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Clemency Wrongly Granted
Posted: December 6, 2009
The crime that preceded the crime…
Maurice was granted clemency.
Freeing Clemmons? Tragedy!
Those four (now fallen) officers
are victims of that crime.
A three-strike felon out of jail?
What judge would let that jerk post bail?
Whose hands are bloody from this act?
Why do the worst go free?
Such questions haunt us as we mourn
the ones who died last Sunday morn
while sipping coffee unaware
it was their final day.
The fact that Clemmons was gunned down
does not mean answers have been found.
They're on the loose just like more thugs
unjustly out of jail.
Last Sunday, November 29, 2009, Maurice Clemmons, a convicted felon released on bail, fatally shot four Lakewood, Washington officers in a coffee shop. After a two-day manhunt he was killed by a Seattle policeman while resisting arrest. Why he was released from a life sentence in Arkansas a decade ago remains a mystery.
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Posted: December 6, 2009
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