It Depends On What the Meaning of “Kirkwood” Is January 25, 2008
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Students Rally for Cop Killer on Facebook
KIRKWOOD, MO – A group of over 40 current and former Kirkwood, Missouri, high school students have created a Facebook page called “Free Kevin” in an effort to rally support to free convicted cop killer Kevin Johnson.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, on July 5, 2005, Johnson brutally, and without provocation, gunned down Sergeant William McEntee of the Kirkwood Police Department as he spoke with a 13-year-old boy while on a call. Johnson, who had nothing to do with the call, approached Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car from the passenger side and opened fire, striking him several times. After Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car traveled a short distance and hit a tree, Johnson again approached the patrol car and shot him several more times.
Johnson’s first trial ended in a mistrial. In November 2007 Johnson was finally convicted of murder and was sentenced to death.
The “Free Kevin” Facebook campaign is reminiscent of the absurd, but seemingly undying, “Free Mumia” efforts underway across the country to portray convicted cop killer Wesley Cook (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) – whom we’ll refer to as Pennsylvania DOC inmate #AM8335 – as some sort of victim of a corrupt justice system. For those who don’t recall, #AM8335 has been on death row since murdering Philadelphia Policeman Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. In one of the most sickening displays of anti-cop liberalism ever displayed, #AM8335 was even honored by the Evergeen State University as the keynote speaker for their graduating Class of 1999.
I have made the comparison between KJ and Mumia many times, and it looks like others have as well.
As for these “Kirkwood” High School students, while the virtually all-black area known as Meacham Park (where KJ was from) has been legally been part of the city of Kirkwood only since the early 1990s, it has always been part of the Kirkwood School District. Therefore, even before interdistrict deseg, Kirkwood H.S. has always had a significant black percentage in its student body.
My guess was that most of the members of this “Free Kevin” Facebook group were black, and most of those were from Meacham Park. Proving the former was just as easy as logging onto Facebook (St. Louis CofCC is my FB screen name), searching for “Free Kevin Johnson,” find the group, then looking at its current members. Of the 41 members at the time of this writing, 38 are black. The latter assertion is not true, because many of the group’s members attend other high schools, and a few are outside of St. Louis.
Far From the Border January 25, 2008
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AP:
Feds Target Immigrants Far From Border
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Detective Nick McLendon, on stakeout duty along a dark stretch of eastbound Interstate 20, noticed a red Chevy Suburban with heavily tinted windows and no light over its rear Texas license plate. The missing light gave him all the excuse he needed to pull the SUV over.
Packed into the Suburban, he discovered, were 14 illegal immigrants, two suspected smugglers, and a spiral notebook on the front seat, listing the passengers and their destinations in Spanish — “Arterio Ramires to Nuy Yersey; David Luna to Nueba York; Marcelina and Jasmin to Carolina del Norte; Jose Aguilar to Alabama; Josefina Ortega to Chicago; Gustavo Ribera to Florida.”
The arrests — some 800 miles from the Mexican border — represented a new and dramatic shift in U.S. immigration enforcement strategy.
Federal agents, with help from local law officers like McLendon, a Pearl detective, have begun intercepting illegal immigrants and smugglers along stretches of highway deep in the U.S. interior, where those who have slipped into the country usually have little chance of getting caught.
The way this article is titled, it seems as if the AP thinks that if illegal aliens leave states that are on the border, they’re no longer here illegally. That’s like saying that if you rob a bank, and you’re apprehended in a place that is 100 miles away from any bank, that you’re no longer a bank robber.
