Posted on 11/29/2009 3:46:23 PM PST by Jack Black
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Four Lakewood Police Officers murdered on Sunday may have been the target of gangs on the east side of Tacoma. Previous attacks on officers have been reported.
On Sunday, Nov. 29, four Lakewood officers were gunned down in a coffee shop ambush before the start of their shift in Parkland. There are no suspects in custody.
The police have recently started a crack down on Mexican gangs in the state. In July 2009, after the gang crackdown was announced.
On July 30, 2009 a Lakewood police officer's personal car was spray painted with gang tags and set on fire, according to the News Tribune.
The car was parked at the officer's house and was painted with gang tags, then set on fire about 10:45 p.m. Gang tags were also spray painted on the officer's driveway. The officer was in his home at the time, but no injuries were reported by Lakewood Police. His police car was parked next to his personal car and suffered minor heat damage.
The officer had spray painted over gang graffiti in his neighborhood, according to Lakewood Assistant Police Chief Mike Zaro. He did not rule out that it could have been a random act of vandalism after someone spotted a police car parked in the driveway.
Mexican gangs are causing havoc in the Tacoma-Yakima area of Washington with methamphetamine being the drug of choice for the gang. They are moving into Native American territories where a police presence is scant.
I don’t think we’ve fallen that far....yet.
I thought the suspect was black.
Thhat are of Lakewood and Parkland is however notorious with gang activity, so who know what the outcome will be.
The media doesn’t report on many gang members are being recruited by different Terrorist organization. Who knows this could be:
Hit-and-Run Jihad Comes to America
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hit-and-run-jihad-comes-to-america/?print=1
Then again, until the media wants to truly report the real news again, we’ll never know.
Mexican gangs? What happened to the black guy? I’d guess they don’t have a clue or are purposely making it look that way.
I added the rife part as it would be needed to penetrate bullet proof vests. My best guess, AK or SKS.
We have arrived. The United States of Juarez.
Why we don’t take gangs seriously and eradicate them is simply beyond me.
I've been following this all day. The police spokesman already said it was a handgun. No AK's or SKS's involved. Legal owners of military weapons have enough problems without adding crimes like this to the list!
A reasonable assumption, but just not correct. One might now assume that the perp/scumbag head shot them.
Who ever is responsible, this should be a blank check to go clean them out. Like a den of rats and snakes, they wont go away until they are dead.
Not likely Mexican gang related if it’s a black guy. More likely a crazy like john mohammed, or whatever the DC sniper’s name was.
Smells like Mara Salvatrucha.....
Smells like Mara Salvatrucha.....
The city of Dalton GA requires officers to take 80 hours of Spanish language training to even be eligible for promotion.
Sombra Negra. We’ve needed a US chapter for some time.
I’m with you.. inner city gangs should be used for training for our spec ops folks only with live rounds.
It became open season on cops with the infamous words, ‘acted stupidly’.
Mmmmm, Its hard to believe some gang banger is that good of a shot. Pistols are defensive weapons, not offensive. Not one cop got his weapon out????? I smell a cover up. (heads are hard targets even when hit.)
I was born in Yakima and visits are heartbreaking, as it has become unrecognizable.
A couple years ago my Dad’s neighbor shot a punk who was carrying stolen items from his house....guns among them.
It’s past time to close the borders.
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