The scene near 44th Avenue South and South Kenyon in the Dunlap neighborhood between Othello and Rainier Beach early this morning after suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons was shot and killed by a lone officer from the South Precinct. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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When I saw it on the news, one of the shots they showed looked like the president was in town, I know that street well and I could not believe they could fit all those vehicles on that street.
The choppers woke me at 3AM, 4AM and finally for good at 5AM. I didn’t know until I saw the news at 6AM that the suspect had been shot at 2AM. I wasn’t quite sure why the choppers were still circling.
“I wasn’t quite sure why the choppers were still circling.”
It was pretty much the biggest story this side of the Mississippi and probably the whole country.
Think about it, this was less than a month since we lost another officer to some (this part of the comment has been deleted by the poster prior to posting due to my own standards so you know how I feel) so a couple of hours of lost sleep is well worth losing.
Not Doggin’ on you at all.
Just saying.
Vultures.
1 degree of separation from Central Park West (at 104) here in Manhattan and this terrible tragedy – from start to finish – for I was amazed to hear a voice I knew so well from my childhood in the 60s be a spokeswoman of the killing Tuesday morning. There I was past my bedtime on CPW reading commentary from Vi Matsuoka (with whom I chatted last at Nancy Charlotte De Rocco’s funeral celebrations, St. Ed’s, October 25, 2007), once of the corner of Juneau and Shaffer (sp?) St on Beacon Hill, now speaking clearly and succinctly as the spokeswoman for a fine South End neighborhood (I beleve the WSJ referred to it as “a South Seattle working-class neighborhood” – at least an improvement from what “they” said in the 80s – “inner-city”) that will move on, as she so cogently notes. As long as we have women like Vi anchoring our neighborhoods (I am a homeowner in Lakewood-Seward Park) we are going to be just fine. You go ol’ girl!
On a related note, I was amused to see the Seattle Times spell Vi’s last name differently the two times it was printed. I believe it ends in an “a” but welcome clarification.
On another note, I see the Post delineates Lakewood from Seward Park. Where do you draw the border? My house is on the cusp as I see it, so I always say “Lakewood Seward Park” but would welcome your views ~
Best again (the again relates to a long missive that I put together over an hour of intense writing last month, only to have it disappear into the ether before I sent it) to a great endeavor, this website.
Mark B…I know you’re correct. It was a huge event of national news-making proportions (I’m surprised my mother did not call me from back east to make sure I was all right—I can only assume she did not realize this all went down in my neighborhood. She calls for everything else.).
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