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Victim of Montreal North police shooting described as ‘an angel'

PETER RAKOBOWCHUK

The Canadian Press

Latest comment posted at 8:23 AM EST 14/08/08

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  1. Clive Gingell from Canada writes: ...and his brother? Why, the nicest armed robber you'll ever meet.....(unless you work behind the counter of a 7/11 and he wants the day's take).
  2. Joe V from Canada writes: I am so sick of hearing people described as "angels" etc. once they are dead, even if they are criminals who brought it on themselves.

    Like that one guy in B.C. who committed suicide by slamming his car into opposing traffic, and murdered two others in the process. His brother described him as a "great person". No he wasn't a great person, and we would have been better off if he had been executed before he took anyone else's life!

    This politically-correct bull excrement whenever someone dies has got to stop.
  3. Francois A. from Calgary, Canada writes: wow... the race card...
  4. Francois A. from Calgary, Canada writes: Hey Jomo... you're joking, right? hehehehehehe....
  5. Tim Carter from Toronto, Canada writes: Reading the comments of Villanueva's friends it's clear they regard the police as just another group of people, not as, ahem, the police. They speak of "justice" but I think they mean revenge.

    I don't know the precise facts, but it does seem they were angry at the police for arresting one of their friends, they congregated, soon muttering frustrations and yelling descended into mob anger, they lost control and attacked the police.

    (I'm pretty certain the police just didn't show up deliberately looking if there just happened to be a yelling, violent mob which they could take their frustrations out on with a few gunshots.)

    Anyway, the short of it, if you raise hell and get shot, you pretty much just got your "justice".

    This is Canada. The police are a law enforcement institution. They are not just another gang or ethnicity, equals to yours. They have more authority than you. If you're from a Third World country, I'm sorry that the police back there may be corrupt and prone to violence, but that's not here or now. Time to obey the law. (That really sucks doesn't it...)
  6. kel fitz from Canada writes: Aww! Don't he look cute? (Where's the graduation cap?) Always "angels", aren't they. Reminds me of the Jorden Manners over-reporting - except the only paper to report that he was engaged in tom-foolery with the gun that would kill him was (Gasp) the G&M. After that, the details were buried.

    This eighteen-year old man knew what he was doing when he challenged police authority - only thing is, he thought he would get away with his actions because he was in a soft liberal Canada.

    I'm sick of the importation of the immigrant mentalities from Third World countries. Look at what's happening in Europe - we have to learn from their sad reality, and start demanding VISAS from people coming here.

    As for Jomo: Duped Duped Duped Duped Duped and Duped again by your beloved liberal friends, you groupie.
  7. Edrico Alberto from Edmonton, Canada writes: "For the angle of death spread his wings in the blast, and breathed in the face of the foe as he passed. And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, and their hearts heaved but once, and forever grew stilll, " From Senacharib by Lord Byron.
  8. Trudeau's Apricot poodle from Canada writes: If some insist on playing the race card, don't be surprised if it gets trumped by the apathy card. Choose your game carefully, you can't win every hand, but you can loose everything.
  9. Chris E. from Canada writes: Comments are deleted when the truth hurts.
  10. too old from Canada writes: This kid played Russian Roulette and lost.

    More and more people are getting ticked off with this immigration crap and all the ethnics playing the system for a sucker.

    Time to boot any politician out who either leaves the status quo or increases immigration from these countries who have no respect for the country and its laws.

    If Harper can't get the job done then we try somebody else and keep doing it until they get the picture.

    Next.
  11. Bob Robinson from Edmonton, Canada writes: Angel my "butt". He was nothing more than a thug who, along with the rest of his gang attacked the police officers. Perhaps these aholes should think twice about doing that in future. If they do not like our country and the laws that go with it go back to the "homeland" wherever that is and riot there. No sympathy here for any of these gangsters.
  12. Mike Mike from Canada writes: Angel for sure... so are the Hells... they are angels too. It is amazing how there is no mention (i should say a shade of thought) presented in globe that he got shot because he and his gang threatened the police officers. I am so sick of people playing the lame race card. Stereotype do not come out of nothing and if blacks or latinos are being "targeted" there is a reason for it. Cops in Canada don't just come out on a shooting spree whenever they feel bored.
  13. bob london from Canada writes: Now you can vote for St hood.
  14. Mark S Noel from Canada writes: I don't think Angel's mob up and attack police officiers. I believe the group that does that are criminals.
  15. Yngwie J. Malmsteen from Toronto, Canada writes: He sure looks angelic. There used to be a drug dealer on the corner of my street named "Angel".

    It's a shame when someone dies, but I highly doubt the police just decided to randomly start shooting people. It isn't a coincidence that people who hang with bad crowds in parks or on the streets end up getting more bullets than those who are doing something productive with thier time.
  16. Michael Sharp from Victoria, Canada writes:

    I knew an Angel.

    He rode a harley.
  17. Don Portz from Trochu AB, Canada writes: Whether he was an angel on earth, we can assume that he really is one now.
  18. Ned Chiwalski from Oilgary, Canada writes: Everyone's an angel once they're dead. They can't commit any more crimes.
    If they guy was half as good as described, he'd still be alive.
  19. Edrico Alberto from Edmonton, Canada writes: And Al Caopone was a choir boy. But nevertheless; you are known by the company you keep.
  20. StuckIn Edmonton from Canada writes: "Angel" the nickname that his gang gave him due to his fondness for the drug, angel dust.

    All police shootings should now be handled by Black/Latino officers to prevent further outcries for these young career criminals.
  21. M Woolsey from edmonton, Canada writes: Jomo you must be kidding me. I don't agree with any generalizations, whether it's about police, immigrants or races but trying to make your point by bringing up O.J and innocent in the same sentence? Are you aware he wrote a book called "If I did it" which outlined the murders of Nicole and Ron?
  22. Counterspinner tells the truth from Canada writes: The rioters are using the shooting as an excuse to riot. What excuses are they offering for all the looting they're doing? Or is the rioting an excuse to do all the looting?

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