ORONO, Maine — A week after two University of Maine football players were suspended from the team for allegedly shooting two other students with BB guns, a third student was caught with a BB gun on campus, university spokesman Ron Lisnet said Tuesday.
The Knox Hall student was not charged in the Monday afternoon incident, he said.
“Basically a student had a BB gun and due to school rules it has to be stored” at the police station, Lisnet said. “If he goes off campus or goes home, he can take it when he leaves.”
UMaine’s weapons policy clearly states that “no weapons or ammunition shall be worn, displayed, used or possessed on campus,” he said, adding that policy covers BB and pellet guns.
Freshman defensive backs Aamad Bush and Malik Walker, both 18 and of New Jersey, were charged with assault and criminal threatening for their involvement in an incident last week on the first floor of Somerset Hall, according to UMaine Police Chief Roland LaCroix. The incident, which apparently started out as goofing around that turned into a fight, wasn’t reported until Jan. 18, a day or so after the incident, he said.
Bush and Walker allegedly fired shots from BB guns at the room’s occupants after an unidentified third student, who was not charged, had knocked on the door and propped it open.
“One of the guys said, ‘All right, don’t do that again,’ and he [Bush] shot him again. Then a scuffle ensued,” LaCroix said.
During the subsequent fight between Bush and the first victim, Walker shot the room’s other occupant with a BB gun, LaCroix said. “The university’s not going to tolerate that type of behavior.”
In addition to being suspended indefinitely from the football team, both Bush and Walker have been kicked out of their on-campus housing, cannot practice with the team during the winter workouts and spring practices, and if head football coach Jack Cosgrove decides to allow the players to rejoin the team, they would serve a one-game suspension for the opening game of the 2012 season, campus officials have said.
BDN reporter Pete Warner contributed to this story.
certain people should just not be allowed to have guns eh?
see link for full story
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/why-is-the-fbi-still-defending-its-ties-to-the-mob/251775/
Why Is the Justice Department Still Defending FBI Ties to the Mob?
By Andrew Cohen
Jan 23 2012, 10:51 AM ET 1
The courts refuse to protect the feds for harboring James “Whitey” Bulger while he and his Winter Hill gang killed.
bugler-mug-body.jpgIt didn’t get nearly enough national attention Friday, with all the talk of Newt Gingrich’s wives, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston unanimously upheld not one but two civil judgments against the federal government for sheltering mobster James “Whitey” Bulger as a confidential source for decades. Bulger now is behind bars, of course, captured last year hiding out in plain sight in California, money and guns hidden in the wall. Maybe now the FBI will use some of that loot to pay off some of Bulger’s victims?
The first opinion released Friday by the 1st Circuit is a case styled Latif v. FBI and it contains a great summary of how it came to pass that the feds’ use of Bulger as a “top echelon” informant negatively impacted the lives of so many others. The life of bookmaker Louis Latif, for example, whom the federal court tells us was involved with Bulger’s infamous Winter Hill gang. Latif was murdered in 1980 shortly after he offered to cooperate with the Boston police about Bulger and his associate Stephen Flemmi.
Turns out that one of the guys in the room at the beginning of Latif’s brief period of cooperation was an FBI agent named John Connelly. And it turns out that Connolly was Bulger’s main handler. Here’s how the 1st Circuit panel characterized what happened next:
Throughout the 1990s, the Boston press and eventually the national news media began to report on alleged ties between Bulger, Flemmi and the FBI. First in news stories and then in judicial proceedings, it emerged that certain FBI agents allowed Bulger and Flemmi to engage in serious criminal activity while Bulger and Flemmi informed on other criminals (and paid at least some of the agents, including Connolly). United States v. Connolly, 341 F.3d 16, 23 (1st Cir. 2003). Eventually, it was learned that in some instances Connolly had tipped off Bulger and Flemmi about cooperating witnesses against them.
Latif v. FBI is a case, then, in which the family of Louis Latif sued the FBI under the Federal Tort Claims Act contending that federal agents acted so egregiously that the Bureau deserved to be punished. The lawsuit was filed in 2001 but it took eight years to get to trial. In 2009, U.S. District Judge William Young, the judge who famously scolded the shoe-bomber in open court, held a 12-day trial. Like other judges before him, Judge Young found the link between the FBI and the mobsters as it related to these victims.
Specifically, Judge Young found that “Connolly leaked to Bulger Latif’s willingness to incriminate Bulger.” Then the judge applied the legal standard in the case. “There was no question,” Judge Young wrote three years ago, “that Connolly had a duty of care, breached it, and by breaching it, created a foreseeable risk of injury to Latif.” In the words of the street and not the law, Connolly had a duty to protect Latif but instead dropped a dime on him knowing that it would result in Latif being whacked by the Winter Hill gang.
Judge Young awarded damages to the Latif family for what I would consider a small amount — a total of $1.15 million. The feds nevertheless appealed, offering arguments that no doubt added insult to injury to the family. Having long hidden the secret deal with Bulger, for example, the feds now claimed that the Latifs’ claims were barred by the statute of limitations. And responding to another lame government argument, that there was not enough proof that Connolly’s leak to Bulger caused Latif’s death, the 1st Circuit wrote this:
This is surely an uncomfortable position for the government since its own agents took statements from Halloran who told them that he witnessed Litif entering the bar on the night of his death and Bulger or Flemmi helping to carry out a body bag then loaded into a car trunk, where it was in fact found the next day. Nor is there anything implausible about that story.
Guys, Leave your bb guns back in N.J, they have no place on a school campus with all the problems with weapons in and at schools today! Use your head for more than studying and football.