Posted on 05/21/2005 7:01:19 AM PDT by 2Am4Sure
As a group of residents cheered, a Glen Park man tackled Gary Patrolman Carl Cochran, choking the officer and threatening to kill him in an unprovoked attack Wednesday night, Lt. Roger Smith said.
Cochran, a five-year veteran and member of the department’s elite S.W.A.T. team, suffered cuts to his face and injuries to his arm and back as a result of the protracted struggle with Kelvin D. Banks, 40.
Cmdr. Jerome Krebes said Thursday he ordered additional patrols in the area in response to the incident.
A small group of people — ten or less — surrounded the officer during the struggle as Banks wrestled with the officer and tried to grab Cochran’s gun.
“Cochran grabbed his wrist to stop him while Banks kept one hand on his throat and Banks said, 'I could kill you right now if I wanted to!’ . . . Cochran reported he could not reach his portable radio,” the police report states.
Banks was charged Thursday in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point with battery, resisting law enforcement, intimidation and disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted of the charges, Diane Poulton, spokeswoman for Prosecutor Bernard Carter, said.
Patrolman Richard Knight arrived at 5000 Washington St. to assist Cochran at a domestic dispute and saw his partner struggling with Banks.
Both men were on the ground and a group of residents were crowded around urging Banks to keep up the attack, Smith said. Eventually, Knight and Cochran subdued Banks, who continued to defy officers after he was handcuffed and being led to the squad car, police said
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One of them actually decided to become a cop after I joined the military. He took the test and told me that if he didn't get on with the police, he would join the military and be an MP so he could be a cop when he got out.
Luckily he was made it his first try and he loves the work. He hates derelicts though. Occupational hazard I guess. I hate derelicts too so I never hold that against him.
I always tell him now I want his job and he says I can't have the job, but he'll trade me salaries.
Wall it off and lock the gate. Throw food over the wall occasionally.
Check out the photos...
http://www.idler.co.uk/html/frontsection/craptown/towns/gary.htm
Town/Village: Gary, Indiana The only reason you go to Gary is if you're a crime writer, a drug dealer, or suicidal. Even then, you don't stop for long.
At first, from miles away, when you pick up Gary, Indiana on the horizon, it looks like the gathering of a biblical storm. The town is permenantly enveloped in a threatening rusty metallic smog.
The sun is completely blocked out. The only light comes from factory gas jet fires. The air tastes of battery acid. Feeding the smog, there are thousands upon thousands of steel factories, churning out vast quantities of toxic pollution (but these days no steel) that makes Doncaster look like Tunbridge Wells circa 1423.
Amazingly people live in Gary, or rather they die there. Crime is the number one pursuit in a city where unemployment is a way of life. Gary tops the US charts for gun death, stabbings, rape, armed robbery and school shootings. Crack cocaine is the drug of choice, but Gary is the centre for distribution of most other drugs to the Midwest. This profile says it all: www.whitehousedrugpolicy/gary
The local press is full of "Chicken Man's Dungeon uncovered", "Bible teacher gets death," or "Kids watch as classmates slain." State executions are de rigour. Those on death row can cheer themselves with the quaint fact that the electric chair at the Indiana State Prison is believed to have been constructed from the old hangman's scaffold, with the back and legs of the chair formed from braces and uprights. It has now been updated for lethal injections.
On the plus side, Gary has some of the cheapest housing in the US. And on top of all that, it's the hometown of Michael Jackson.
El Turk
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I do like the prices on the houses for sale...
cool website
And if you let felons vote, you will get many juries that will be unwilling convict their "peers" of anything.
I think the Navy is looking for a new bombing range to practice on. Gary sounds like a perfect choice. Bystanders will be welcomed on the range during bombing runs.
http://www.gary.in.us/visitgary.asp
Gary, Indiana is located on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan and on three major Interstate. At the Crossroads of America, Gary provides the perfect location for a weekend getaway, a family vacation, a business trip, or a night on the town. Relax on the beach or rent a jet ski! Take a long walk under the stars with Chicago's beautiful skyline twinkling across the calm water, or spend the day shopping in our Lake Street Shopping District, filled with boutiques and galleries. Night is near, get dressed up, the Jack Pot is waiting for you at Buffington Harbor!
Next time you are in town, stop in and have a good time. There's lots to do, and plenty of time to do it! Get to know us. Anything you need to know is at the click of a button!
On your right you can see the new South Shore painting soon to be released. The painting shows a modern day scene of Live! ON BROADWAY. The posters will be available mid-2002 in our store. Check back often!
Well, for those who keep complaining about the high cost of So Cal Real Estate... here's your new home.
Couldn't help but laugh about the "wife unit" line. My wife always asked "Theirs, I hope"? Funniest shirt was the one I brought home after getting between two drag queens on crank. Smelled like a perfume factory, and had more makeup on my shirt (dk blue) than she had on her vanity. Shirt was cut (nail file?) and I didn't know it 'cause of my vest.
I overflew Gary some time ago... looked like Hell.
ping for possible pingout.
"The bystanders should be charged with inciting to riot."
How about complicity to the battery?
His back up should have called for an air strike!
God Bless our police & military
Sounds like a strong and good woman you have there. Pleased to hear she has a sense of humor about it.
The bystanders should be mowed down with heavy machine gun fire once the cop was retrieved.
Kinda proves the point, doesn't it?
Maybe a daisycutter would help clear the streets.
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