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Sheriff injured in West Memphis shooting says 'All hell broke loose'
The Commercial Appeal ^
| May 23, 2010
| Kevin McKenzie
Posted on 05/28/2010 5:44:11 PM PDT by fireman15
Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby didn't even have a gun Thursday when the suspects in the slaying of two West Memphis police officers jumped out of their minivan and began spraying bullets at him and his deputy chief.
"They got out shooting with what they had," Busby said Saturday from his home in Marion, hours after his release from the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
"We got back in the car," Busby said. "Then all hell broke loose."
The ensuing gunbattle in the Walmart parking lot with Jerry R. Kane, 45, of Forest, Ohio, and his 16-year-old son, Joe Kane, left the two suspects dead, while Busby was shot in the shoulder and Deputy Chief W.A. Wren was hit three times in the abdomen.
Wounded and hunkered down in their unmarked sheriff's car, the two lawmen continued to receive fire until a state wildlife officer rammed the suspects' van.
(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: jerrykane; joekane; kane; police; shooting; westmemphis
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Earlier there was a thread pulled that appears to have been misleading. After finding numerous accounts of this tragedy from various sources... there appears very little to suggest that this was a Randy Weaver type of situation. May the brave officers who perished in this senseless mayhem rest in peace.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:44:12 PM PDT
by
fireman15
To: fireman15
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:45:12 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
To: fireman15
Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby didn’t even have a gun
_______________________________________________
Why not ???
To: fireman15
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:48:08 PM PDT
by
muddler
(Obama is either incompetent or malicious, and it makes little difference which.)
To: fireman15
Why would a sheriff not have a weapon?
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:49:42 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: scott7278
Maybe he's a Dimocrat, and doesn't believe in guns.
:-)
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:51:43 PM PDT
by
Gargantua
(DON'T TREAD ON US.)
To: scott7278
'snip'
"We were looking for them," said Busby, 73, who was unarmed because he had jumped in Wren's car to ride with him, leaving his weapon behind.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:52:33 PM PDT
by
Realman30
(If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it ought to be enough for Uncle Sam.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Read the whole story. He has jumped into the other deputy's car, and somehow left his weapon behind.
To: Gargantua
Apparently, he left it behind in his car. Let’s see, you’re on the manhunt for a copkiller and you can’t remember to bring your weapon?
It’s certainly time to retire.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:53:08 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: fireman15
Our resident cop-haters will be reading this article and fondling themselves.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:53:16 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Faster than the speed of smell.)
To: Realman30
I read that, but it still doesn’t explain it.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:53:36 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: Tennessee Nana
"We were looking for them," said Busby, 73, who was unarmed because he had jumped in Wren's car to ride with him, leaving his weapon behind"
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:53:44 PM PDT
by
Clovis_Skeptic
(The answer to 1984 is 1776!)
To: Tennessee Nana
Obama told him they should just be sanctioned from shopping at Walmart.......
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:54:02 PM PDT
by
G Larry
To: scott7278
He just heard Mayor Daley say that guns are not the answer.....
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
G Larry
To: Tennessee Nana
Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby didnt even have a gun _______________________________________________
Why not ???
It's in the story--in the scramble to get into pursuit of the killers, Busby got into another officer's car and left his gun in his own car.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:56:00 PM PDT
by
Colinsky
To: G Larry
He was using Obama’s Foreign Policy.
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:59:28 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: fireman15
Did the police finally release the dash-cam video they said they had?
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posted on
05/28/2010 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
To: Gargantua
I don’t know why the Sheriff wasn’t carrying his gun. It is not always like the old West. A Sheriff’s tend to be more administrators than gun fighters these days. Look this stuff up for yourself and make your own judgement.
My own house was raided by the King County SWAT team by mistake about ten years ago. I never received a credible explanation as to what happened.
I do work with the police on an almost daily basis however and greatly respect the vast majority of officers that I know. I also work with the public and have met a few people whose paranoid fantasies cause them to become very unpredictable.
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posted on
05/28/2010 6:00:02 PM PDT
by
fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: TigersEye
The police probably have little input into the release date of the dash cam video.
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posted on
05/28/2010 6:01:47 PM PDT
by
fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: fireman15
...when the suspects in the slaying of two West Memphis police officers jumped out of their minivan and began spraying bullets at him and his deputy chief. "They got out shooting with what they had," Busby said...No mention of when the suspects got back in their minivan? I saw the news video of the cops pulling their bodies out of it.
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posted on
05/28/2010 6:03:43 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
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