Reply #14: Officials realize that they dropped the ball on this...keeping it quiet? [View All]

[rainbow4321]

It may very well be that the feds/local cops realize that they werethisclose to preventing this and never followed up on it. Their excuse: it's nto illegal to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer..well, there a few hundred people who have done NOTHING "illegal" and they are being held prisoner in Gitmo...

Think if this kid HAD gotten into the stadium and we had 100's dead being reported. Imagine how much egg would have been on the face of our Homeland Security people as it came to realize "yeah we had the LICENSE PLATE number and name of this guy DAYS before he did this" but the whole "saw him in the store" report that the off duty officer was supposed to submit never got processed. If the kid had been of ME descent instead of an Oklahoma white boy, he would have been dragged out of the store and been headed to Gitmo in a heartbeat...

You know how they always give us the "we rely on the public to help us, if you see something suspicious report it to the feds/cops immediately"?? Ok, so the cop in this article did just that...and the incident STILL happened. So when I see the NYC mayor on TV giving the public the same "tell us if you see something unusual", THIS incident in OK needs to be thrown in the feds face..someone asking "HOW will we know that anything we report will actually be followed up on...no one did anything in OK a few days ago with the kid in the fertilizer store who was asking about ammonium nitrate".
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http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5065442/detail.html

"I think it's important to note that it's not a criminal activity to purchase ammonium nitrate fertilizer," Younger said. However, he noted that the context of Hinrichs' conversation with a manager of Ellison Feed & Seed was suspicious. Younger indicated that the off-duty officer reported that Hinrichs asked about different types of fertilizer and the concentration of ammonium nitrate in each.

The officer, according to Younger, took a mental note of the conversation and its context, and then followed Hinrichs outside. The officer took down the student's license tag number, contacted Norman's police department dispatch operation, had Hinrichs checked for outstanding warrants -- but, alas, found nothing.

The officer continued his investigation Thursday night, but could only conclude that Hinrichs was an OU student and lived in university-subsidized housing. The officer did contact a Norman bomb squad technician; however, the plan at that time was for the off-duty officer to complete a written report for submission the following Monday.


If Hinrichs had not died Saturday night, the Norman officer -- according to Younger -- would have filed the written statement, which would have eventually been submitted to federal authorities. The lead investigative agency in the Hinrichs case is the FBI; however, Younger noted the Norman police department would help as needed and requested.