Despite a stunning display of incompetence just a day ago, law enforcement officers in Atlanta finally caught murdering rapist thug Brian Nichols. Although he had a history of hiding weapons on his person, the 6’4′ (different sources report different heights), dangerous criminal was being guarded (facing rape charges) by one deputy, a woman five feet tall. He overpowered and shot her, killed the judge, a court reporter and another police officer.
On the loose for 26 hours with two guns, Nichols also killed a U.S. Customs agent before he was caught today not trying to leave the area, but hiding out at a friend’s place. Nichols was in the apartment of a woman he was holding hostage. In addition to being a thug, he’s also stunningly stupid. So he kills three four people to avoid rape charges?
The news wires are so sluggish, they’re still reporting that Nichols continues to elude the cops. (Update: The story has been updated.)
Every time the cable news drones referred to him as Mr. Brian Nichols, I thought I’d lose my breakfast.
Georgia native Michael King is all over this. The Backcountry Conservative is live-blogging. Also see Outside the Beltway.
Update II: On Thursday, slain judge Rowland W. Barnes told attorneys that Brian Nichols could be dangerous if convicted. Don’t laugh.
Nichols was dangerous before he set foot in the courtroom (tied up an ex-girlfriend and apparently raped and sodomized her for three days) and after he set foot in the courtroom (a deputy found two weapons on him Wednesday).
Barnes is the same judge who offered a baby-killing mother 5 years probation if she consented to sterilization. Exactly how this prevents her from killing other people’s children is a mystery.
Update III: Trey Jackson has compiled police radio transmissions and video. Check it out.
Update IV (3/13): Michelle Malkin calls our attention to something about the photo of a handcuffed Brian Nichols being taken in that I hadn’t noticed before. He’s being escorted by another small female cop, although he was on the loose in the first place because be overpowered a small female cop!
I hope this case stirs up a blog swarm over the idiocy of allowing women, big or small, even if they have guns, to watch over big, strong, dangerous, raping and murdering thugs. Is it irony or stupidity?
This wretched political correctness poses a danger to us all. Also see View from the Right.
Totally Unrelated Update: A reporter from The State (in South Carolina) interviewed me last week about blacks and social security reform:
But conservative supporters of private accounts are undeterred.“If the media would accurately report on President Bush’s plan, I think many more people would be receptive to reform,” says La Shawn Barber, a freelance writer and black political conservative who graduated from S.C. State…
“Media blame aside, I think blacks are distrustful of any Republican plan coming down the pike,” said S.C. State graduate Barber, who operates a Web site where she offers her political views.
Republicans generally have fared poorly among black voters over the last 40 years. But Bush got double-digit support from African-Americans in winning re-election last year.
Barber said personal accounts would be good for blacks.
“There is also a growing wealth gap between the races,” she said. “Blacks invest less than whites, for whatever reason, and therefore are less likely to build wealth. Paying high Social Security taxes exacerbates the problem. Private accounts would alleviate the problem.”
Like many newspapers, they don’t include hyperlinks to web sites in stories. In fact, the reporter said he couldn’t even include the URL. That’s OK. I suppose.
