-old Philadelphia policeman was shot and killed yesterday by a wanted felon who fired several times into the fallen officer as he lay wounded on a North Philadelphia street. "He stood over the top of him and killed him," said Homicide Capt. James Clark, who called the killing of Officer Patrick McDonald an "execution." --snip-- The gunman was identified as Daniel Giddings, 27, who was recently released from state prison after serving time for a 1998 robbery and aggravated assault

Investigators are hoping you might be able to point them in the right direction as they search for who is responsible for a shooting that left the Houston Police Department's first Hispanic female officer wounded. 78-year-old Velia Ortega was visiting family members at the Plum Creek Apartments at 6969 South Loop East Monday afternoon, when she was wounded by the gunfire. Investigators say they want to question 17-year-old Bruno Aviles and 20-year-old Andrew Garcia in connection with the shooting. Authorities believe the pair may have been involved in a dispute over a vehicle with members of Ortega's family.

- - Miami's new policy reflects the growing trend of police departments adding firepower to compete with heavily armed criminals Citing a dramatic increase in the availability of high-powered, semiautomatic assault rifles -- like the one used Thursday to kill a Miami-Dade County police officer -- Miami Police Chief John Timoney has for the first time authorized patrol officers to start carrying similarly lethal weapons. A burgeoning ''arms race'' between police and heavily armed drug gangs forced him to sign the new policy earlier this week, Timoney said. That was even before Thursday's lopsided confrontation between four pistol-toting county police...

When newspapers and black leaders assault the police, small wonder that criminals follow suit. New York police officers have yet to hold a “no justice, no peace” rally in Brooklyn, where three black thugs in a stolen BMW fatally gunned down Officer Russel Timoshenko on July 9. Nor have New York’s Finest stopped patrolling Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Central Harlem, where they put their lives at risk every day to protect residents from violent crime. Yet under the race-baiting precedents established by Al Sharpton, New York City Councilman (and former Black Panther) Charles Barron, and New York Times columnists and editors,...

Police chief, DA ask for help after killings by cops are allegedAllegations of unlawful killings involving one or more Portland cops more than two decades ago have prompted Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk to bring in the FBI. The allegations, which were aired by a prominent local criminal defense lawyer and described by Portland Tribune columnist Phil Stanford, caused the two local officials to ask the FBI to review a 1981 probe of assorted felonies by several then-members of a special unit of the Portland Police Bureau. Stanford’s columns described allegations that longtime...

San Francisco -- Eight men were arrested Tuesday in the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer that authorities say was part of a black power group's five-year effort to attack and kill law enforcement officers in San Francisco and New York. Police said all eight are believed to be former members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panther Party. The Aug. 29, 1971 shooting death of Sgt. John V. Young, 51, at a San Francisco police station was one in a series of attacks by BLA members on law enforcement officials on both...

Authorities say at least two men with ties to the Black Panthers have been arrested in the 1971 killing . . .

Fighting For Justice For Slain Officer Faulkner (CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Twenty five years ago Saturday, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered on a Center City street. On Friday, his widow and 500 supporters are vowing to keep his convicted killer behind bars. At the same time, those who support Mumia Abu-Jamal say he was unjustly convicted. 25 years after Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered, friends hugged and comforted his widow, much the way they did that freezing December morning in 1981 when he was gunned down near 13th and Locust streets. For Maureen Faulkner, so much, yet so little...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has launched a probe into what is widely considered one of the most embarrassing episodes in NYPD history: the coverup of a cop killing in Louis Farrakhan's Harlem mosque April 14, 1972. Thirty-four years after he landed on the scene of the notorious Harlem mosque murder as a young sergeant, top cop Kelly told The Post he has assigned members of the Major Case Squad to reopen the investigation into the slaying of Police Officer Philip Cardillo inside a Nation of Islam mosque. "There is a feeling in certain quarters that there are a lot of...

The Border: It takes a lot of nerve for a chief of state to criticize another nation's crime rate. It takes even more nerve to ship one's own criminals there and then complain about the crime rate. Two weeks ago, when U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza warned tactfully about an explosion of crime on the Mexican border and urged U.S. citizens to be cautious there, he was only doing his job. But it didn't take long for Mexican President Vicente Fox and Foreign Minister Ernesto Derbez to jump all over the U.S., piously claiming that crime at the border...

Scores of students, activists and others marched through Portland on Friday carrying the reproduced artwork of the imprisoned radical Thomas Manning and scolding the University of Southern Maine for canceling an exhibit of his work. Staff photo by Gregory Rec David Bidler, Rebekah Yonan and Ryan Edwards hold works of art by Thomas W. Manning at the University of Southern Maine in Portland on Friday. About 100 people walked from USM to Congress Square with Manning's art to protest its removal from a USM gallery show last week. Manning is in prison for killing a New Jersey state trooper. Some...

USM Area Gallery , Woodbury Campus Center Bedford Street, Portland Friday, September 1st - Friday, October 20th Opening reception: Friday, Sept. 15, 6-9 p.m. Serving free organic food by Portland Victory Garden Project Remarks by well-known activist Ray Luc Levasseur Followed with a performance by the Boston-based troupe Presente Symposium Wednesday, Oct. 4, 11:45-1 p.m. Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center A provocative exhibit Can't Jail the Spirit: Art by "Political Prisoner" Tom Manning and Others will be on view at the Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland Friday, Sept. 1-Friday, Oct. 20. The opening reception, serving free organic food by...

MEXICO CITY, June 27 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior police officer in the Mexican resort of Cancun on Monday night, blowing his head open in the latest grisly assassination to hit the country. Police officials in Cancun said local police chief of staff Wilfrido Flores, 56, and his bodyguard were shot dead in their car in a busy avenue in the Caribbean resort, one of Mexico's biggest tourist pulls, just before midnight. However they played down links to a spate of similar killings in cities like Acapulco and Tijuana in a brutal war among drugs cartels and security forces....

HARRISBURG - Nearly 25 years after the slaying of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, the racial divide over his killer's conviction was reflected today in a vote on a state Senate resolution. The Senate overwhelmingly passed the measure condemning the French city of St.-Denis for naming a street in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for shooting Faulkner during a traffic stop. But the resolution prompted rare debate and ended in a 44-4 vote split along racial lines. The only "no" votes came from African-American senators, all from Philadelphia. Sen. Vincent Hughes (D., Phila.) said...

Out of the murders of NYPD Detectives Dillon Stewart and Daniel Enchautegui, and the shootings of nine of their brothers in blue since June, some good has come. The state Legislature yesterday passed, and Gov. Pataki was set to sign, two new laws that will make the streets of New York far safer, both for police and the citizens they risk their lives to protect. The legislative centerpiece is the Crimes Against Cops Act, the fruit of a Daily News campaign that began just 10 days ago as a cry for action after the slayings of Stewart and Enchautegui. We...

Gov. George E. Pataki will call state lawmakers into a special session on Wednesday to vote on new legislation that seeks to curb illegal gun trafficking and permit the death penalty for those convicted of murdering a police officer. Mr. Pataki's push for legislative action comes after the recent fatal shootings of two New York City police officers, Dillon Stewart and Daniel Enchautegui. The deaths have prompted finger-pointing among Republican and Democratic leaders in Albany over why antigun measures have stalled. During a news conference in Manhattan yesterday, Mr. Pataki said that he would send two bills, one addressing illegal...

Police today named the three men wanted in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky. The suspects were named as Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 24, originally from Burnley; Mustaf Jama, 25, from the north Kensington area of London, and his brother, 19-year-old Yusuf, from the same area. PC Beshenivsky was shot last Friday while investigating an armed robbery at travel agent in Bradford. Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan, leading the hunt for the killers, appealed for information about the suspects.

KINGSTON — A prison guard calmly testified this morning how he fired 11 rounds from his revolver and his wounded partner's pistol during a brazen daylight escape by an inmate and his wife last month. Larry "Porky" Harris testified at a court hearing that he and correction officer Wayne "Cotton" Morgan were returning George Hyatte, 34, to a prison van after an appearance at the Roane County Courthouse. He said he didn't notice Jennifer Hyatte, 31, a former prison nurse and mother of three, come up to them in the parking lot until George Hyatte shouted, "Shoot him!" "As Cotton...

BOSTON -- No two fingerprints are exactly alike. For nearly a century, that widely accepted belief has been enough for police, juries and the general public to feel confident that a fingerprint match in a criminal case is all the proof needed for a conviction. But lawyers for a man who is facing his second trial in the killing of a Boston police officer are challenging the accuracy of fingerprint analysis and asking the state's highest court to prohibit its use in criminal trials until its reliability can be proven through scientific testing. The Supreme Judicial Court is scheduled to...

KINGSTON - Captured fugitives George and Jennifer Hyatte returned to appear before a judge Monday on first-degree murder charges at the same courthouse where their belated honeymoon began in bloodshed 13 days earlier. The Hyattes wore identical white outfits, and each remained silent in separate hearings as Roane County Sessions Court Judge Thomas A. Austin read them the charges they face, advised them of their rights and appointed their lawyers. "We are very relieved to get this put out of the way," said Kingston Police Chief Jim Washam, whose agency is leading the investigation into the murder of state correction...

NUEVO LAREDO - Despite the presence of federal troops and state police throughout the streets, violence continues to plague the Sister City, with six homicides reported over the weekend, including that of a state police officer. The death toll for the year, which still has more than five months to go, stands at 90. The most recent victims were Víctor Manuel Castillo Andrade, 18, who died near midnight Saturday; Noe Vives, a state police officer shot dead Sunday night; and Arturo Puente Alonso, 28, killed early Monday. Authorities had already logged three other deaths, one on Friday and two on...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact Steve Aiken at (520) 887-2984 June 30, 2005 Graf Campaign Outraged at Kolbe’s De-Facto Support of Cop Killers (Tucson, AZ) “At what point do you stop being outraged and simply say, it’s time for a change?” asked Steve Aiken, Graf Campaign Manager. Aiken is referring to Jim Kolbe’s refusal on Tuesday to join a bipartisan effort to withhold $66 million in U.S. aid if Mexico does not extradite suspected cop killers without strings attached. The measure overwhelmingly passed the House 327-98. According to the Rocky Mountain News, Kolbe called the withholding of...

House vote squeezes Mexico Threat to cut off U.S. aid tied to extraditing suspects in cop killings By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News June 29, 2005 WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives sent a stern message to Mexico on Tuesday night, voting to block $66 million in U.S. aid if the country does not extradite suspected cop-killers without strings attached. Angered by the killing of Denver Police Detective Donald Young, the House voted 327-98 to approve an amendment offered by Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Arvada, to a foreign operations spending bill. Advertisement It calls for cutting off U.S. aid to any...

IN A MATTER of seconds, protest chants fell silent and cops' stone-faced glares faded. Suddenly, it wasn't about power and activism or who was right or wrong outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center yesterday afternoon. It was about one man, a cop of 19 years, who crumpled to the street and died apparently of a heart attack after a standoff between a blue line of cops and a corps of drum-banging idealists fighting the biotech industry came to a head. Paris Williams, 52, who worked in the Civil Affairs Unit, lay motionless on asphalt as cops bent over him on Arch...

PHILADELPHIA -- Violence between biotech protesters and police in Center City Philadelphia has turned tragic. A Philadelphia police officer has died after a scuffle in Center City on Tuesday. The officer, Paris Williams, 52, may have died from a heart attack but homicide is also investigating the case. He is a 19-year veteran. Williams collapsed near the end of a brawl between protesters and police that lasted for several minutes near 12th and Arch Streets. Some protesters were seen being taken away in handcuffs by police after the incident. The fallen officer was taken away in an ambulance. Police department...

Terms: no death penalty, no life without parole Mexican authorities will not return Raul Garcia-Gomez to the United States unless prosecutors agree to spare him from execution and life without parole, the Mexican consul in Denver said Monday. Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, consul general of Mexico in Denver, stressed the cooperation between Mexican and U.S. authorities that resulted in Garcia-Gomez's arrest Saturday night. "We are now having one of the best moments of Colorado-Mexico relations," he said. But the consul said recent court rulings in his country prevent the extradition of suspects facing either of the United States' harshest penalties. A...

The latest attempt to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in California cleared a Senate committee on Thursday but with provisions that restrict how the licenses can be used and what they would look like. The bill, by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, would bring California into compliance with federal law. The REAL ID Act, signed by President Bush last week, requires states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally. It also allows states to choose whether to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants as long as they have different markings —...

WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The House today passed legislation authorizing $40 million to state and local governments for training law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws.

UN panel sees grave women's rights abuse in Mexico 27 Jan 2005 20:04:47 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds background, detail, paragraphs 4-14) By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A U.N. panel accused Mexico on Thursday of "grave and systematic" rights violations for failing to solve the killings of hundreds of women in the past decade near the Mexico-U.S. border. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women said it was "greatly concerned at the fact that these serious and systematic violations of women's rights have continued for over 10 years." The panel, in...

JOSEPH FARAH, HOST: We've got with us a special guest. Alan Keyes is back with us--diplomat, author, talk show host, brilliant orator, statesman, constitutional scholar. And his organization the Declaration Foundation can be accessed on the web at Declaration.net. Welcome to the program, Alan. KEYES: Thank you. Glad to be with you. FARAH: Well, you've got another great essay in WorldNetDaily today on this Terri Schiavo case. And in it you say that Florida Governor Jeb Bush is courting dereliction of duty. Tell us what you mean. KEYES: Well, he has two responsibilities. One, to the Constitutional rights of Terri...

"The native of Princeton, N.J., first created a furor in 1972 when he released a man charged with killing a police officer on $500 bail _ a figure another judge boosted to $25,000. Two years later, he released without bail another suspect accused of the attempted murder of a police officer...He was transferred back in 1978, and quickly created another controversy by releasing without bail a suspect accused of slashing a police officer's throat..."

BOSTON - In Massachusetts, he is a twice-convicted murderer who vanished after escaping from prison. In Illinois, he is a poet and anti-war protester devoted to his local Unitarian church. The two lives of Norman Porter crumbled in Chicago on Tuesday, when undercover police investigators arrested the man who 20 years ago fled from justice here and built a new life in Chicago. "He had us all fooled," said C.J. Laity, who knew Porter from poetry readings. "I've known him for many, many years. Obviously, I didn't know him as well as I thought." Porter waived extradition at a hearing...

POMONA - Calling her husband's killer an ignorant coward, an angry Heidi Steiner wiped away tears and asked a judge to send the teen to prison for life. Steiner's wish was granted when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip Gutierrez on Thursday sentenced 16-year-old Valentino Mitchell Arenas to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He received an additional 25-years-to-life sentence for using a firearm. "My family needs this part of the nightmare to end today," said Steiner, wife of slain California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Steiner. "We need the peace of mind to know he will spend...

French politicians and activists seeking a new trial and freedom for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal were welcomed in a Friday rally at City Hall and given replicas of the Liberty Bell. Mjenzi Traylor, the city's first deputy director of commerce, told the crowd of about 150 that he was there to "make certain that we are receiving the message that you would like for us to deliver to Mayor Street." Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, later called that greeting an "absolute outrage." Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Faulkner in 1981. "This man stood over...

SAN JUAN IXTAYOPAN, Mexico - One day after a mob killed two federal police officers, believing they were kidnappers, the residents of this town were still angry. And unapologetic."We'll keep taking justice in our hands if in 20 days police don't end kidnappings, robberies and police corruption," said one indignant homemaker, who like nearly everyone here asked not to be identified.'snip'"We support the killings," said one man, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Police here are all corrupt."

Relatives and friends knew them as two kind men devoted to each other in a long-term, monogamous relationship. But from the privacy of their home, however, Kelly Ray Jones cruised online chatrooms as FTLBAREBACK, looking for sex partners and child...

BY JAMES TARANTOThursday, August 26, 2004 5:27 p.m. EDT Cop Killers for KerryWell, maybe not quite for Kerry, but against Bush anyway. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the murderer of Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner and a hero of the extreme left and the French, has an article in Workers World, the newspaper of the eponymous "independent Marxist" party, in which he declares that "President Bush's cowboy-style diplomacy, and the slick way he promised to govern one way only to actually govern another, has grated on people, until many just want to see him quietly pass into retirement."But Abu-Jamal is skeptical of Kerry's...

 

State prison officials have sent a warning to a large number of New Jersey urban police forces, saying their officers could become targets of attacks by violent street gangs. Department of Corrections investigators say the Bloods street gang is taking an "aggressive posture toward law enforcement" and has called for an "uprising" in New Jersey's largest cities and in the jails, according to internal documents distributed by prison officials to authorities around the state. In response, the State Police will host a meeting Monday to discuss the threat with local police officials, including those from cities where the threat seems...

Officer Isaac Espinoza was the first police officer gunned down in the line of duty in San Francisco in nearly a decade, and police want his accused killer to face the death penalty (search) for the crime. But the city's new District Attorney Kamala Harris search) has said no to the death penalty in this case. "Based on a long and extensive thought and analysis of the death penalty in the state and the city, based on all of those factors that decision has been made," Harris said. Harris ran for office on an anti-death penalty platform, but police say...

Gunmen order police to pray, then kill 5 of them 05.04.2004 KARACHI - At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi last night, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding that the officers recite Islamic verses. The attackers escaped by car after the attack, about 5km from the international airport. Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and the scene of frequent religious violence. The assault, one of the boldest on Karachi's police in years, comes as tension is running high following a deadly raid by thousands of Pakistani troops on 400 to...

As the Senate considers legislation to prohibit abusive lawsuits against Second Amendment rights, Sen. Ted Kennedy is offering an amendment to ban ammunition. Kennedy claims that he is aiming at "cop-killer" bullets, but he appears to be badly misinformed on the issue. There never has been any such thing as a "cop-killer" bullet. The issue is a fiction, invented for purposes of politics, not public safety. In any case, since 1986, federal law has prohibited the rare types of handgun ammunition that have unusual abilities to penetrate body armor. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reports that current...