Two occupants of a van registered to the House of God’s Prayer in New Vienna killed two police officers Thursday afternoon in a shootout in West Memphis, Ark., then fled the scene. The suspects were later killed in a second shootout in a Walmart parking lot. Names and addresses of the suspects were not available at press time, but Colonel Brian Prickett, chief deputy with the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office, said he did not believe they were from Clinton County. “The van was registered to the white supremacy church in New Vienna,” Prickett said. “That church has not been open for a long time.” New Vienna Police Chief James Holcomb said he has not seen any activity at the storefront church, located at 143 Main St. in New Vienna. More than 10 years ago, Aryan Nation activity had been associated with the church, which at the time was known as the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.
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siehe auch: Van Driven By Gunmen Registered to “House of God’s Prayer” in Ohio. The two gunmen connected to the shootings in West Memphis that left two West Memphis police officers dead Thursday, drove a van that’s registered to a church in Ohio. According to records with the Ohio Department of Motor Vehicles, the plates on the gunmen’s van are registered to “House of God’s Prayer” in New Vienna, Ohio. The church was once affiliated with Harold Ray Redfeairn, a white supremacist preacher who died in 2003; Claims police shooting suspects had extremist ‘anti-government’ links. Two police officers were shot with an assault weapon and killed in West Memphis, Arkansas.. Two suspects accused of gunning down Arkansas police officers this week may have ties to extremist anti-government groups, two civil rights organizations say. Jerry R. Kane, 45, and his 16-year-old son Joseph Kane fatally shot two police officers and wounded two others during a wild shootout Thursday, according to Arkansas state police. (…) The Anti-Defamation League said the two suspects belonged to “an extreme right-wing movement that believes that virtually all existing government in the United States is illegitimate and which seeks to restore an idealized, minimalist government that never actually existed.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization, also said the two member are part of the “sovereign citizen” movement; Police killers identified as activists on mission to spread anti-government message. In the final moments of their lives, West Memphis Police Department veterans Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans encountered Thursday an old white Plymouth Voyager minivan carrying 16-year-old Joe Kane and his 45-year-old father, Jerry R. Kane — a man who unbeknownst to them harbored extreme anti-government views. He also had a record of previous trouble with police and a philosophy, which he credited to the Bible, of applying overwhelming violence to “conquer” foes. (…) Jerry Kane traveled the country with his son giving seminars on what he called “mortgage fraud” and offering advice on foreclosure strategies. A website promoting those seminars provided a trove of information — audio files and YouTube videos and links to various documents — detailing his world views. One particularly chilling YouTube clip involves Kane fielding a question about a “rogue” Internal Revenue Service agent: “Violence doesn’t solve anything, OK. It’s not violence that we’re after. The Bible even tells us that if you’re going to go and make war against somebody, you have to kill their sheep and their goats and their chickens and their babies and their wives. OK?” In the YouTube video he said, “You have to kill them all. So what we’re after here is not fighting, it’s conquering. I don’t want to have to kill anybody, but if they keep messing with me, that’s what it’s going to have to come out. That’s what it’s going to come down to, is I’m going to have to kill. And if I have to kill one, then I’m not going to be able to stop, I just know it.”