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WILKES-BARRE – Ever since state and local police unleashed 39 shots at a chain saw-wielding man outside a Forty Fort home, police have heard rumblings from the public, questioning their actions: Why didn’t the officers use a taser gun instead of pumping 17 bullets into 40-year-old William Henkle? Why didn’t police back off and discuss a better plan of attack? And why not wait for the saw to run out of gas? The answer, state police Capt. Kenneth Hill said, to each is simple: The officers did not have tasers. There was no time to talk strategy. And, it’s impossible...

Robert Griffin suggests chain-saw incident could have ended differently. FORTY FORT (PA) - A borough psychologist is questioning whether a seven-minute standoff could have been resolved differently after a River Street man was shot while charging at police with a chain saw. Robert Griffin, whose practice is just a short distance from where William Henkle was gunned down last Monday, describes the incident as a lose-lose situation for all involved. “It would be very hard to look at this as a success,” said Griffin. “The best you can say is everybody lost, but at least some people didn’t lose more.”...

In the end: # Ceres police Sgt. Howard Stevenson, 39, was dead. # Andres Raya, who police say seemed determined to die rather than return to Iraq, was dead. # Ceres police officer Sam Ryno, 50, was hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds. He was in critical condition Monday, and is expected to recover. Monday, detectives from sev-eral law enforcement agencies — from the Ceres police to the FBI — sifted through events leading to Sunday's carnage. Officers were still struggling to figure out what drove Raya to fire on officers. "It was premeditated, planned, an ambush," Ceres Police Chief Art...

(MOBILE, Ala.) Mar. 10 - A man is dead after Mobile police open fire in a crowded shopping center parking lot. It started around 9:30 Wednesday morning in front of the Big K-Mart on Schillinger Road near Airport Boulevard. Police say they were called because a man was driving erratically in the parking lot. When police arrived, 40-year-old Wayne Stewart was changing a tire. Officers say Stewart was bleeding and appeared very upset. When they attempted to calm him down, police say Stewart pulled out a carpet-cutter and lunged towards them. It was then that two officers shot Stewart as...

Man calls local rural police station for FBI. Two local cops respond and are shot.

Cops accidentally kill 300 citizens annually Editorial: Nonlethal weapons a better approach http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2003-12-08/opinions2.html Here lie the casualties of an epidemic that has been increasingly gripping American cities since the early part of 1990: ·Steven Curry, 21, shot and killed by an off-duty Chicago police officer, Nov. 25, 2003. ·Michael L. Jacobs, 37, shot and killed by a Shreveport, La. police officer, claiming self-defense, Dec. 2, 2003. ·Courtney Mathis, 12, shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer, Sept. 1, 2001. ·Timothy Thomas, 19, shot and killed by off-duty Cincinnati police officers, April 7, 2001. ·Ahmed Diallo, 22, shot 41 times...

police storm classroom...gunman dead...two students reported hurt...more news as it comes...

An armed man claiming to be a member of the al-Qaida terrorist network was killed by police hours after taking at least a dozen people hostage in a college classroom this afternoon in Tennessee. Two hostages were wounded during the nine-hour standoff. Dyersburg Police Chief Bobby Williamson initially said the gunman fatally shot himself, but he later confirmed that officers shot him. Authorities identified the man as Harold Kilpatrick Jr., a 26-year-old Memphis man who was staying with his sister in the town of Dyersburg. Kilpatrick, who had a 9 mm pistol and a knife, released four people several hours...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A man was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies early on Monday after he evaded a checkpoint set up for President Bush's visit to a fire-ravaged area in southern Arizona, police said. The man, who was not immediately identified, was apparently intoxicated and thrust a beer out the vehicle's window when he was briefly stopped at about 1 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT) by an officer at the base of Mount Lemmon, northeast of Tucson, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. "Our initial indication is this had absolutely zero to do with the president's visit,"...

A 26-year-old Kansas City man, distraught over problems with his girlfriend, died after threatening to blow up himself and police officers with a grenade early Saturday.After police negotiators spent hours outside a duplex in the 8700 block of North Chatham Avenue trying to persuade Chad Seymour to surrender, an officer shot him when he charged at them. Seymour then fell on top of the live grenade.Police sent in a robotic device to retrieve the grenade, fearing it might detonate.It did."I've been on the force for 13 years, and we've never encountered that before," said Capt. Rich Lockhart, a Kansas City...

<p>April 21, 2003 -- Cops shot and killed the brazen fugitive wanted in the slaying of a New Jersey policewoman yesterday after a wild high-speed car chase and gun battle in central Florida. The suspect, Omar Marti, 23, who been out on bail following a New York City arrest, had vowed "that police would never take him alive," said Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli, who called the killer's death "suicide by cop."</p>

American radicals court tragedy, get it, and then proceed to blame the tragedy on others. U.S. student activist Rachel Corrie went looking for trouble in the Gaza Strip and found it. Don't blame her death on Israeli "radicals"; blame it on American ones. Like John Walker Lindh, Corrie was a product of a left-coast radicalism which treats reality as a fantasy and game subject to juvenile manipulation. Corrie imbibed this radicalism at Evergreen State College, which is known as a "hippie school" built inside a rain forest in Washington state. The professors denouncing Israel for Corrie's death should look themselves...

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye

Even before a jury handed down a guilty verdict in his felony murder case Wednesday, Laron Ball hinted in a phone conversation with his younger brother that he was ready to take extreme measures if things didn't go his way. "He'd rather be dead than in jail," Jacoby V. Jackson, 19, said Wednesday afternoon of the call he says he received the night before. "In so many words, that's what I got out of it." Ball told Jackson to care for Ball's six young children, all under age 3 by three different women - and a seventh child on the...