badgewars.com » guns http://www.badgewars.com General Police and Crime News Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cop killer ‘possibly shot dead’ http://www.badgewars.com/cop-killer-possibly-shot-dead-49 http://www.badgewars.com/cop-killer-possibly-shot-dead-49#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:59:05 +0000 Peter http://www.badgewars.com/?p=49 At the weekend there was another killing of law enforcement officers in the US, but this one was every bit as unusual as it was tragic. Four officers were gunned down whilst working on their laptops at a café in an incident investigators are still trying to figure out the motives for.

In a further twist, a day later the number one suspect Maurice Clemmons had his house surrounded by armed SWAT teams while a negotiator tried to coax him out without any shots being fired. Unfortunately, that plan seems to have failed with the news that the suspect was shot and ‘possibly killed’ in the stand-off. Why they cannot confirm the status of the suspect is a bit strange to me, but maybe they have good reason.

No motive has been made public, but it is known that the shooting of the four police officers, among them one female officer and a sergeant, was most likely planned and carried out with accuracy – detectives have been quoted as saying that the bullets “hit their targets” and that collateral damage had not occurred. Whatever happened, it seems this guy held a grudge against the police doing a bit of work outside of the office on a quiet Sunday morning, with fatal consequences.

]]> http://www.badgewars.com/cop-killer-possibly-shot-dead-49/feed 0 Coercion on the internet http://www.badgewars.com/coercion-on-the-internet-46 http://www.badgewars.com/coercion-on-the-internet-46#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:00:37 +0000 Peter http://www.badgewars.com/?p=46 Coercion of witnesses seems to have transcended boundaries to find itself on the internet, after 2 people have been sent to prison for producing a rap video in which they threatened witnesses to a murder.

The rappers, Ishmael McLean and Rowan Simon, threatened anyone who may have come forward with evidence regarding the shooting of Jason Johnson in London. In the video, published on YouTube until it was taken down, they warned that those who gave evidence would be next in line to be shot.

The video was also posted on MySpace and Facebook in a clear attempt to intimidate those who would see justice done.

In addition to this charge, McLean was also jailed for possession of ammunition.

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