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Charles Moose won't attend execution
WTOP.com ^ | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | WTOP

Posted on 11/10/2009 11:45:20 AM PST by jpl

WASHINGTON - The man at the center of the investigation for the sniper shootings says he won't be at John Allen Muhammad's execution Tuesday night.

"I don't think I will be personally interested. I have seen a lot of death and destruction and I don't think I am interested anymore," former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose tells Channel 5.

Moose was the face of law enforcement during those three terrifying weeks in October 2002.

Muhammad is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. Meyers is one of 10 people across Maryland, Virginia and the District killed by Muhammad and fellow sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.

Now retired and living in North Carolina, Moose, 53, says the experience changed him.

"I think the whole experience has shown me and changed me in the sense that I will always be forthright and open with information. I think that is the big lesson for me and one that I wish I would have known when I was 14-years-old. I would have lived my life differently."

But Moose is proud of how he and the police handled the 23-day standoff.

"Three weeks is a short amount of time I think for the kind of fear and death that we were facing. Would I have preferred that it would have been taken care of in one day, certainly, but at the same hand I feel like the three weeks was overly long that it was overly extensive investigation I don't fault us in that sense," Moose tells Channel 5.

Moose does have one regret -- the perception that he disliked the media.

"I appreciate and understand the role of the media, the necessity of law enforcement and the media work together. So this whole thing that I was angry with the media or didn't like the media or didn't understand the media, not that it matters, but I guess if there was something to clear up I would like to clear up the fact that I am smart enough to know the two need to work together," says Moose.

Moose who retired after writing a book, "Three Weeks in October," says he misses the men and women he served with, but is happy with his decision to retire.


TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlesmoose; crime; dcsniper; dcsniperduo; deathpenalty; domesticterrorism; donutwatch; leo; moose; policechief; terrorism
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To: Scotsman will be Free

I don’t like incomplete reporting. He left the Mont. Co. police under some less than good circumstances, and for a time was a policeman in Honolulu. They make it sound like he retired directly from Mont. Co. Just being picky...........


21 posted on 11/10/2009 12:02:07 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Vigilanteman

Chief Moose wasted time,
While the snipers stayed at large,
On P. C. Bullshit.


22 posted on 11/10/2009 12:02:16 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be Your Slave)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

LOL! Didn’t know that. What was his status in lotus land? Patrolman, chief?


23 posted on 11/10/2009 12:03:58 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: jpl

Moose was a accomplice to murder by means of official incompetence and also malfeasance. Malfeasance: when he put out the word they were looking for a white man in a white van when he damn well already knew from the phone tapes it was a black man.


24 posted on 11/10/2009 12:05:06 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

That is my considered opinion.


25 posted on 11/10/2009 12:05:43 PM PST by bvw
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To: jpl

“Now retired and living in North Carolina, Moose, 53...”

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Retired at 53!

Ok, I guess I missed it. Did Moose invent a perpetual motion machine? Cold Fusion? The endless battery? A Viagra extraction process from lawn clippings?

If not, then just your typical “public servant” with gilt-edged pension and healthcare paid for by the taxpayers for the next 30+ years.

Ahem....typical....


26 posted on 11/10/2009 12:06:59 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: jpl
Moose, you disingenuous bastard ...

We have buckets of tar in the lovely Commonwealth of Virginia. We also have chicken feathers ...

Perhaps you'd best stay far, far away.

27 posted on 11/10/2009 12:07:01 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: formerliberal_nowconservative

Good post — BTTT


28 posted on 11/10/2009 12:07:52 PM PST by bvw
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To: jpl

The last thing I remember reading, Moose had moved to Hawaii and was a rookie officer with a police department there.


29 posted on 11/10/2009 12:11:21 PM PST by 04-Bravo
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To: jpl

30 posted on 11/10/2009 12:15:19 PM PST by matt1234
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To: jpl

Thanks for reminding me. I do not recall the trucker’s skin color, but I’m guessing it automatically disqualified him from being recognized as the real hero in this sordid affair, right?


31 posted on 11/10/2009 12:18:48 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: jpl

Thanks for reminding me. I do not recall the trucker’s skin color, but I’m guessing it automatically disqualified him from being recognized as the real hero in this sordid affair, right?


32 posted on 11/10/2009 12:19:00 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

He was just a patrol officer, I think. I read a puff piece about him several years ago, which described his training at the police academy in Honolulu. In spite of his years of police experience, he still had to go through the training like any other recruit. And they said he would graduate and be like any other rookie policeman.


33 posted on 11/10/2009 12:33:19 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I don’t like incomplete reporting. He left the Mont. Co. police under some less than good circumstances, and for a time was a policeman in Honolulu. They make it sound like he retired directly from Mont. Co. Just being picky

FRom Wikipedia it seems the Moose Career path was


34 posted on 11/10/2009 12:43:48 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("it's so American It's like, let's eat baloney sandwiches and be racist" - Karen, HIMYM)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

HAHA! Then he wasn’t invited to be chief. The vast majority of chiefs are political hacks of the general casey sort. They frequently float around from agency to agency as chief, kissing the a$$ of their political masters and generally making their cops miserable and pissed off.


35 posted on 11/10/2009 12:48:07 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Moose was Police Chief in Portland Oregon prior to being hired in Maryland. City of Portland fired him...a real loser....liberal PDX firing a negro...whoooaaaa!


36 posted on 11/10/2009 12:49:58 PM PST by halfers
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s right, there were a few murders across the country before Muhammed hit the DC area. I believe they are suspected but none were proved to have been them. The ole mind is a little sketchy on those details. But I DO remember on at a liquor store in the south that they were suspected of doing.


37 posted on 11/10/2009 12:50:10 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: halfers
I remember well that his wife was a typical left-wing feminist harpy, always whining about how he wasn't being fairly treated.

I just checked, and you can buy used copies of his book on Amazon for twenty-nine cents, lol.

38 posted on 11/10/2009 12:55:13 PM PST by jpl
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To: a fool in paradise

Jerry Taylor from Tucson, Arizona was gunned down on a golf course several months before the D.C. shooting spree began. Lee Malvo reportedly confessed to the killing.

Taylor’s daughter will be present at tonight’s execution.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/316977.php


39 posted on 11/10/2009 1:46:30 PM PST by Deo volente (The Islamic War on the West: Fourteen centuries and counting...)
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To: EyeGuy

Most PD’s and military retire at a young age after a full career. It’s possible he made enough $ on his book sales and speaking appearances to supplement his police pension. Also he may be living a modest lifestyle. I would have thought him a good bit older than 53, tho.


40 posted on 11/10/2009 2:27:17 PM PST by EDINVA
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