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Mark Belling has done a little digging on Alderman McJackson’s dual identity story. He has been tracking the two Social Security numbers that we know about. There have been several drivers licenses issued from several states. After the traffic accident he had under the name of Jackson, his license was suspended, he then seems to have transferred a New York license (where one of his Social Security numbers was also issued) to Florida, then to Wisconsin. Also, the name listed to the address in New York that was used for that drivers license is a woman whose last name is also Jackson.
Listen to Mark Belling’s quick six minute discussion of the information he has uncovered. These are questions that must be answered!
This all reeks of fraud to me… As Mark said, now that McCann has succeeded in hounding a cop into the grave, perhaps he would like to conduct an investigation into serious misconduct in public office by this alderman.
The insane moonbat AlGore is now calling the Bush Administration a renegade band of rightwing extremists. As a renegade rightwing extremist, I wish Bush was more like me
Bible passage dispute leads to stabbing
A 36-year-old man is in critical condition this morning after he was stabbed in the chest overnight during an argument apparently over a passage in the Bible, police said.
The stabbing occurred at midnight in the 4900 block of N. 24th St. Police are looking for the suspect.
Bad haircut leads to stabbing
A bad haircut turned into a stabbing in a northwest side home overnight, the latest example of petty arguments that quickly escalate to violence in Milwaukee, police said.
A 24-year-old man was cutting a male relative’s hair at 11:30 last night in a home in the 6700 block of N. 80th St. and apparently did a poor job of it, said Capt. Timothy Burkee. The 20-year-old wife of the man cutting hair took offense for some reason, grabbed a knife and plunged it into her husband’s chest, he said. The man who got the bad cut was not involved in the fracas.
The woman was arrested and the victim was hospitalized and is expected to survive, Burkee said.
Shot fired outside police station
When an argument escalated between two men in cars Tuesday night, one drove to the Milwaukee Police District 4 station for help.
But that didn’t stop the other man from firing a shot at the other man in front of the district station, in the 6900 block of W. Silver Spring Ave., at 10:25 p.m.
The pair were arguing over a woman, said Capt. Timothy Burkee. The man was not hit. Police are looking for the suspect.
With all of the serious talk about all of the shootings and murders we are suffering through in Milwaukee, I want to take just a moment to say thank you to the life savers in our community. Our record high numbers of murders would be so much higher if it wasn’t for the brave men and women that are our First Responders and the awesome work done by our Trauma Centers.
The best chance that a shooting or stabbing victim has, is to get treatment as fast as possible. This starts with police clearing and securing a scene and beginning first aid, getting the fire department and their paramedics on a scene that is safe enough for them to work and stabilize the victims. Then they, the private ambulance services, or even the Flight For Life helicopters transport the victim within minutes to a hospital emergency room or trauma center. Once at the hospital, the medical miracles really take place.
Over the past years, this system has become a well orchestrated operation, people that just a few years ago would have died from their wounds, are now surviving. This is because these doctors and other personnel along the line have, unfortunately, had a lot of practice in healing victims of violent crime.
So thank you to all of the first responders (Police, Fire Fighters, Paramedics, EMT’s, Ambulance crews, Pilots, et al.) and the trauma Doc’s and their hospital staffs, for the tremendous jobs they do.
Michael McGee Sr. came on the radio today and made it clear that he believes that the only reason that the story of his sons name change made the paper is because everyone hates them (the McGee family), and all African Americans, but we also want to be them… I will let him say it in his own words.
He says that with all of the bad things in the world, all the paper did for a week was write about the name change story all because of hate. He then said that he hoped that God would “strike them down, strike their momma down, strike their families down…” He also excuses this by stating that most black people have different names on their birth certificates than the name they use. “They make it out to be a criminal act, but it wasn’t nothing” McGee said.
So how many names should each person be allowed to use Mr. McGee? How many social security numbers? How many drivers licenses? Does this standard apply to only your family, or does it apply to us cracker bastards too?
There is plenty of blame from the callers towards Kimley Rucker, the woman reportedly pregnant by Alderman McGee. There is very little condemnation from the callers of McGee, the blame is all directed towards Rucker. Let’s remember that Michael McGee Jr. is a married 36 year old man that chose to have an extramarital affair with a 23 year old woman. To his credit, McGee Sr. does say that his son has brought these problems on himself by his own bad decisions, as he said it, “these men need to think with the right head and learn loyalty.” He also accepted that he has made mistakes and they will deal with it.
Where I disagree strongly, is when Sr. says that his son hasn’t broken any laws. Then answer the questions of the two social security numbers. Failure to pay the judgements against him from the traffic accident when he was using the Jackson name? Why has he had drivers licenses under two names? And let’s not forget that the reason the restraining order was brought against him was for abusing Ms. Rucker. Lying under oath, something he has done more than once, is also a crime.
Police officer Alfonzo Glover’s suicide
There was also quite a bit of talk about the suicide of officer Alfonzo Glover. McGee and his callers seem to want to believe that only black citizens are questioning this, and when ever the Jude beating is brought up, they spin it as if white people supported the acquittal of those bad cops, but this just isn’t true. I don’t know of anyone that believes those cops didn’t beat that man half to death. And I believe that in the end, they will be nailed for their crimes by the U.S. Attorneys Office, the fault lies with E. Michael McCann(t) on that one, the community is unified in it’s disgust of the way that trial ended., but I think that some, like McGee would be happier if white people were happy about the acquittal.
McGee did go way to far, again, saying that what Glover should have done was go down there and shot McCann too. How is a comment like this allowed on the air?
I and many others are questioning why McCann(t) has brought this charge more than a year later. If he didn’t start this new investigation until after the inquest jury cleared him, we are all wondering what would have happened if McCann would have gone through the trouble of hiring outside investigators for every police shooting? Would they have found reason to charge other cops? Why Mr. McCann, did you wait until this case, and after you were made to look like a fool after the Jude trial that you botched, did you go to so much expense and time, to nail this cop?
I’m not going to go as far as one caller put it, when she said of the bad cops that beat Frank Jude, that those honky’s should all eat their guns too, but I do hope that they are very old men when they get out of federal prison.
More details to follow, but Paul Bucher is calling for Doyle & Lautenschlager to work at reducing violence in Milwaukee and around the state in areas plagued by gangs. Great News!
The press conference is going on at this time, listen to Charlie Sykes read on the air the release he has.
Update Paul Bucher Statement
Paul’s statement is now on his website.
Paul Bucher - Lautenschlager and Doyle AWOL on gun violence
Where are Gov. Doyle and AG Lautenschlager on the violent crime epidemic that exploded again in Milwaukee (and Racine) over Memorial Day weekend? Conspicuously AWOL. Maybe they don’t think it’s their problem. But it is: It is all of our problems, and it should be a priority of our state’s Top Cop.
Doyle has been too busy to focus on the 28 shootings in Milwaukee over the past few days, I suppose, since he’s been wasting time vetoing reasonable pieces of legislation (including one requiring verification of citizenship to get state benefits) and he’s been too busy dodging questions about why the man he named Parole commissioner released two cop killers.
As for Lautenschlager? She’s been too busy filing her frivolous lawsuits against legislators, cranberry growers, the FDA, you name it.
Go read the whole thing.
UPDATE: JB Van Hollen statement
JB Van Hollen has put out a strong statement on this weekends violence and what the Attorney General’s role should be.
JB for AG: Lautenschlager needs to fight real crime
The Attorney General’s response to the violence in Milwaukee this past weekend has been disgustingly quiet.
She’s AWOL on fighting violent gun crime in Wisconsin’s largest city.
Apparently, Peg Lautenschlager is too busy suing law abiding farmers in northern Wisconsin and fighting the EPA, Department of Education and FDA to actually focus on fighting crime in the highest crime area of the state.
For the past week or so, there have been several short term outages on the server that hosts both my blog and my home domain. I have some good news, they are installing a new server and on Saturday afternoon, while we will all be at the picnic, the new servers will be brought on-line. So we will be down for about a half hour, but that will fix the connectivity problems we have seen.
If you don’t know what picnic I am talking about, CLICK HERE and join us for a great afternoon.
To end this days postings with something a little less serious, I have stolen this stolen post The Early Spin…
RedState.com: Time to pull out of Wisconsin
There were 28 shootings this past weekend in Milwaukee. After 175 years of occupation, we are seemingly unable to extract ourselves from the quagmire that apparently is Wisconsin. I say it is time America cut its losses and pulled out of Wisconsin NOW. We currently have over 7000 Army National Guard troops based there yet there seems to be no end to the carnage.
Please join me in writing to Rep. Jack Murtha to get this terrible situation the attention it deserves. 15 in Haditha is nothing compared to the horrors perpetrated month after month after month after month in Wisconsin. It’s time we brought our people home.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled seriousness…
The Journal Sentinel has an editorial that fails to put the blame for this weekends violence where is belongs, ON THE SHOOTER. They blame the object.
But the shootings also demonstrate a well-known truth with which this community has yet to adequately grapple - the proliferation of guns. Yes, it can more forcefully hold accountable - in court - those who use guns, but government can also do more to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
But Liberals fight any effort to hold these people that use guns accountable.
Of course, law officers play a role. They can’t head off every shooting. But through partnerships with the community, they may be able to nip trouble in the bud - for instance, focusing their energies on putting troublemakers behind bars.
Police must also strictly enforce gun laws, jailing people who illegally possess firearms.
We have a District Attorney that plea bargains almost every gun charge away, you can’t blame police for not locking people up. The police arrest them, but because the DA and the revolving door judicial system refuses to impose strong penalties on people that use guns in crime, the same people use illegally acquired guns to repeat their crimes.
Unfortunately, the powerful gun lobby ties the hands of cops by blocking laws to keep guns away from outlaws. Among these are measures to limit bulk purchases of guns and to impose background checks on every gun purchase. Foes of gun violence in Milwaukee must push such measures.
Bull $h|t! The NRA supports laws that actually effect the criminals, what the Journal Sentinel is, once again, calling for, is for law enforcement to come down against law abiding citizens, since they are the only ones that will be effected. The gang banger on the street doesn’t go to the gun shop to purchase a gun to defend their families, they buy them off the street or more commonly, they steal them.
Why can’t these ivory tower liberals on 4th & State admit that the reason 28 people got shot this weekend is because there are bad people on our streets that need to be locked up until they are no longer a threat to the good people in Milwaukee that live in terror each day? Life is cheep to these people, if there is no penalty early on, why should they expect it to be any different the next time they pull a gun in the commission of a crime. Look to the broken judicial system that allows those that commit gun crimes, back on the streets with no real penalties so they can repeat over and over, each time getting a little worse until they kill someone.
Dammit! We in Milwaukee are forced to be stuck with a single candidate for District Attorney yet again! Spivak & Bice report that the only alternative to McCann(t)’s hand picked successor A.D.A. John Chisholm, has pulled out of the race.
JS Online:Spivak & Bice: Spiceblog
Attorney Lee Jones, one of two announced candidates to replace District Attorney E. Michael McCann, said today that he is pulling the plug on his campaign. That leaves Assistant District Attorney John Chisholm, McCann’s pick to be his successor, as the only candidate still in the November contest.
I am so sick of having no choice in our crime fighting officials, McCann(t) has been the D.A. for 37 years, almost always running unopposed, just like almost every judicial election, including this years Supreme Court “race” where Patrick Crooks will also be unopposed.
Nothing will change because we need another option before we can have another choice, and it seems unlikely that we will get another option any time soon.
[I have tacked this onto my earlier post on this weekends 28 shootings in Milwaukee, but I didn’t want it to get lost in the shuffle of this busy news day, so I am posting just the update here.]
Well, we have heard from the Mayor. As I suspected, there is no bold new plan to attack this violence at it’s root. The mayors plan is to use overtime to put more cops on the streets on Friday and Saturday nights. We all know that within a few weeks, people will start complaining about the overtime costs, and I doubt that a few hours of overtime is going to put much of a dent in anything since standard policing is reactive, not proactive. We can no longer wait until something bad happens, we need our officers to go out there and project power, make the bad guys know they are being watched and in general make their lives hell.
This will of course require support from the citizens of Milwaukee and out public officials, but I hold little faith in their ability to support the law abiding citizens of Milwaukee once “the usual suspects”, the small but vocal minority that they are, start to decry that police are being to aggressive. We need an aggressive response from police if we want any chance at all to break this cycle of violence.
Governor Jim Doyle has returned $10,000 that he took from a crooked law firm two years ago
The 20-count indictment charges the firm and partners with obstruction of justice, perjury, bribery and fraud. Prosecutors allege the firm and the partners secretly paid people off to be plaintiffs or have their relatives be plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits, and then lied about the arrangements in court documents.
Doyle campaign spokeswoman Melanie Fonder had no immediate comment.
Last week, a settlement was announced in the class action law suit brought by Shorewest Realtors and other advertisers claiming that the paper had inflated it’s circulation numbers to artificially increase the price of advertising. Some more details have become available today.
JS Online: DayWatch
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said it will reduce second-quarter revenue by $5.1 million to settle a lawsuit by Shorewest Realtors Inc. that accused the newspaper of misleading advertisers about its circulation.
Under the agreement, advertisers would receive credits on ads placed in 2007.
The newspaper also agreed to pay $640,000 in attorney’s fees for Shorewest and $10,000 to Shorewest for its “time and expense” as the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit.
Police officer Alfonzo Glover, the officer that shot a man last spring, but was cleared by an inquest jury last year, was arrested and charged with first degree murder this morning. Glover posted bail at 1 p.m. and soon afterward drove home and reportedly shot himself in the head and dies on the scene.
Many have questioned why the District Attorney has done this since in the past 37 years, McCann(t) has never charged a cop after being cleared by the inquest (which is advisory). Some speculate that after the Frank Jude trial, where many police officers refused to cooperate with the D.A.’s office and made McCann(t) look like a buffoon, was looking for a way to “get back” at the police department. McCann(t) claimes to have new information from some company that he is bragging about costing them a lot of money, but this comes a full year after the inquest jury cleared him, why the delay?
Another thing about this case that is being talked about is the fact that McCann(t), who has never charged a Milwaukee cop after shooting a suspect has done so in this case. The criticism of the D.A.’s office has come mainly from the Black Community leaders, but the first cop that McCann(t) charges is Alfonzo Glover, and African American. Ironic?
Did Glover do this because he knows he was guilty and couldn’t stand the thought of going to prison, or is he a good cop that has been hounded into this horrible decision by the sheer pressure of the accusation? Will we ever know the truth now?
JS Online: DayWatch
A Milwaukee police officer who was charged with homicide and perjury this morning killed himself at his home this afternoon, Chief Nannette Hegerty said.
Alfonzo Glover, 35, a five-year veteran of the force, was pronounced dead at his home on the south side. Earlier in the day he appeared in court on the charges (Read the criminal complaint).
Glover was released from the jail at 1 p.m. after posting $25,000 cash bail. He was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the March 2005 death of Wilbert Javier Prado, 25, who was not armed, near S. 9th St. and W. Ohio Ave.
JS Online: DayWatch
A 36-year-old man is in critical condition this morning after he was stabbed in the chest overnight during an argument apparently over a passage in the Bible, police said.
The stabbing occurred at midnight in the 4900 block of N. 24th St. Police are looking for the suspect
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