"Guns stolen from LA police training site" October 18, 2011|Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Dozens of police weapons, including submachine guns, were stolen from a SWAT training building by thieves who cut through a series of locked doors, police said....
Smells like an INSIDE JOB to ME!
The unguarded building was considered secure, LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Downing told the Los Angeles Times.
“I guess ‘secure’ is all relative now,’’ he said. “It’s embarrassing… . It’s a lesson learned.’’
Kind of a CAVALIER ATTITUDE given the HEAVY FIREPOWER hitting the streets, 'eh?
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The building was donated to the department and has no alarm or surveillance systems....
No, THOSE are ONLY FOR YOU, the INNOCENT PUBLIC!!!
The building was openly used as a SWAT training site and sometimes public demonstrations were held there.
It is AMAZING how ANYWHERE YOU GO people OPPOSE TYRANNY!!
However, police have not ruled out the possibility the theft might have involved police officers, Downing said.
And if so I will never see another word in my Globe.
“You wonder if this was a planned operation, what information they had, whether they were conducting surveillance,’’ he said....
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Related: Most of guns stolen from LAPD may have hit black market
"Shooting suspect confesses, court papers say" November 03, 2011|Associated Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A disgruntled father charged with killing his former wife and seven others confessed to police that he shot up a Seal Beach hair salon after arguing over custody of his 8-year-old son, court papers show.
Shortly after his arrest, shooting suspect Scott Dekraai told an investigator he argued with his former wife, Michelle Fournier, by phone the morning of Oct. 12, then took three handguns with extra magazines and ammunition and donned a bulletproof vest, according to a statement in support of a search warrant filed in Orange County Superior Court.
Dekraai then drove to Salon Meritage and shot Fournier and a woman who had testified against him in the custody dispute. When the salon owner rushed at him with scissors, Dekraai told the investigator he shot him, too, then fired at others he saw as “collateral damage,’’ according to the statement written by Detective Andrew Stowers.
Dekraai is to be arraigned Nov. 29 on eight counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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Related: Southern California Salon Shooting
"Student dies after being shot by police" November 17, 2011|By Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. - An undergraduate student shot by campus police after brandishing a loaded gun inside a University of California, Berkeley, computer lab died hours after the confrontation, a university spokesman said yesterday.
Between this and the protests you kids are really being treated rough out there in California.
Christopher Nathen Elliot Travis, 32, had just started his first semester at Berkeley and had been attending classes at the prestigious Haas School of Business, spokesman Dan Mogulof said.
University authorities said a staff member first saw the man carrying what appeared to be a gun in an elevator at the business school after 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Police tracked Travis into a Haas computer lab, where he raised the loaded weapon and was shot by an officer at about 2:22 p.m., officials said.
Was it a weapon, or is that just what lying authority and its mouthpiece media say?
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So it isn't just pepper spray the kids have to worry about?
