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  • Activist makes his final stand (Massillon, OHIO)

    08/11/2002 3:45:48 AM PDT · by ResistorSister · 45 replies · 615+ views
    The Beacon Journal (Akron, OHIO) ^ | 08/11/2002 | John Higgins
    Friends of Donald W. Matthews, a 61-year-old former Steelworker who quoted the U.S. Constitution like a preacher thumbing a worn Bible, say he was suspicious of government.But nobody knows why he chose a routine traffic stop Friday night to make his final stand, fatally shooting a Massillon police officer in the back before he was killed himself in return gunfire.He might have been returning home from a constitutionalist study group in Cleveland when a state trooper pulled him over for speeding.The trooper stopped him near Edwards Road in the short stretch of state Route 21 that crosses Wayne County. It...