Monday, April 18, 2005

Where in the world is Eason Jordan?

With all the crying he did a couple months ago over the US military supposedly targeting reporters you'd think he'd have been on this story like stink on poo.

KIEV (AP) [off the wire, no link]--Ukrainian Security agents have detained three former police officers for allegedly poisoning a man suspected of involvement in the fatal beating of a television journalist in 2001, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday.

Authorities are questioning the three in connection with the death of Yuriy Veredyuk three years ago while he was in police custody, said Vyacheslav Astapov, a spokesman for Ukraine's Prosecutor General. He didn't say when the three officers were detained.


See Eason. Not everybody is trying to kill reporters. These cops went all Kaiser Soze on this guy, all over a dead reporter.

I'm waiting for the glowing write up in the NY Times recommeding citations for bravery for the cops. Amnesty International should be asking for their immediate release within the hour.

UPDATE: And for the exact opposite of that story we turn to the US where criminals kill our police, judges, and judicial employees whenever they want apparently.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- A detective was killed with his own gun at police headquarters in Providence, Rhode Island, Sunday by a suspect who was not handcuffed and managed to get hold of the weapon, the police chief said.

Esteban Carpio escaped after the shooting but was captured after a struggle a few blocks away and charged with murder on Sunday night, police said.