Bailiff Shoots Man in Head
According to the AP, in DENTON, Texas, A bailiff at a courthouse in northern Texas fatally shot a convicted bank robber when the man tried to grab another bailiff's gun. Courtney Jermaine Bourda was being escorted from the courtroom to a holding area in the Denton County Courts building when he grabbed for Officer Kent McKee's gun and wrestled him to the floor.

{Administrator's Note} This is sort of like a scuffle I had with the police over a can of mace; I grabbed the officer's wrist to stop him from macing me in the face. None of the 4 eyewitnesses got it right! They testified that the officer grabbed my wrist. Only the officer who was macing me and I testified that I grabbed his wrist. Was Courtney Jermaine Bourda really trying to grab the officer's gun, or was that the cover story? Since the witness is dead, who is to testify?

A second bailiff, Officer Emmett Huschke, fatally shot Bourda in the head with a .45-caliber pistol, Kevin Patton of the Denton County Sheriff's Department said.

{ Administrator's Note } If the bailiff was close enough to shoot a man in the head, couldn't he have also shot the man in the leg or in the arm? Isn't it indicative of a society with an extremely low IQ to allow a person that will be going to jail for a long time to be in a position where he can grab a lethal weapon? This is gross negligence on the part of the state and the state should be liable for a million dollars to the relatives of the victim.

Bourda, 23, was on trial on charges of kidnapping and assaulting a public servant relating to a 1999 bank robbery. He had already been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the robbery.

Texas Ranger Tracy Murphree said a preliminary investigation shows the shooting was necessary and justified.

{ Administrator's Note } Why are the police entitled to investigate their own? Maybe the Taliban should try Osama bin Laden!

The jury had just been escorted out of the courtroom for an afternoon break, said Lee Ann Breading, an assistant district attorney who was in her office across from the courtroom. Bourda was not wearing handcuffs.

"Correct procedure was being followed to a T," Patton said. "You cannot let a jury see a defendant in handcuffs, and he was not cuffed."

Bourda died at the scene, Patton said.
Copyright © 2001, The Associated Press

(http://newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-courthouse-shooting
1107nov07.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnation%2Dheadlines)


Hemingway son dies in county jail cell

Hemingway son dies in county jail cell Police say cause was heart disease
{ Administrator's Note } Why are the police entitled to investigate their own? Maybe the Taliban should try Osama bin Laden!

The herald goes on to say that: Gregory Hemingway, youngest son of famed writer Ernest Hemingway, died of natural causes at a Miami-Dade County jail, police said Wednesday. Gregory Hemingway, 69, who often dressed as a woman and went by the name of Gloria, was found dead in a private cell at the Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center at 5:45 a.m. Monday, said Janelle Hall, a spokeswoman for the county's corrections department. ``He was discovered by an officer. He was getting ready to go to court that morning, and when the officer summoned him to go to court, he was lying there,'' Hall said.

{ Administrator's Note } Is the AP so brainwashed that they can't see the potential for police brutality here? Other opinions are necessary.


The newspaper article followed with a long paragraph delineating , Gregory Hemingways' public nudity; the reason for his arrest. Then they speculated on his mental state. { Administrator's Note } The man is dead, isn't it bad taste to libel the man?


Miami-Dade police spokesman Juan DelCastillo said homicide detectives had ruled the death a natural one after receiving an autopsy report. Cause: hypertension and cardiovascular disease, he said.
{ Administrator's Note } Why are the police entitled to investigate their own? Maybe the Taliban should try Osama bin Laden! The newspaper article then takes a couple of paragraphs to describe some of the sad things in Gregory Hemingways life, as if we shouldn't be upset with his death. Why is the newspaper pimping the police?

Police Officers' Big Mouth Precipitates Teen Suicide!
Herald staff writers Elisabeth Donovan, Renato Pérez and Charles Rabin contributed to this report.
BY ELAINE DE VALLE
edevalle@herald.com

Police approached Wayman's car at about midnight, as the teens sat in a lot next to a beer distributorship. Willinsky, the son of then-Police Chief Joseph Willinsky, and Officer Thomas Hoban took them to the station on underage drinking charges. The 17-year-old had been drinking at the party. Scott Willinsky later testified that both boys conceded, under questioning, that they had stopped to have sex. The 17-year-old disputes making the statement. Willinsky told Wayman that if he didn't tell his grandfather he was gay, Willinsky would do so, according to the lawsuit. Later that morning, police dropped Wayman off at the home he shared with his grandfather.

The lawsuit states: "At his home, Marcus Wayman, depressed and disconsolate over the threats and accusations, and feeling that the defendant police officers would carry through on their threats and thereby stigmatize him, ruin his reputation, and anger the main authority figure in his family, secured a firearm in the house and, sometime before 6 a.m., committed suicide."

{ Administrator's Note } The police should be trained to keep their stupid mouths shut or face negligence suits.

(http://www.courttv.com/trials/news/1101/06_suicide_ap.html )