GUILTY MS - Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, & Liquori Tate, 25, slain, Hattiesburg, 9 May 2015

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 52s 53 seconds ago

Mcphail allegedly helped destroy evidence related to the case involving the murder of 2 HPD officers.

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 21s 21 seconds ago

Anquanette Alexander, bond set at $10,000 charged with obstruction of justice in murder of 2 HPD officers.


well, she's not smiling now, amazing what a weekend in jail can do......

 

[Queen Bee]

well, since arrestee #6 and 7 and 8 had such low bonds, i hope they are at least cash bonds.....that will hold them a little longer.....if not, at least they were all arrested on a friday and got to spend the weekend cooling their heels before their first appearance......i'm mean like that

 

[popsicle]

[h=1]McDaniel: Mississippians’ tears neither black nor white[/h]
In the aftermath of this terrible tragedy, what we witnessed was nothing short of remarkable, as the entire community of Hattiesburg, the greater Pine Belt, and all of Mississippi came together to mourn their tragic deaths and to honor their memories.

We proudly watched as thousands of Mississippians of every race, as well as the young and the elderly, stood along the roadsides to pay their final respects as the funeral procession passed by. For Liquori Tate, who was buried in Starkville, his procession stretched for miles as it traveled on the interstate headed northward as thousands more stood on overpasses to honor him.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...57/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore retweeted
Daniel Miller @Daniel_Miller13 · 5h 5 hours ago

This is just a few of the letters that HPD has received from local schools.Thanks for the support! @RyanMooreMS @wdam



:heartbeat:

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

i saved the badge image for last for a reason.....i have not shared much personally here on websleuths.....i would like to do so now....

why could i not sleep? why was i so affected by this thread? there's a reason.......if you'll indulge me......after her (me and my crazy siblings) family was raised and gone, my mother achieved her life long dream of working with our local police department as a police dispatcher/911 operator and loved every second of it.......to make a long story short, i lost my mother several years ago to a terminal illness, no it wasn't cancer but heart disease.....she had a sudden heart attack that we had hoped she would recover from quite quickly and instead we spent the next year and a half watching her die while awaiting a heart transplant and undergoing 18 surgeries and only spending about a total of 6 weeks not in the hospital.....we were called in numerous times thinking this was it......it was hell......she was a healthy woman we thought, it was the shock of our life and she was young....

that police department that she loved so dearly stood by her every step of the way....those men and women gave up their leave to donate leave after her leave ran out, gave up their insurance coverage days after her insurance days ran out, held rallys to raise money after that, not a day went by that we weren't called by someone on the force, i slept on floors of CCU units along side officers many a night awaiting a visiting time, and when she finally died a mere shell of the person she was after the fight of her life......they INSISTED that she be buried in full uniform even though their policy did not at that time allow for dispatchers to be buried in uniform.....the police chief took it to the mayor to have it changed and it was voted on and changed....this was no small town either.........and she was, she was buried in full uniform and she looked so so regal......

on the day she was laid to rest the entire force was there with their shields on with black tape and black bands on their arms and full police escort.....and why? because of her service and dedication and the times she had saved their lives i was told.....

i saw family that day....not of blood....but united in trust

so on this mother's day......as i cry and miss her dearly, i post this in her honor and in honor of officer tate and officer deen and every brave man and woman that take up the shield everyday in this country....

i thank each and every one of them from the bottom of my heart

:rose: Officer Tate Rest In Peace With Honor
:rose: Officer Deen Rest In Peace With Honor

Thank You For Your Service

Queenie,

I just started reading this thread, and ran across this. My eyes are teared up. God Bless your mother, and you!

I started my LE career in a Sheriff's Dept in Northern CA...one of the first things we did was do 3 shifts in the Communications Room, watching/listening to what the dispatchers did. Wow. It is NOT easy, for so many aspects.

Then, as a rookie out those first few weeks with a training officer - I was a little intimidated by making call outs on the radio - knowing all of the County could hear me (Sheriff's Office and even the public listening on scanners, LOL...which I had friends that I knew listened. Not what a rookie wants to do, make a mistake on the radio! And then of course, if one screwed up, you might here the others "miking" on flubs.)

A few comments about dispatchers and them being your life lines, oftentimes literally. It is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE feeling when dispatch is trying to contact an officer in the field, and there isn't a response right away...then several seconds, maybe up to a minute, and a few times, longer. We in the field are also listening, waiting for that one unit to respond...the dispatcher having to repeat the call, all with a calm demeanor...the silence can be deafening...but we can start responding towards that unit, trying to "do something" and yet the dispatcher sits in a room and has to just wait and pray for a quick reply. It is stressful!

Now, the really *smart* officers (LOL) know that you don't want to upset/anger a dispatcher. Yes, they can make or break your shift, hahahahaha. Those aren't just always stories, they really can! Treat them with respect, and don't get pi**y with them over the radio, where every word and tone you use can make a difference.

Lastly, again in my early years, I had to work an 18 hour shift in the middle of a wildfire that was up in the No CA mountains of our county. Honestly, that was one of my scariest nights of my life. During the night, going up mountain dirt roads (nothing more than some of the fire line breaks) in a valley area where the side of the mountain across from me was on fire and I'm driving AWAY from my coworkers and resources, and I was given a piece of paper by the fire dept to "take a left where you see a big boulder" to get to the next little road I needed (trying to get to a small population of about 50 people out in the wilderness to get them to evacuate)...I lost radio signal in that valley. That is the first time in my life I can say I totally felt alone. If that fire switches directions, there was no one to radio to tell me, we didn't have street signs up on those makeshift dirt roads, no one could help me...and I couldn't tell anyone if I had a problem (flat tire, whatever!) ....I was out there, found my little group of people, helped them start packing up necessities, still trying periodically to find a radio signal. It was about 5 hours in pure darkness where I finally found a high spot and got signal back to the office...........my point in telling this, was I have never been SO happy to hear her voice, and you can tell she was just as happy to hear me. A true bond from that day forward.

I NEVER take dispatch for granted...one day in heaven (I hope on my part, ha!), I need to go find your mom and thank her for her service. I'm so glad to hear her department recognized her properly. Does my heart good

And Queenie, THANK YOU for all the photos in this thread. I know it takes time, but I very much appreciate seeing the 2 officers and everything surrounding them.

DD

 

[Queen Bee]

Queenie,

I just started reading this thread, and ran across this. My eyes are teared up. God Bless your mother, and you!

I started my LE career in a Sheriff's Dept in Northern CA...one of the first things we did was do 3 shifts in the Communications Room, watching/listening to what the dispatchers did. Wow. It is NOT easy, for so many aspects.

Then, as a rookie out those first few weeks with a training officer - I was a little intimidated by making call outs on the radio - knowing all of the County could hear me (Sheriff's Office and even the public listening on scanners, LOL...which I had friends that I knew listened. Not what a rookie wants to do, make a mistake on the radio! And then of course, if one screwed up, you might here the others "miking" on flubs.)

A few comments about dispatchers and them being your life lines, oftentimes literally. It is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE feeling when dispatch is trying to contact an officer in the field, and there isn't a response right away...then several seconds, maybe up to a minute, and a few times, longer. We in the field are also listening, waiting for that one unit to respond...the dispatcher having to repeat the call, all with a calm demeanor...the silence can be deafening...but we can start responding towards that unit, trying to "do something" and yet the dispatcher sits in a room and has to just wait and pray for a quick reply. It is stressful!

Now, the really *smart* officers (LOL) know that you don't want to upset/anger a dispatcher. Yes, they can make or break your shift, hahahahaha. Those aren't just always stories, they really can! Treat them with respect, and don't get pi**y with them over the radio, where every word and tone you use can make a difference.

Lastly, again in my early years, I had to work an 18 hour shift in the middle of a wildfire that was up in the No CA mountains of our county. Honestly, that was one of my scariest nights of my life. During the night, going up mountain dirt roads (nothing more than some of the fire line breaks) in a valley area where the side of the mountain across from me was on fire and I'm driving AWAY from my coworkers and resources, and I was given a piece of paper by the fire dept to "take a left where you see a big boulder" to get to the next little road I needed (trying to get to a small population of about 50 people out in the wilderness to get them to evacuate)...I lost radio signal in that valley. That is the first time in my life I can say I totally felt alone. If that fire switches directions, there was no one to radio to tell me, we didn't have street signs up on those makeshift dirt roads, no one could help me...and I couldn't tell anyone if I had a problem (flat tire, whatever!) ....I was out there, found my little group of people, helped them start packing up necessities, still trying periodically to find a radio signal. It was about 5 hours in pure darkness where I finally found a high spot and got signal back to the office...........my point in telling this, was I have never been SO happy to hear her voice, and you can tell she was just as happy to hear me. A true bond from that day forward.

I NEVER take dispatch for granted...one day in heaven (I hope on my part, ha!), I need to go find your mom and thank her for her service. I'm so glad to hear her department recognized her properly. Does my heart good

And Queenie, THANK YOU for all the photos in this thread. I know it takes time, but I very much appreciate seeing the 2 officers and everything surrounding them.

DD

oh DD.....your post means so much to me, i cannot even express to you how much :heartbeat::tears:........

this thread has become my one "constant" thread as i have followed this tragic tale and it's been my emotional outlet since this happened.....i want to keep it updated in their honor and in honor of my mother, too.....

i thank you so much for what you do and i so admire you as well as these fallen heroes.......you've left me pretty much speechless with your words (not an easy feat lol).........thank you :heartbeat:

 

[Queen Bee]

Doug Morris ‏@rock104rocktrax 1h1 hour ago

#Pray4HPD Details on HPD memorial T-shirt from Magnolia Graphics:... http://fb.me/38IgPoHsc
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[Queen Bee]

Pair steals black and blue ribbons honoring fallen HPD officers

http://www.wdam.com/story/29105798/pair-steals-black-and-blue-ribbons-honoring-fallen-hpd-officers

Delk isn't planning on pressing any charges at this time.

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“It's not worth HPD having to worry about that right now, that's nothing that they need to worry about right now,” said Delk.

Thanks to the help of a Hattiesburg Police Officer and the community, the shop is decorated again with more on the way.

“I've got people from five different states bringing me things this weekend, they want to black and blue it out, so that's what we are doing,” said Delk.
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even after this horrible showing of disrespect, people are uniting once again........amazing......video of theft at link

Community members hang black and blue ribbon with American Flags in honor of Officers Tate and Deen

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore retweeted
Jason Munz @munzly · 2h 2 hours ago

First 3K fans at tonight's USM-UAB will receive this placard. University is honoring HPD prior to 7:30 pm game.

Ryan Moore retweeted
SouthernMissEquip @SouthernMissEQU · 15h 15 hours ago

Wristbands that @SouthernMissBSB and @Conference_USA teams will be wearing during the tournament #PRAY4HPD

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 7h 7 hours ago

Stopped by the memorial for fallen HPD officers Benjamin Deen & Liquori Tate and it continues to grow. #Pray4HPD

 

[Queen Bee]

sending prayers upward to heaven.......may officer tate and officer deen hold their fellow fallen officer kerrie orozco in their arms with comfort and love..........momma, help them :heartbeat:

all three gone too soon :rose: :rose: :rose:

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan MooreVerified account
‏@RyanMooreMS

Check out the booth at Pete Taylor Park for fallen HPD officers. Donations to officers families accepted #Pray4HPD

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 9h 9 hours ago

May 9th in City of Hattiesburg and Forrest County named Deen & Tate Memorial Day.

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 7h 7 hours ago

HPD and Forrest County Sheriff's Dept. combined their fallen officer memorial ceremony today in Hattiesburg.

 

[EllieBee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 9h 9 hours ago

May 9th in City of Hattiesburg and Forrest County named Deen & Tate Memorial Day.

As well it should be. I still can't get past it being Mother's Day, too. My heart is broken.

 

[EllieBee]

I second this. I have not been able to sleep because I can't stop thinking about these and other officers and civilians killed. Baltimore, Amtrak, MS, etc. It is so overwhelming. Needless death everywhere.

Gosh darnit, QB! You have me sobbing!! Your words are so beautiful...thank you so much for keeping this thread updated! I lost it when it was moved, but did a search today and found it. Grateful to you for sharing these amazing images...

 

[Indy Anna]

<<snipped>> Brodrick Kendell Varnado, 25, of Hattiesburg has been charged with accessory after the fact of capital murder, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

[....]

MBI spokesman Warren Strain also said Wednesday that Jimmy "Jimbo" Velton Brady was arrested May 15 and has been charged with possession of a stolen weapon.

Read more at ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-arrest-hattiesburg-officers-deaths/28055857/

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 11h 11 hours ago

BREAKING: Brodrick Varnado arrested for accessory after fact to capital murder in murder of 2 HPD officers.

 

[Queen Bee]

Ryan Moore @RyanMooreMS · 11h 11 hours ago

Varnado is the 9th to be arrested in the murder of HPD officer Benjamin Deen & Liquori Tate.