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News & ArtsMonday, November 30, 2009
News Suspect May Be In U-District
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Originally posted at 8:30 AM...
We're hearing that the police surrounded and boarded a bus in the U-District believing that the suspect was on board—but the suspect wasn't on the bus. (Anyone see that go down?) KUOW just reported that there's an unconfirmed report that the suspect was seen getting off a bus in the U-District around 7 AM this morning.
You can listen to a live feed of the SPD scanner here. It's going to be a long day.
UPDATE: A Leschi resident says the police with dogs are searching Leschi block-by-block, so Clemmons—reportedly shot in the torso—may still be in Leschi. The report about Clemmons being in the U-District seems sketchier the more you hear about it: someone called in an anonymous tip after seeing a man who looks like Clemmons getting off a bus. Odds are good that the police are going to get a call about every other black man getting off a bus in Seattle today.
UPDATE 2: The Seattle Times reports—er, tweets—that the police are leaving Leschi and the U-District and "may be headed for Beacon Hill."
UPDATE 3: Police are searching "the jungle" on Beacon Hill, says an anonymous Slog commenter, and cop cars are "swarming" University of Washington Hospital, says the Seattle Times tweet stream.
UPDATE 4: He's not in the U-District either. The cops are departing the U-District—a search prompted by a case of "mistaken identity." Like I said earlier: the police are probably gonna get a useless "tip" every time a black man gets off a bus in Seattle today.
UPDATE 5: The police are done searching the jungle on Beacon Hill—Clemmons wasn't there, he wasn't in that house in Leschi (although the police say he was at some point), and he wasn't in the U-District.
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Actually, I have SLOG open throughout the day anyway.
http://www.seattlecrimeblog.com/
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UPDATE: An email from a reader who lives in Leschi about the "better, faster coverage" over at another website...
SeattleCrime.com's reporting throughout the night was breathless and inaccurate. If one was following his coverage last last night, one pretty much had to conclude Clemmons was in the house and was in constant communication with the cops:
"Police were in contact with Clemmons through the evening and into the early morning hours. Police finally located him hiding inside a trailer near the rear of the home. Scanner chatter appeared to indicate Clemmons was wounded—possibly by one of the officers killed in Parkland—and was still armed, possibly with access to five rifles and shotguns."
But it wasn't true, right? And it makes a difference, if you're a couple of blocks away, trying to get to sleep over the chopper noise, whether the guy IS in the house, or MAY be in the house.
Better, faster... and just making shit up?
He may have a good head start. One of the nabes of the Leschi house reported to the cops last night that someone had kicked out a few planks of her fence.
You folks at the Stranger are doing no real reporting. You're just linking to where competent reporters are doing the work. Which is The Seattle Times, as much as you and your fellow Sloggers won't admit it.
Your "updates" are nothing more than you hitting the refresh button on The Seattle Times Web site, and linking to the latest reporting the real-life reporters have done.
And, oh, of course, adding a snarky comment, your specialty and that of Slog followers.
I mean......wouldn't it be nice to not tell him where the cops are looking?
I know it's the medias job and all to cover events. However, covering a man hunt with regular tweets and blog updates seems a bit counter productive.
What if Clemmens TWEETS?
They'll never catch him!
All kidding aside, let the police do their job: then report.
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And a sarcastic "brainiac!" to me, too, for calling Jonah Jonathan.
Say what you want, Dan, but you guys are linking, linking, linking to the real news outlets in town, and I'm sure in a week you'll be back to shitting on them every opportunity you get.
"Seattle's Only Newspaper" right?
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Look, you can live in paranoia or you can go get a coffee like any other day.
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riiiiiight.
All learning about where the police are searching is learning where the police are searching, not where he is.
It's pointless information only helpful to the criminal.
Besides, if it were accurate to where he was, it would only make him more likely to take hostages if he became aware of it via the media. Add that to the probability of you hearing he was in your neighbourhood and it actually making the slightest bit of fucking difference to your actions. Well......I'm sure you already have your doors locked....what with being such a paranoid douche.
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