The celebrating began before the
coroner could collect the bodies of Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, the Las
Vegas patrol officers ambushed and executed while eating at a pizzeria
last month.
“The good news is, there are two less police in the world,” read an entry on the Facebook page for CopBlock.org.
The post was visible for less
than a day, but it attracted at least 6,300 likes and comments by the
time the page’s administrators removed it.
Jerad Miller — who along with his wife, Amanda, gunned down the Vegas police officers before dying during a shootout with police — was one of Cop Block’s 780,000-plus Facebook fans.
The decentralized advocacy group says it disavows violence while spreading a belief that “badges don’t grant extra rights.”
But the Millers, described by investigators as anti-government extremists, had a deadly animosity for authority.
