Santiago defense: MOVE killed cop

The defense team for Wilfredo Santiago suggested to a jury yesterday that a sympathizer of the radical group MOVE killed Police Officer Thomas Trench in 1985 in retaliation for a police bombing on its compound two weeks earlier that killed 11 people.

Thomas McGill, one of Santiago's three lawyers, yesterday read into evidence four anonymous calls made to the police radio room just hours after Trench was killed on May 28, 1985.

The first caller, at 6:32 a.m., told the operator: "The MOVE is going to kill all you policemen."

The second, at 7:31 a.m., said: "Yeah, y'all just had a cop killed, right? ... For the 11 members you've killed, there is going to be more."

The third, about two hours later, told the operator: "I just want to tell you. Y'all killed 11 of our people. We got ...