Just like the Hutaree, only (A) Much darker, (B) Actually killed a cop, and (C) In the name of pro-black left-wing extremism. If Mr. Shepard ever ran around naked in a field with a cutout picture of George W. Bush covering his dick, requesting that a mascot duck not molest him with his dildo mallet, then the comparison would come full circle.
It was reported in other sources that Mr. Shepard said that he wanted to kill cops “because the ballot box isn’t working.” And by “working,” he meant to neuter cops in the face of black crime.
WTF does he mean by the “ballot box not working?” Lyndon Johnson won 61% of the popular vote, the highest of any candidate in a genuinely contested Presidential election in American history, and then rode that mandate into signing every anti-police civil rights bill that neutered the cops that came to his desk. Barack Obama won 365 electoral votes and then said that the Cambridge, Mass. P.D. Sergeant “acted stupidly” because he dared to arrest a belligerent black man who was in the middle of a publicity stunt. (Yeah, I’m still riding that horse.) And, as it sadly turns out, the Republicans in Jefferson City are going to give the SLPD back to the city so that the whackjobs who constitute city government can put in a civilian review board which will even further handcuff white cops in the face of black crime. Seems like the ballot box IS working, and all you have to do is vote Republocrat.
UPDATE 3/3: The guilty verdict was handed down today. Mr. Shepard took the stand and admitted that he killed the cop (who turned out to be white) because he wanted to kill a white cop. No link to the story because it mentions the name of the presiding judge. I do find it ironic that Bob McCulloch personally prosecuted this case. Not surprising, because McCulloch’s father was a cop that was murdered in the line of duty. But ironic, because McCulloch was a Truth Squader.
UPDATE 3/4: Sentencing hearing began today. Money quote from the P-D article about it, relating to Shepard’s taking the stand in the sentencing portion of the hearing, no link because it mentions the judge:
On the witness stand, Shepard said he became agitated at home in Berkeley the morning of Oct. 31, 2008, because he saw then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on TV, saying in an answer to a question that he would not seek an endorsement from the controversial National of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Shepard said it made him mad enough to tear up his voter registration card and flush it down the toilet. McCulloch asked how, as a convicted felon, he could have been registered to vote. Shepard insisted that he was.
Shepard said he had lunch at a Red Lobster restaurant, where a waitress wore a name tag that said “Truth,” and he heard her talk to others about being revolutionary. He said it reminded him of how activist Malcolm X used to talk about people who used the term loosely.
On an errand later to buy drugs, Shepard said, he drove through “enemy territory” in University City on a “reconnaissance mission” to look for police, as he had done dozens of times before.
He said he noticed a white male officer — not King — walking a beat on Delmar Boulevard. “I remember saying to myself that would be a good way to start a revolution there, by knocking a patch off the back of his head.” But he said he kept going because he could not find a parking place.
He said he passed up shooting a female officer in a patrol car because she was black. He described seeing King, parked on Leland Avenue, as “like a vision or something.”
MO allows convicted felons to vote if they’re out of prison and their probation is complete. Aside from most of the local media vastly downplaying the black-on-white race hate of this matter, if his probation wasn’t finished and he was allowed to register to vote, that ought to be the other element of scandal coming out of this.
UPDATE 3/6: The jury returned a guilty verdict very quickly. That’s how I knew he wouldn’t get the death penalty. When the trial began, the P-D reported there were two blacks on the jury, and the way these things sometimes work out when the murder defendant is black is that the black jurors intimidate the white jurors that they’ll refuse to convict if the white jurors seriously consider the death penalty. Now, what happened here is that we know for sure that one juror objected to the death penalty, hanging up the jurors in the penalty phase, therefore defaulting to a life sentence. We don’t or probably will never know if this one juror was one of the two blacks.
Also, the P-D defends its printing Shepard’s actual vulgarities (“punk ass fag”) toward McCulloch, instead of stating that the now-convicted murder used vulgarities against the Circuit Attorney who prosecuted him. Really, someone who is about to go away to prison for the rest of his life ought not be boasting about his own future career.
Related: Hutaree
