via The Associated Press: Pair convicted of murder in Philly officer’s death.
PHILADELPHIA — Two men were convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the ambush death of a police officer after a bank robbery, even though neither defendant pulled the trigger.
Levon Warner, 41, and Eric Floyd, 35, each face the possibility of the death penalty after being convicted on all counts Wednesday in the May 3, 2008, shooting death of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. The man who shot Liczbinski died that day in a shootout with police.
Floyd watched the verdict from a closed-circuit TV in a courthouse holding cell, where he spent most of the two-month trial after being banished for punching his lawyer.
Sergeant Stephen Liczbinski was shot and killed while responding to a bank robbery call at approximately 11:30 am.
Three men dressed in female Muslim garb had robbed a Bank of America on Aramingo Avenue. Sergeant Liczbinski encountered the suspects on East Schiller Street and stopped their car. As he exited his patrol car, a suspect opened fire with an SKS rifle, striking him several times.
Several citizens who witnessed the incident rushed to assist the officer, wrapping his wounds in an effort to stop the bleeding. Sergeant Liczbinski told them tell my wife and kids I love them before he fell into unconsciousness. Another officer and a citizen carried him into a patrol car and he was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his wounds.
The suspects continued their escape, but crashed their vehicle. The suspects then stole another vehicle and fled again. When the vehicle was stopped, one suspect was shot and killed by K-9 officers and two suspects eluded capture. Both suspects who fled were eventually apprehended and charged with murder.
Philadelphia Cop Killings Due To Jailhouse Islam?
The men — Howard Cain, Levon Warner and Eric Floyd — were themselves Muslim…
News stories barely report these killers were dressed as Muslim women during the robbery, and don’t even mention they were Muslims. Why not? Where is CAIR?
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“News stories barely report these killers were dressed as Muslim women during the robbery, and don’t even mention they were Muslims. Why not?”
Because the journalists and their greedy, un-patriotic pig bosses are dead scared the egg-sucking ACLU will pounce all over them. Either that or they are too lazy to uncover all of the facts.
Thank you for posting this coverage. Not only were they dressed in female Muslim garb to rob that Bank of America, Floyd insisted on being called by his Muslim name during the trial and often refused to answer questions when addressed by his birth name. He also refused to recognize the legitimacy of the court to try him, and requested a sharia trial. That’s when he punched his lawyer for refusing to allow him to represent himself.
All three men sported prominent Muslim-identified facial hair with untrimmed outer edges of beards, and Floyd at least was noted as wearing a skull cap during the proceedings. They all has significant criminal records, so would presumably have been strongly associated with jailhouse Islam in the Philly Prison system. Their masjid or other Islamic or political groups they associated with were never reported upon. No one seemed to dare ask them.
Both Floyd and Cain sported prominent forehead callouses from zealous prayer, known in local slang as “raspberries.” These are evident in the mugshots published by the press. Cain’s mugshot was from a prior robbery, since he was shot and killed the day he shot the Sgt. Here’s video of the three mugshots that show the raspberries of Floyd and Cain very well: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=7581516
Dan, some of the facts were briefly mentioned by the press as they occurred, such as the reason for Floyd not wanting his counsel, but later were simplified and the reference to Islam removed. For example, the reason Floyd attacked his attorney was that Floyd “wanted to represent himself” without saying why. Floyd wanted to continue to state, as he already had, that the court proceedings were illegitimate and had no jurisdiction over him because he is a Muslim. He attacked his lawyer after the lawyer refused to request that Floyd be allowed to represent himself. Floyd could have been allowed back in court after that assault, but repeatedly stated to the judge that he refused to recognize the court proceedings and cooperate with them. The papers editors feel that covering this aspect of Islam expressed by one of its followers taints all Islam by association, so the solution is to refer to the Islam as little as possible, even if the killers themselves constantly cite it, calling such coverage irrelevant or inflammatory. Odd how it can both irrelevant and inflammatory at the same time.
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