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Man arrested in cop killing
a man was arrested in NH after claiming a cop killingin Red bluff last week on IMC sites
November 26, 2002
Calif. Cop - Slay Suspect Caught in N.H.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:55 a.m. ET
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A man suspected of killing a police officer in California last week was arrested Tuesday morning after a standoff in a downtown hotel, police said.
An officer at the scene said Andrew McCrae, 23, suspected of fatally shooting a Red Bluff, Calif., officer a week ago, was arrested without incident at the Holiday Inn around 10 a.m.
McCrae is accused of fatally shooting Officer David Mobilio in Red Bluff, Calif., on Nov. 19 while Mobilio, 31, was putting gas in his cruiser.
Police said the suspect identified himself on a San Francisco news Web site.
In one of two letters posted on the site Monday by a man identifying himself as McCrae, the writer claims he shot and killed the officer to protest ``police-state tactics'' and corporate irresponsibility.
The writer claims he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself as a protest against corporations who ``murder thousands of people each year.'' Corporations shield people from personal liability for a corporation's debts.
Gov. Gray Davis was to attend a memorial service for Mobilio in Red Bluff Tuesday.
Calif. Cop - Slay Suspect Caught in N.H.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:55 a.m. ET
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A man suspected of killing a police officer in California last week was arrested Tuesday morning after a standoff in a downtown hotel, police said.
An officer at the scene said Andrew McCrae, 23, suspected of fatally shooting a Red Bluff, Calif., officer a week ago, was arrested without incident at the Holiday Inn around 10 a.m.
McCrae is accused of fatally shooting Officer David Mobilio in Red Bluff, Calif., on Nov. 19 while Mobilio, 31, was putting gas in his cruiser.
Police said the suspect identified himself on a San Francisco news Web site.
In one of two letters posted on the site Monday by a man identifying himself as McCrae, the writer claims he shot and killed the officer to protest ``police-state tactics'' and corporate irresponsibility.
The writer claims he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself as a protest against corporations who ``murder thousands of people each year.'' Corporations shield people from personal liability for a corporation's debts.
Gov. Gray Davis was to attend a memorial service for Mobilio in Red Bluff Tuesday.
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When will the violence stop?
I have been saying since the day I started posting here that SF IMC was going to have blood on it's hands and now it's a reality. My only regret is that I stopped taking you bastards seriously.
See you at the trial.
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You're an idiot
Read that bizarro militants confession letter. He's and indymedia brainwashed psychopath. IMC breeds them. Panders to them. Rewards them.
Anyway, it doesn't matter much. It's almost over now for good old indybay.
I'm just going to hang around an gloat until the servers go down.
You're the moron.
The Associated Press contacted SF Indymedia to find out about this kid who killed a cop in Red Bluff. But I had some questions of my own about the blood on AP's hands.
This world is becoming corrupt and falling apart, This is gay ass Dead bluff and there are cops being killed. Its kind of weird having this happen here having it be a small town, I thought this mostly happend in L.A. or what not.
I never thought something like this would happen in Red Bluff. Red Bluff was always the town ful of love. now it's totally different. I hope that guy pays for what he did.
anyways, Tom Hanks was from Red Bluff
Well, enough about that fool.
The cop that was killed was an instructor in our dare program. That's a school outreach to teach the kids not to use. There are a lot of kids in this city that knew him. He had a wife, a baby, one on the way. He was a young man with all of his life, and the lives of his family in front of him. He will never play with his children, never kiss his wife. She will have to give birth to their second child without him. She and the baby will go through Thanksgiving and Christmas this year with grief. The babies will never know their daddy.
The man who did this to that cop, and to every person who loved him, is the worst kind of coward. It is unfortunate that we don't have the electric chair anymore. For this fella, we have a nice little needle.
May he see it soon.
White man was so stupid the managed to come up with the Declaration of Independence,
The US Constittution
The Pure Food & Drug Act
The Bill of Rights
The principle of Innocent until Proven Guilty
The concept of a President instead of a king (Washington was the first president of the world)
The Concept of the willingness to give up power.
The Gettysburg Address
The Abolition of Slavery (Over the objections of African States)
Child Labor Laws
Civilian Control of the Military
The Theory of Relativity
Antibiotics
Blood Transfusions.
...and finally a country so great that tens of millions all around the world, including people of color from all over come here to better their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
Very few people in today's America have lived under true repression. For that you will have to go to North Korea, or maybe Iran where students are protesting in the streets. Because we have not had this we don't really appreciate what it is really like to be oppressed.
Ask a person who lived in the great depression as my parents did. If I could go back in to the 30's and tell them about a place where a person could go and eat all they want including meat and dessert they would think it was a feast for kings. If I then told them that could be had for the price of the hourly wage of a menial worker they would say it was heaven, yet many resturants offer this, so much so that going to such a place can be considered a sign of poverty.
Isn't it good to live in a country where obesity is a problem for the poor? When has this ever been true in the world but here?
We have it great here, we don't get how good we do, but as long as people don't realise it or continue to decieve themselves saying this country is evil they will be miserable and will deserve to be so.
Should this site be closed, of course not, but as long as people refuse to acknowledge history and live in reality they will never progress.
There are people bitching and moaning to get Indymedia shut down and rambling on about how awful it is..then WHY are they visiting the site? WHY are they posting here? I know if I detested something, I wouldn't spend portions of my day hanging out at that place. What the...
And it is psychotic to blame a website for promoting this murder. Just because the moron decided to post his confession on here. What if he posted it on the Walt Disney website?
I suppose you think Ozzy Osbourne is responsible for teen suicides as well. Actually, maybe Eminem is to blame for this murder.
Lets just BAN EVERYTHING in the words of Jello Biafra.
People are insane. I can't take it anymore.
There are people bitching and moaning to get Indymedia shut down and rambling on about how awful it is..then WHY are they visiting the site? WHY are they posting here? I know if I detested something, I wouldn't spend portions of my day hanging out at that place. What the...
And it is psychotic to blame a website for promoting this murder. Just because the moron decided to post his confession on here. What if he posted it on the Walt Disney website?
I suppose you think Ozzy Osbourne is responsible for teen suicides as well. Actually, maybe Eminem is to blame for this murder.
Lets just BAN EVERYTHING in the words of Jello Biafra.
People are insane. I can't take it anymore.
'I Didn't Think He'd Ever Kill A Police Officer'
November 26, 2002
By Molly Shen
OLYMPIA - There is a local connection to a bizarre and tragic story unfolding on both sides of the country.
An Olympia man has confessed on a Web site to killing a police officer.
The FBI arrested the Olympia man in New Hampshire Tuesday morning.
He's accused of killing a police officer in Red Bluff, Calif., all to make a political statement.
The police officer, Dave Mobilio, was laid to rest Tuesday. Nearly 5,000 people packed his funeral service.
Mobilio was shot in the head while he was pumping gas a week ago, marking the first time an officer was killed in Red Bluff.
Mourners find some solace in an arrest 3,000 miles away in Concord, New Hampshire.
The FBI arrested 23-year old Andrew McCrae Tuesday morning after a standoff at a hotel. As far as investigators know, McCrae did not live in New Hampshire.
He lives in Olympia at the Capitol House Apartments, where his arrest comes as a shock.
Gina Gervasi says she lived across the hall from McCrae.
"He just seemed like a normal guy. A kid, you know, 20's," Gervasi said "I didn't think he'd ever kill a police officer. I don't know. I can't believe that."
Neighbor Peter Serrano didn't know McCrae, but as the son of a police officer, he was horrified by the news.
"I can't even imagine... a criminal," he said, flustered. "I'm a peaceful man, but this stuff happening. It just really angers me."
There is also anger and confusion in Red Bluff.
"You never know what may be going through the mind of humanity that we deal with," said Red Bluff Police Chief.
We do have a peek into Andrew McCrae's mind. "I killed a cop in Red Bluff," McCrae confessed in a lengthy rant about "police state tactics" and corporate greed on a San Francisco Web site.
He quotes the children's story Peter Pan, and writes "Peter Pan hates pirates, and I hate pirates. Corporations are nothing but pirates."
McCrae formed his own corporation, and claims as a corporate officer, he cannot be tried for Officer Mobilio's death.
Of course that does not sway prosecutors.
They have charged McCrae with murder, and will extradite him to California.
For more information on Officer Mobilio, check out www.rbpd.org
organization by posting? Non favorable posts?
To anyone not on the current lists of non persons??
Could I not say for instance that our own Mr. Bush is not
a good and just and wise man but a mere cardboard cutout for
the policies of greed? Oh my. I've gone too far.
CHILD MOLESTORS DEATH
That's right a molestor who liked to handcuff little kids and watch them squirm."It is not easy. In California we average one cop for every 2000 people.
About 60% of those cops are on patrol, where we do most of the harassing.
One-fifth of that 60% are on duty at any moment and available for harassing
people. So, one cop is responsible for harassing about 10,000 residents. When
you toss in the commercial, business, and tourist locations that attract
people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is
responsible for harassing 20,000 or more people a day. A ten-hour shift runs
36,000 seconds. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and
three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to
harass. This is not an easy task. Most cops are not up to it day in and day
out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us
narrow down those, which we harass. They are as follows:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus
on a person for special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a
code phrase we use. Then we come out and give special harassment. Another
popular one on a weeknight is, "The kids next door are having a party."
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like
to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars blasting music, cars with expired
registration stickers and the like. It is lots of fun when you pick them out
of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you
get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the
car, are drunk, or have a warrant.
RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police
officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle
on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.
CODES: When you can think of nothing else to do, there are books that give
ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Codes"; Penal, Vehicle,
Health and Safety, Business and Professions... They all spell out all sorts
of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the code,
you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of
these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy smash a car
window. Well, the code says that is not allowed. That meant I got permission
to harass this guy.
It is a pretty cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.
I seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away
with it. Why? Because the good citizens who pay the tab like that we keep the
streets safe for them.
Next time you are in my town, give me a single finger wave. That is a
signal that you wish for me to take a little closer look at you, and maybe
I'll find a reason to harass YOU.
Looking forward to meeting you."
and are human beings just like you who make mistakes. And that you shouldn't stereotype all cops the way you have been.
Some of your brothers are thieves liars and assholes who do not understand professionalism. One thing.
-RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours-
...Reasonable cause and other constitutional laws would make your like and job easier.
I'm sure you won't be hard to find. All you low life scum stick out like a sore thumb.
You know it's funny---I have lived in Red Bluff for several years and not one time have I had a run in with the cops. Why do you think that is? Oh, let me guess...They are just picking on you because of the way you look. Good! Maybe they will harrass you and all your tweaker friends right out of this town.
See ya on Friday if you are brave enough but I doubt you are.
Well I'll be at the Palomino Room also, I'll be the guy at the table with your women because you are in jail for drunk & disorderly conduct.
Get his lunch money back? How helpful. Nice to know there are some people willing to help their fellow man.
All this spatter about some unfortunate murder. Why is this news? Because he posted on IMC?
Get on with the background investigations. Then we’ll have news.
Deep regrets to the family and forgiveness asked for the rhetoric not sensitive to the loss.
If someone were to rape my daughter and steal all my stuff I wouldn't call the cops I would kill them myself. I don't need someone third party to determine justice for me, especially when they almost allways get it wrong.
If this guy had killed a homeless person to make a statement none of you fascists would care but because he killed an Police man you want blood. Just like it was in the south when a Black man kills a white man he gets death but not the other way around.