Sunday, March 15, 2015

LMPD's Johann Steimle's Murder of Clifford Lewis Jr. in 2001

by J.D. Masters (Tsunami)

Clifford Lewis Jr. was murdered by plain clothes LMPD officers on January 9, 2001.

A witness to the Clifford Lewis Jr. shooting said that the Louisville police officer who killed Clifford Lewis Jr. did so execution style.

In a case that the LMPD would eventually classify as a case of mistaken identity, LMPD officer Johann Steimle, and many others, ambushed Clifford Lewis Jr. by “wolf-packing” him at the White Owl Liquor store on Wilson and Dixie Highway in Louisville's notorious West End. The LMPD at the time were plain clothes officers, and it's possible Lewis didn't even know who they were. Clifford Lewis Jr. drives off, and was shot at by the LMPD, getting hit in the back 4 times. Clifford Lewis Jr., after driving out of the parking lot of the White Owl Liquor store, turns left, and crashes into a house across from the street. The newspaper said he crashed on the corner of Dixie and Ormsby, but the witness said that he crashed into a house across the parking lot of the White Owl Liquor store.

The witness didn't see the initial confrontation, and when they heard shots fired, they ran around the building to take cover. After the first volley of shots were fired, the witness looked around the building, and saw that Clifford Lewis Jr. had crashed his car into a house across the parking lot of the White Owl Liquor store. The witness then watched as one of the police officers went to the side door of Clifford Lewis Jr., and shot him several times, point blank, execution style.

The autopsy revealed that Clifford Lewis had 4 shots in the back, and 3 in the chest and chin, which were shot by the final execution shots of the plain clothes undercover criminal Louisville police to ensure his death as he lay wounded.

Clifford was executed as he lay wounded on the scene.

Johann Steimle fired a total of 13 shots.
Johann "Kit" Steimle, founder of the VIPER squad, murdered Clifford Lewis Jr. in 2001

No guns or drugs were found on Clifford Lewis Jr., in his vehicle, or in his system. Clifford Lewis Jr. committed no crime, and wasn't charged with one. Clifford Lewis Jr. was innocent of any and all wrongdoing.

Clifford Lewis Jr. was driving with a pregnant woman in the front passenger seat of his SUV (minivan?).

A rumor says that the police officer who murdered Clifford Lewis Jr. said “I got that nigger” after he murdered Lewis, but that hasn't been verified.

Johann Steimle was the only LMPD officer charged with a crime. None of the other plain clothes officers at the scene of the murder were charged. Steimle was 30 years old, and a 7 year veteran of the LMPD at that time in 2001.

The LMPD gave Johann Steimle a paid vacation during the internal investigation of his murder. Just like in Ferguson, and in New York City with Eric Garner, the Grand Jury returned no indictment against Johann “Kit” Steimle (Carolyn Gaeta, 2001). The Grand Jury did not see “probable cause” that a crime may have occurred, which is the threshold of evidence needed for an indictment. “A Grand Jury can indict a ham sandwich” is a popular saying, which means that one can indict a ham sandwich, but one can't indict a murderer with an innocent's blood on his hands if he's secretly wearing an LMPD badge.

The witness, who still wishes to remain anonymous, also wanted Clifford Lewis Jr.'s family to know that they were apologetic that they hadn't spoke out before now.

On September 20, 2012, Steve Conrad, LMPD's current police chief, selected Johann Steimle to organize a rogue undercover unit in Louisville called “the VIPER squad”. The VIPER squad is snakelike in name, appearance, as well as substance, since they're rogue special teams militia, who operate above the law, have a license to kill, have used their power to murder once before, 11 years ago, against the unarmed and innocent Clifford Lewis Jr., and are accountable to nobody.

The VIPER squad attacked me for no reason on December 7, 2012. http://thefreedomskool.blogspot.com/2014/12/lmpd-viper-squad-attacks-good-samaritan.html

After heading the VIPER squad for several years, Steimle was told to step down for unknown reasons.

No pictures of Clifford Lewis Jr. could be found online.




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