Today, the killer of Police Officer Bruce McKay, Liko Kenney, is being laid to rest. And in the aftermath of their deaths, more attention is being paid to the sole survivor of the shootout.
After a traffic stop, Kenney drove off from McKay. (The two had a fairly lengthy and unpleasant history.) McKay pursued and ran Kenney off the road, then pepper-sprayed Kenney and his passenger. Kenney shot McKay four times, then ran him over. Then, passerby Gregory Floyd came on the scene. He put his truck between McKay's body and Kenney, then took McKay's gun and ordered Kenney to put down his gun. When Kenney refused, Floyd shot and killed Kenney.
Well, a great deal of attention is being focused on Mr. Floyd. The Boston Globe has done some digging into his background, and he's not exactly a boy scout. In fact, the retired Marine could easily be cast into the lone nut, the hermit, a spiritual kin to Randy Weaver or Timothy McVeigh.
The impression I have of him is someone who just wants to be left alone. In his one moment in the public eye, he did exactly what needed to be done, and did it well. Now he wants to go back to being himself, in his cabin in the woods, bothering no one and being bothered by no one.
I'd like to see him get his wish.
And I strongly suspect that he's not going to have too many more problems with local police for some time to come.
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Oh my god! He killed Kenne... (Below threshold)1. Posted by yo | May 20, 2007 11:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh my god! He killed Kenney.
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1. Posted by yo | May 20, 2007 11:36 AM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 11:36
2. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 11:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ROFLMAO
Can't top that one yo.
2. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 11:38 AM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 11:38
3. Posted by horse | May 20, 2007 11:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Those bastards!
Hey, I learned something today. If you're a gun owning hermit who lives in the woods and says weird things about right and wrong, the govenrment will be checking in on you and maybe arrest you for various to-be-identified offenses.
But if you're a gun owning hermit who lives in the woods and says weird things about right and wrong, and you kill someone who killed a cop, the government will call you a hero and want to shake your hand, with your permission.
3. Posted by horse | May 20, 2007 11:55 AM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 11:55
4. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 12:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Not hard to guess which part of the Horse is talking above...
4. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 12:06 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 12:06
5. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 12:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A revealing paragraph in the article linked has an average citizen making a statement to the effect:
"...a normal person would have left and gone to get help."
Seems maybe the man in the woods is a little more clear thinking and acting than "a normal person." Or at least a "normal person" with no military or use-of-force training. "Normal Person" = victim, sheep, lemming, soon to be victim of violent and sadly denied reality of the real world.
5. Posted by epador | May 20, 2007 12:13 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 12:13
6. Posted by gemma | May 20, 2007 12:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I just find it fascinating that the Globe can actually dig for facts. When do they ever do that? Not recently. This guy just goes against everything they're pounding the drum for. He's former military, owns and knows how to handle a gun, seems to be heterosexual. All of that sets off their reporters' instincts to dig for facts and they do. I really thought they had no idea how to do that.
6. Posted by gemma | May 20, 2007 12:17 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 12:17
7. Posted by horse | May 20, 2007 12:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
epador, you are thinking of your favorite donkey.
7. Posted by horse | May 20, 2007 12:24 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 12:24
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | May 20, 2007 12:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
To cast Randy Weaver and Timothy McVeigh in the same light is kinda nutty. Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh maybe.
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | May 20, 2007 12:54 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 12:54
9. Posted by Scrapiron | May 20, 2007 1:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Seems maybe the man in the woods is a little more clear thinking and acting than "a normal person." Or at least a "normal person" with no military or use-of-force training. "Normal Person" = victim, sheep, lemming, soon to be victim of violent and sadly denied reality of the real world".
If this man had been on scene at VT and allowed to carry a lawful weapon maybe part of the 32 students would be alive today. Instead 32 students were "victim, sheep, lemming, soon to be victim of violent and sadly denied reality of the real world". In other words 'dead' at the hands of the type killer nutured and supported every day by the democrat party..The sad part is that they will never learn no matter how many citizens die, unless a member of their family dies, and then only the family members learn. No effect on the democrat party.
9. Posted by Scrapiron | May 20, 2007 1:41 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 13:41
10. Posted by CharlieDontSurf | May 20, 2007 1:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I had to laugh at this line also: "I would think most people would leave and go for help,".
Fortunately, Floyd wasn't "most people"...he WAS help.
10. Posted by CharlieDontSurf | May 20, 2007 1:53 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 13:53
11. Posted by Dennis P. Skea | May 20, 2007 4:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mr. Floyd is the hero here, and he deserves anything he wants. If that be privacy and solitude, so be it.
The problem is that the libtards will be calling for his head on a platter.
11. Posted by Dennis P. Skea | May 20, 2007 4:21 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 16:21
12. Posted by Hermie | May 20, 2007 7:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm sure Gov Patrick has ordered the start of a prosecution of Mr Floyd.
12. Posted by Hermie | May 20, 2007 7:22 PM |
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Posted on May 20, 2007 19:22
13. Posted by Jay Tea | May 21, 2007 9:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Considering that Mr. Floyd is a resident of New Hampshire, and the entire incident took place here in the Granite State, whatever Governor Patrick thinks is utterly irrelevant, Hermie.
And while our Governor Lynch shares party affiliation with Governor Patrick, I sincerely doubt he'd even THINK of allowing any such thing to happen.
J.
13. Posted by Jay Tea | May 21, 2007 9:27 AM |
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Posted on May 21, 2007 09:27