On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:40:55 -0600, USA  wrote:

>What is more disgusting than having women serving on police forces is
>the fact that no one in the media will admit the obvious -- that this
>female (like all females) was unable to control her gun or to control
>the prisoner and as a result other people she was supposedly
>"protecting" were killed.  



I had a feeling all along that it was a female deputy - by the
sparseness of details that the news media was providing.  I said that
to someone else today.

If the authorities are going to hire women for law enforcement, why do
they have to hire them from a real life applicant pool?

Why don't they hire those ass-kicking chicks that they're always
showing on TV and in the movies?


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>Three Shot Dead at Ga. Trial; Gunman Flees
>
>By HARRY WEBER, Associated Press Writer
>
>ATLANTA - A man being escorted into court for his rape trial Friday
>stole a deputy's gun, killed the judge and two other people and
>carjacked a reporter's vehicle to escape, setting off a massive
>manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta, police said.
>
>Hundreds of officers in cruisers and helicopters swarmed the area in
>the search of the suspect, identified as 33-year-old Brian Nichols. He
>had been on trial for rape, burglary and other charges stemming from
>an August incident involving an ex-girlfriend.
>
>The rampage led to chaos around the city, with schools, restaurants
>and office buildings locking down amid fears that the suspect might
>strike again. Nichols' mug shot was plastered all over TV screens, and
>highway message boards issued descriptions of the stolen vehicle.
>
>"Mr. Nichols is considered armed and extremely dangerous and should
>not be approached," Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman said. "We are
>not going to rest until we find him."
>
>Nichols got the gun by overpowering the female deputy while he was
>being led down a corridor in the Fulton County Courthouse, Assistant
>Police Chief Alan Dreher said. After shooting the deputy in the face,
>the suspect then went to the courtroom, held about a dozen people at
>bay for a short time and shot and killed the judge and a court
>reporter, he said.
>
>Another deputy was later killed outside the Atlanta courthouse when he
>confronted the suspect, Dreher said. The deputy shot while leading
>Nichols to court survived, but details about her condition were not
>immediately known.
>
>Authorities said Nichols then pistol-whipped a reporter for The
>Atlanta Journal-Constitution, stole his green 1997 Honda Accord and
>sped away.
>
>"When he had the gun in my face, you start to think, `How can I stay
>alive.' I thought this was a routine carjack. I didn't know two people
>other were killed," said Don O'Briant, a features writer for the
>paper.
>
>Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor confirmed that Superior Court Judge Rowland
>Barnes and his court reporter were among the dead.
>
>The shootings occurred after the judge and prosecutors had requested
>extra security for deputies after investigators found a shank in each
>of Nichols' shoes Thursday, prosecutor Gayle Abramson said. She said
>Nichols apparently fashioned the shanks from a door knob.
>
>Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said he did not know what
>exactly was done in the way of stepped-up security, but said the
>deputies were receptive to their request. Dreher said that there were
>no other officers other than the female deputy assisting with taking
>Nichols to court. The law requires that defendants on trial not be
>handcuffed as they enter the courtroom, to make sure the sight of
>cuffs doesn't unfairly influence the jury.
>
>The shootings occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Friday — the fourth day of
>Nichols' trial. Nichols had been facing a re-trial on charges of rape,
>sodomy, burglary, and false imprisonment, among others, after his
>earlier trial ended in a hung jury a week ago.
>
>"I think he probably realized ... he might be convicted this time, he
>might not have a chance to walk out," Howard said. "We believe he came
>here with the intent to make sure that didn't happen."
>
>In the rape case, Nichols was accused of bursting into his
>ex-girlfriend's home, binding her with duct tape and sexually
>assaulting her over three days. Howard said Nichols brought a loaded
>machine gun into the home and a cooler with food in case he was
>hungry.
>
>Nichols, who had been jailed for the last six months, had faced a
>possible life prison sentence if convicted for rape.
>
>More than 100 state troopers and officers from several agencies,
>including the FBI (news - web sites), were assisting in the search,
>but there were few leads, said G.D. Stiles, a Fulton County deputy
>chief. Offers of help from officers on their days off were pouring in.
>
>Telephone and e-mail requests for comment to Nichols' attorney, Barry
>M. Hazen, were not immediately returned Friday.
>
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>
>Barnes was known for his personable approach to justice and his sense
>of humor, and members of Georgia's legal community expressed shock by
>the news.
>
>Among the recent cases that Barnes handled was the sentencing of
>Atlanta Thrashers player Dany Heatley, who pleaded guilty to vehicular
>homicide in the death of a teammate.
>
>Barnes, 64, also drew national attention last month when he approved a
>plea deal that required a mother of seven who pleaded guilty to
>killing her 5-week-old daughter to have a medical procedure that would
>prevent her from having more children.
>
>"We're shook to the core," said Linda Dreyer, a longtime employee in
>the court administrator's office who knew Barnes.
>
>"This is a profound shock. It's so unthinkable, it's like a 9-11 at
>the courthouse," said fellow Judge Craig Schwall.
>
>James Bailey, a juror at Nichols' trial, said the jury was not in the
>courtroom at the time of the shooting. He said Nichols had made him
>and other jurors nervous. "Every time he looked up, he was staring at
>you," Bailey said. 



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