Why? UPDATE

This morning, four police officer in the Tacoma (and Fort Lewis/McChord Air Force base) suburb of Lakewood were murdered.  At 8:30, as they had coffee together shortly before their shift started, a man walked in and shot them.

He may have been injured in the process.

Here is a mugshot of the suspect:

Note the stylish orange suit.  He has a long acquaintance with the criminal justice system.  Including having had his prison sentence commuted by then-Governor Mike Huckabee in Arkansas, in what will probably prove to be the end of Huckabee's politcial career. Note that, among other things, Clemmons is wanted for child rape.

Michelle Malkin has some more.

I was rather disgusted by the way the local media were wallowing in the gore.  At least one station was told by the Pierce County Sheriff's Department that it's helicopter was in the way and to return to base; the pilot refused, but station management had a rush of blood to the head and backed off.

This just proves that there are no magic talismans hat can assure safety, including guns, badges, or bullet-resistant vests, and that even cops (and military personnel!) can slip into Condition White.

I suppose the gun-banners will try and prove that only professionals should have guns, since guns couldn't save them, but that a poor, misunderstood victim of society was able to use one to kill them.  In a cry for help, no doubt.

Bah.

UPDATE
At 10:19 PM the Seattle Times reported that the Seattle PD SWAT Team was surrounding a house that Scumbag was alleged to be in. He wasn't there.

The Seattle Times is also reporting that said scumbag had cut off a tracking bracelet.

UPDATE II: He wasn't at the house they surrounded last night, but he is confirmed to have been shot, and may be dead.

That link has photos of the deceased officers.