"Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, died after a shootout with officers, but it is unclear whether he was killed by an officer’s bullet or one of his own, McKinney Police Chief Doug Kowalski said....
It wasn’t clear how Sharp died, but Kowalski said a witness indicated he shot himself.
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"Man killed self after attack on police" by Associated Press | August 19, 2010
McKINNEY, Texas — A security guard who was certified to work in state law enforcement killed himself during a shootout with suburban Dallas police after luring officers outside by setting his pickup truck on fire, officials said yesterday.
The Collin County medical examiner’s office said Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
The shootout Tuesday morning came after Sharp towed a trailer loaded with explosives into the parking lot of the McKinney police station and set his pickup truck on fire, police said. Sharp retreated to a field across a road and fired more than 100 rounds at police headquarters, McKinney police Chief Bob Kowalski said.
Nobody else was injured in the attack in the suburb of roughly 127,000 people about 30 miles north of Dallas, and Kowalski says police don’t have a motive.
State records show Sharp was licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety to work as a security guard in 2004. Three years earlier, he was licensed as a jailer by Texas.
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Sharp snapped, huh?
Another sign of a neglected and decaying empire.
It's a sad mantra; however, NEVER TRUST the STATE no matter WHERE you live!
"Again, the guilt of an executed Texas inmate is in doubt" by Associated Press | August 16, 2010
POINT BLANK, Texas — Claude Jones may have been wrongly executed for the 1989 slaying of a liquor store owner in this aptly named Texas town, but no one says he was an angel.
Then let them out of prison with some compensation for the time lo.... oh.
Maybe that putting people to death isn't such a good idea; doesn't the state do enough of that with its wars?
He was a lifelong criminal, with a rap sheet that included a murder conviction for setting fire to a fellow inmate in a Kansas prison. Two eyewitnesses and Jones’s accomplices placed him at the liquor store.
And even one of Jones’s attorneys says the defense had “a devil of a time finding a good character witness.’’
But there are new questions 10 years after Jones was executed about whether he actually killed 44-year-old Allen Hilzendager while robbing the store, and whether the testimony used to convict him was enough. A judge has ordered DNA testing on a strand of hair that prosecutors used to link Jones to the slaying....
“He was no poster boy, Claude,’’ said Jerald Crow, Jones’s trial attorney. “But that doesn’t matter. The law is the law, and they need to follow it.’’
The government follow the law?
Where?
It is the second time in a year that the guilt of an executed Texas inmate is in doubt....
You know what they say: once is a mistake, twice is a trend.
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Anything else?
"The Framingham man suspected of brutally stabbing his 19-year-old wife to death was caught trying to flee to Mexico yesterday, authorities said....
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Which reminds me, how is that Drug War going (as the Mexican bodies silently mount in my MSM)?
"Mexico imposes tariff on US goods" by Associated Press | August 19, 2010
Turned into a TRADE WAR?
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has released a list of 99 US products subject to higher tariffs to pressure Washington to lift a US ban on Mexican cargo trucks.
The tariffs range from 5 percent to 15 percent and apply to products including cheese, fruits, juices, wine, toilet paper, and some pork products.
The Mexican Economy Department published the list yesterday.
The US government has expressed disappointment in the measure....
The tariffs were imposed to protest the cancellation of a pilot program allowing some Mexican trucks to transport goods into the United States. Mexico says the suspension violates the North American Free Trade Agreement.
On that one it is obvious the Teamsters still had enough pull to make the trucks off-load into U.S. trailers; otherwise, the unsafe Mexican rigs with drivers in an unfamiliar land who do not speak the language will haul the stuff up to the Kansas City hub for distribution.
All part of the ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT being planned by the globalist servants working for their Zionist masters.
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And it is getting to be that time of day, isn't it?
