Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $41,237
50%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 50%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: cophatingfilth

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Police release more officer comments about nightclub fire (Austin TX PD "burn baby burn.")

    03/05/2005 8:57:33 AM PST · by Arrowhead1952 · 27 replies · 1,174+ views
    AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF | Saturday, March 05, 2005 | By Tony Plohetski
    By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, March 05, 2005 Four dispatchers suspended in addition to five officers. At 7:09 p.m. on Feb. 18, Austin police officer John Lengefeld heard a radio transmission that a Northeast Austin nightclub was on fire. The seven-year department veteran, according to documents released Friday, said he immediately thought of the song "Disco Inferno" and sent a message from his patrol car to fellow officer Josue Martinez that said "burn baby burn." Martinez replied 37 seconds later: "Hey ... LOL (laughing out loud). Those were my exact thoughts." So began more than two hours of computer...