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The Weather Underground did damage right here in Boston. On Sept. 23, 1970, BPD Officer Walter Schroeder was gunned down outside a Brighton bank that had just been robbed by five members of the Weather Underground. One of the terrorists opened fire on the cop. With bullets from a machine gun the group ripped off from a National Guard armory in Newburyport just weeks earlier, Schroeder was shot in the back and killed. Schroeder left behind a wife and nine children, aged 17, 15, 13, 10, 9, 7, 6, 2 and 11 months. The gunman, William “Lefty” Gilday, was captured...

While Barack Obama’s friends and supporters in the news media downplay his friendship and business relationship with former terrorist and Marxist university professor Willam Ayers, one aspect of the Ayers terrorism saga that’s totally ignored is his reputation as a cop-killer. ... cont.

KABUL: In an attack claimed by the Taliban, two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Afghanistan's most high-profile female police officer on Sunday as she prepared to leave for work in the southern city of Kandahar. The police in the city said she died instantly from gunshot wounds to her head. Her 18-year-old son, driving her car, was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. The police officer, Malalai Kakar, who was in her mid-forties with six children, was an iconic figure among women's groups in Afghanistan and abroad. Often profiled in the Afghan and foreign news media, she...

After a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering a police officer was spared from execution a second time, the condemned man's widely publicized supporters erupted in joy. But far from television cameras, the victim's family seethed. "My son is dead. Theirs is still alive," said Anneliese MacPhail, the officer's mother. "That's just the way I feel."

UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION - FIRST DEGREE MURDER, ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER SKIP BRINKLEY Aliases: Larry Wayne Brucke, Larry Wayne Brucke, Jr. DESCRIPTION Date of Birth Used:  May 27, 1976 Hair: Dark Blond Place of Birth: South Carolina Eyes: Green Height: 5'9" Sex: Male Weight: 180 to 185 pounds Race: White NCIC: W615122212 Nationality: American Occupations: Former United States Military, E-4; Former Law Enforcement Officer; Self-Employed (raising livestock) Scars and Marks: Brinkley has a scar above one of his ankles. Remarks: Brinkley may be in western North Carolina, and has ties to South Carolina. Brinkley was last seen...

Published on HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com (http://hamptonroads.com) Man claims he broke into garage, was police informant CHESAPEAKE The case against accused cop killer Ryan Frederick relies partially on the accounts of burglars who may have been working as confidential police informants. A 21-year-old Chesapeake man said he and another informant broke into Frederick's garage in the Portlock section of the city in January to look for evidence of a marijuana-growing operation and told the police about what they found there. In an interview at the Chesapeake Correctional Center, Renaldo Turnbull Jr. told The Virginian-Pilot that he had been working with police...

Condemned inmate Michael Rodriguez, convicted of taking part in killing a Dallas-area police officer nearly eight years ago while a member of the infamous "Texas 7" gang of escaped fugitives, was executed Thursday. He was the eighth convicted killer executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state and the fourth this month. Another is set for next week.

BY ALISON GENDAR DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF Thursday, July 24th 2008, 9:08 PM Daily News Zvonko Busic in a 1987 photo. A Croatian terrorist has been freed from a life sentence and shipped to his homeland - to the disgust of relatives of the city cop he murdered more than 30 years ago. Zvonko Busic, mastermind of the 1976 hijacking of TWA Flight 355 and a bombing at Grand Central station, landed in Croatia Thursday in time for dinner, officials said. "He got to go home," said Kathleen Murray, whose husband, Brian Murray, was killed in the blast. Busic,...

A federal appeals court yesterday refused to reconsider the decision denying a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. In a two-page decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Abu-Jamal's request for a rehearing of his appeal in the controversial case, which has helped fuel an international debate about the death penalty. Abu-Jamal's lawyer, Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco, said he planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case. In March, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit left intact Abu-Jamal's conviction but said...

LEE COUNTY: The man who murdered a Fort Myers police officer Friday night shouldn’t have even been in the United States, according to police. Arango entered the United States in 1991 as a refugee from Cuba. In 2000, he was convicted of a felony and ordered to be deported. But he was never deported. Arango just stayed at a detention center until 2004 when he was released on an order of supervision. Fort Myers police say I.C.E. doesn't have probation officers to follow people released on an order of supervision. So, in other words: Arango was set free.

Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider the decision that denied him a new trial in the 1981 slaying of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. ***snip*** Abu-Jamal, 54, has been on death row since his 1982 conviction in the killing of Faulkner, who was shot to death near 13th and Locust Streets early in the morning of Dec. 9, 1981

WASHINGTON — The teenager charged with killing a Prince George's County police officer was found dead in his jail cell Sunday. Police say Ronnie Lionel White, 19, of Laurel was the driver of the pick-up truck that hit Cpl. Richard Findley Friday morning. "Correctional officers found him sitting on his bed alert. When officers returned 15 minutes later to serve him his lunch, he was unresponsive. The on-site medical staff were immediately called and found no visible signs of trauma," says Col. Gregory Harris, deputy director of the Bureau of Operations with the Prince George's County Correctional Department. EMS...

The FBI and Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man accused of running down and killing a Prince George's County police officer. He died while in police custody Sunday, a little more than a day after he was charged with the killing. The Maryland medical examiner ruled Monday that the inmate, Ronnie White, died from strangulation. Two small bones in his neck were broken. The FBI, which investigates prison deaths as a matter of course, said it is focused on possible civil rights violations. White had been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Cpl....

At the official Barack Obama campaign web site: a blog supporting convicted murderers Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier: Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Christopher Groden’s Blog

http://www.philly.com/philly/polls/18765614.html One week ago Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was shot at least 5 times with an AK-47 by a trio of bank robbers fleeing the scene of their crime. One of the three was later killed by Police gunfire; the other two have been apprehended. Sgt. Liczbinski was laid to rest yesterday. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20080509_Sgt__Liczbinski_mourned_at_Cathedral.html

A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed with a military assault rifle late this morning when he confronted at least two robbers who had just held up an Bank of America branch at a Shoprite supermarket in Port Richmond. --snip--- a police spokesman, described one as a man wearing “Muslim garb” and carrying a shoulder bag. He said that a second, who might have been a woman, was wearing “light brown Muslim garb.” A third possible robber, a man, was described as having worn a “dreadlock wig” and a “construction mask.” He had on blue jeans and a flannel...

Around 5 p.m. Thursday, Brandon Robertson, of Tyler, was found hiding out in a heavily wooded area of Cass County and once surrounded, turned a gun on himself. He was wanted for allegedly killing Trooper Scott Burns Tuesday at Lake Of The Pines. Now, in a twist to this story, Robertson's girlfriend, 36 year old Jennifer Petrick, was arrested at the same place Robertson was found. KLTV 7's Courtney Lane just returned from the scene and brings us the latest, as details continue to unfold.

The man who is the subject of a regionwide manhunt after allegedly killing a Texas state trooper was once a peace officer himself. Records with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education show the man wanted for the shooting death of trooper James Scott Burns, 39, of Linden during a high speed chase Tuesday night is a former lawman in Rusk County.

My grandfather was a college football star who even played for the NFL champs back in 1928, so I was looking forward to seeing George Clooney’s new 1920s football movie, Leatherheads, this weekend. That’s before I found out how Clooney, like many lefties in Hollywood and the news media, had treated the late Charlton Heston. Clooney’s offense took place a few years back. According to Life Site News, “For his conservative stands, however, Heston was attacked and reviled by his Hollywood colleagues. In 2003 actor and leftist political activist George Clooney joked about Heston’s illness [Alzheimer’s disease], and, after Heston...

US court overturns death sentence Abu-Jamal has been on death row for 25 years A US federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence imposed on former Black Panthers member Mumia Abu-Jamal. The court said Abu-Jamal's conviction for murdering a Philadelphia police officer should stand, but that he should have a new sentencing hearing. The former radio journalist and activist was sentenced to death for the murder in 1982. While in jail he became a leading campaigner against the death penalty. He appealed against the sentence, on the grounds that racism on the part of the judge and the prosecutors...

RYAN FREDERICK is no hero, no matter what they're saying about him on the Internet. He's the 28-year-old Chesapeake man being held in the Jan. 17 shooting death of Detective Jarrod Shivers. Shivers, 34, was executing a drug search warrant at Frederick's residence the night he was killed. According to police, the eight-year police veteran was hit in the arm and chest by a shot fired from inside the house. In a jailhouse interview, Frederick said he was in bed when the police came to his door about 8:30 p.m. Awakened by his barking dogs, Frederick said, he thought his...

New York (AP) -- A man who gained notoriety after wounding six police officers in a 1986 gunfight that led to a nationwide manhunt was killed in prison, corrections officials said Thursday. Larry Davis, serving 25 years to life on a murder conviction in an unrelated case, was stabbed to death around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday during a recreational break at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, said Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services. Davis was stabbed repeatedly with a 12-inch long, half-inch wide homemade metal shank in the arms, head, back, upper thigh and chest,...

HOUSTON, (AP) -- A convicted killer sent to death row for killing a sheriff's deputy apparently committed suicide in his cell, prison officials said Tuesday. The body of Jesus Flores, 25, was found by a corrections officer about 4 a.m. Tuesday. Flores was pronounced dead about an hour later, said Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "He had lacerations on his throat and forehead," she said. Flores apparently tried to use his own blood to scribble a message on the wall, but it was illegible, Lyons said. Flores was convicted of capital murder for the...

MEXICO CITY A man suspected of running over and killing a U.S. border agent has been held over for trial in Mexico on migrant smuggling charges. The federal Attorney General's office announced late Sunday that a judge had ordered a trial for Jesus Navarro, 22. It did not say when his ruling was issued. The agency said officials also believe that Navarro ran over U.S. border agent Luis Aguilar, but are still gathering evidence in that case. Aguilar was previously sought in Mexico for allegedly smuggling migrants, and faces between six and 12 years in prison if convicted. Officials say...

A U.S. citizen has surrendered to U.S. officials in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent last Saturday, sources tell me. Macedonio Guerrero, a U.S. citizen, is a known fugitive wanted on marijuana trafficking charges out of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Yuma Office. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar was struck and killed while he was trying to put out a spike strip to stop a runaway Ford F250 and a Hummer in the Imperial Sand Dunes near Yuma, about 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Aguilar, 32, was a six year veteran of the Border Patrol. According to the San...

Maureen Faulkner, the wife of deceased Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner, who was murdered back in 1981,at the age of 25, is photographed at her home in Ventura County. In the 26 years since former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gunned down her cop husband on a Philadelphia street, Maureen Faulkner has often felt like a reed in a tornado. As death penalty opponents around the world rallied to win Abu-Jamal a new trial, contending that he had been framed by local police, Faulkner quietly fought back one hearing at a time. She never missed a court hearing through the...

Accused Killer Of Officer, Girlfriend Charged Friday, December 21, 2007 WBAL Radio as reported by Steve Fermier A man suspected of killing his former girlfriend and a Smithsburg police officer has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. Douglas Pryor, 29, of Smithsburg, also faces charges of reckless endangerment, assault and violating a protective order that victim Alison Munson obtained seven weeks before she was killed Wednesday night. Police say Pryor stabbed the 31-year-old woman to death in Halfway, and then shot Officer Christopher Nicholson near Smithsburg. Pryor was wounded and captured during...

The parole panel that voted to free cop-killer Shuaib Raheem afforded him the utmost consideration and respect when he appeared to petition for freedom. And that's a damnable fact. Not only did the three-member board fail to take testimony from the family and friends of slain NYPD Patrolman Stephen Gilroy, they also passed on asking Raheem hard and obvious questions about his actions in the 47-hour hostage-taking that culminated in Gilroy's death in 1973. Instead, according to a newly released hearing transcript, the panelists oohed and aahed over Raheem's "remarkable" record behind bars. And they let him get away with...

Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice by Maureen Faulkner, Michael A. Smerconish Publisher: Lyons Press, The Pub. Date: December 2007 ISBN-13: 9781599213767 Synopsis Maureen Faulkner's husband, Philadelphia police office Danny Faulkner, was shot between the eyes on a cold December night in 1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was unanimously convicted of the crime by a racially mixed jury based on: the testimony of several eyewitnesses, his ownership of the murder weapon, matching ballistics, and Abu-Jamal's own confession. After his conviction, however, a national anti-death penalty movement was started to "Free Mumia;" Mike Farrell, Ed Asner, Whoopi Goldberg,...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, killing the suspect, according to an autopsy released by the sheriff's office.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The Broward Sheriff's Office has announced a manhunt for a missing prisoner named Michael Mazza, who is believed to be driving a prisoner transport van after shooting and critically wounding a BSO deputy.

By WANDA J. DeMARZO, BREANNE GILPATRICK AND MARTIN MERZER AP PHOTO Police are looking for Michael Mazza, the man they believe shot a BSO deputy Wednesday morning. » More Photos Document | Mazza's criminal record Law enforcement officers have found the jail transport van involved in Wednesday's shooting of a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, but the suspect remains at large, is armed and may be accompanied by one or more co-conspirators, police said.All 283 public schools and charter schools in Broward County are on lockdown. Parents were advised to stay away from the schools until the situation is resolved.The van...

The killer of a Pittsburg police officer said in court Friday that he was fine with being sentenced to death but had no interest in hearing from the slain man's family, telling a judge, "Let me get on my way." "I'm not asking for sympathy," Alexander Hamilton, 20, said in a Martinez courtroom before formally being sentenced to die for killing Officer Larry Lasater after robbing a bank in 2005. "I got the death penalty. I ain't got no problem with that." But he told Judge Laurel Brady of Contra Costa County Superior Court that he didn't see any point...

PHOENIX -- County Attorney Andrew Thomas said he intends to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing Phoenix Police Officer George Cortez. Edward Rose, 20, was arrested following the shooting death of Cortez at a Phoenix check cashing store on July 27. Cortez had one of Rose's wrists cuffed when Rose allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Cortez in the chest. Rose and his companion, 19-year-old Norma Lopez, fled the scene

State lawmaker Russell Pearce says Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is wrong to blame the federal government for Officer Nick Erfle's death at the hands of an illegal immigrant. "That blame also belongs at the local level. We have an obligation to protect our citizens and enforce our laws, our citizens have a constitutional right to expect our laws to be enforce," says Pearce. He is critical of a Phoenix policy that bans police from arresting illegals when their only offense is violating federal immigration laws. Pearce says Phoenix is sanctuary city. "To ignore the obvious and not enforce the laws...

SAVANNAH, Mo. (AP) -- Two northwest Missouri men have been charged with making a rap video that threatens to kill police officers, harm a judge and rape a female police officer. Police said the profanity-laced video, which has been pulled from the social networking Internet site YouTube, also threatens the destruction of a community. Kenneth Darrell Black Jr. and Benjamin D. Stevens, both 20, face felony charges of making a terroristic threat, conspiring to commit second-degree assault with a gun against law enforcement officers, conspiracy to commit rape and tampering with a judicial officer. They also face a misdemeanor charge...

While South Florida mourned the death Friday of a police officer gunned down in South Miami-Dade County, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson appeared at the Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana and said it was a mistake to blame guns and the lack of certain gun controls on the crime committed by the killer. ''I have voted consistently in support of people's Second Amendment rights. I think the problem with crime in this country is criminals,'' Thompson said. ``I think that to disarm law-abiding people and to allow criminals to steal, to get their hands on armaments of all kinds, which...

(CBS4) DORAL Miami-Dade police have arrested four people in connection with the shootings of four Miami-Dade police officers, one of whom died.According to CBS4’s news partner The Miami Herald, three of those arrested are charged with aiding the suspected cop killer Shawn LaBeet.. Those suspects are Alba Bello, 47; her son, Alain Gonzalez, 24; and Bello’s boyfriend, Lazaro Guardiola, 35. The Herald reports all three have been charged with accessory after the fact for harboring LaBeet and are being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Basically, investigators believe, they helped hide LaBeet as he hid from police in...

The man suspected of killing one Miami-Dade cop and wounding three others Thursday morning in a shootout in south Miami-Dade was cornered and shot dead in a Pembroke Pines apartment complex sometime before midnight, a law enforcement source told The Miami Herald. Miami-Dade police would not confirm the information about suspect Shawn Sherwin LaBeet, but scheduled a news conference for 12:30 a.m. at its headquarters in Doral. After receiving a tip Thursday evening that LaBeet was hiding in an apartment complex in Pembroke Pines, Miami-Dade sent its SWAT team, the source told The Herald.

<p>Old Miami-Dade Metro cop sources confirmed to me tonight that accused cop killer Shawn labeet has "ties to" Miami Islamic community. The depth of the connection is not known at this time.</p> <p>He said it is under VERY active investigation. It is somehow linked to his brother Ishmael Labeet who killed 8 Americans "because they were White" in US Virgin Islands years ago, then fled to Cuba.</p>

Two Miami-Dade police officers have been injured in a so-called Tactical Operation gone bad in Cutler Bay. This is currently a developing story that began at SW 281st Street and 143rd Court in Cutler Bay where the two officers were possibly shot, reportedly with an assault rifle. Other officers may have also been hurt but only with minor injuries. At least one officer has been transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital. After the shooting, one suspect barricaded himself inside a building at 280th Street and Southwest 143RD Court. The other suspect took off in a White Honda Accord and began driving...

MARTINEZ -- Alexander Hamilton, who was 18 when he murdered Pittsburg police Officer Larry Lasater, should die by execution, a jury recommended today. The Contra Costa County jury that heard evidence over two weeks in Hamilton's penalty trial reached its verdict in less than a day of deliberations. The jurors convicted Hamilton and his co-defendant, 20-year-old Andrew Moffett, last month of murder, robbery and special circumstances. The duo robbed a Pittsburg Raley's supermarket and a Wells Fargo Bank branch inside the store on April 23. Hamilton shot 35-year-old Officer Larry Lasater as the officer pursued him on the De Anza...

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia policeman shot while on duty four decades ago died of his injuries this week, raising the possibility of a homicide charge against a man who already served a prison sentence for the shooting, authorities said. Walter T. Barclay, a rookie officer, was gunned down Nov. 27, 1966, while trying to stop the burglary of a beauty shop in the city's East Oak Lane section. Barclay, who was left a paraplegic, died Sunday at age 64. William J. Barnes, now 71, was sentenced to a 10- to 20-year term in the shooting. Chief Inspector of Detectives Joseph...

The San Francisco rookie police officer who accidentally shot himself to death fired his weapon while displaying for a female friend how officers are taught to avoid having their guns used against them, law enforcement authorities said Tuesday. The incident happened at 1:40 a.m. Saturday during a gathering of as many as 15 people at the San Mateo apartment of the 23-year-old officer, James Gustafson Jr. According to those familiar with the incident, Gustafson was showing his Police Department-issued semiautomatic pistol after removing the clip that stores the rounds. He explained that there are ways an officer can disable a...

McALLEN — A man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Reynosa police officer may have crossed into the United States dressed as a clown, Mexican state police said Thursday. Tamaulipas investigators alerted U.S. authorities Wednesday that the suspect may have crossed the Rio Grande illegally while wearing a costume as a disguise. On Monday, accomplices sneaked the man through the Reynosa in a garbage cart to help him get out of town, said Fernando Miranda Guerrero, chief of homicide investigations for the state police. “We went to the river and searched along it with the help of...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hundreds of supporters of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal protested outside a federal appeals court Thursday as lawyers challenged his 1982 conviction for the killing of a police officer. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing three issues in the case: whether the trial judge was racially biased, whether the judge erred in instructing jurors on the death penalty, and whether the prosecution preferred white jurors to black jurors. Abu-Jamal, 53, wants his conviction overturned. Prosecutors want his death penalty, thrown out in 2001, reinstated. In court, the appellate judges pressed attorneys on both sides...

On July 3, 1982, a Philadelphia jury took just four hours to sentence Mumia Abu-Jamal to death for murdering Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Nearly a quarter-century later, Abu-Jamal has remained alive through a series of appeals. His bid to escape the death penalty is now at a critical stage. The case will be argued this week in the region's federal appeals court, and if Abu-Jamal loses, Philadelphia's most controversial death-row inmate will be in imminent peril of lethal injection. "He realizes that death is just a few doors away," said his attorney, Robert R. Bryan, a San Francisco lawyer who...

New Hampshire authorities said yesterday that they will not press charges against a former Marine who stepped into a deadly shooting and killed a 24-year-old high school dropout who had moments earlier fatally shot a police officer. The former Marine, Gregory W. Floyd, 49, was driving with his son along Route 116 in Franconia on Friday night when he saw Liko Kenney, 24, shoot Franconia Police Corporal Bruce McKay, 48, four times in the torso. After Kenney drove his Toyota Celica over McKay as the officer lay on the ground, Floyd grabbed the officer's service weapon and shot and killed...

A plot to behead New York's police commissioner in revenge for the shooting of a man on his stag do has been uncovered. Police buildings were also to be bombed over the killing of Sean Bell. The 23-year-old was shot by officers as he left a strip club with friends hours before his wedding. Police have now arrested David Brown, 47, on a charge of criminal solicitation. They say he offered an undercover officer $65,000 to kill police chief Raymond Kelly and blow up One Police Plaza. "I want his head chopped off," Brown is said to have told the...

January 25, 2007 -- The wife of alleged black power radical cop-killer Francisco Torres is a member of the NYPD. Carolyn Torres, 58, whose husband is accused of taking part in a raid on a San Francisco police station 35 years ago during which Sgt. John Young was killed, works as an assistant traffic-enforcement agent supervisor in Queens, sources said.