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Arrest Made in 35-Year-Old Murder of San Francisco Police Officer
January 23, 2007 12:43 PM
A suspected member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) wanted for the murder of a San Francisco police officer 35 years ago was arrested in New York today, police sources said, as part of a national roundup of eight alleged members of the domestic terror group.
Francisco Torres, who authorities say is a member of the BLA, was arrested in South Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., on a San Francisco warrant for the shotgun murder of Sgt. John Young of the San Francisco Police Department on Aug. 29, 1971, police sources said.
Young was a desk officer in the Ingleside, San Francisco police station when the station was emptied by a report of a bomb threat at a bank.
At that point, two gunmen entered with a 12-gauge shotgun, stuck it through an opening in a bulletproof partition and fired between five and 10 rounds at the sergeant and at an armored door in an apparent attempt to gain entrance.
Torres and seven other BLA members were arrested across the United States in a sweep involving the Port Authority Police, FBI, NYPD and other police agencies, authorities say. Those arrested included two other alleged members of the Black Liberation Army in connection with the 1971 shotgun murder of Sgt. John Young.
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"Obviously, Sgt. Young's murder and the murders of NYPD Officers Jones and Piagentini were linked," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said of the arrests. "No one rested until their killers were brought to justice. Nothing restores the lives of those young police officers and all that might have been for them and their families. Nonetheless, today is a good day for police officers in New York and San Francisco and everywhere."
The BLA, a violent splinter group associated with the Black Panthers, was responsible and took credit for a dozen cop killings in the U.S. between 1968 and 1973.
Torres will be charged with homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide and bank robbery.
The BLA funded its activities through bank robberies.
January 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (13)
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Francisco Torres ==> Meet Tookie Williams
Posted by: JelloBiafra | Jan 23, 2007 1:22:17 PM
Better late than never. Congratulations and thank you for removing him from society.
Posted by: Peggy | Jan 23, 2007 3:20:29 PM
ummmmm that's the arrest of Richard O'Neil in San Francisco...
Posted by: wagon | Jan 23, 2007 5:05:52 PM
Tell me something, but don't it seem odd that they are so worried about recovering murders between 1960s and 70s having to do with the law enforcement and supposely black male murderers(we know what this is about) It's mighty strange that they can't find anyone guilty for those killings, slayings, hangings of the innocent black children and women and men mainly in the south but really all over. HUH? Why is that? Too caught up on fighting crime? Doubt it. Too busy profiling is more like it. It's ashame that no one will step up and recognize our era where our ancesters suffered
from attacks within the Government. Yes I said GOVERNMENT.
Anytime you have a President in the office and he does not like black americans or don't support us something is wrong here. Even that guy named pres. carter. Yeah I know how things where back THEN and still recognize what is NOW.
Posted by: Mr.JP | Jan 23, 2007 11:47:47 PM
So why did the federal authorities wait 35 years to make these arrests? Is the US government becoming worried that American blacks will be returning to revolutionary activity in response to the US government's increasing racism and Police State fascism? As US government agencies have suggested, the concentration camps (such as the one recently depicted on Fox Network's "24") are being readied to imprison Americans for 'political crimes' such as free speech and assembly.
Posted by: Gregory F. Fegel | Jan 24, 2007 7:27:26 AM
In response to the people whose first reaction is to scream racism, I deplore you to educate yourself on the prosecution of racist murderers in the south, they took 30 years as well to prosecute, but they were prosecuted and convicted:
Bobby Cherry & Thomas Blanton Jr. of the Sept. 15, 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, convicted May 2002, 38 years later.
Edgar Ray Killen of the June 21, 1964 Mississippi civil rights worker murders, convicted June 21, 2005, 41 years later.
Byron De La Beckwith of the June 11, 1963 assasination of Medgar Evers, convicted February 5, 1994, 31 years later.
Samuel Bowers of the January 10, 1966 attack (and subsequent death) of Vernon Dahmer, convicted August 21, 1998, 32 years later.
Posted by: Diarmada | Jan 25, 2007 7:50:38 AM
Diarmada-
I wouldn't waste my breath trying to convert those screaming racism. For them, EVERYTHING, is an issue of race. For them, it is much easier to say racism than to examine fact. For them, it is more important to dwell on the past than focus on the future. I know they will read this as some kind of racist diatribe, but I know it to be otherwise.
What I find so striking, is that those people that look at race as a motivating factor in every aspect of life are the first to scream for true equality, but the simple truth is that true equality will never exist as long as people insist creating seperation between races. Race either defines you or you define it.
I'm not so blind to say there are no differences, or that there isn't room for improvement in race relations. But I'm also not so naive to not think that part of the seperation comes from an insistence, at every opportunity, to point out differences; a call for different treatment; an acceptance of race seperation as long as it is initiated by the minorities.
Posted by: Jordan | Jan 26, 2007 3:29:48 PM
As long as racism is the donkey we want to pin the tail on, we will always be blindfolded.
Posted by: Steve | Jan 26, 2007 4:22:12 PM
Like I said before and I will say again, you who post your PETTY comments on racism don't know the truth! 4 convictions don't match up to the thousands of deaths(lynchings) that my ancesters and other Black Americans have faced. When the law enforcement back in those days had nothing else to do but kill innocent Black people for no reason and you accept that as not being racism. Well that my friends is a PROBLEM. When there were fire marshalls that turned hoses on Black people in those days is a PROBLEM for me. See those of you who are opposite race than myself and others have no idea what we go through as being a different color of skin. I suggest before typing your comments try educating yourself on the matter. Cause alot of you all don't know anything when it comes to being different, most of you all are stuck on being the same. I'm here not to scream racism, I'm here to define the truth of the matter!
Posted by: Mr. Jay! | Jan 27, 2007 11:08:07 AM
Racism should not even be an issue here. The very fact that someone could say that this was an ok thing to do just because of what happened in the past makes me sick. The only racism here comes from the racist comments of Mr. Jay. You Sir need to seriously evaluate your own values. This man may not have even been racist. He very well may have a member to your cause. Yes the past should be taken into account but only to prevent future mistakes and not to create a scapegoat for cop killers. The fact is this was a terrible thing and if it was a black cop slain by this group your two cents wouldn't even be in this. We hacome along way from the opressions of african americans don't let memories hold you back from a promising future.
Posted by: Opinion | Jan 30, 2007 9:46:59 AM
Oh my God......... I was a member of the NYPD during that time and I remember the chaos that resulted from those incidents. I hope they fry that SOB. My condolences to the families. Great police work.
Posted by: Mike (Chevita) | Jan 30, 2007 4:06:49 PM
Opinion,
Obviously, You have to ghost write in order to express your non valuble two cent here. We know the truth,especially Blk AMERICANS, IT SHALL SET ALL OF US FREE SOMEDAY!
You can deny all the lynchings by corrupt cops, you can deny the violent and cruel if you like-1800s-present
Talk what you like,
Come see me!
Posted by: Mr. Jay! | Feb 1, 2007 5:26:12 PM
Verbal fury is great BUT it will not help reincarnate those who are now sadly gone. Inhumanity never has justification. All of you with your vehement perspectives be ever-watchful that your own honed senses of moral outrage do not become infernos that in turn double-back and engulf you.
Sincerely Peace To All
Posted by: manveen | Dec 24, 2007 1:37:52 AM
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