Posted on 05/31/2005 8:56:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
former captain of the Black Panther Party, who was convicted of killing a park ranger near San Francisco 31 years ago, has been granted parole, though law enforcement officials made a last-ditch attempt Wednesday to block his release.
Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr., 59, is expected to walk free from a federal prison in Coleman, Fla., on June 21, according to officials at the U.S. Parole Commission.
"If he gets into trouble, he could be kept in," said Tom Hutchison, a spokesman for the Maryland-based Parole Commission. But most inmates close to their release date, he said, "just bide their time" and wait to be freed.
Bowers was convicted in 1974 of killing Kenneth Patrick, 40, the first National Park Service ranger to be killed in the line of duty.
Patrick was shot three times while tracking poachers at Point Reyes National Seashore in August 1973. He left behind a wife and three children.
"Allowing this killer back in the streets puts the public and police officers at risk," Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement. "We will exhaust every legal avenue in an effort to keep Bowers where he belongs — behind bars."
The association, which describes itself as the largest law enforcement labor group in the country with more than 318,000 members, also released a letter sent Tuesday to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Calling Bowers an "unrepentant murderer and career criminal," Canterbury asked Gonzales to have the National Appeals Board review the Parole Commission's decision.
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Is Hillary still advocating for the Black Panthers ???
Any Pol who says we don't need a Death Penalty because we have "Life without Parole" is out of his mind or a bald faced liar.
ping !!!
Well, at least he did 31 years instead of parole after 2 or 3 years which we see more often.
I'd like to see a White Supremicist and Black Panther go at it. Just throw all the violent racist activists together and let them at it till they kill eachother.
He'll be joining his other buddies that Hitlery freed and become a teacher at Harvard or some other Ivy League university and then run for political office with Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson as his campaign manager and Al "The Fraud" Sharption his press manager. In fact, he may end up being Hitlery's running mate for 2008.
We already have that sort of contest, we call them "prison riots."
Nah, Robby Rush became a US Congressman.
But the Patrick Family is still serving their sentence . . . well many cop killers go free, as long as the Chicago Tribune has ink to sling. Northwestern's Law Prof Beradine Dorn helped kill a NY Cop while she was a young ( wealthy) Weather Man revolutionary and the Chicago Tribune thinks that she is just too swell for words.
But the Patrick Family is still serving their sentence . . . well many cop killers go free, as long as the Chicago Tribune has ink to sling. Northwestern's Law Prof Bernadine Dorn helped kill a NY Cop while she was a young ( wealthy) Weather Man revolutionary and the Chicago Tribune thinks that she is just too swell for words. She and her old man, who had ties to the Tribune, Bill Ahrens, got sprung and live very nicely in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
He'll probably run for Mayor of Oakland, and win.
I thought is was the "Black Panthers People's Party". I remember growing up in Jamaica, Queens and passing the local HQ of the BPPP on New York (Now "Guy Brewer") Blvd. everyday on my way to school.
They looked like a bunch of skinny little dopey college kids playing gangsta to me. I suppose they wowed the morons from Scarsdale and South Hampton and Time Magazine with their "authenticity". ("The radical priest come and get my release and we's all on the cover of Newsweak.")
Problem is, when numbnuts nimrods like that take themselves seriously, people can get kilt. It doesn't help if the establishment elite achieve some sort of vicarious frisson by egging them on.
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