Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

San Francisco’s Police Union has publicly accused William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn of murder a February 16, 1970 bombing that killed SFPD Sgt. Brain McDonnell.

Published reports explain the Union made the serious charge against the terrorist pair in a letter to a Maryland based group, America’s Survival Inc (ASI) in which it cited the information now being released by Larry Grathwahl a former FBI informant.

In its letter the union declared it believes, “There are irrefutable and compelling reasons to believe that Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, members of the terrorist group ‘Weather Underground’, are largely responsible for the bombing of Park Police Station and other police stations throughout the United States during their ‘tour of terror’ in the late 1960s and early 1970s….”

Union Vice President Kevin Martin stated, “It’s [ the new information] coming directly from a person who had close, confidential conversations with Ayers and members of the Weather Underground. We have no reason to doubt his assertions.”

Grathwahl, who made his charges to Cliff Kincaid who runs ASI, claims he has offered sworn testimony of his knowledge of this murderous attack,( presumably to the FBI, although that was not clear from available reports).

Kincaid has released a statement indicating he will be demanding Attorney General Eric Holder authorize a new investigation and examination of Sgt. McDonnell’s murder.

A SFPD Police Officers’ Union representative said it decided to formally get behind the push for a new investigation after receiving several letters urging the union to support Kincaid’s campaign http://www.usasurvival.org/ to win Holder’s approval for new action in this case.

Both the FBI and the SFPD carry the McDonnell murder as “still an open case.”

Calling Grathwahl a “paid dishonest person,” Ayers has denied the charges in an interview with the SF Chronicle.

Let’s watch this one. Ayers was a proud enemy of America then as he is now. We know he bombed police stations across the country at about that time. Nailing him and his wife would be especially sweet after all these years. Read the evidence in detail at ASI.

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