Four police officers shot dead at Lakewood coffee shop

komo news ^ | Nov 29, 2009

[KeyLargo]

PARKLAND, Wash. - Four police officers were shot and killed in a Sunday morning ambush at a Parkland-area coffee shop, officials said.

Pierce County Sheriff's Office spokesman Ed Troyer called the ambush "a targeted attack."

Officials at the scene said two gunmen burst into the Forza Coffee Co. outlet at 11401 Steele St. South, shot the four uniformed officers as they were working on their laptop computers, then fled the scene.

Other customers were inside the coffee shop at the time of the attack, but none of them were shot or injured.

A $10,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the suspects, Troyer said.

Emergency personnel rushed to the scene after receiving a report that multiple officers were shot and killed in the ambush at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, according to reports from the scene.

Within minutes, hundreds of investigators and police were rushing to the scene. Roads were blocked in the vicinity of the attack.

One witness who was driving past said he saw an officer on the ground just after the shootings.

Authorities later closed off the air space over the scene of the shootings.

[dr_lew]

Well, a perusal of an online pdf version of Vom Kriege, ( as opposed to the photocopy version I dug up previously,) shows that Friktion is a basic concept in the work, whereas Nebel (fog) is used metaphorically to express the contribution of uncertainty to the general operation of the former principle.

I actually see two places where Nebel is used figuratively in this way. In addition to the Wikipedia citation I mentioned, there is this passage:

Der Krieg ist das Gebiet der Ungewißheit; drei Vierteile derjenigen Dinge, worauf das Handeln im Kriege gebaut wird, liegen im Nebel einer mehr oder weniger großen Ungewißheit.

"War is the realm of uncertainty, three quarters of the things upon which the practice of war depends, lie in a fog of more or less total uncertainty."

This is probably a better source for the popular idea of "the fog of war" than the other quote.

BTW, Clausewitz does cite weather as a contribution to friction, and gives the example of an artillery signal not being heard due to fog, but fog is used metaphorically as well, and in a way consistent with the popular conception of "the fog of war".

[KeyLargo]

Published: November 30, 2009

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — The police cornered a man suspected of gunning down four uniformed officers in a Seattle home early Monday and said he might have died from a gunshot wound, according to news reports.

Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, told The Associated Press that the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, had been shot and “may be deceased from his gunshot wound.”

[KeyLargo]

The slain officers, who were in uniform and wearing bulletproof vests, were pronounced dead at the scene. They were identified as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards, 42.

[apocalypto]

FOX News reported this animal was out on bail on rape of a child charges. And he received clemency from a 60 year sentence for none other than Mike Huckabee.

[sweetiepiezer]

I will say it.
The officer in Las Vegas that was murdered was killed by 6 BLACK gang members.
The man they are looking for in WA is BLACK.
The officer killed on Halloween in Seattle was BLACK.
Is there a pattern here?
Hello Obama, did these black men act stupidly?
Am I being politically correct, I do not care.