Ann Arbor Jihad: Muslim shot by SWAT lunged at officers with knife, sword, ordered police to “get on the ground and bow before Allah’

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The jihadi’s name is Abdul-Latif Ketchman, a convert, but you will find none of that in news reports. News headlines only refer to his Christian name. A commenter exposed his Facebook page and his actual  name. Abdul-Latif came at police with a knife and sword over his head.


Telling victims to bow down before his god, etc. But no connection made by local media. Courts wonder if he is even competent? From what does he suffer? That now worldwide mental affliction — piety in Islam. The defendant says he is competent…he’s just following the Quran..

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Man shot by SWAT lunged at officers with knife, sword, police testify

MLive, July 21, 2017 (thanks to Nonya):

PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – A man taunted police officers by waving and rubbing together the edges of knives in a small Ypsilanti apartment before he was shot by a member of Washtenaw Metro SWAT in a January encounter, police testified Thursday, July 20.

Two cases against Rodger Ketchman, 33, of Ypsilanti were bound over to circuit court following preliminary examinations Thursday at Washtenaw County’s 14A-1 District Court.

Ketchman initially faced charges of first-degree home invasion, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and malicious destruction of a building costing $20,000 or more in damage for the incident on Jan. 13, 2017.

By the conclusion of the Thursday examination, however, he faced 14 new charges related to the encounter with police – seven counts of felony assault and seven counts of resisting, obstructing or assaulting a police officer.

The charge of malicious destruction of property was also changed to a misdemeanor. Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney Blake Hatlem told the court the charge was meant to be for damages of $200 or less.

Police and SWAT members described a tense situation in close quarters with an armed Ketchman.

Ketchman listened to the Thursday testimony while occasionally speaking with his attorney and at least once saying “that’s absurd.”

Police were initially called to the Ypsilanti apartment building in the 700 block of Lowell Street when Ketchman began banging on his neighbor’s door with a crowbar, neighbor Emerald Cox, testified.

“He was saying, ‘I’m going to kill you,'” she said.

Cox said she’d had previous encounters with Ketchman, claiming he came to her door on Christmas Eve to ask if she and her family were part of the CIA.

She also said she saw him attack a neighbor with a crowbar on Jan. 12, an incident for which he is charged in a separate case with assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.

In that incident, neighbor Daniel Stults testified Thursday that Ketchman ordered him to get on the ground and bow before his god [allah].

On Jan. 13, he knocked off Cox’s doorknob with the crowbar, she testified.

When she called police, then-Ypsilanti Officer Tommy Porter – now with the Hazel Park Police Department – and Ypsilanti Officer Anthony Schembri responded.

The were among six law enforcement officers who testified.

Porter, who knew Ketchman from various past incidents – including a medical assist call for a drug withdrawal and issues with neighbors – said he the man was yelling in his apartment when the officers arrived.

The two officers attempted to coax Ketchman out of his apartment, Porter said, but he kept yelling and said he wanted the officers to watch him wash his genitals.

He also told them they were trespassing, and said he would fight them and defend his property, Porter said.

When Ketchman eventually opened the door, he kept one arm hidden, Porter said.

“I asked him to see his hands multiple times,” Porter said. “I could see his left hand and at one point, he props his right hand on the top of the door, and at that point, that’s when I noticed he had (what) looked like a kitchen knife in his hand.”

The two officers drew Tasers, but Ketchman slammed the door, Porter said.

They deployed a Taser when Ketchman opened the door again, but lost the connection when he slammed the door once more, Schembri testified.

After higher-ranking command officers arrived, police forced their way into the apartment and found Ketchman had gone into his bedroom, Schembri said.

He’d occasionally open the door in the small apartment, between six to eight feet away from the officers, and show the knives in his hands.

Another Taser attempt failed against another slamming door, Schembri said.
“He’d open the door and then he’d close it and open the door – it was like he was playing with us,” Schembri said.

Washtenaw Metro SWAT and the Washtenaw Crisis Negotiation Team were both called to the scene, with Ann Arbor police Detective William Stanford the first to enter the apartment as a crisis negotiator, according to court testimony.

Schembri also stayed in the room.

Stanford and Schembri described lengthy attempts end the situation peacefully, with Ketchman continually denying orders and displaying a sword.

Then, with SWAT members in the hallway, Ketchman made a motion as if he was going to throw the knife at Stanford, forcing the negotiator to dive out of the room, Stanford said.

Shortly afterward, Ketchman gave a countdown and exited the room, and SWAT engaged, Stanford said.

A less-lethal weapon that uses projectiles with foam tips was fired once at Ketchman to get SWAT members into the apartment. But it didn’t seem to have an effect on Ketchman, SWAT member and Ann Arbor police Officer Andrew Vainner testified.

When Ketchman opened the door with a knife and sword over his head, two SWAT members deployed their less-lethal weapons.

At the same time, Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Trester, a member of SWAT assigned to use lethal force that day, fired a shot with his Glock, members testified.

“After we pushed into the room and confronted Mr. Ketchman, he was standing in the doorway, he lunged at us he was with six feet at least, there was no cover between us and I did fire,” Trester said.

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RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago

He doesn’t look so tough in his orange onesie.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Punk is as punk says.

OverIt
OverIt
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

No reason he would. They’re all inadequate losers underneath.

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Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

A moslem scum clad in any uniform, of any color, shall remain a scum

Phil McKracken
Phil McKracken
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

“Orange Is The New Wack”

Ludlow Porch
Ludlow Porch
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

I would rather picture him in a zipped body bag!

lee
lee
6 years ago

How do you confuse a Muslim? Show him a toilet.

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  lee

with a Wash Basin w/ Pitcher and it will not only be bamboozled but will smash it to dust – ‘kafir’ – you know

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

After all the back and forth, opening and closing doors, hiding, threatening, THEN, they use non lethal force? WTF? The only way he should have gotten out of that situation, was in a body bag. What were the cops thinking?

Kook of the East
Kook of the East
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Agree.
Should have dispatched him back to hell on the spot.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Agreed. Anyone who engages the cops in an armed confrontation is begging to get their ass wasted.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

He would have been shot to death in the first encounter with police in Texas.

usafaith
usafaith
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Different strokes for muslim folks.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

muslims being muslims, or, if translated into english muslims being idiots.

VLParker
VLParker
6 years ago

But….but….but….Bill O’Reilly said American muslims are different.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  VLParker

Bill O’Reilly is a punk.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

Why coddle these Muslims?
He wanted to KILL the officers.
Hr should have shot through the door to subdue him.

gia
gia
6 years ago

Wants them to watch his testicles ..wow a bit crazier then your average nutcase Muslim. On drugs too!
Why was he free? If he had so many prior incidents he should be in jail,
Not free to harass more neighbors.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago

I just don’t get it. What is it that attracts losers like this to this sick ideology? Maybe that’s it. Sick people gravitate to a sick ideology.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Islam is an ideology of losers.

Vlad
Vlad
6 years ago

“When Ketchman opened the door with a knife and sword over his head, two SWAT members deployed their less-lethal weapons.”
Why?

Marie
Marie
6 years ago
Reply to  Vlad

If you or i had a knife we woulda been shot on the spot! Why are police treating the muslims with kid gloves? It makes me sick…all of them muzzies!

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago

Let him get Life in prison.

DPMP
DPMP
6 years ago
Reply to  CHARLES S

I don’t want to pay for scum to live.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  CHARLES S

A couple of bullets are a lot cheaper. Why should the taxpayer give him iron motel welfare?

Ray_Sears
Ray_Sears
6 years ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

P.C. !

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

Yeah, thats fine too.

Mad Hatter
Mad Hatter
6 years ago
Reply to  CHARLES S

All he’ll do is convert the low iq’s to Islam and the problem metastasis. The SWAT unit should have drawn their pistols and did America a favor.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

One well placed shot from that Glock and it is, “Goodbye world, hello allah.” Dead people neither sue nor consume time and space in the courts or prisons.

DontSpeakLibberish
DontSpeakLibberish
6 years ago

Dead people neither sue nor consume time and space, OR OUR TAX MONEY in the courts or prisons. There FIFY

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Implied.

Tonya Parnell
Tonya Parnell
6 years ago

TOO BAD THAT MUD SLIME IS ALIVE

desperaddo
desperaddo
6 years ago

DAMMMM!!! Should have been>>ONE SHOT ONE KILL!!!!

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  desperaddo

Or, 30 shots one kill. Bullets are relatively cheap.

Tm.
Tm.
6 years ago

Name it for what it is. A criminal, a would be murderer. There is no God in that activity. Only a bully, a deranged thug. God is mercy and kindness. God is good, does not sanction the wanton killing of His creations.
As expected by those who are vigilant, these occurrences coming more quickly now, almost weekly. And this is the US. We likely would not have withstood another eight years.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  Tm.

His deity is there, not your’s. You’re projecting.

durabo
durabo
6 years ago

There was justification for putting him down permanently. Back to the range, SWAT!

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6 years ago

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Dwight V. Murray
Dwight V. Murray
6 years ago

Charged with 14 counts–doesn’t that mean he’ll go free in two days?????The powers that be have cowered in front of these ass-wipes!!!

DontSpeakLibberish
DontSpeakLibberish
6 years ago

You’re right. Black thugs with a rap sheet a mile long and jihadi’s like this always get off light (hence the rap sheet a mile long), but the white guy gets made an example for his first-time offense.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Wow, another attention-whoring leftist convert to Islam … imagine that.
Oh, black belts don’t have to “register” with any authority anywhere. He’ll never get it anyway. If I knew who his instructor was I’d request that he strip him of his brown belt rank and ban him from his dojo and whatever style he is, that is, if he’s actually a brown belt in something.

seewithyourowneyes
seewithyourowneyes
6 years ago

Stop lying. Stop lying. Stop lying.
A belief system or religion is not a race. There is nothing racist about exposing a belief system’s hatred or incitements to violence. When will we have an honest media?
Muslims who attack Infidels while crying religious slogans should be treated in the exact same way as KKK members who attack blacks while crying KKK slogans.

Ray_Sears
Ray_Sears
6 years ago

I see that we have been joined by couple of new “badass keyboard commandos” here on the commit board in the last few day’s. Oh well, another day ! ENJOY !

David Barrett
David Barrett
6 years ago

They should shave off his beard – it would diminish him religiously

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago
Reply to  David Barrett

Shave it only after they drag him around for awhile.

Ludlow Porch
Ludlow Porch
6 years ago

The new mental disorder, ISLAM!

Tatiana Covington
Tatiana Covington
6 years ago

Maybe Islam really is something like rabies. “Cujo” is then a model for it.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

Why bother negotiating? Rodjihadi had no intention of resolving the situation peacefully. SWAT should’ve gone in with all guns blazing.

Stefanie Daniella
Stefanie Daniella
6 years ago

muhammadan-facsimiles … demons …
live vicariously through every muhammadan (muslim)
since muhammad’s residence in fiery fires of hell …
where demons torment him 24/7/365 by practising mimicking him

bwuhuhu-muhuhahaham-hu-is-mad-as-hell-hahaha

but we all suffer his annoying, but deadly, antics …

Janet
Janet
6 years ago

Another day another convert! They need to stop this in the prisons. I guess there’s not a lot we can do on the outside. They should be looking at all the mosques. I’ll bet a lot of them preach jihad.

Pauly Bagadonuts
Pauly Bagadonuts
6 years ago

Holy Crap…did the SWAT Team try retreating further to a helicopter at least when negotiations further deteriorated (sarcasm)?
This is the same county that apparently millions of mexicans reside and have driver’s licenses from; there are floods of em driving in new jersey and new york! No wonder MI is so effed up.

Brother
Brother
6 years ago

My brother has serious mental illness issues including being chizophrenic, bipolar, depression as well as other. He is not a convert, is first name is Rodger, he is not a jihadist, nor any kind of extremist. At times he is competent or seems like it on the outside but he is dillusional. Proof of this is his statement to his neighbor. Believing she is a CIA agent. He has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for a while now.

He is sick and no one cares about his mental health. Its very unfortunate that he has put himself in these situations but we should focus on treatment instead of punishment.

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