Posted on 03/14/2005 8:48:17 AM PST by YoungBlackRepublican
A video camera, which is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post, shows the two arriving in the holding area between two courtrooms, according to a law enforcement official who viewed the tape.
The video shows Hall guiding Nichols, whose hands are still handcuffed behind his back, face-first into one of two open cells.
Hall releases one cuff and turns Nichols around to unhook the remaining cuff, which is dangling from his wrist. She uncuffs him so he can change from a jail jumpsuit into street clothes.
The muscular, 33-year-old Nichols then lunges at Hall, knocking the petite, 51-year-old woman backward into another cell. Both disappear from camera view because having a camera inside the actual holding cells is prohibited for privacy reasons. Two to three minutes later, Nichols emerges from the cell, holding Hall's gun belt and police radio. He picks up her keys from the floor and locks her inside the cell. Nichols then enters the empty cell.
A couple of minutes later, he emerges dressed in civilian clothes. He locks the door behind him and saunters calmly out of the holding area, carrying the gun belt, according to the law enforcement official who viewed the tape. Nichols appears to know which key to use to unlock the holding area door and enters a vacant courtroom on the eighth floor.
They can be required to undergo a rectal cavity search but a camera in a dressing room is considered to be an invasion of privacy? LOL! Typical government irrational nonsense.
Lemme guess. They were only on the job 2 months as well.......
Manslaughter at best but yes.
It looks like the inmates are in charge of the assylum.
Now watch the lawsuits being spawned. All family members of deceased have an action to bring against the city, state,county,individuals who were in positions to make the right decisions to protect both the accused, the deputies, and the courts and the public. The lady who was knocked silly will sue her employer. The gentleman who was pistol-whipped has an action because none of this should have ever happened. If it is true that the panic putton did not work properly, the maker of the button will be sued. The young lady who talked him off of the ledge has several causes, though, I doubt she will ever bring that.
There will be a cascade of lawsuits or out-of-court settlements that will take our breath away. Over 1/3 will go to the lawyers who game their own system.
I am pretty much against frivolous lawsuits, but darn if I don't believe all of the above are justified.
Yes, yes, yes.
I caught a quick glimpse of the TV screen when they were talking about the missing depties. A man and a woman. I think they were the 2 guards.
Do I smell scape goat cooking?
Don't get me wrong...if they were derelict,they should be fired.
Just want to make sure the High Sheriff doesn't stop there.
Atlanta is so incompetent. Just a few months ago the Governor had to suspend then-sheriff Jackie Barrett for fraud and now this! But hey, at least now Cobb County isn't the laughing stock of the country. I live in Cobb and have relatives working in the Cobb court system and let me tell you, something like this would NEVER have happened in that courthouse.
Given a few dozen more murdered judges, they might just face up to reality. Or not.
Agreed. They probably knew each other - possibly recently dating. It's too convenient an explanation that he randomly "showed up", then he let her go to turn him in. Smells bad.
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ooooooh, don't even say that out loud. ;-)
Yeah ... we all know where that "It's broken, we gotta fix it" is going. ;)
You could just about imagine President Bush or any of our top brass saying the same thing about the women serving with our combat troops. The entire system is screwed up, from top to bottom - federal, state, local - infected with radical feminist oriented political correctness and leaders without balls.
it's called complacency.
very natural thing for us humans to fall into.
but it's the error of management to not allow things to fall into this state.
The P.C. question no one is asking.
And yes, Atlanta IS this politically correct. We haven't had three state flags in 4 years for nothing.
Interesting that Nichols called himself "a soldier".
Fox briefly reported that Nichols said it was related to his fellow black prisoners and that he was "a soldier on a mission". Indication are he was proud of what he had done. He said he regretted having to shot a black man and hit a black woman, but that he had to do it.
All in all, it appears someone should ASK what was Nichol's motive. It appears RACE was involved in his motive. He called himself a racial soldier.
When the judge in chicago was targetted, and her family shot, the media speculated and elaborated on various connections with white separatists like Hale. Speculation was all over the place.
Now, with Nichols killing a white judge and even though he admits racial soldiering, NOBODY will even talk about what his motive was. Isn't this a hate crime?
What crime is not?
Just shows the idiocy of hate crime legislation.
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