Buckwheats for Bucky?

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I am of course very suspicious of the government. So when I read a story like this, about the manhunt for Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, I get upset. First, although it makes perfect sense from their POV, it irks me that police hunt for murderers far more thoroughly when it's another cop that's been shot, as opposed to a true civilian. Second, am I being too cynical to infer that the cops took Bucky's grandchildren because they couldn't catch him? (I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really asking if someone wants to argue that this is standard procedure and there was no malice involved.)

For those with a real job (i.e. not you Gene), here's the relevant paragraph:

Most [acquaintances] believe that when the police, four months into the hunt, arrested his daughter, her boyfriend and Mr. Phillips’s former girlfriend, and the authorities temporarily took custody of his daughter’s three young children, Mr. Phillips went from a man bent on escape, and who they say had already shot one trooper, to a man filled with rage.

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  1. gcallah1:42 PM

    In NYC, they offer a large cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a cop killer -- but not of "ordinary" people. It's really no different than the mafia -- if you kill a granny in the neighborhood, they'll try to punish you, but if you kill one of their own they'll hunt you to the ends of the earth.

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