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You Can Run, But You Can't Hide After almost 30 years of hiding in Canada, we're getting alleged attempted cop killer Joseph Pannell extradicted from Toronto. This scum being able to hide in Canada for so long is one thing, the main problem is the Feds just know realized who they had after reviewed finger print records from a 1983 detention at the border. This man went on for over 20 more years living his life because law enforcement didn't have its act together. But, thank goodness, they at least got Martha Stewart. Whew. Via the CBC: ...Pannell fled to...

A Canadian judge on Friday ordered a former Black Panther-turned-librarian back to Chicago to face charges that he tried to kill a police officer in 1969. Joseph Pannell was picked up in Toronto last year after being a fugitive since 1974 on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery. He was accused of shooting Chicago police Officer Terrence Knox. Pannell, who was 55 when he was arrested last year, is also charged with jumping bail. Knox, who survived the attack, called the decision Friday by Justice David Watt "the most significant ruling in the case." "I never thought they would...

A Toronto judge has ordered Joseph Pannell be extradited to the United States. A Toronto judge ruled Friday that a man should be extradited to the U.S. to face attempted murder charges for a 35-year-old shooting. Reputed former Black Panther Joseph Pannell is alleged to have shot and paralyzed Chicago police officer Terrance Knox. He's been wanted in the U.S. since skipping bail on two occasions, the first time in 1971 and the second in 1973, when he fled to Canada. Pannell, who went by the name Gary Freeman, had worked as a researcher with the Toronto Public Library for...

TORONTO (AP) - A suspected former Black Panther member accused of shooting a Chicago police officer more than 35 years ago was ordered extradited to the United States Friday. Court officials said Joseph Pannell, a former Toronto library worker who spent more than two decades living in Toronto, allegedly shot when he was 19 and a member of the black militant group. After the Toronto court ruling, Pannell's wife and four children stood in protest outside the downtown U.S. Consulate. "We all have bleeding hearts right now, but this is not over," said Pannell's wife, Natercia Coelho. She said they...