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Cotton balls, duct tape used to dress Clemmons' wound
The News Tribune ^ | 12/1/2009 | Stacey Mulick

Posted on 12/01/2009 10:43:30 AM PST by llevrok

Maurice Clemmons was shot just above the belly button by a Lakewood police officer during a struggle at the Forza shop.

The wound was stuffed with cotton balls and covered with duct tape, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told The News Tribune.

"I am surprised he survived," Troyer said.

Investigators believe Clemmons' sister and another woman triaged him and help transport him.

Troyer said investigators had information Clemmons was hiding out in the Rainier Valley neighborhood. The Seattle police officer who killed Clemmons "stumbled into him," Troyer said. "He's lucky he's alive."

Investigators were looking into whether Clemmons stole the car that the Seattle police officer found running in the middle of the street.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: clemmons; lakewoodshooting
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1 posted on 12/01/2009 10:43:30 AM PST by llevrok
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To: llevrok

good. i have heard belly shots are slow and painful.


2 posted on 12/01/2009 10:44:48 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: llevrok

I thought he died? Is this another Arafat?


3 posted on 12/01/2009 10:45:21 AM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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To: sionnsar

WA ping


4 posted on 12/01/2009 10:45:51 AM PST by llevrok (Love and mental illness are similar. At first, all seems normal.)
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To: llevrok

Sounds like he suffered before he died.


5 posted on 12/01/2009 10:45:55 AM PST by pallis
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To: llevrok

Kinda wish they hadn’t caught him. Chances are he would have died in a few weeks at best. Peritonitis can be a brutally slow killer.


6 posted on 12/01/2009 10:47:01 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: thefactor

We can only hope.


7 posted on 12/01/2009 10:47:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: b4its2late

Where did this guy get 15000 in bail money?
Where did he get his gun?
Who was bankrolling this guy?
Who was the judge that let him out on bail?
We want some answers.
Is there a larger group with an aim of killing more cops?


8 posted on 12/01/2009 10:48:33 AM PST by Oldexpat
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Clemmons' sister and another woman triaged him

Was he amongst other patients? What priority was he given?
9 posted on 12/01/2009 10:49:24 AM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: llevrok
The wound was stuffed with cotton balls and covered with duct tape, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told The News Tribune.

Or - this was the "public option" of government health care...

10 posted on 12/01/2009 10:49:42 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Oldexpat

I believe I saw a teaser for Seattle area news that suggested there may be a number of arrests to follow. He may have had assistance which would answer some of your questions.


11 posted on 12/01/2009 10:50:52 AM PST by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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To: Pavegunner72; cherry; aw93472; WeatherGuy; CBF; x_plus_one; Libertina; sportutegrl; kayti; ...
Thanks to llevrok for the ping.

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12 posted on 12/01/2009 10:53:42 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: llevrok

So is he dead or alive? Captured or loose? Because this story doesn’t say. It does use “triage” incorrectly, though.


13 posted on 12/01/2009 10:54:07 AM PST by heartwood
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To: llevrok

You have to think long and hard about people who would aid a man who shot 4 police officers.

They are just as guilty as he. These people will probably be run down and prosecuted, one has to wonder though. suppose he had shot 4 people not police officers, woudld the police be spending so much time running down the people who gave aid to such a person?


14 posted on 12/01/2009 10:54:56 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Oldexpat

$15,000 was his bail? Or was that the 10% required for a bail bondsman?

Eitherway, it seems he was somehow connected to the Nation of Islam.


15 posted on 12/01/2009 10:55:09 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: heartwood

Dead, shot this AM by an officer.


16 posted on 12/01/2009 10:55:41 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: llevrok

The police decided that a lead pellet injection was the best way to treat that type of injury.

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17 posted on 12/01/2009 10:55:44 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Good.


18 posted on 12/01/2009 10:59:22 AM PST by heartwood
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To: llevrok

hopefully he was in agony up to the moment the cop blew his brains out.


19 posted on 12/01/2009 10:59:31 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (I think youre so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
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To: pallis

“Sounds like he suffered before he died.”

we can only hope that is the case


20 posted on 12/01/2009 11:00:04 AM PST by blastdad51 (Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
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