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.
http://mastersforpresident.blogspot.com/2013/12/corrupt-lmpd.html
http://thefreedomskool.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-louisville-postmodern-historical.html
Desmond Rudolph
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