Posted on 10/09/2002 3:14:53 AM PDT by Peach
Another press conference due soon. To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, thought we'd keep a live commentary thread going again today.
-- Posted by Az Redneck on 3:35 am on June 21, 2001
Do ya'll remember Detective Mark Fuhrman during the OJ Simpson trial? (He's the one who lied about saying the "N" word)...Remember what he said? "Out there I AM God!"....
ALL cops think alike. Those who don't, quit.....
Has Furman been on prior to today? And if he was, was he one of the people that desribed the shooter and thinking they were God?
NOT TO STEREOTYPE OR ANYTHING, but it seems that arabs/muslims generally like for stuff to blow up real big and have lots of wounded victims for psychological effect, especially women and kids.
Also, consider this: Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols took an afternoon off from whatever their day jobs were, stirred up some fertilizer and diesel fuel from some plans they got off the internet and blew up a whole federal building, right?
If it's that damn easy, why wouldn't terrorists do that instead of going to all the trouble of shooting individual people and taking the risk of getting caught at it? (/end sarcasm)
No...
I would include a police cadet washout that wanted to get on the SWAT Team, since he is so 'in their face' with the Police.
The guy read Agatha Christie...
I meant same thread...
I really don't see this being any significant identifier of the suspect's identity.
That's because we know who the person is and a description isn't necessary in finding and apprehending the individual. However, if the Enron exec were on the lam then a detailed description of what he looks like (which would include the word 'white') is relevant. Since we don't know who we're looking for how are we to distinguish between individuals wearing blue jackets (assuming the guy has ditched the long black bag)? Why I would think race (i.e. mexican, muslim, caucasian, black) would be relevant. Don't you?
Joe Riehl, assistant director of the Baltimore office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said he would not comment on whether any shell casings had been found at the scene or what other evidence had been collected. After ballistics tests were conducted on fragments of the bullet that struck the Bowie boy, Riehl said the projectile was "identical to those" in previous attacks, in which the assailant used a high-powered .223-caliber rifle. "What we're saying is that the evidence here is the same as the evidence recovered there," Riehl said.
Chief Moose said: "The shooting this morning in Prince George's County is linked. The ballistics, the evidence, the science tells us that."
Authorities, citing ballistics tests, have said that the same rifle was used in three of the Montgomery killings, the D.C. slaying and the shooting in Spotsylvania. The bullet fragments from the other two Montgomery slayings could not be accurately tested.
To me "the same rifle" meant a bullet match. OTOH, prior to this incident I'd read and thought that doing that kind of match on a high velocity rifle bullet was more than merely problematic. I could buy "the same kind of rifle", but considering how beat up and fragmented the bullets likely are, I though "the same rifle" to be a bit strong.
If the evidence really only supports the same kind or even more weakly the same caliber, then I would say that the Monday shooting was a copycat, but not a very good one. Different technique, left behind brass, and the tarot card, all different from the other shootings.
OTOH, maybe there were tarot cards at some or all of the other shootings, and we just didn't find out about it, since the police (probably) didn't want the information known on this one.
I would hope that the police chief answered that such information could be critical in actually identifying a would-be suspect based on him revealing information to the police that was not made public by the irresponsible media.
That is WAY too big of a coincidence to be nothing.
In the same thread, same conversation, "Dear Mr. Policeman: I know where you live..." and complaints about all cops thinking they are God, with a quote from Mark Furhman as example ("out there I AM God").
Geez, does it have to be a sicko survivalist white guy named Wayne? I suppose the thread could have made a big impression on some nutcase lurker. The cops will be knockin' on Wayne's door soon, if they haven't already. Any way to tell where this Wayne guy lives?
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