Details are starting to emerge about suspected cop-killer Christopher Monfort, and not surprisingly, he sounds a little crazy. And as it turns out, he’s also a pretty crappy artist.
Really. Those are images from a 2003 art exhibit of Monfort’s titled “No War” at Highline Community College. Kinda creepy.
From the exhibit’s web page:
Chris Monfort has been seriously painting for two years, and plans to continue throughout his life. He does not believe in any particular set of rules as far as artistic expression is concerned, and his work portrays this freedom. He has a love for color and motion, particularly during long gloomy winters. His apartment is full of colorful paintings. He says, “they give me the energy that’s missing from our sunless winters!”
Monfort plans to complete two degrees before leaving Highline; a transfer degree and a degree in Administration of Justice. He then plans to earn a bachelors degree and possibly head for Harvard Law School. His alternate plan is to earn a Masters degree and teach at a college somewhere warm!
I guess life didn’t turn out quite the way Monfort expected. It rarely does. But disappointment doesn’t lead most of us to cold blooded murder.
Personal failure and self-centeredness seems to be the two things that connects right wing crazies to the left wing ones.
Apparently, the “Art Therapy” didn’t work out so well for this guy.
Also, artists should not skip Harvard Law School to be RentaCops…
Why does he have a beef with Seattle cops?
Why did the slain policeman’s funeral cortege and the shooting of the ‘person of interest’ happen simultaneously?
Why did the police representative at the community meeting say: “Somebody is going to pay for this.”
‘Somebody’?
There’s a subtext to this whole thing.
This guy has no priors. What happened?
shot in the back of his head..another lawsuit coming. A fugitive or not, no justification for shooting someone in the back.
I think it is interesting that the police profiled the killer almost as if they were describing him personally, I also find it Interesting that the caller who finally decided to phone in regarding his car was told they were already staking him out…..hmmm is this so they can avoid the reward to the person giving a tip? There are many people that have classic Datsuns, the fact that It was covered with a car cover and not a tarp as the media made it sound doesnt seem strange. I think someone found a good target. This is strange all the way around.
I hope he’s in extreme pain for some time before he finally dies. Justice served.
BrockS @6,
Of course, if he was surrounded by police, and pulling a weapon on those in front of him, the police behind him would be justified to shoot.
I think we need to wait for the facts before making judgments.
I think some of HA’s lefty readers are just as bonkers as the right wing trolls. And, just as paranoid.
re 8: I hope the same thing for you, but robots don’t feel, do they?
re 9: True. But if he was intent on escaping, would he run UP the staircase, turn around so that he could be shot in the back, and then ‘shoot’ a weapon that did not discharge?
This whole thing does not add up and what really happened won’t be known until there is a thorough investigation by some entity outside of the police departments themselves.
If this guy is actually the cop killer – then fuck him. Cut off his nuts and shove them down his throat – hopefully he chokes to death on them.
re 9: “I think we need to wait for the facts before making judgments.”
We also need to make a judgment on the source of the facts before accepting them as true.
re 13: If you are wrongfully accused of something, you better hope that your community isn’t a bunch of authority asshole lickers like yourself.
@15…hey dicksneeze, I said IF he was the actual killer….learn how to fucking read.
I can see it now – your one of those nutjobs who hates cops – of course when your in trouble, your the first one to call them….
A posting over at Blatherwatch describes how Dori Monson basically accused Mayor Nichols and politically-correct Seattleites for the cold blooded, assassination-style Halloween murder of Seattle policeman, Timothy Brenton.
Dori Monson is, unarguably, an ass.
@18: No – Dori Monson is an IGNORANT ass. He is so simple-minded he can’t get past the republican dogma in his attled little brain;
Here is the short Dori, repeat ten times a day on the radio:
government – bad
Taxes – bad
Democrats- bad
coporations – good
republicans – good
@9:
For once I agree with Goldy.
hey be fair!
lots of public art is just as good as this crap.
“But disappointment doesn’t lead most of us to cold blooded murder.”
Now I have to admonish you, Goldy. At this point Monfort is a suspect, not a convicted cop killer. He’s entitled to a presumption of innocence before trial.
That said, the cops sure found a lot of incriminating shit in his apartment. Most people — even aspiring artists — don’t keep pipe bombs in the kitchen.
@6 We’ll have to wait for the facts to come out, but if what the police say is true, they were justified. According to police, he twice tried to fire a pistol at them, and was trying to reach a weapons cache in his apartment when they shot him. Once again, I repeat, we’ll have to wait and see whether the police version of events is true; but if it is, they were justified in shooting him, in front or back, to keep him from getting inside the apartment, barricading himself there, and gaining access to the rifles and pipe bombs stashed there.
@8 See #22.
@10 “I think some of HA’s lefty readers are just as bonkers as the right wing trolls. And, just as paranoid.”
Uh, like who do you have in mind? @2-3-4-5 isn’t one of ours. @6 is new to this board and not one of ours, either. @7 doesn’t really criticize the police. Goldy @8 calls the police shooting of the suspect “justified.” So who, exactly, are you talking about?
I think I know the answer. You were so eager to pull this out of your ass, you couldn’t wait for someone to come along and post something that might justify it. You just had to get it off your chest — whether it’s true or not.
And, of course, it’s not true and no one one posted anything in this thread to justify your comment. Truth means nothing to people like you.
@12 “But if he was intent on escaping, would he run UP the staircase, turn around so that he could be shot in the back, and then ’shoot’ a weapon that did not discharge? This whole thing does not add up …”
It absolutely does add up. He was running away from the police and toward his weapons cache in the apartment.
@13, @15 — You’d make a wonderful anthropological study subject. As we don’t have actual cavemen to study, you’re a reasonable facsimile to provide us with insight into how people dealt with similar situations, say, five hundred thousand years ago when homo sapiens was just another animal species and human thought process had not yet progressed beyond jungle-like revenge.
Civilized and educated people, of course, would say give him a fair trial, and if he’s convicted, impose the penalties prescribed by law, and above all don’t let the vigilante elements of society take the law into their own hands.
What I’m saying is, you’re a problem, not the solution, pardner.
correction: @`3 & @16, not @15.
@13 not @`3
@21 I haven’t seen a single example of public art that’s as bad as this crap. Not a single one that’s even remotely close to this bad.
@21 (continued) Mr. Monfort doesn’t know what art is; and neither, I suspect, do you. A principle objective of artists is to get people to see familiar things in new ways in order to change their perspective and broaden their thinking so they grow intellectually. Randomly flinging paint at a wall or a mannequin isn’t art; it’s merely flinging paint.
My cat leaves better art in his kitty box. That stuff is vile. I wish Monfort HAD packed up and moved somewhere warm.
Anyone who pulls a weapon on an officer (TWICE, nonetheless) should expect to be shot.
What a talentless piece of crap.
@24 Rodent:
Don’t go getting your Depends in a bunch worrying about it. I give no merit or weight to your retired 30 year career retired courthouse janitor’s legal advice anyway.
@19 Regarding Dori Monson, you forgot —
public art – bad
@34…the public funding of art, especially in today’s economy, is just plain asinine.
The public funding of art is the economy throughout much of the world*. It doesn’t seem so asinine in retrospect.
*Take a single city in Italy, for example; Florence.
@33 “I give no merit or weight to your … 30 year … legal advice anyway.”
Of course not; you don’t have enough sense. People who thought like you were responsible for horrors like this:
http://www.executedtoday.com/2.....onviction/
I spit on you.
@36…Seattle, or Wshington for that matter, is not Florence.
Paying for bronze(?) fish on a freeway is just plain stupid.
@16
You are arguing with a known hater 24X7 headless lucy. Puddy can spot that fool from anywhere on the Internet!
Puddy didn’t know dumb bunnies could spit. Must be a dumb bunny delusion. Pudy knows they leave black pellets indiscriminately all over the HA blog. Puddy and his brother had a cute white bunny as a pet growing up so Puddy knows better!
this whole story creeps me out…
what is the legal definition of a ‘pipe bomb’ and how many of us have the ingredients to make a ‘pipe bomb’ in our house?
First of all, I don’t dislike his artwork. I would never put it on my fridge even, but it is a bit symbolic for a person who appeared to do well at Highline and then UW – and then disappeared to become a rent-a-cop instead. I would perhaps say that it was a minimal amount of work – kinda like someone’s kid would sit down and paint something and call it art. There are some people (many young people today) who believe that they should be given something for nothing – and this seems to be the case here where Chris (not cop killer, not terrorist, not even washed-up-would-be-attorney) seemed to think that just going through the motions would get him what he wanted. But did he snap?
When I saw the tone and body language of the cop that was interviewed on the news shortly after the arrest, I was puzzled. He did not look directly at the camera. He was not exuberant at the capture. He blinked a lot. Etc., etc. In short, he seemed to be lying. The first thing I thought was that the cops planted the evidence to justify shooting this guy. Of course, I do not want to be thought of as a conspiracy theorist, but it does seem strange.
On the other hand, Washington State does have a tendency to harbor some very weird ones. Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, John Mohammed, and Lee Malvo are several names that come to mind. Of course, for some time Washington led the nation in rapists (‘though I think this was in the ’80s).
It will be interesting to see if he recovers and what his attorney is able to allege about the search.
@42 he was also veteran of the 1st iraq war.
http://tinyurl.com/no5knk
From the article “List of 2008 homicides in Seattle” from the Seattle PI
selected from the list of the 28 Seattle homicides in 2008….
Allen Joplin, Jan. 4 — black killed by black
De’Che Morrison, Jan. 10 — black killed by black
Maurice “Moe” Allen Jr., Jan. 26 — black killed by black
Degene Barecha, Jan. 30 — black killed by black
Perry Henderson, Feb. 6 — black killed by black
Stephan Dwaine Stewart, April 2 — black killed by black
Eldora Earlycutt, July 4 — black killed by black
James Paroline, July 10 — white killed by black
Troy Peters, July 22 — black killed by black
Pierre Lapoint, Aug. 5 — black killed by black
Jane Kariuki, Oct. 16 — woman of unknown race killed by black man named Christel D. Murphy
Quincy S. Coleman, Oct. 31 — black killed by black
Edward McMichael, the “Tuba Man”, Nov. 3 — white killed by multiple blacks
Nathaniel Lee Thomas, Nov. 23 — black killed by black
So by my count blacks (8% of Seattle) were the killers in at least half (that’s at least 50%) of the murders in the Seattle area in 2008. At least five of the other murderers were latinos.
The numbers are actually worse for 2009 and approach the 85% mark.
He was not shot in the back of the head. What you saw from the King 5 copter was the exit wound from him having been shot in the face. Portions of brain matter were visible having been ejected from the rear of his head. This is consistent with an exit wound.
In other words, great aim, SPD.
@michelle == Are you on crack? They found bomb-making material at his apartment.