
KCRA
FBI and SWAT teams surround an apartment building in Modesto, Calif. Thursday.
Updated at 6:35 p.m. ET: Police found a body Friday afternoon inside a fire-gutted Modesto, Calif., apartment where a suspect had barricaded himself inside after a deputy and a civilian were shot dead.
The body was found in the rubble left by a raging blaze that broke out overnight, Modesto police spokesman Officer Chris Adams said.
The fire erupted during a daylong standoff with a man who police said opened fire as authorities tried to serve an eviction notice.
Adams said it will take days or weeks to identify the charred body, which authorities could not determine was a man or woman, the Modesto Bee reported. Police had waited for clearance from fire officials before entering.
At one point during the standoff, police broke the apartment windows with bean bag shots and fired flash-bang grenades and tear gas. Authorities evacuated nearby residents in the development of freestanding buildings, each divided into four apartments.
Earlier, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said the gunman, whose identity was not released, was presumed dead, The Modesto Bee reported.
According to CBS San Francisco, the deputy was serving an eviction notice at an apartment at the Whispering Woods development in Modesto when the gunman opened fire. A neighbor who asked not to be named said she heard at least 30 gunshots. Hours later, the fire erupted.
The blaze was mostly put out by firefighters shortly before 2 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) Friday. At 6:55 a.m. (9:55 a.m. ET), fire crews were mopping up hot spots and making sure to put out any spot fires.
"At this point we're just waiting for it to be safe enough for us to go inside," Christianson said.
It was not clear how the fire began, but the Modesto Bee reported that the county sheriff has acknowledged that flash-bang devices and tear gas could have been responsible.
Officials named the deputy killed as 16-year police veteran Robert Paris, 53, who is survived by his parents, a brother and two adult children. The civilian was identified as Glendon Engert, 35, of Modesto.
'Another dark day'
Christianson called the incident "another dark day" for law enforcement in California.

KCRA
Large flames shot out of an apartment building in Modesto, Calif. late Thursday night where a suspect was believed holed up after a sheriff's deputy and civilian were shot to death.
Neighbors Yemen Zokari and Steven Gasterlum, who said they live with their baby two doors down from the suspect gunman, told the AP that they looked out the window when they heard gunshots Thursday morning.
More police officers being killed despite drop in violent crime
They said they saw two men lying on the ground, one on his stomach and another on his back closer to the door of the house from where the shots came.
"There was another officer that was kneeling on the side of the house while they were laying there," Zokari said. "I think he was staying out of the way from being shot."
Christianson said he believed that his deputies did not return fire.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The answer is simple, rent control laws that make it affordable for people to live. Open up more land and build more housing so rents stay low. Government needs to stop kow towing to rich developers and landlords.
Banks should have to renegotiate any mortgage as long as the person is willing and able to pay something. Losing your job, should not cost you your home and all the equity you have in it. It is banks unwillingness to renegotiate the terms of a mortgages that is causing this, and there will be more of this, that you can count on. Laws need to change, and favor people instead of institutions. Mortgage laws totally favor the lender, and thats not right.
These deaths were needless, and likely do to inflexible laws that left this man no option but to lose everything. No wonder he went out with a bang.
Most of this crap would go away if they'd bring back industry and jobs.Then people can see a light ,they can hope and plan.Societally everything is better,public health,education,safety.
Wow, people are taking these "Stand Your Ground" laws way to literally.......
Police officers have become so arrogant if you walk up to talk to one on the street they grab for their gun and stiff arm you to stay away. Cops carry guns to kill not to help people. The best advise I have to give is never, never talk to a cop without a lawyer present and the second thing is to get a weapons carry permit and a vest and practice, you must level the playing field. I have never seen a police officer help anyone I have seen them shoot unarmed individuals twice. Police by the orders of the 1% are allowed to assault peaceful protestors with pepper spray, taser, tear gas an night sticks and you have to understand that police live under a different set of laws than non-pollice officers or 1%ers. The have a license to kill and will use that right as the feel fit with no recourse by the victim of the police officer. When you spend you life pushing people around you had better expect that some day the pushing will stop. Life by the gun, die by the gun.
Was the eviction that necessary? Could they have just sat and waited? Did anyone try to talk to the guy first? Or did they just go in start ordering? I think there are to many police just saying it's our way or no way without any regard to the 'human equation'. Treating everybody as if they were a potential violent criminal. We see it at the airport security if you don't think it happens to you. Well, if you treat people as if they are going to be violent, while using violence or overwhelming force, then you have to expect some to just turn around and fight back.
My sincere condolences go out to the families of the victims that lost their lives. I am a landlord myself and there is always a remote risk when attempting to serve an eviction of a tenant for non payment of rent. I believe this was an isolated incident. Probably one of the most single contributing factors that cause this kind of violence that esculates into a loss of life is the economic conditions. The people that commit these crimes are also victims themselves in a sense due to being casualties of the recession. Many of these people are experiencing job losses, working part time and for less money and have lost their homes, so they blame the system for their problems and act out against anyone that is in a position of authority. They are people that are desperate with no hope for tomorrow. All parties involved are victims themselves. As the economy gets worst there will be probably more of these kinds of incidents. I put part of the blame on the political leaders at the top. They make the laws! If change does not come from Washington to turn the economy around there will be rioting in the streets. Than the Jack Boots will come out. When the predatory and monopoly capitalist are at risk of losing their power, it turns into a fascist regime. Martial law is declared and all rights under the constitution are suspended. All these acts of vioence are the symtoms of an underling cause. The political hacks are pawns and stooges of international finance. Their puppet masters are the international bankers. When you confront them with the truth and expose the corruption and fraud, they respond with rehtoric and errect smoke screens. Anyone that bears witness to the truth that exposes their corruption and fraud is considered a a disident and a seditionist. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson
Yet another jerk with a gun. Where will it end?
his name was jimmy russels
his name was jimmy russels
his name was jimmy russels
We are only going to see more and more of this as MSM News ignores and/or sugarcoats the Greatest Depression our country has ever experienced. Calling it the Great Recession is plain BS. If we didn't have social services, which 'pro-life' GOPers are constantly trying to cut so they can preserve tax cuts for the rich and corporate welfare subsidies for the 'too big to fail, too big to go to jail' 1%'rs corporations, we wouldn't have this veteran facing homelessness at the whim of a Landlord. He's a perfect example of what this neverending Oil Robber Baron war has done to it's soldiers and the rest of us. Sure they told him, 'hey, wanna be a hero?' Only to find when he got there, he was tasked with murdering civilians and there wasn't a 'hero' to be found. Then they come back here, the blood of women and children on their souls, only to find that the very same corporations that facilitated this war, that his tax dollars paid for, created and passed NAFTA and they outsourced his job. That the Banks and Wall Street ripped off his home and AUTHORITY is working for the 1% and NOBODY in that 1% has been held accountable. That being poor is a crime, that his First Amendment has been shredded and this Fourth Amendment was squashed in a GOP/ALEC military coup called the NDAA Act, of which he is no longer a member. That fellow soldiers are being shot down by cops because they dare to protest and Occupy! That fellow soldiers are committing massacare in Afghanistan and Iraq. That this is exactly what happened in Vietnam..... My Lai!
Tell me, what does he have to lose? Nothing! At least he made a stand and said, 'f*ck you! I'm not living on the street, I'd rather be dead!' Death with diginity rather than suicide by cop. Cops who violate the Geneva Convention Articles of War and use military weapons against American civilians on American soil. Their weapons violation is the largest crime committed on this day. Their ignorance caused the fire. That you can call the police to have someone evicted, that should be a crime during a Depression. The landlord is the perp here, he/she set this in motion and now he/she is the cause of murder. The GOPer's, steered by ALEC have made it a crime to be poor, have cut off any avenue of recovery aided by NAFTA, the UNPatriotic Act along with a number of Hitler mimicing 'Domestic Laws' and they want to keep it that way. This man was completely screwed by this country. Fight the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East only to come back and find that American Women are fighting off attacks from the DC based Christian Brotherhood and it sure looks like the Taliban from where he's been. I can't imagine anything more disappointing then returning from war to the United States only to see that the 1%'rs are not only personally taking in 60% of all US income, are the ONLY group to increase their wealth base, welfare and unemployment lines have grown blocks long and the place is looking like Dumbf*ckistan.
And they continue to advertise and encourage folk have guns and make laws make it so easy to get one and carry it---so what do we expect to happen...its vigilante style encouraged so this is what you get, until someone in their camp get blasted the ones who love to support all these gun laws - as old santorum said guns and bibles they go have them - don't even line up with the God's word...he suppose to be the protector of his children but fear is so rampant today.
R.I.P. Jimmy Russells! You did well defending yourself from those cops!
More "white on white" crime. Crazy a$$ "white people.
all this talk about ptsd is BS; a cop-out to get a government check. Blame the NRA for all these killing and the aminal it self:
Scientists discover white male hate gene!, blame God
by Victor Payan
CHICAGO (APN)-Scientists at Northwestern University have released their
findings from a landmark twenty year study on white male aggressiveness. The
study, titled "Male Pattern Whiteness: Genesis or Genetics?" seeks to
determine whether there is a genetic relationship between male whiteness and
the wave of white-originated violence that is sweeping the country.
"There has always been a history of violent acts perpetrated by white
males against non whites in the United States, but until recently these were
either deemed random acts of violence or were dismissed as being part of the
'good old days,'" says Northwestern researcher Seymour Gabachos.
"Then we began to notice that these events were not random at all but in
fact were the result of many months of intensive planning and festering on the
part of the perpetrators."
The study claims to have identified a so-called "hate gene" in
whitemales and alleges that evidence of this genetic tendency toward senseless
violence, which researchers have dubbed Male Pattern Whiteness (MPW), can be
traced through the centuries using case studies.
"The Pilgrims, who were fleeing Male Pattern Whiteness in England, brought
the disease to America when they found themselves on a continent full of people
who were much less white than themselves," says Gabachos.
These findings come at a time when the nation is desperately looking for
answers regarding such recent acts of senseless white male originated violence
as those in Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, California and the anti-minority shooting
spree by Benjamin Smith in Indiana and Illinois, or the recent Atlanta
shootings.
"First we tested our hypothesis on lab rats," says Gabachos.
"Thewhite rats were by and large more hateful, spiteful and resentful
thanMexican rats, Asian rats or African rats. We have yet to do acomparative
analysis using Canadian rats, but our findings are prettystrong."
The findings of the Northwestern study paint a sobering picture ofthe
characteristics of Male Pattern Whiteness. "The human white male subjects,
particularly the ones who fell in the category of White Unemployed Suburban
Supremacists (WUSS) showed a keenly developed sense of what we call the
stockpile syndrome," says Gabachos. "While the rats in the study
could find cheese in a maze, humans with a high WUSS factor could locate canned
food and ammunition with eerie precision. Both the white rats and the human
subjects would then stockpile the materials in a dark hole they seemed to dig
almost as if by instinct."
Critics of the study, which include creationists and fundamentalistChristian
groups, charge that this is another attempt by secular science todebunk
Christianity. They cite various examples from the Bible in which God
specifically instructs his people to kill others who are not like them and then
take their land.
"It's not genetics, it's God plain and simple," says public
accesstelevangelist Holly Point Bullitt. "In the Bible it says that on the
seventhday, God rested, but on the eighth day, he opened up a can of
whup-ass."
A spokesman for the controversial World Church of the Creator, to which spree
killer Benjamin Smith belonged, commented "If Jesus were alive today, he'd
be making pipe bombs and shooting at people from a truck."
Other critics maintain that labelling an entire race, gender andreligion as
ethnically hostile at the genetic level will lead to discrimination by
insurance companies, real estate agents, law enforcement agencies, school
bullies and assault weapons dealers.
Dr. Gabachos defends the findings of his study.
"As scientists we look for correlating factors. In all of the caseswhere
we found MPW, the subjects were white, the subjects were male, and the subjects
were Christian. That, and all of the subjects owned guns. So how do we cure
this? Do we take away the guns? Do we take away the maleness? The whiteness?
The religion? Maybe a national identification card is the answer. I don't know.
But this is a national problem." When queried about the male violence of
Mexican serial killer Rafael Resendez Ramirez, who was not white, Dr. Gabachos
explained, "Ramirez was a firm believer in assimilation, and was just
trying to fit in to his adopted country."
Dr. Gabachos added, "We are also investigating a possible genetic link
between Rafael Resendez Ramirez, Lyle and Erik Menendez Resendez Ramirez, and
the 'Night Stalker' Richard Menendez Resendez Ramirez. Another possibility,
which Resendez Ramirez's own family attests, is that the man had a mental
condition, which
Scientists discover
white male hate gene, others blame God
by Victor Payan
Pocho Christian Pseudoscience Monitor
CHICAGO (APN)-Scientists at Northwestern University have released their
findings from a landmark twenty year study on white male aggressiveness. The
study, titled "Male Pattern Whiteness: Genesis or Genetics?" seeks to
determine whether there is a genetic relationship between male whiteness and
the wave of white-originated violence that is sweeping the country.
"There has always been a history of violent acts perpetrated by white
males against non whites in the United States, but until recently these were
either deemed random acts of violence or were dismissed as being part of the
'good old days,'" says Northwestern researcher Seymour Gabachos.
"Then we began to notice that these events were not raators."
The study claims to have identified a so-called "hate gene" in
whitemales and alleges that evidence of this genetic tendency toward senseless
violence, which researchers have dubbed Male Pattern Whiteness (MPW), can be
traced through the centuries using case studies.
"The Pilgrims, who were fleeing Male Pattern Whiteness in England, brought
the disease to America when they found themselves on a continent full of people
who were much less white than themselves," says Gabachos.
These findings come at a time when the nation is desperately looking for
answers regarding such recent acts of senseless white male originated violence
as those in Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, California and the anti-minority shooting
spree by Benjamin Smith in Indiana and Illinois, or the recent Atlanta
shootings.
"First we tested our hypothesis on lab rats," says Gabachos.
"Thewhite rats were by and large more hateful, spiteful and resentful
thanMexican rats, Asian rats or African rats. We have yet to do acomparative
analysis using Canadian rats, but our findings are prettystrong."
The findings of the Northwestern study paint a sobering picture ofthe
characteristics of Male Pattern Whiteness. "The human white male subjects,
particularly the ones who fell in the category of White Unemployed Suburban
Supremacists (WUSS) showed a keenly developed sense of what we call the
stockpile syndrome," says Gabachos. "While the rats in the study
could find cheese in a maze, humans with a high WUSS factor could locate canned
food and ammunition with eerie precision. Both the white rats and the human
subjects would then stockpile the materials in a dark hole they seemed to dig
almost as if by instinct."
Critics of the study, which include creationists and fundamentalistChristian
groups, charge that this is another attempt by secular science todebunk
Christianity. They cite various examples from the Bible in which God
specifically instructs his people to kill others who are not like them and then
take their land.
"It's not genetics, it's God plain and simple," says public
accesstelevangelist Holly Point Bullitt. "In the Bible it says that on the
seventhday, God rested, but on the eighth day, he opened up a can of
whup-ass."
A spokesman for the controversial World Church of the Creator, to which spree
killer Benjamin Smith belonged, commented "If Jesus were alive today, he'd
be making pipe bombs and shooting at people from a truck."
Other critics maintain that labelling an entire race, gender andreligion as
ethnically hostile at the genetic level will lead to discrimination by
insurance
perpetrScientists discover white male hate gene, others blame God
by Victor Payan
Pocho Christian Pseudoscience Monitor
CHICAGO (APN)-Scientists at Northwestern University have released their findings from a landmark twenty year study on white male aggressiveness. The study, titled "Male Pattern Whiteness: Genesis or Genetics?" seeks to determine whether there is a genetic relationship between male whiteness and the wave of white-originated violence that is sweeping the country.
"There has always been a history of violent acts perpetrated by white males against non whites in the United States, but until recently these were either deemed random acts of violence or were dismissed as being part of the 'good old days,'" says Northwestern researcher Seymour Gabachos. "Then we began to notice that these events were not random at all but in fact were the result of many months of intensive planning and festering on the part of the perpetrators."
The study claims to have identified a so-called "hate gene" in whitemales and alleges that evidence of this genetic tendency toward senseless violence, which researchers have dubbed Male Pattern Whiteness (MPW), can be traced through the centuries using case studies.
"The Pilgrims, who were fleeing Male Pattern Whiteness in England, brought the disease to America when they found themselves on a continent full of people who were much less white than themselves," says Gabachos.
These findings come at a time when the nation is desperately looking for answers regarding such recent acts of senseless white male originated violence as those in Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, California and the anti-minority shooting spree by Benjamin Smith in Indiana and Illinois, or the recent Atlanta shootings.
"First we tested our hypothesis on lab rats," says Gabachos. "Thewhite rats were by and large more hateful, spiteful and resentful thanMexican rats, Asian rats or African rats. We have yet to do acomparative analysis using Canadian rats, but our findings are prettystrong."
The findings of the Northwestern study paint a sobering picture ofthe characteristics of Male Pattern Whiteness. "The human white male subjects, particularly the ones who fell in the category of White Unemployed Suburban Supremacists (WUSS) showed a keenly developed sense of what we call the stockpile syndrome," says Gabachos. "While the rats in the study could find cheese in a maze, humans with a high WUSS factor could locate canned food and ammunition with eerie precision. Both the white rats and the human subjects would then stockpile the materials in a dark hole they seemed to dig almost as if by instinct."
Critics of the study, which include creationists and fundamentalistChristian groups, charge that this is another attempt by secular science todebunk Christianity. They cite various examples from the Bible in which God specifically instructs his people to kill others who are not like them and then take their land.
"It's not genetics, it's God plain and simple," says public accesstelevangelist Holly Point Bullitt. "In the Bible it says that on the seventhday, God rested, but on the eighth day, he opened up a can of whup-ass."
A spokesman for the controversial World Church of the Creator, to which spree killer Benjamin Smith belonged, commented "If Jesus were alive today, he'd be making pipe bombs and shooting at people from a truck."
Other critics maintain that labelling an entire race, gender andreligion as ethnically hostile at the genetic level will lead to discrimination by insurance companies, real estate agents, law enforcement agencies, school bullies and assault weapons dealers.
Dr. Gabachos defends the findings of his study.
"As scientists we look for correlating factors. In all of the caseswhere we found MPW, the subjects were white, the subjects were male, and the subjects were Christian. That, and all of the subjects owned guns. So how do we cure this? Do we take away the guns? Do we take away the maleness? The whiteness? The religion? Maybe a national identification card is the answer. I don't know. But this is a national problem." When queried about the male violence of Mexican serial killer Rafael Resendez Ramirez, who was not white, Dr. Gabachos explained, "Ramirez was a firm believer in assimilation, and was just trying to fit in to his adopted country."
Dr. Gabachos added, "We are also investigating a possible genetic link between Rafael Resendez Ramirez, Lyle and Erik Menendez Resendez Ramirez, and the 'Night Stalker' Richard Menendez Resendez Ramirez. Another possibility, which Resendez Ramirez's own family attests, is that the man had a mental condition, which
Scientists discover white male hate gene, others blame God
by Victor Payan
Pocho Christian Pseudoscience Monitor
CHICAGO (APN)-Scientists at Northwestern University have released their findings from a landmark twenty year study on white male aggressiveness. The study, titled "Male Pattern Whiteness: Genesis or Genetics?" seeks to determine whether there is a genetic relationship between male whiteness and the wave of white-originated violence that is sweeping the country.
"There has always been a history of violent acts perpetrated by white males against non whites in the United States, but until recently these were either deemed random acts of violence or were dismissed as being part of the 'good old days,'" says Northwestern researcher Seymour Gabachos. "Then we began to notice that these events were not raators."
The study claims to have identified a so-called "hate gene" in whitemales and alleges that evidence of this genetic tendency toward senseless violence, which researchers have dubbed Male Pattern Whiteness (MPW), can be traced through the centuries using case studies.
"The Pilgrims, who were fleeing Male Pattern Whiteness in England, brought the disease to America when they found themselves on a continent full of people who were much less white than themselves," says Gabachos.
These findings come at a time when the nation is desperately looking for answers regarding such recent acts of senseless white male originated violence as those in Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, California and the anti-minority shooting spree by Benjamin Smith in Indiana and Illinois, or the recent Atlanta shootings.
"First we tested our hypothesis on lab rats," says Gabachos. "Thewhite rats were by and large more hateful, spiteful and resentful thanMexican rats, Asian rats or African rats. We have yet to do acomparative analysis using Canadian rats, but our findings are prettystrong."
The findings of the Northwestern study paint a sobering picture ofthe characteristics of Male Pattern Whiteness. "The human white male subjects, particularly the ones who fell in the category of White Unemployed Suburban Supremacists (WUSS) showed a keenly developed sense of what we call the stockpile syndrome," says Gabachos. "While the rats in the study could find cheese in a maze, humans with a high WUSS factor could locate canned food and ammunition with eerie precision. Both the white rats and the human subjects would then stockpile the materials in a dark hole they seemed to dig almost as if by instinct."
Critics of the study, which include creationists and fundamentalistChristian groups, charge that this is another attempt by secular science todebunk Christianity. They cite various examples from the Bible in which God specifically instructs his people to kill others who are not like them and then take their land.
"It's not genetics, it's God plain and simple," says public accesstelevangelist Holly Point Bullitt. "In the Bible it says that on the seventhday, God rested, but on the eighth day, he opened up a can of whup-ass."
A spokesman for the controversial World Church of the Creator, to which spree killer Benjamin Smith belonged, commented "If Jesus were alive today, he'd be making pipe bombs and shooting at people from a truck."
Other critics maintain that labelling an entire race, gender andreligion as ethnically hostile at the genetic level will lead to discrimination by insurance
popcorn.....
I feel so bad that this happen.Officer Robert Paris was just serving an eviction notice and got shot in the head .Thats F@#$$%^^&&*&. This world we live in is dangeres (sorry for my spelling) america is as crazy as the other crazy coutries we are fighting in.What the hell.It's not the gun it's the idiot that own's it.I hope the families of all the people that died will be ok through all this nightmare.God bless the victums
It appears that some deputies have been at war with the communities they serve; and the communities just found out!! This is why criminals with badges and wannabe cops should not get away with murder and disrespecting the communities they serve!! The respectable deputies always ends up getting murdered!! Sounds like this murder had some bad encounters with deputies!! He was willing to murder a deputy and die just to prove his point!! Sounds like the Al-Qaida mindset have arrived in America. Was this pink on pink crime? Right now prison is the only place where it is free to live and eat and get free medical care. Just my thoughts!!
Nothing’s changed here A Black thug assaulted a guy on the streets, who defended himself.One less Black thug in this world..thank you Zimmerman!
No wonder crime is out of hand. Cops are handing out eviction notices instead of protecting us from criminals. They could have had a "neighborhood watch" guy do that.
Couldnt they have busted a drug house or something?
This nation is just one incident away from lawlessness. While watching "a bug's life" with a child recently, Grasshopper told his followers that if the ants ever figure out that they out number them, their way of life was through. This is exactly what we have seen in the Trayvon Martin case, The Black community has realized that they outnumber the police. These incidents will eventually lead to riots and martial law, when the right person is cornered.
I guess if the notice would have been mailed to him, he would have shot the mailman.
Dead people over a piece of paper. ?????????????
If you fire on the police, they will kill you. And rightly so, So why not use sniper/sharpshooters. The TEAR GAS/ FlASH BANG DEVICES CAUSES EXTREME HEAT. You didn't learn that 40 years ago with the SLA, not to mention Koresh in WACO? Quit burning up people's real estate, you morons!!
More example where pres omama could have better used the handouts. Also, we really do have crisis on our hands with many vets returning suffering the same effects that the vietnam vets and others did. Imagine fighting a war where the good people and the bad ALL look alike! You cannot tell the difference! Now iamgine coming home and hearing a car backfire and dropping to the ground, or waking up from a nightmare during you are reliving a firefight? If you are not former military you cannot even comprehend what it is like! it is not like a computer game where you can go back and kill the one that you missed or that family that you thought was your friend until they blew your convoy with IEDs. We have no clue at all. Yet our govt. will tell you like they are still telling us about agent orange. MY uncle from the side effect of the spray-he piloted one of the planes that sprayed it. yet, Drs said it without a doubt agent orange but uncle sam says it ain't so! So DO not trust. Many still dying in west Texas(due east of this area-fronts from pacific blows directly this way. Many still dying from cancer and other ailments-govt says not related??? Ok if not related, why are they always in Washington and not in the affected areas??? Now, we do not know if this man was military or not, but could we have not spent the money for swat, funeral arrangements, pensions, etc to pay the persons rent?? I do agree that landlord sometimes have to do these things. They still have to pay their monthly house payments, even when they do not pay then they lose the buildings to foreclosure, etc. it is a sad situation all around. Many be the housing authority will review and find that that money for the bosses bonus could have helped many others!
So just like in Waco the Zionist warriors figured they couldn't wait him out so they burned him out. Nice move fellas