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Tina Griswold’s Mom Accepts Sentence

Posted by DFO

June 18, 2010 8:18 a.m. • 0 comments

The mother of Tina Griswold, one of four slain Lakewood, Wash., police officers, said she accepts the sentence handed down to the sister of the killer on Thursday. LaTanya Clemmons was sentenced in Tacoma, Wash., by Judge Stephanie Arend to five years in prison for rendering criminal assistance to an alleged accomplice of Maurice Clemmons, an ex-convict who gunned down the officers in November at a Parkland coffee shop. “It was the most they could give her,” Geneva DeLong, the Post Falls mother of Griswold said after she heard about the sentence Thursday morning. Maurice Clemmons was shot by one of the dying officers but managed to escape. He was killed two days later by a Seattle police officer during a manhunt/Rick Thomas, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Are you still impacted by the senseless killings of Tina Griswold and the three other officers at the coffee shop in western Washington?

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