Maurice Clemmons Phone Recordings From Jail

The Seattle Times obtained audio copies of the phone recording of Maurice Clemmons talking to his wife in jail.  As you recall,  a few days after Maurice Clemmons was released, he walked into Forza Coffee Co. and killed Lakewood police Sgt. Mark Renninger, Officers Ron Owens, Officer Tina Griswold, and Officer Greg Richards.  The jail recordings of Maurice Clemmons are pretty eerie to listen to.  The jail phone recordings were obtained through a public records request.  Here is a partial transcript of the first one:

Maurice: I’ll kiss this bullet. Everywhere I go, I’m going to stay packing, stay ready.

Nicole: You just saying that ’cause you are upset right now.

Maurice: I put that on God. I ain’t going no more (back to prison) …

Nicole: Put your faith in God.

Maurice: I’m going to put my faith in God to kill every last one of them that come up on me. That’s going to be my faith — to kill every last one of them devils. There ain’t no such thing as justice. If there’s no such thing as justice, a brother’s gonna go ‘wild wild West.’ … They did it to me when I was young and now I’m a grown man and it ain’t happening no more.

For the rest of the recordings visit the Seattle Times article here.

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