Lakewood Police shooting

Lakewood Police shooting

Lakewood Police shooting -- This is Maurice Clemmons, sought by the police of Washington state, for possible involvement in the ambush/assassination of 4 police officers Sunday morning in Tacoma. Reading Clemmons' recent and not so recent criminal history makes any sensible person ask, "What is this animal doing out on the street?" The short answer is, "You just can't lock up crazy and dangerous people any longer." The longer answer, in fewer words, is "We don't have the guts to jail the nuts."

The weak and neuter-run Seattle Times, long a proponent of "No jail for nuts just bail," reports the facts of Clemmons' demented history in Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has long criminal history Among Clemmons more recent "achievements" that should long ago have placed him in a concrete cage at the bottom of the sea include:

• a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child.
  
• eight felony charges in all out of Washington state.
  
• punching a sheriff's deputy in the face
  
• gathering his wife and young relatives around at 3 or 4 in the morning and having them all undress. He told them that families need to "be naked for at least 5 minutes on Sunday."

Clemmons' previous criminal distinctions include, "at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed."

Clemmons was given a 60-year sentence in Arkansas while "he was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property. Records from Clemmons' sentencing described him as 5-foot-7 and 108 pounds. The crimes were committed when he was 17. Clemmons served 11 years before being released."

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