Seattle: Billy Chambers, Racist, Stone Killer of Beloved "Tuba Man," Ed McMichael: "Prison Best Place for Me to be Now"
"Tuba Man" Ed McMichael, playing in front of the Key Arena
Posted by Nicholas Stix
[Previously, by this writer:
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2012/02/kristopher-kime-james-paroline-and.html
"Kristopher Kime, James Paroline, and Edward Scott McMichael: Three Race Murders in Seattle."]
The old buddy who sent this wrote,
I'd say the best place for him would be dangling from a rope or an appointment with the electric chair. I am a bit surprised the "liberal" Seattle Times included a pic of the convict.
N.S.: Billy Chambers has never met justice, and this time is no different. Two years ago, he committed attempted murder not once but twice, ultimately ramming a woman off the road and into a tree, because she had called police to report his breaking into her car, but he was radically undercharged, "pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault and hit and run," was sentenced to only 22 months, and did only 15.
Although Seattle Times "reporter" Mike Carter mentions some of Chambers' resume (though not what I just recounted), he seeks to diminish even Chambers' most recent felony, by peddling Chambers' racial fairy tale.
Chambers was arrested on Oct. 3 by King County sheriff's deputies who stopped a car he was driving in Burien after someone reported the vehicle had been involved in a car prowl, according to charging documents. In the trunk, deputies found a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-style rifle that was reported stolen in a residential burglary in 2010.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Hobbs noted the weapon was the sort that had been "repeatedly used to kill people and used in mass killings," and the theft would have put that gun on Seattle's streets.
Chambers later told police he had agreed to drive two friends to a "house where they 'sell guns' " so his friends could steal firearms, according to the documents.
Under federal firearms law, Chambers — as a felon — is not allowed to be in the vicinity of weapons. Merely being in the car put him in what the law calls "constructive possession" of the weapon.
Chambers was alone, and was not in "constructive possession" of the Bushmaster, but possession, pure and simple. He probably intended to murder one or more people with it, and intention or not, he would have killed someone with it, because that's the kind of guy Billy Chambers is. Life is extremely cheap to him, especially white lives. And this was a mere 15 days after he had been released from prison for the lousy 15 months he'd served for twice trying to murder the woman from whose car he'd stolen!
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'Tuba Man' killer: Prison best place for me to be now
Billy Chambers, who as a teenager was involved in the beating death of Ed "Tuba Man" McMichael, was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for an unrelated firearms charge. [N.S.: Chambers wasn't "involved in the beating death of Ed 'Tuba Man' McMichael," Chambers murdered him.]
By Mike Carter
May 31, 2013 at 8:14 P.M. | Page modified June 1, 2013 at 10:44 A.M.
Seattle Times
Billy Chambers gets 6 years.
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There was an odd moment of agreement Friday during the sentencing for Billy Chambers on a firearms charge. Everybody involved, including Chambers himself, agreed that federal prison was the best place for him right now.
Chambers, 20, who as a teenager gained notoriety as one of the boys [who murdered] involved in the 2008 beating death of a beloved Seattle street musician, Ed "Tuba Man" McMichael, agreed to a six-year federal prison sentence and three years of probation. During sentencing in U.S. District Court in Seattle, he promised to use that time to better himself.
There was agreement, too, that Chambers has never had any real supervision, no positive male role models and suffered repeated beatings by his felon father. He and his sister were passed from family member to family member, none of whom were up to the challenge of raising a troubled boy. ["Troubled" is a euphemism for "evil." Carter wants to have it both ways, by portraying Chambers as now a victim, and now evil.]
"Both of his parents were addicts who showed remarkably little interest in raising their children," said defense attorney Peter Avenia, who said his client suffers [glories in] from his "Tuba Man" notoriety.
"How different he is from his public profile," Avenia said. "He is not resistant or defiant in any way. He is someone who has been searching for structure his whole life." [Pure B.S.: For years, he's been a one-man crime wave.]
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik told Chambers that the court and prosecutors recognized his difficult past, but that his appearance in federal court offered him a "chance to write the next chapter in his life."
Whether it will be tragic, with Chambers dead or in prison for life, or a "success story" with him rising above his past and circumstances, is up to him, the judge said. [It cannot possibly be a "success story": the least negative outcome would be for someone to kill him as soon as possible—with extreme prejudice.]
"Now, that would be a story, right?" the judge asked.
"Yes," Chambers said.
"This is a chance to turn your life around," Lasnik said. "Do you have that in you?"
"I know I do," Chambers replied, saying he wanted to get his GED and raise his son when he gets out. [He wants to train a new felon. Ah, tradition!]
The next time he breaks the law and is sentenced to prison, Lasnik said, it likely would be for decades.
Afterward, Chambers' 23-year-old sister, Machelle Chambers, who suffered through much of the same childhood abuse, said her little brother was "misunderstood" [!] and that his time in prison "is much needed because he's going to have to grow up and be a man."
Chambers was arrested on Oct. 3 by King County sheriff's deputies who stopped a car he was driving in Burien after someone reported the vehicle had been involved in a car prowl, according to charging documents. In the trunk, deputies found a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-style rifle that was reported stolen in a residential burglary in 2010.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Hobbs noted the weapon was the sort that had been "repeatedly used to kill people and used in mass killings," and the theft would have put that gun on Seattle's streets.
Chambers later told police he had agreed to drive two friends to a "house where they 'sell guns' " so his friends could steal firearms, according to the documents.
Under federal firearms law, Chambers — as a felon — is not allowed to be in the vicinity of weapons. Merely being in the car put him in what the law calls "constructive possession" of the weapon.
Chambers was just 15 when he and two friends attacked McMichael, robbing and beating him so badly that his injuries eventually claimed his life [only days later]. McMichael, 53, was a fixture outside Seattle sporting events, where he often played a tuba.
Chambers, who was convicted of manslaughter in juvenile court [because the many diverse witnesses all refused to cooperate with authorities], spent nearly 18 months at Maple Lane School in Centralia for McMichael's death and another robbery on the same night.
Since then, he has been arrested at least five times and convicted of crimes on two separate occasions.
Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com
Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this report.
2 comments:
Billy should be a prime candidate for late-late term abortion, IYKWIM.
"turn his life around" God, I cry for this country. We haven't a chance when someone feels like society needs this person, all he has to do is turn his life around. We are doomed.
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