Ex Black Panter Leader Arrested ( in Atlanta shooting)

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Here are some pieces of the AP article regarding the arrest of the former

black panther that shot 2 deputies, 1 fatally. Thank goodness nobody else

got hurt. I just cut out the history portion and left the account of the

arrest:

Ex-Black Panther Leader Arrested

..c The Associated Press

By DAVE BRYAN

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - H. Rap Brown, the former Black Panther leader who

once declared that violence was as American as ``cherry pie,'' was arrested

after a shootout with U.S. marshals in connection with last week's fatal

shooting of a deputy.

Now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, he was arrested Monday night in

Alabama's Lowndes County, west of Montgomery, FBI agent Theodore said.

Authorities spotted him hiding in a shed, three days after he allegedly

killed one sheriff's deputy and seriously wounded another while they tried to

serve him with an arrest warrant in Atlanta, 160 miles northeast of

Montgomery, Ala.

said Al-Amin immediately began firing shots at the team of U.S.

marshals who found him in the shed, then ran into nearby woods.

Federal and state agents circled him, then released dogs into the area,

said. Within moments, Al-Amin was arrested, uninjured. No officers

were injured.

Several other people were being detained for possibly harboring a fugitive,

though no charges have been filed, Atlanta Police Chief Beverly Harvard said

Monday.

It was not immediately clear what led up to the confrontation at the shed.

Lowndes County Sheriff Willie Vaughner told The Birmingham News in today's

editions that agents first spotted Al-Amin walking down a street in the

community of Whitehall. The newspaper said he began firing shots and fled

into nearby woods and then the shed.

The New York Times, citing interviews broadcast on local TV, reported that

federal agents were fired upon near the shed as they were conducting a

door-to-door search.

Officials with the FBI's Mobile office refused to comment on the reports this

morning.

Al-Amin was scheduled to make a court appearance in Montgomery today and was

expected to be returned to Atlanta.

Al-Amin, 56, is accused of fatally shooting deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounding

deputy Aldranon English in a shootout in Atlanta on Thursday. The deputies

were trying to serve Al-Amin arrest warrant at his store.

After Al-Amin's arrest, Fulton County Sheriff Jackie Barrett spoke with

English, the wounded deputy. She said he told her: ``Tonight I can sleep.''

The warrant was issued after Al-Amin failed to appear in court in January on

charges of theft by receiving stolen property and impersonating an officer.

Those charges stemmed from an incident last May, in which Al-Amin was

allegedly stopped in a stolen car and flashed a badge.

On Thursday, as the deputies approached a black Mercedes-Benz, the driver got

out and started shooting a high-powered assault rifle. English identified the

shooter as Al-Amin.

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