The killer of four police officers yesterday in Washington eluded officials today after he was thought to be holed up in a Seattle home.
Ex-con Maurice Clemmons at one time faced more than 100 years behind bars.
The LA Times reported:
Police surrounded a Seattle house early today, attempting to close in on a 37-year-old landscaper with a dense criminal history who allegedly shot and killed four police officers in a suburban coffee shop.
Police initially said they were unsure whether the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, was wounded or dead, but shortly after dawn they moved in on the house, only to find it empty.
Police said Clemmons, who had been released from the Pierce County jail only a week before Sunday morning’s shootings, may have tried to treat his own wounds or possibly was aided by others.
People who know Clemmons told investigators that he had been shot in the torso.
CAMPUS WARNED: The University of Washington police have alerted students to an unconfirmed report that the suspect in the Lakewood police shootings may have been sighted on or near the campus in Seattle.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:54 am | #1
As I just mentioned in the previous blog, the police have alerted the U of WA that he might be in the U-District. He could easily blend in with those thousands of students on campus today. However, he has been shot so he can’t be on the run too long that way.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:57 am | #2
Let’s hope he bleeds out and dies in a gutter like trash should.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:02 am | #3
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November 30th, 2009 | 11:09 am | #4
#1: He can’t be on campus and armed. That’s against the law.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:25 am | #5
#1: He can’t be on campus and armed. That’s against the law.
I am assuming that you are being sarcastic. Having him armed on campus isn’t the real issue. Just finding him is. Getting arrested with arms on campus is minor to killing 4 police and potentially killing others while on campus. I do know that the police on UW campus are armed so if he is found there, he might not live long anyway.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:25 am | #6
Huckabee once lied about his Theology Degree. He wanted to use taxpayer funds to pay for the education of adult illegal immigrants, and spent – taxed more than Bill Clinton in ARK.
He is a fraud, and a disaster.
Huckabee’s presence in the previous GOP Primary was a disaster for all, hiding behind a Religious Image, enabling the terrible Maverick. Even after it was clear Huckabee lost, he still lacked the class to exit the race, and then ended up third even after all the fuss.
Perhaps Huckabee’s worst effort, was the mindless debasing of the admirable endeavors the GOP provided, led by the worthy Bush Administration, after 9-11. Huckabee actually said the USA had acted ‘arrogantly’, mimicking the pathetic Democratic Partisans.
Yet, Fox gave him a tv show?
November 30th, 2009 | 11:27 am | #7
Thanks to former Arkansas Pastor-Governor Mike Hucksterbee for being merciful to a murderer. Unlike Sarah Palin, who Huck said wasn’t “totally stupid,” Hucksterbee has shown misguided “compassion” more than once to brutal convicts.
I hope Huck is dashed from the political landscape forever.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:27 am | #8
Huckabee had NOTHING to do with this. NOTHING. I think it is appropriate to find another time and place for Huckabee bashing.
And I lived in Arkansas for a year while Slick Willy was Governor. Anyone would have been better than him. But this is not the time and place for bashing former Arkansas governors.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:39 am | #9
With all due respect, this guy isn’t going to blend into a university setting, IF he’s actually wounded and IF if he’s fleeing, he’ll be looking for better cover elsewhere – who can hide in a college? Dorm rooms don’t have food, water or even toilets.
The media is just feeding us all rumors instead of useful info. Just have to wait.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:46 am | #10
UW campus is HUGE. Hundreds of buildings. It is covered with bushes and trees. It would not be hard to hide there. However, with him bleeding (I assume that he is if he has been shot), he isn’t going to get far.
The campus is also bordered by private homes and many businesses. There is a huge hospital on one end that is also connected to a huge research center. It also is on a lake where it would be easy to hide.
November 30th, 2009 | 11:50 am | #11
I would think that they would have a lot of police presence around U Hospital. If he needs medical help, that would be a good place for him to head.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:03 pm | #12
Heckuva job huckabee!
November 30th, 2009 | 12:06 pm | #13
The result of restorative justice.
When every citizen has experienced personal loss either to the jihadis or progressives, then things will change. Up until then, we’ll see this on heavy rotation.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:24 pm | #14
Once more . . . what Huckabee did has NOTHING to do with these murders. I have read in more than one place that Clemmons was back in prison AFTER Huckabee pardoned him. The Arkansas Parole Board LATER paroled him. I can see bashing Huckabee if he had been continuously free since the original Huckabee pardon, but he wasn’t. The pardon came in 2000, he was back in prison in 2001 and then paroled in Arkansas in 2004. Huckabee had nothing to do with the 2004 parole.
In fact, if you read the Seattle newspaper websites, you will find that he was in police custody last week on a child rape charge and was out on bond. The fault does not start or stop at Huckabee.
According to the Seattle Times, the search has moved away from UW to another part of Seattle. It is quite a distance from UW.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:27 pm | #15
Huckabee commuted one of this guy’s sentences… way to go, Gov.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:34 pm | #16
Gov Huckabee acted too much like a liberal. it backfires. Bush also acted too liberal. It backfired for him.
I also see Huckabee had no role in granting him out on bail this month.
Is the killer also a Muslim? Many become Muslims in jail. Muslims teach in jail it if fine and dandy to want cops killed.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:35 pm | #17
Huckabee commuted one of this guy’s sentences… way to go, Gov.
So what? This has nothing to do with what happened on Sunday. NOTHING! This attacking Huckabee for Sunday’s tragedy does not help the situation whatsoever.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:40 pm | #18
Huckabee commutes the sentence of a repeat offender and the repeat offender goes on to kill four police officers. But let’s be clear — THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN WHAT HUCKABEE DID TO ALLOW THIS CRIMINAL TO GO FREE AND THESE MURDERS. It’s just a bizarre, meaningless coincidence, like when Bush ignored the Osama bin Laden warnings.
Now let’s concentrate on Obama’s War on Christmas.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:40 pm | #19
Gov Huckabee acted too much like a liberal. it backfires.
What did Huckabee do that backfired on him? The guy was back in prison after Huckabee pardoned him. That should have taken care of it, but the courts and the Arkansas Parole Board are the ones with failure written all of them.
A week ago, Clemmons was facing the courts in WA and in jail for child rape, but was released on $15,000 bond. These murders have NOTHING to do with Huckabee.
This kind of dis-information reminds me of what happened to Palin by the left.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:44 pm | #20
like when Bush ignored the Osama bin Laden warnings.
Don’t you mean “Clinton ignored Osama bin Laden warnings”? Bush only had the information provided by the previous administration regarding AQ and bin Laden. He had no warnings to ignore.
November 30th, 2009 | 12:49 pm | #21
No, I meant Bush, the president during 9/11. Thanks for asking, though.
November 30th, 2009 | 1:05 pm | #22
#5: Quite sarcastic. Gun free college campuses are gun free crime zones. Please remember that the shooter carried a loaded firearm on his person before he fired on the police officers. That act was in violation of Washington state law. He had no intention EVER of complying with any law. At one time Washington State used hanging as the method of capital punishment. Don’t know if that method has been replaced by lethal injection. And you’re correct: he must be apprehended immediately before he can unleash more mayhem.
November 30th, 2009 | 1:18 pm | #23
At one time Washington State used hanging as the method of capital punishment. Don’t know if that method has been replaced by lethal injection.
They still use hanging, but the condemned has the choice between hanging and lethal injection. It has been a very long time since anyone was hung (back some time in the 1990s) and lethal injection hasn’t been used yet. We have a lot of people sitting on death row in Walla Walla.
November 30th, 2009 | 1:20 pm | #24
No, I meant Bush, the president during 9/11. Thanks for asking, though.
Please provide the warning President Bush supposedly received. As I read the 9/11 Commission Report, I just don’t remember any warnings. I do remember that had the CIA and FBI been able to talk with one another there may have been warnings. But Clinton put up the wall between the 2 agencies so they did not speak to each other.
Thankfully, President Bush did correct that bit of stupidity by Slick Willy.
November 30th, 2009 | 1:39 pm | #25
The real question is indeed on what basis he was released this past week. With his history and the current charges against him, it’s incredibly pathetic – now fatal – for four police officers that another court let him out, AGAIN.
There were a lot of failures – but the most recent set up this totally avoidable lethal situation.
November 30th, 2009 | 1:43 pm | #26
I do remember that had the CIA and FBI been able to talk with one another there may have been warnings. But Clinton put up the wall between the 2 agencies so they did not speak to each other.
Thankfully, President Bush did correct that bit of stupidity by Slick Willy
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Jamie Gorelick’s “Wall.”
Just excruciating to see her – as a member of the 9/11 panel asking questions of Dr. Condeleeza Rice about what the Bush Administration knew about 9/11 and WHEN.
Unbelieveable the gall of these people. Just breathtakingly infuriating. Don’t know how Rise restrained herself from charging Gorelick’s table, upending it and taking her by the neck for a totally justifable throttle.
November 30th, 2009 | 2:21 pm | #27
Anyone bashing Huckabee for this obviously didn’t like him to start with, and this is just an excuse. Like him or not, it’s ridiculous to blame him for this.
I don’t know that I would have agreed with all of his clemency decisions, but much has transpired with this particular criminal since then.
November 30th, 2009 | 2:30 pm | #28
Once more . . . what Huckabee did has NOTHING to do with these murders.
Sorry, Pat#1, that’s utter nonsense. Clemons had only served 11 years of a 95-year prison sentence when Huckabee granted clemency. Had Huckabee not done that, there’s a chance Clemons would still be serving his 95-year sentence today, and would never have gotten the chance to rape a child and execute 4 cops in cold blood.
I predict this will dog Huckabee the rest of his days in politics, as well it should.
November 30th, 2009 | 2:40 pm | #29
#23: AS i recall the hanged one was a pedophile condemned for raping and killing a three year old boy. He supposedly told the court that if released he would kill again. I also heard they mis-measured the rope length as it was a bit too short and it took a while for him to expire, but luckily, he still made the number one slot on Satan’s dance card later that evening.
November 30th, 2009 | 3:01 pm | #30
#23: AS i recall the hanged one was a pedophile condemned for raping and killing a three year old boy. He supposedly told the court that if released he would kill again. I also heard they mis-measured the rope length as it was a bit too short and it took a while for him to expire, but luckily, he still made the number one slot on Satan’s dance card later that evening.
Actually, that is a combination of 2 different hangings. The first was a guy who killed more than one boy. He raped and then hung every one of them. The second was a guy who killed 2 people in a robbery. He died not quickly because of the length of the rope and his head was almost snapped off. Both of them were quite a while back. The first was in the the early 1990s. The last was in the 1990s but I don’t remember when.
November 30th, 2009 | 3:07 pm | #31
Sorry, Pat#1, that’s utter nonsense. Clemons had only served 11 years of a 95-year prison sentence when Huckabee granted clemency. Had Huckabee not done that, there’s a chance Clemons would still be serving his 95-year sentence today, and would never have gotten the chance to rape a child and execute 4 cops in cold blood.
He was in prison and paroled AFTER Huckabee’s pardon and he was in custody of police in WA just a week ago for CHILD RAPE! Law enforcement had multiple times to keep him in custody, but they didn’t. Huckabee could not have stopped either of the subsequent times he was released.
Why didn’t the parole board take into consideration the 95 year sentence which he got at the age of 17 when they paroled him in 2004? Why didn’t the court take all of this into consideration when they gave him bail just ONE WEEK AGO?
Hate on Huckabee if you must, but this should not be placed at his feet. Where were those in authority in law enforcement and in the courts who had more than one chance since 2000 to make sure he was behind bars?
November 30th, 2009 | 3:24 pm | #32
#30: I stand corrected. Thanks for the info!
November 30th, 2009 | 3:35 pm | #33
#30: I stand corrected. Thanks for the info!
You are welcome. I remember the first hanging pretty well. It was a first one since the death penalty was re-instated. WA has only executed 2 people since that re-instatement. The death penalty isn’t used much here.
And by the way, I may be a little sensitive about this. I have sisters living in Seattle and this guy is running around probably armed. I just want him caught and imprisoned for the last time.
Maybe he is dead with his body just lying somewhere. His wife is now on the run for some reason. There is an alert in our state for her car.
November 30th, 2009 | 3:46 pm | #34
I hope he resists arrest, gets hit through the lungs and spine by a sniper and takes a while to bite the dust.
November 30th, 2009 | 4:29 pm | #35
If he did convert to Islam of course to be PC they aren’t releasing to the media.
Maybe they should check Mosques or Islamic Centers; these places are just training grounds for jihad and safe houses.
November 30th, 2009 | 4:31 pm | #36
Huckabee could not have stopped either of the subsequent times [Clemmons] was released.
Untrue. Huckabee could have prevented all Clemmons’ subsequent releases by refusing clemency in 2000. Had Clemmons still been serving his 95-year sentence today, he never would have had the chance to commit those other crimes.
Why didn’t the parole board take into consideration the 95 year sentence which he got at the age of 17 when they paroled him in 2004?
Obviously because that 95-year sentence had been commuted by Governor Huckabee. That’s what happens when a governor pardons a criminal or grants clemency. Future bail and sentencing authorities tend to give less (if any) weight to the pardoned crime or commuted sentence.
Where were those in authority in law enforcement and in the courts who had more than one chance since 2000 to make sure he was behind bars?
Those judges and parole board members appear to have shirked their responsiblities, too, but at most that just means Huckabee shares blame with them.
November 30th, 2009 | 5:11 pm | #37
Huckster will being playing Bass guitar
at the local club in 2012.
He’s done. Bring on Sarah!
No more RINO’S!!
November 30th, 2009 | 5:28 pm | #38
Tevan Orgly
November 30th, 2009 | 12:49 pm | #21
No, I meant Bush, the president during 9/11. Thanks for asking, though.
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November 30th, 2009 | 5:38 pm | #39
Well, I don’t like Huckabee or his policies; and I’d never vote for him — but I don’t see this as being laid, logically, at his doorstep.
Clemmons has been in and out of prison since his commutation (and that sentence wouldn’t have lasted a full 95 years, as he would have soon received parole anyway).
And, he was released by the court in Washington on bond (where did he get $15K cash to put up?) for a child rape. Additionally, he was wanted on an open warrant IN ARKANSAS for parole violation — and the court in WA did nothing about holding him on that or honoring the warrant. Had he been held on that open warrant, this shooting would never have happened – but the court ignored it. Why?
November 30th, 2009 | 6:21 pm | #40
Well, JPL17, you just keep on hating Huckabee. That is not where I will lay the blame, but then again, I am more inclined to blame not just the murderer, but also those who paroled him in Arkansas and those who gave him bail last week here in WA. He was charged in WA not only with child rape but also assault on a police officer.
I am sure you can find someone you like much better than Huckabee.
November 30th, 2009 | 6:39 pm | #41
Please don’t patronize me Pat#1. As a former prosecutor, I take a deep personal dislike to ANY judge, parole board or governor stupid or naive enough to give undeserved breaks to convicted criminals who have extremely violent histories but who tell a nice sob story.
Why you feel compelled to overlook Huckabee’s incredibly bad judgment here is bizarre.
November 30th, 2009 | 7:04 pm | #42
that sentence wouldn’t have lasted a full 95 years, as he would have soon received parole anyway
Yes, eventually Clemmens probably would have been paroled, Solaratov, but how can you possibly know for sure that it would have been “soon”? Isn’t it possible that Clemmons would have served 30 years of his 95-year sentence before being paroled? In which case, wouldn’t Clemmons have been in prison through November 2009, and wouldn’t 4 dead cops be alive today?
In short, I don’t think Huckabee is off the hook quite so neatly.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:15 pm | #43
JPL17
November 30th, 2009 | 7:04 pm | #42
In which case, wouldn’t Clemmons have been in prison through November 2009, and wouldn’t 4 dead cops be alive today?
In short, I don’t think Huckabee is off the hook quite so neatly.
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Bull’s Eye!
What is hateful about discussing the facts? This was not the only convict Huckabee pardoned. I see a pattern here, having once lived in Arkansas myself.
Huckabee has long hung with ministry coalitions and sucked up to illegals. He’s blamed a person’s ‘circumstances’ for their actions…and let the guilty go free.
He must still be smarting from losing the VP slot to Palin the way he ‘hates’ on her.
November 30th, 2009 | 8:53 pm | #44
Why you feel compelled to overlook Huckabee’s incredibly bad judgment here is bizarre.
There is nothing bizarre about this at all. Clemmons was in prison after the pardon. How anyone can jump from a pardon in 2000 to what happened on Sunday is beyond me?
You say you are a prosecutor. Whatever you say.
November 30th, 2009 | 10:14 pm | #45
Clemmons was in prison after the pardon. How anyone can jump from a pardon in 2000 to what happened on Sunday is beyond me.
Huh??? OK, let me help you understand the connection, by changing the facts slightly. Instead of murdering 4 cops 9 years after Huckabee pardoned him, let’s assume that Clemmons murdered 4 cops 9 days after Huckabee pardoned him. Let’s also assume that the day before the murders, Clemmons was arrested for child rape, but got released because the judge setting bail doesn’t believe in statutory rape laws.
Under these facts, Pat#1, do you think Huckabee would have any blame for releasing Clemmons early? Or would you consider Huckabee blameless, since (as you put it) “Clemmons was in prison after the pardon”?
December 1st, 2009 | 3:19 pm | #46
did the washington state judge declare open season on police when he granted bail and issued a license to kill to convicted felon clemmens?
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