For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device

William Norman Grigg

"We don't have time for this!" exclaimed a police officer as he shot and killed a psychologically troubled, 90-pound teenage boy who had already been tasered and was pinned down beneath two other officers. The victim, 18-year-old Keith Vidal, was "armed" with a screwdriver at the time of his death.

Vidal's father, Mark Wilsey, had called the police for help when the boy suffered what was described as a psychotic episode on the afternoon of January 5. When the police arrived at the family's home in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, they rendered the kind of "help" for which they have become so notorious -- repeatedly tasering the troubled young man until one of them simply shot him as a time-saving measure.

"There was no reason to shoot this kid," Wilsey told the local NBC affiliate. "We called for help and they killed my son." During a press conference today (January 6), Wilsey recalled that he was helping the police try to calm down his son when one of the officers fired the fatal gunshot. In addition to killing Vidal, the officer imperiled the lives of several other people -- including two of his comrades at risk. He later pointed his gun at Wilsey when the father reacted with predictable pain and outrage over the murder of his son.

There was "no reason" for deadly force, Wilsey points out. "They had Tasers on them, and they didn't have to even tase him, they could have just talked to him, talked to him another ten minutes."

Speaking during the press conference, Vidal's mother urged parents of emotionally troubled children not to place the lives of their loved ones at risk by inviting the intervention of armed strangers clothed in the supposed authority to kill: "Do not call the police department for help -- because your son will probably be killed, like mine was."

This is not the first documented instance in which a police officer has murdered somebody simply because he was in a hurry. During a 2009 incident in a restaurant parking lot, Everett, Washington Police Officer Troy Meade shot and killed Niles Meservey, an intoxicated man whose Corvette had been boxed in by three cars and a chain-link fence.

For about a half-hour, Meade attempted to get Meservey to leave the car. After a taser was used on the 51-year-old man, the driver started his car, which lurched forward into the fence. Although Meservey was able to inflict property damage, he was no threat to anyone. But his intractable non-compliance infuriated Meade to the point of murderous rage.

"Time to end this -- enough is enough!" bellowed Meade as he pulled the trigger seven times. Those words were heard by a fellow officer, Steve Klocker, who repeated them in sworn courtroom testimony. Klocker's defiance of the "Blue Wall of Silence" prompted the political clique afflicting Everett to attempt undermining Klocker's reliability as a witness -- something it wouldn't have done if the officer had been testifying against a Mundane.

Meade was indicted for second-degree murderer and first-degree manslaughter. The jury that heard the case dismissed the officer's self-defense claim, which means that the killing was unlawful. Despite the fact that there was no significant material dispute regarding the details of the incident, the jury also acquitted the killer on both counts, owing to the fact that at the time of the killing he was swaddled in a costume that confers the right to kill, and immunizes its wearer against legal liability for criminal actions. Meade was set free to resume his career as a dispenser of violence on behalf of the State.

The murder of Niles Meservey, like that of Keith Vidal, began with a helpful phone call from someone concerned about a person not fully in control of his faculties, either because of intoxication or an emotional disturbance. If you believe the best way to help people in such a condition is to kill them, by all means, call the police.

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> "Vidal's father, Mark Wilsey, had called the police for help when the boy suffered what was described as a psychotic episode on the afternoon of January 5 and was "armed" with a screwdriver at the time of his death.

I wonder, exactly what "help" did he envisioned when calling the cops on his own son.

(...continuing...)

" .. could have just talked to him, talked to him another ten minutes."

Couldn't the father himself have talked to him?

Man...don't make it worse blaming the father. Any number of things, including him feeling threatened by his own son would prompt someone to call. Some people don't realize it is a crapshoot if you get actual peace officers or nutjobs like that third officer. I other reports the first two police responding did their job, holding him down, trying to calm him. The third maniac came on the scene and tased, the shot the young man. The insanity that is who the police have become is the problem. Don't you realize how much this father is going to be (wrongly, it wasn't his fault) blaming himself for his sons death! Any IDEA of the agony he is going through right now? He doesn't need the likes of you telling him it was somehow his fault. Wo did you think he COULD even call? If he had tried an ambulance they would have asked him or come on the scene and still called the cops because they aren't equipped to restrain someone, it would be seen as dangerous.

This father that is in total hell right now could possibly read things Ike this, making it worse when again, it was NOT his fault, it was the fault of the police department allowing a psycho cop remain on the force. You can bet that cop was no model , compassionate, well meaning cop and just snapped. Guaranteed he's exhibited unstability and brutality before.

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Only an Incipient 'Terrorist' Denounces State Murder

by William Norman Grigg


According to the SPLC, the people in the burning building were the "terrorists."

?There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat," warns an unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times. "They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.?

That description was not applied to the masked, armor-clad Berserkers who kick down doors in the early morning or late at night and terrorize families over non-violent "offenses." Nor was it offered in reference to the militants who have purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition ? much of it hollow-point rounds unsuitable for military use ? while distributing armored vehicles and other military hardware to their adherents in practically every city nation-wide. The Times didn't direct that rhetorical salvo at the people who are openly discussing plans to fill America's skies with robot planes that can ? and will ? be used as weapons platforms.

The Times editorial collective focused its indignation upon a much safer target ? namely, ?white, right-wing Americans, all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.? The statist screed makes passing reference to what it calls ?the massacre of a bizarre sect by federal agents in Waco, Texas,? twenty years ago ? without passing moral judgment on the ?massacre? in question. Slaughtering religious eccentrics is a venial offense compared to the grave heresy committed by those who speak ill of the Holy State, since their "blather" ? not the murderous actions of those who impudently presume to rule us, mind you ? "tends to get under the skin of the Timothy McVeighs of the world."

Once again: Immolating harmless people in a church is a perfectly proper thing, assuming that this act of mass murder is carried out by the consecrated hands of the State's enforcement caste, but referring to it as mass murder is the sort of thing only an incipient terrorist would do.In recent days, we've heard that the Obama Regime ? which is running out of plausible foreign enemies ? is seeking to broaden the scope of the "war on terror" to include "offshoot" groups that are connected only by rumor to al-Qaeda (which was always more of a brand name than an actual organization). Terror Warriors need not fret; ere long we'll harvest the nettles that have been so plentifully sown by the Regime's implacable aggression abroad. In the meantime, however, the Times suggests that the "war on terror" should re-direct its focus inward.

Citing the most recent missive from the self-appointed Stasi at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Times claims that there are 1,360 proto-terrorist groups ? sneeringly denounced as "patriots," "constitutionalists," and "sovereign citizens" ? scattered throughout the Soyuz. "These groups should be closely monitored, with resources adequate to the task, even if it means shifting some homeland security money from the hunt for foreign terrorists," concludes the paper.

A Sheriff's Deputy in Gem County, Idaho deals with a "Constitutionalist."

The Times editorial ? which could be digested into the phrase, "The conspiracy theorists are plotting against us!" ? brings to mind an incident in the early 1980s in which East German officials arrested a group of human rights activists for "defaming" the state by claiming that it suppressed freedom of speech. As Tony Cooper, an instructor in terrorism negotiation at the University of Texas-Dallas, pointed out in 1995, the Regime in Washington is perfectly capable of such totalitarian behavior.

"I see the formation of a curious crusading mentality among certain law enforcement agencies to stamp out what they see as a threat to government generally," Cooper told the Washington Post in 1995. "It's an exaggerated concern that they are facing a nationwide conspiracy and that somehow this will get out of control unless it is stamped out at a very early stage."

Never forget: A "conspiracy theorist" is someone who notices things without official permission ? and a "terrorist" is anybody who challenges the government's monopoly on violence.
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William Norman Grigg publishes the Pro Libertate blog and hosts the Pro Libertate radio program.

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James Edwards, imprisoned in 1994 murder, sues Waukegan police

By Dan Hinkel, Tribune reporter

For the third time in recent years, Waukegan police are being sued over a criminal investigation called into question by DNA testing.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Chicago federal court, convicted murderer James Edwards alleges that officers coerced him into confessing that he killed Waukegan appliance store owner Fred Reckling in 1994.

Edwards' suit alleges that the officers beat and intimidated him over the course of 26 hours until he signed a statement, typed by police, admitting he bludgeoned Reckling to death, robbed him and stole his car.

Though blood found in Reckling's car and business didn't match Edwards', prosecutors told jurors at his 1996 murder trial that the evidence didn't clear him, arguing that the blood likely came from an employee injured on the job. Edwards was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

But recent DNA tests showed that the blood belongs to a man who Edwards' criminal defense lawyer says could be the real killer, a man described in court records as a former Evanston resident arrested on armed robbery charges within weeks of the murder.

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Shouldn't he also be suing everyone on the jury? Until justice is served to people who do this shit such as in the movie Law Abiding Citizen then the shit like this will continue. Just sayin.

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Police Officer Finds Fellow Officers Implicated in Murder, Police Respond by Firing Her

Chris | InformationLiberation

Stories like this don't come around often. A female police officer says she received credible information from "multiple sources" implicating two police officers in the murder of a TV news anchor in 1995. Rather than investigate her lead, the police fired her.

?All I want is for the truth to come out. I?m trying to get it out in the open so it won?t be a secret any more,? she said.

?Never in a million years would I believe people would commit crimes they prosecute others on.

?It?s horrifically disturbing. They?re still working on the taxpayers? dollar ? the whistleblower was put on administrative leave and terminated.?

Read the Globe Gazette story here. North Iowa Today has more.

Here's an interview with her about the case, it's a must watch:

- She says a fellow officer pointed an unloaded gun at her when she was walking away and pulled the trigger in an act of intimidation.

- She says the police investigating the murder case are implicated in the murder and are therefor investigating themselves.

It's clear she's standing up against a criminal gang and she needs our support.

Update: I thought this comment by a poster on the North Iowa Today article was quite interesting:

"Howie seriously? I too went to school with several officers on this force as well as others in the area. They were thugs in high school and they are criminals with a badge now. Several of them said they are the largest gang in the area. Not something a lot of people would like to hear. Specially myself. I don't know Philpot nor do I know what his church is about. To be honest who really cares? Bottom line is whether this stuff is true or not, we have rogue cops on the force and no one does a thing about it. I applaud Officer Ohl for doing what she has, it at least opens the publics eyes to the crap some of these criminal cops are doing. I hope this info is true so we can get rid of the scum that call themselves public servants."

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I hope she has some form of protection.

Giant Kudo's to her for going public.

She NEEDS to be MORE public!

Does anyone, anywhere know of a case where a woman has filed sexual harrassment charges and it was investigated properly, justice took place, and she didn't fired??

I ask because I know of a number of women that have had to file sexual harrassment charges, and its ALWAYS those women that get fired.

The guilty always "seem" to keep their jobs and continue their sick behavior, while the victim gets dealt the shit.

So I ask again:
Does anyone, anywhere know of a case where a woman has filed sexual harrassment charges and it was investigated properly, justice took place, and she didn't fired??

Am curious.

What a brave woman. If we had more officers like this I wouldn't fear the police like they are another criminal gang when I am in major cities. When your town is overrun by criminals with badges there is only ONE effective way to solve the problem, but it's not pretty.

So, keep being law-abiding "gentlemen" while your society gets raped by thugs. Better to live comfortably on your knees than actually stand up to tyranny, right? You might break a nail...

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