Police arrest ex-girlfriend of gunman in Sikh killings
Source: USA Today
South Milwaukee police have arrested the ex-girlfriend of the man believed to be the gunman in a shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin Sunday that left seven people, including the suspect, Wade Michael Page, dead.
Misty Cook, a 31-year-old nursing student, is tentatively facing a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the Associated Press reports, quoting South Milwaukee police. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes that Cook has a previous felony conviction.
There was no immediate indication that Cook's arrest is linked to the shooting Sunday in Oak Creek that also left three people injured, including a police officer.
Before their breakup in June, Cook and Page lived in a South Milwaukee duplex, WISN-TV news reports.
Misty Cook, a former girlfriend of Wade Page, the man authorities say killed six people in a Sikh temple in Milwaukee before being gunned down, is seen here, far right, wearing a T-shirt with the name of the extremist right-wing group Volksfront.
Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/police-arrest-ex-girlfriend-of-suspect-in-sikh-killings-/1#.UCJbMU2PW8A
Sikh temple shooting: Gunman's ex-girlfriend arrested
An unauthorized gun is found at the residence of Misty Cook, who reportedly has ties to white supremacist groups.
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Misty Cook, a 31-year-old waitress and nursing student with reported ties to white supremacist organizations, was arrested Tuesday in a joint investigation with the FBI on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Wade Michael Page, the gunman shot dead by police at the temple Sunday, had lived with her until moving to a separate residence a few weeks ago.
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Cook shared Page's interest in the white power movement and was active in at least two neo-Nazi organizations, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate groups. The ADL had information on Page and Cook going back several years, and ADL researchers said Page appeared to have moved to Wisconsin to be with her.
Cook sent a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday, saying she could not comment and asking for privacy. "If I could say something to ease the pain of the victims and their families, I would gladly do so," she wrote. "Unfortunately, words do not begin to heal the pain they are going through."
more:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-milwaukee-sikh-shootings-20120808,0,5440658.story
tanyev
(42,358 posts)I've been wondering why no one else had been arrested.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)been no mention of a car at the scene.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Exactly in what way are these stupid assholes supposed to be superior?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Check Hoyle if you don't believe me.
obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The sentence (The) white supremacist (is) dumb is perfectly good, since dumb is simply the object of the sentence in which white supremacist is the subject. It may not tell us anything we don't already know, but there's really nothing wrong with it.
Now, there is something wrong with the sentence Misty is a dumb white supremacist since dumb is an adjective modifying white supremacist and is therefore redundant. It's not a big thing, either, unless you were my third grade teacher.
I hope that clarifies the issue.
MADem
(135,425 posts)From what I understand, she was in possession of a gun as a felon--that was her issue (or the excuse they used to arrest her).
Milwaukee police released a statement Tuesday after the arrest of Misty Cook, saying, "In a joint investigation with the FBI, the South Milwaukee Police Department has arrested Misty Cook on the crime of felon in possession of a firearm. Charges will be sought through the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office."
There's no indication Cook was involved with the attack. Much like her ex-boyfriend, according to the Anti-Defamation League, Cook was involved in white supremacy. The ADL has photos of Cook wearing a T-shirt with the name of the extremist right-wing group Volksfront. The group said that Cook had not been involved since 2008.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-gunman-wade-michael-pages-girlfriend-arrested/story?id=16954183#.UCLiGk2PXg8
bonniebgood
(937 posts)that racism is a mental illness. since this shooting so-called ex-racist admitted that they
have to commit crimes in order to join those kinds of organizations.
So why are they allowed to buy or keep their guns? they are mental ill and admit to having
committed crimes? oh yea we have our own taliban right here in amerakkka.
I guess we have to start locking down the churches and hospitals with metal detector doors.
WestWisconsinDem
(127 posts)With Wisconsin's new incredibly permissive gun laws, it's damn near impossible to bar anyone but a convicted felon from legally owning a gun.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Federal law still applies to ALL firearms purchased from a FFL (firearms dealer). If he changed to Wisconsin law regarding in-state, private sales between state residents, please provide your proof.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)yep make sure no sentence threatens your little gun world....
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)haven't changed, but of course you knew that, not that it stopped you from posting one of your snide little remarks that do nothing to further the discussion at hand.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)I could have been more than snide.
Meh
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)yardwork
(61,415 posts)I have no idea whether or not federal firearms laws have stopped massacres and other gun crimes but I'm reasonably certain that they have. Since the crimes didn't occur we don't hear about them. I'd be interested to hear what a federal official had to say. I suspect that the ATF and FBI know of numerous situations that were defused because they were able to enforce federal laws. Who knows what would have happened without intervention? Nobody can say for sure.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)no one can prove a single law stopped on life from being taken, not one.
Ashgrey77
(236 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)classy this
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)such as the FBI/DOJ to back up your allegation that "Federal firearms laws haven't stopped a single massacre or gun crime"?
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)All you NRA shills bleat 'statistics, citations'
go peddle your death to someone who rubs his guns I'm not fucking interested in keep the conversation going.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)since you are unable to come up with any facts that support your statement, you've decided to make rude remarks instead. Typical of those who are in favor of gun control, unable to argue logically or come up with facts to disprove a statement, they fall back on insulting the people they disagree with.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)yardwork
(61,415 posts)It isn't clear to me from news reports where the exact handgun used in these murders was purchased, but it has been reported that he bought five in North Carolina, legally. He passed background checks.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)Church can be built anywhere near that Temple!
neohippie
(1,142 posts)The Sikh religion is tolerant of all other religions, they don't hate anyone and respect all other faiths, so what is it you are trying to say here DustLawyer? I'm confused by your comment
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)peace13
(11,076 posts)Very sad comment!
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)He wasn't diagnosed with mental illness before this. And if he wasn't convicted of anything before this he'd have a clean record.
So is your point that people who state while they're purchasing the gun that they intend to use it in a crime ought to be barred from owning one? Because I'm pretty sure that never happens.
Iggo
(47,487 posts)masmdu
(2,535 posts)care for somebody when they may be part of a group she detest?
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)upon by the credential granting body. The article called her a nursing student. Probably would have been really angry when she found that out.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)for her comrades should they require medical attention but wanted to avoid hospitals in their upcoming little war they get the heavy thigh sweats over.
formercia
(18,479 posts)obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)She was training to treat her wounded fascist buddies in the coming Race War, I'm betting.
Was she even in a legit nursing program?
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Nursing schools will ask about your background and will do a background check and a case-by-case decision based on type of offense, how much time has passed since offense and what type of restitution. State boards of nursing will be thorough and more unforgiving. A military buddy of mine who was a 91 C (LVN) was accepted to RN school and graduated on the president's honor roll, but was denied to take the NCLEX-RN exam for licensure. He'd committed shoplifting, vandalism and D/D as a teen that the military overlooked, but the Texas State Board of Nursing wasn't going to. But, other states were willing to let him to sit for the exam, so he was given an assignment at another military hospital in another state. A civilian nurse would have gone through all that for nothing. Having said that, in such a high profile case involving a mass shooting stemming from a hate crime, this woman, with her "strong association with the white supremacist movement" will probably, hopefully, not be allowed to remain in nursing school.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Key bit from the snippet:
Cook was taken into custody on the grounds that she is prohibited from having a gun as a convicted felon, a federal law enforcement official said. Cook was convicted in 2002 for fleeing and eluding a traffic officer.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)shanti
(21,670 posts)being a nurse doesn't automatically grant one florence nightengale sainthood. it's a JOB, and it pays well! anectodal, yes, but i personally know of at least two rightwing christian RNs. they both hate obama.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)she must be a real "winner".
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I suspect if she somehow manages to graduate in spite of this new arrest, that her career will be short. She's a convicted felon, and now she is known around the world as a white supremacist and world-class hater.
Perhaps she can take up waiting tables in the neighborhood neo-nazi bar.
revolution breeze
(879 posts)The first time she refuses to treat a minority, she gets kicked out and black-balled the rest of her career!
dangin
(148 posts)I'm white. Has anyone else noticed that the white supremacists are not even "supreme" among their own race. They are typically the bottom rungs of the "white race". Subconsciously, I think this informs their massive inferiority complexes. This and an utter lack of significant education.
revolution breeze
(879 posts)in elementary school, but ended up getting their butts kicked in jr. high and high school, had no plan for after high school.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)With charges hanging over her head they have bargaining chips to pump her for information about the White supremacist.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Expect to see to usual claim that Hitler was a Lefty.