This is a little bit cleaner clip. Shots fired at the #blacklivesmatter protest. pic.twitter.com/DAJVkCll32
— G.J. McCarthy (@gjmccarthy) July 8, 2016
#dallas officers approaching garage with shields now pic.twitter.com/TJgrfhqstI
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 8, 2016
This is really freaky. Not sure I want to speculate yet but I wonder if it’s somebody trying to cause further mayhem.
Facebook live video of shots fired, police response. Warning, disturbing. https://t.co/f5HGZkuFDE
— Allison Harris (@allisonfox4news) July 8, 2016
What are we doing?!?! Why do we continue to let this happen??
@leahmcelrath @Jen_Marden @Green_Footballs must make u so happy to know cops are shot. #Bluelivesmatter
— Hans Karlsson (@HansKarlsson14) July 8, 2016
I said this downstairs, but given the number of shots being fired in the video downstairs, I think there’s a very real possibility the gunman is targeting black people, not cops. But I’m not jumping to conclusions quite yet.
WTF is happening in Dallas https://t.co/1wsvQ0mDWL pic.twitter.com/w3qGU5O9oN
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 8, 2016
#BREAKING: @DallasPD asking for ballistic shields at one downtown location. I’m purposely not sharing location bc of active shooter.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
#DALLAS UPDATE: “One suspect is in custody. Another, possibly in a bulletproof vest & tactical gear at large” https://t.co/stjiKIht9X
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) July 8, 2016
Go fuck yourself, you psycho. https://t.co/wpNaOK5B4I @HansKarlsson14 @leahmcelrath @Jen_Marden
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 8, 2016
I’d hazard to say hundreds of shots have been fired in downtown Dallas.
re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Is this what societal collapse looks like? I’m often scared of the direction this country is going in, and this isn’t helping.
#BREAKING: BM Suspect wearing camo shirt, black shorts. Believed to be near Crowne Plaza Hotel on Elm St, via @DallasPD.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Why would we be happy cops are getting shot? When have we ever said anything to indicate that we’re anti-police? Oh, right, we simply don’t accept their version of officer-involved shootings at face value. Oops, our bad, guess we should start saying “fuck da police” now.
re: #10 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Going back further in his timeline found this:
#BREAKING: @DallasPD asking officers to BOLO for a BM w/ light skin and camo shorts carrying an AR15 seen earlier during protest.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
re: #13 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Copy/paste error, reload.
re: #9 No Depression
Is this what societal collapse looks like? I’m often scared of the direction this country is going in, and this isn’t helping.
It’s just a preview of what America will look like when Trump loses.
re: #13 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Going back further in his timeline found this:
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Looks like I called that one upstairs.
BLM protesters wearing tactical gear and using assault rifles? Something doesn’t add up. Some angry person wanting to slander the BLM protesters, or just target cops for a specific reason?
Also this boingboing.net is damn scary if true. Government secretly spying on journalists with zero oversight.
re: #10 klys (maker of Silmarils)
BM = black male. If it is… What a fucking ignorant asshole.
“Suspect in custody” who wants to guess the race of the suspect!
re: #19 The Vicious Babushka
“Suspect in custody” who wants to guess the race of the suspect!
Def a Syrian refugee
Today the President posted this message to all Americans. Tonight one of the worst things that could happen has occurred. Whoever can go from this statement seeking calm and understanding to bloodshed, regardless of race, creed or politics is a horribly warped and damaged person.
I may just be logging off for the evening. I don’t know any more. I just don’t know.
Today, President Obama posted the following message on Facebook:
“All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We’ve seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who’ve suffered such a painful loss.
“Although I am constrained in commenting on the particular facts of these cases, I am encouraged that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and I have full confidence in their professionalism and their ability to conduct a thoughtful, thorough, and fair inquiry.
“But regardless of the outcome of such investigations, what’s clear is that these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.
“To admit we’ve got a serious problem in no way contradicts our respect and appreciation for the vast majority of police officers who put their lives on the line to protect us every single day. It is to say that, as a nation, we can and must do better to institute the best practices that reduce the appearance or reality of racial bias in law enforcement.
“That’s why, two years ago, I set up a Task Force on 21st Century Policing that convened police officers, community leaders, and activists. Together, they came up with detailed recommendations on how to improve community policing. So even as officials continue to look into this week’s tragic shootings, we also need communities to address the underlying fissures that lead to these incidents, and to implement those ideas that can make a difference. That’s how we’ll keep our communities safe. And that’s how we can start restoring confidence that all people in this great nation are equal before the law.
“In the meantime, all Americans should recognize the anger, frustration, and grief that so many Americans are feeling — feelings that are being expressed in peaceful protests and vigils. Michelle and I share those feelings. Rather than fall into a predictable pattern of division and political posturing, let’s reflect on what we can do better. Let’s come together as a nation, and keep faith with one another, in order to ensure a future where all of our children know that their lives matter.”
Not to get all political right away, but I do have to point out
This happened around about 100 “good guys with guns”
re: #15 Skip Intro
It’s just a preview of what America will look like when Trump loses.
Shut up with that shit.
And I’m almost certain this area is not a gun free zone
#BREAKING: Now reports of possible shooting at downtown Omni Hotel. @DallasPD I was with rushing that way w/ guns drawn. Unconfirmed injury
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
#BREAKING: Now reports of possible shooting at downtown Omni Hotel. @DallasPD I was with rushing that way w/ guns drawn. Unconfirmed injury
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
re: #26 Jenner7
Can we just stop, guys?
Excuse me, God? This ride’s getting a bit too intense for me now. Can I get off here?
re: #20 Shimshon
Def a Syrian refugee
Although I could be jumping to conclusions, it could be a large calved drug mule from MS13, or an Ebola suffering ISIS secrek Muslim.
This is when I long for the days when I could just shut everything down, step out into my dad’s pole barn, and lose myself in old-school 1950’s technology for a day. Although at least I have Project Car (1970’s tech, but close enough) that can occupy my mind… during the earlier hours of the day.
Things I am not doing tonight: speculating, trying for political points, jumping to conclusions.
Things I am doing tonight: trying for good, verified sources, being aware of my biases.
re: #23 mr.fusion
Not to get all political right away, but I do have to point out
This happened around about 100 “good guys with guns”
Texas is an open carry state. When people can legally carry effective killing machines in the open, it kinda makes it hard to identify actual threats.
Here come the thoughts and prayers.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the police officers who were shot in #Dallas tonight. Awaiting further details.
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) July 8, 2016
The right wing are hoping really bad this is BLM black men trying to shoot cops. It will justify race war.
Of course, if you’re white and rail against government oppression, shooting cops is not really that far our there.
Which means the hyper nationalist patriot movement and racism is fundamentally linked.
re: #34 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Things I am not doing tonight: speculating, trying for political points, jumping to conclusions.
Things I am doing tonight: trying for good, verified sources, being aware of my biases.
Sounds like a good choice. The shooter could be black, white, or the Zodiac Killer. We just don’t know. Crazy does not know racial, cultural or religious boundaries. All will become clearer with time.
Meanwhile, I think logging off for a while will be good for mental health.
I’ll probably check in again later.
I’m thinking of those who were shot and hope they catch the assholes who did this. I’m angry this keeps happening. I feel hopeless that STILL, nothing will be done. Just another day in America.
I’m tired.
And I’m glad I’m alone so no one sees me crying.
re: #34 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Things I am not doing tonight: speculating, trying for political points, jumping to conclusions.
Things I am doing tonight: trying for good, verified sources, being aware of my biases.
Things I am not doing tonight: Working, watching the news.
Things I am doing tonight: Drinking heavily, snacking way too much, posting and playing Pokemon GO.
re: #34 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Things I am doing tonight: trying for good, verified sources, being aware of my biases.
Why are you on the internet then?? Nobody got time for that.
re: #40 thedopefishlives
Things I am not doing tonight: Working, watching the news.
Things I am doing tonight: Drinking heavily, snacking way too much, posting and playing Pokemon GO.
I caught a Zubat while clothes shopping today.
I have no shame.
re: #37 SoundGuy 2016
Remember. Finnicum was a hero.
re: #42 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I caught a Zubat while clothes shopping today.
I have no shame.
I was walking uptown, phone in hand, when a couple of teenagers rocked by in a Subaru. One stuck her head out the window and yelled, “Hey, are you playing Pokemon GO?” I responded in the affirmative, and they cheered as they drove off. I laughed. It was awesome.
re: #40 thedopefishlives
Caught a charmander that was on my couch.
re: #44 thedopefishlives
IT TOLD ME THERE WAS A PONYTA NEARBY and I couldn’t find it. I has a sad. :(
The tension in this country reminds me of 1967/68. Race riots, political riots over the war, etc. Just a bad time. The worst part of it…all the new toys that weren’t available in ‘67.
Damn. It sucks.
re: #46 klys (maker of Silmarils)
IT TOLD ME THERE WAS A PONYTA NEARBY and I couldn’t find it. I has a sad. :(
Can’t wait to see what’s in the neighborhood of the office tomorrow. I’m going to be walking the skyways with my phone, and all the business people will be like, “Dafuq is wrong with that guy.”
RIGHT NOW: FOX NEWS REPORTS 3-6 POLICE OFFICERS DOWN IN DALLAS, TEXAS.
— Breaking News Feed (@pzf) July 8, 2016
re: #47 ObserverArt
The tension in this country reminds me of 1967/68. Race riots, political riots over the war, etc. Just a bad time. The worst part of it…all the new toys that weren’t available in ‘67.
Damn. It sucks.
It’s only gonna get worse I’m afraid.
I’m not going to speculate what’s ongoing here, because shit is terrifying enough and fanning the flames of the current situation without proper knowledge will just make things worse.
What I will end up speculating that regardless of the truth of what’s happening right now, I expect this to be used as a bludgeon against Black Lives Matter and black people in general, as well as to push away any sympathy and empathy engendered by the two police shootings over the last couple days. Because again, anything to make the ‘other’ feel like they don’t belong and don’t deserve treatment like actual people.
re: #48 thedopefishlives
Can’t wait to see what’s in the neighborhood of the office tomorrow. I’m going to be walking the skyways with my phone, and all the business people will be like, “Dafuq is wrong with that guy.”
There’s two gyms reasonably close by, and 4 pokestops within about a half mile walk (all in a row), so I figure I can do well there.
If nothing else, it will be good motivation to help get step count in, especially on weight days.
Per downstairs, LifeZette is a Laura Ingraham production. I met her in Austin a few years ago, and yes, she’s a total bitch.
Here we go with the fucking “thoughts and prayers” again
“They failed countless times in the past, they must help this time!” #Dallas— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #47 ObserverArt
The tension in this country reminds me of 1967/68. Race riots, political riots over the war, etc. Just a bad time. The worst part of it…all the new toys that weren’t available in ‘67.
Damn. It sucks.
It’s much worse now. Then there was no Fox News, hate radio, or Internet to keep people living in fear 24/7.
re: #52 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There’s two gyms reasonably close by, and 4 pokestops within about a half mile walk (all in a row), so I figure I can do well there.
If nothing else, it will be good motivation to help get step count in, especially on weight days.
There’s a gym up the street, and… what, 9? Pokestops here in town. I’ll definitely be walking tomorrow, with all the drinking and eating I’m doing tonight.
Media please refrain from live broadcasting officer positions. #dallasshooting
— Maj. Max Geron (@MaxDPD) July 8, 2016
re: #57 thedopefishlives
There’s a gym up the street, and… what, 9? Pokestops here in town. I’ll definitely be walking tomorrow, with all the drinking and eating I’m doing tonight.
I haven’t even made it into town yet. I’m supposed to cook dinner tonight still. I have about 90 words to go still to make minimum count. Sigh.
UPDATE: Officers calmly walking back from Omni Hotel - I’m presuming reports of gun shot victim there was false call. Unconfirmed.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
From downstairs, I was just going to agree that it’s not just teachers who influence kids. We had a janitor at my elementary school, Mr. Frank, who knew us kids, would play records during recess and lunch. He was basically a cool dude for being an older bald janitor guy in the late 1960s. Good memories.
re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I haven’t even made it into town yet. I’m supposed to cook dinner tonight still. I have about 90 words to go still to make minimum count. Sigh.
I live in a tiny little town. 4 of the Pokestops are literally across the street from each other. Catholic Church, Catholic cemetery, and two in the park on the opposite corner.
and it was hardly even a story come monday after. what a fucking country
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 8, 2016
KTVT in #Dallas reporting that one officer shot in arm will be ok.
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) July 8, 2016
WHAT
BREAKING: Active shooter in downtown Dallas at Black Lives Matter protest. Police order evacuation of city. https://t.co/bT3oTX8Hjp
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 8, 2016
“Alt-right” Twitter is already salivating, seen a few tweets go by calling for a race war.
re: #67 teleskiguy
“Alt-right” Twitter is already salivating, seen a few tweets go by calling for a race war.
THERE’S ALREADY A RACE WAR ON. For fuck’s sake.
re: #62 mmmirele
From downstairs, I was just going to agree that it’s not just teachers who influence kids. We had a janitor at my elementary school, Mr. Frank, who knew us kids, would play records during recess and lunch. He was basically a cool dude for being an older bald janitor guy in the late 1960s. Good memories.
My point as well. That Mr Castile made the effort to remember 500 children’s names and their food allergies speaks volumes about the kind of man he was.
Tonight he offers bullshit “hopes and prayers”…
One year ago:
Welcome to the gun business. I hope open carry boosts sales. #guns @NRA #tcot https://t.co/tS4WC4bj3x
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 9, 2015
Shooter supposedly cornered in a downtown building. As per MSNBC a minute ago.
re: #67 teleskiguy
“Alt-right” Twitter is already salivating, seen a few tweets go by calling for a race war.
I just can’t wade through that shit. I already have a pretty good idea about what I would see and I’d rather not have my worst suspicions confirmed.
re: #53 mr.fusion
Is Trump accepting congratulations yet?
Manafort may have physically wrested Trump’s phone away from him.
re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I haven’t even made it into town yet. I’m supposed to cook dinner tonight still. I have about 90 words to go still to make minimum count. Sigh.
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Earlier today. What hell has this open carry bullshit wrought?
Right to carry in full effect right now on Main Street pic.twitter.com/3YUd4nD5OR
— Snap: TyTheRealtor(r) (@TyTheLocator) July 8, 2016
Public transportation in Dallas has been shut down. Police has asked everyone to leave downtown Dallas, according to the CBS affiliate.
So how are people supposed to get home if there is no public transport & they don’t have a car?
re: #70 FormerDirtDart
Tonight he offers bullshit “hopes and prayers”…
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YOU HELPED MAKE THIS YOU DUMBFUCK.
Shut the fuck up, Dana https://t.co/wRhe1pDUA0
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 8, 2016
Was it worth it to denigrate all police before the facts were known?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 8, 2016
Now that some of the reports of officers shot are being walked back or downplayed, I wonder if it ends up being friendly fire, and officers in higher positions fired and bullets ricochetted? Either way no matter what the truth that comes out, this will be blamed on the BLM regardless and used to justify the “violent thugs” narrative from the right wing fascists. Prepare for more FW:FW:FW:FW from Grandpa and angry Facebook wall posts.
re: #74 Interesting Times
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re: #76 The Vicious Babushka
So how are people supposed to get home if there is no public transport & they don’t have a car?
Obviously, if there’s no communist transport and they’re too big of a failure at capitalism to afford a car, the laws of capitalism decree they must die!!!
Shep Smith reports one gunman has been “neutralized”. Ongoing negotiation with second gunman.
Witness: Shooter was “strategic.” Describing shots as “Tap, tap, pause. Tap, tap, pause.” https://t.co/7MEkpsXEGG pic.twitter.com/Vo7XDwIDWt
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) July 8, 2016
re: #24 stpaulbear
Unfortunately, I think he is right.
re: #78 FormerDirtDart
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Dana is one of the shittiest people I have the displeasure of knowing about.
Holy shit, my adrenalin is still pumping as I type this.
I just finally got home, I managed to make it out as soon as I heard gunshots and got in my car and busted the fuck out of there.
This whole fucking country is going to Hell.
re: #87 electrotek
Holy shit, my adrenalin is still pumping as I type this.
I just finally got home, I managed to make it out as soon as I heard gunshots and got in my car and busted the fuck out of there.
This whole fucking country is going to Hell.
Fuck, dude. Glad you’re okay.
re: #87 electrotek
Holy shit, my adrenalin is still pumping as I type this.
I just finally got home, I managed to make it out as soon as I heard gunshots and got in my car and busted the fuck out of there.
This whole fucking country is going to Hell.
DUDE! Damn glad you’re OK.
re: #76 The Vicious Babushka
So how are people supposed to get home if there is no public transport & they don’t have a car?
It’s Dallas, everyone has a car here. It ain’t Chicago.
re: #86 No Depression
Dana is one of the shittiest people I have the displeasure of knowing about.
I’m curious to see how she manages to twist this incident into “more people should be armed.”
Dallas #blm protest was so orderly, peaceful that cops were posing w demonstrators until someone(s) started firing. https://t.co/Jvk2RWPIET
— Matthew Cooper (@mattizcoop) July 8, 2016
re: #91 jaunte
Easy: more White people should be armed.
re: #87 electrotek
Oh my god. I’m glad you are safe.
re: #86 No Depression
Dana is one of the shittiest people I have the displeasure of knowing about.
I am proudly blocked by that evil bitch.
re: #80 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #90 electrotek
It’s Dallas, everyone has a car here. It ain’t Chicago.
If I recall correctly there isn’t public transportation to freaking AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
re: #98 teleskiguy
If I recall correctly there isn’t public transportation to freaking AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
And that’s quite an utter embarrassment. You can blame Arlington voters for that.
re: #87 electrotek
Glad you are ok.
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re: #98 teleskiguy
Arlington is 20 miles from Dallas and Fort Worth, each way.
re: #87 electrotek
Holy shit, my adrenalin is still pumping as I type this.
I just finally got home, I managed to make it out as soon as I heard gunshots and got in my car and busted the fuck out of there.
This whole fucking country is going to Hell.
Thank God you’re safe. Now, breathe in, 1 … 2 … 3 … 4, breathe out, 1 … 2 … 3 … 4.
Lather, rinse repeat until adrenaline wears off. Also, sit down, adrenaline going out can have BP effects which aren’t fun.
re: #98 teleskiguy
Actually, Arlington is the problem. Many of the more inner suburbs and cities in DFW have Arlington on their shitlist, because Arlington will not allow any mass transit at all.
re: #98 teleskiguy
If I recall correctly there isn’t public transportation to freaking AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Nope. But local businesses make a good buck off parking spaces!
From @shaunrabbfox4 - “There are several officers gravely injured. This is going to be an horrific night for the Dallas Police Department.”
— Mike Doocy (@MikeDoocyFox4) July 8, 2016
If only more people at the protests had been armed and could have fired back, said no one with an ounce of common sense @owillis
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
Thanks for the kind words guys. It’s so weird that I expected this at a Trump rally a few days after the Orlando massacre but that was so ridiculously and laughably peaceful. But this? Never saw this coming.
re: #100 Ziggy_TARDIS
Glad you are ok.
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Cheers dude.
Yeah dude, hit me up. DM me on Twitter and we can exchange digits and go from there.
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All the “we must use our 2nd amendment right against an oppressive government” brave right wing Patriots suspiciously absent from internet forums every time a minority is killed or abused by cops.
I wonder if anyone will declare this a false flag operation if the shooters are black?
It might be time to do away with the 2nd amendment. It’s making it difficult to enjoy the other freedoms afforded by the Bill of Rights, like the right to peacefully assemble.
“…A white North Carolina man was arrested alive despite pointing a shotgun at passing cars and then firing a handgun at a sheriff’s deputy who tried to arrest him…”
White man arrested alive after pointing shotgun at passing cars, shooting handgun at deputy https://t.co/JXQHcakBsD
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 8, 2016
re: #111 Belafon
I wonder if anyone will declare this a false flag operation if the shooters are black?
We know that Alex Jones and his stooge Dan Bidondi will be uttering that False Flag bullshit no matter what!
re: #108 electrotek
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Thank God you’re safe. Now, breathe in, 1 … 2 … 3 … 4, breathe out, 1 … 2 … 3 … 4.
Lather, rinse repeat until adrenaline wears off. Also, sit down, adrenaline going out can have BP effects which aren’t fun.
It also doesn’t help that I took a 40mg dose of Vyvanse this morning.
Fuck I’m gonna have trouble sleeping tonight now.
re: #111 Belafon
I wonder if anyone will declare this a false flag operation if the shooters are black?
I really hope this is some random grouping having a meltdown.
Either black or white extremists and this will ratchet up the tensions waaaaaay too much for comfort.
I wasn’t alive in 1968, but this year is definitely reminding me of what I’ve read about that year.
Breaking out the rum, now. It’s definitely bad. I should probably invoke the Iron Fist rule, but what the hell? I’m harmless when drunk.
re: #119 Belafon
I wasn’t alive in 1968, but this year is definitely reminding me of what I’ve read about that year.
I was 12 years old in 1968. Remember that year all too well. Every night the News was showing unrest, riots and fires.
Eyewitness account from #Dallas #PoliceShooting. pic.twitter.com/oOnIUIzeYS
— D (@Delo_Taylor) July 8, 2016
re: #112 No Depression
It might be time to do away with the 2nd amendment. It’s making it difficult to enjoy the other freedoms afforded by the Bill of Rights, like the right to peacefully assemble.
Will you volunteer to take all the guns away?
re: #117 electrotek
It also doesn’t help that I took a 40mg dose of Vyvanse this morning.
Fuck I’m gonna have trouble sleeping tonight now.
On the plus side, now you can use that energy to totally reorganize the dresser drawers. Seriously, glad your safe.
re: #75 blueraven
Someone on twitter posted that picture and said it fits the description from the scanners.
Totally irresponsible.
re: #115 Ziggy_TARDIS
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Man with a gun in Portland.
I’ve got the gunman on camera admitting he pulled it on crowd in fear they would attack him. Hat tip to @PortlandPolice 4 quick response
— Andrew Dymburt (@DymburtNews) July 8, 2016
re: #123 Shimshon
Will you volunteer to take all the guns away?
Oh I know it’s never going to happen. This country is fucked.
re: #119 Belafon
I wasn’t alive in 1968, but this year is definitely reminding me of what I’ve read about that year.
Christ I’m old. I was alive & just graduated high school in 1968. Remembering 1968 now is like remembering World War I in 1968.
re: #123 Shimshon
No need. Just clamp down on the ammo manufacturers. You can have your guns but the 2A says nothing about ammunition.
I just witnessed This man in the middle pull a gun on the crowd. Everyone ran screaming. Police no where in sight pic.twitter.com/L86zcLob5F
— Andrew Dymburt (@DymburtNews) July 8, 2016
re: #87 electrotek
Scary Shit, Glad you made it out.
Four DART police officers were shot in downtown Dallas. 1 deceased, others not life-threatening. No IDs yet. Updates via twitter.
— dartmedia (@dartmedia) July 8, 2016
Suspect arrested in San Diego attacks on homeless that sadly left 2 dead.
Now being reported 4 officers shot, one has died. Ugh. This is bad, bad, bad.
re: #75 blueraven
re: #125 Jenner7
Someone on twitter posted that picture and said it fits the description from the scanners.
Totally irresponsible.
Must have his body armor in his back pocket
Update: At least 3 officers shot at Dallas protest. Gunman reportedly wearing body armor, carrying rifle https://t.co/YAgZpgSC2Y
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 8, 2016
Officials: 1 officer killed, 3 others injured in shooting during protest in downtown Dallas - @dartmedia https://t.co/jYHHLiZKGT
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) July 8, 2016
Early reports of deaths are (hopefully) unreliable. Only official announcements should be spread online otherwise it is spreading fear.
re: #109 electrotek
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re: #138 Shimshon
Early reports of deaths are (hopefully) unreliable. Only official announcements should be spread online otherwise it is spreading fear.
Well, the one I posted was from the official Twitter account for the DART police, so.
This person is saying an anon source gave her photo and say these two people match description over scanner.
She’s a Trump supporter.
#BREAKING @dpdchief says 2 snipers shot 10 police officers from elevated positions. 3 died. 2 in surgery. 3 in critical condition. @CBSDFW
— Jack Fink (@cbs11jack) July 8, 2016
10 officers shot. 3 have died. From Dallas Police via MSNBC.
Damn.
2 snipers confirmed.
#BREAKING: 3 officers deceased. 10 shot according to DPD Chief Brown. Two snipers fired shots. pic.twitter.com/oCb9kQcFde
— KRLD (@KRLD) July 8, 2016
re: #145 ObserverArt
10 officers shot. 3 have died. From Dallas Police via MSNBC.
Damn.
2 snipers confirmed.
As in perps snipers or LE deploying snipers?
I’m ready for the shootings to stop.
(And I know.)
Word count achieved, I’m going to go make dinner because that has to happen. And pour myself a drink.
re: #138 Shimshon
Early reports of deaths are (hopefully) unreliable. Only official announcements should be spread online otherwise it is spreading fear.
They are coming from good sources.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
Christ I’m old. I was alive & just graduated high school in 1968. Remembering 1968 now is like remembering World War I in 1968.
I was born the following year. Apollo 12 touched down on the moon on my birth day.
re: #130 GlutenFreeJesus
No need. Just clamp down on the ammo manufacturers. You can shave your guns but the 2A says nothing about ammunition.
And I will remind you again that would be as unconstitutional as banning paper while allowing ownership of a press.
Portland man who pulled gun on BLM protestors
Here is gunman at #blacklivesmatter protest explaining why he pulled gun, seconds later pic.twitter.com/VpqGQ1aByS
— Andrew Dymburt (@DymburtNews) July 8, 2016
re: #150 ObserverArt
They are coming from good sources.
I guess my personal bias is showing, I really hope they are wrong. In the past reports of deaths have been wrong early on, until the city or police announce them to confirm I will hope it isn’t true. The report about a suspect in custody from earlier was shown to be wrong. Now someone is saying they have one surrounded? I don’t know what is going on and I don’t think ANYONE else does either.
re: #156 Shimshon
I guess my personal bias is showing, I really hope they are wrong. In the past reports of deaths have been wrong early on, until the city or police announce them to confirm I will hope it isn’t true.
Okay, but you can look at the statement released by the chief of police. It sucks. There are three dead.
-2 snipers shot 10 police officers
-3 deceased, 2 in surgery, 3 in critical condition
-NO suspects are in custody pic.twitter.com/54VmPXjXmS— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) July 8, 2016
2 snipers.
That just screams SovCits/”patriot” militia nuts to me.
I don’t want black men shot at traffic stops. I don’t want cops shot by snipers. I don’t want kids shot at school. I don’t want any of this.
— EM Simpson (@charlie_simpson) July 8, 2016
Okay, really going to deal with dinner.
re: #157 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Okay, but you can look at the statement released by the chief of police. It sucks. There are three dead.
Sorry I missed the PD statement after I posted my first message. This sucks.
re: #138 Shimshon
Early reports of deaths are (hopefully) unreliable. Only official announcements should be spread online otherwise it is spreading fear.
You’re right. The early reports were unreliable
It was much much worse…
re: #159 Kragar
Not necessarily. They could have military training.
Of course, that would be much worse.
re: #159 Kragar
2 snipers.
That just screams SovCits/”patriot” militia nuts to me.
It’s early, but I smell something along those lines. Being equipped as they are and all. Could be trying to get a riot going everywhere. Are not open riots between blacks and others one of their old goals?
re: #159 Kragar
2 snipers.
That just screams SovCits/”patriot” militia nuts to me.
They showed up at one of the BLM protests in Ohio I think? A while ago. But were there to “protect property” and guard some libertarian infowars journalist. They weren’t hostile to either but some sure looked like they did not like the BLM activists.
I don’t see why they would target police on behalf of black activists, unless some lone nutjob used this as an excuse to take out vengeance on the police and to discredit the entire BLM movement with this horrible action.
re: #164 Ziggy_TARDIS
Not necessarily. They could have military training.
Of course, that would be much worse.
A lot of SovCits and militia folks have been in the military.
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
Any word on civilian causalities?
All I’ve seen with the most reliable sources that I know is that police were shot at, no civilians.
This is bad. Really bad.
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
Shit. (Said in that tired voice you have when you’re beyond horror)
re: #167 MsJ
A lot of SovCits and militia folks have been in the military.
As have a lot of minorities. Crips and Bloods love recruiting black veterans.
re: #171 Shimshon
As have a lot of minorities. Crips and Bloods love recruiting black veterans.
Agreed. But I was responding to what was previously mentioned, that being SovCit and militias.
There were earlier reports that police were “negotiating” with one of the shooters, which does not appear to be confirmed.
Holy shit. I’m from Dallas ( currently live in the Texas Coastal Bend area but from Oak Cliff). What the everloving fuck? My heart is broken. Again.
DART police officer cries at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. DPD chief says 10 cops shot 3 dead @ #BlackLivesMatter rally pic.twitter.com/UuMIXbzVki
— DMN Photo (@dallasnewsphoto) July 8, 2016
This is a horrible night. Last night was a horrible night. The night before was a horrible night. They might be linked, which is the worst of this parade of horribles.
Press conference coming up from Dallas police. I think they said 20 minutes.
RWNJs “Are you happy now that cops have been shot?”
No. Nobody with an ounce on decency is happy anyone gets shot, you ghouls. #Dallas— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
.@DallasPD were looking for man w/ AR15. Open carry of firearms and long rifles is legal in this state. Not unusual in protests.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 8, 2016
re: #181 The Vicious Babushka
Jason Whitely ✔ @JasonWhitely
.@DallasPD were looking for man w/ AR15. Open carry of firearms and long rifles is legal in this state. Not unusual in protests.
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I wonder if there is heat already building in Austin about open carry in Texas, guns, etc.
This time coming from the police.
re: #167 MsJ
re: #171 Shimshon
One guy with with decent military training can train dozens.
My junior soldiers, Specialists & Private First Class’ trained Tunisian Special Forces in Close Quarters Marksmanship/Combat. And this was in 2000, before our military had been in constant war for a decade and a half
re: #182 ObserverArt
I wonder if there is heat already building in Austin about open carry in Texas, guns, etc.
This time coming from the police.
If the police had any real influence here in Texas, open carry would not have passed.
re: #184 Belafon
If the police had any real influence here in Texas, open carry would not have passed.
Even the police have no influence over the Republican pols?
re: #185 ObserverArt
Even the police have no influence over the Republican pols?
Elected Republicans in Texas have to be as close to “true believers” as there is. And true believers, fundamentalists, whatever you want to call them, don’t listen to anyone with a differing view point.
re: #183 FormerDirtDart
One guy with with decent military training can train dozens.
My junior soldiers, Specialists & Private First Class’ trained Tunisian Special Forces in Close Quarters Marksmanship/Combat. And this was in 2000, before our military had been in constant war for a decade and a half
Certainly. That was the point for some who joined up…no matter what flavor asshole they are.
This is incredibly sad. https://t.co/9XHhe2xfDW
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) July 8, 2016
Dallas #blm protest was so orderly, peaceful that cops were posing w demonstrators until someone(s) started firing. https://t.co/Jvk2RWPIET
— Matthew Cooper (@mattizcoop) July 8, 2016
Demonstration in #Dallas @ Belo Garden Park pic.twitter.com/IUx5IaERSB
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him! pic.twitter.com/Na5T8ZxSz6
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
Dallas Police arresting man near Main & Murphy in downtown Dallas. pic.twitter.com/234fDCe5JC
— Allison Harris (@allisonfox4news) July 8, 2016
Another officer shot in continuing gunfire. 11 now. Sheesh. Was a total mess. It’s a fucking war in the streets. American Exceptionalism.
re: #183 FormerDirtDart
One guy with with decent military training can train dozens.
My junior soldiers, Specialists & Private First Class’ trained Tunisian Special Forces in Close Quarters Marksmanship/Combat. And this was in 2000, before our military had been in constant war for a decade and a half
The military was in constant war, even though it was much less soldiers doing fighting or occupying. I can’t remember a single decade when the military wasn’t deployed somewhere. I’m sure in the 1800’s sometime.
My comment was only to point out that it isn’t just nutjob libertarian sovcit that have military training a lot of minorities do too thanks to Uncle Sam and these endless occupations Bush got the country into. But what can you do, with us or with the terrorists. And now we get more blowback each day…
/still haven’t had an apology from certain people for calling me a traitor and treating me like one for opposing the Bush administration but that’s another day. RIP to the officers who lost their lives here.
re: #185 ObserverArt
Even the police have no influence over the Republican pols?
May not mean much, but my sister lived next to a family of cops (and one firefighter) in Chicago. They were Daley guys long ago, but now perceive Democrats as pussies (soft on crime; hard on police); they hate Obama; but they don’t want guns flowing uncontrollably. They were really nice guys to us. That’s all I’m going to say. I just picked this up in conversations over the years when one of them would come over to chat or help us move something heavy.
LIVE on #Periscope https://t.co/xFV116zLF7
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
re: #194 Shimshon
There is not a decade where the US military was not deployed somewhere at war. I looked through our military history.
re: #184 Belafon
If the police had any real influence here in Texas, open carry would not have passed.
You know the Gov is offering “Thoughts and Prayers”.
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Suspects may have planted a bomb somewhere in downtown Dallas, per the PIO from Dallas PD.
You can carry guns almost anywhere in Texas thanks to laws signed by Gov. Abbott, laws opposed by police chiefs
— Jordan Ashby (@JM_Ashby) July 8, 2016
re: #190 Charles Johnson
I hope this doesn’t sound racist, but seeing bright red shoes the lady is wearing is suspicious. No regular minority citizen in their right mind wears red or blue unfortunately because the Crips and Bloods are still powerful in every city. Too many kids killed over the colors they wear in the past the rest have wised up.
You can even carry guns in mental health hospitals https://t.co/jjwrLFAQ7Z
— Jordan Ashby (@JM_Ashby) July 8, 2016
City officials: “We think this is one of the suspects” in the #DallasShooting. Call[no phone numbers allowed] with info. pic.twitter.com/8M7MsqE6i6
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) July 8, 2016
We think.
re: #203 Shimshon
I hope this doesn’t sound racist, but seeing bright red shoes the lady is wearing is suspicious. No regular citizen in their right mind wears red or blue unfortunately because the Crips and Bloods are still powerful in every city. Too many kids killed over the colors they wear in the past the rest have wised up.
Uhm, what?
re: #160 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Okay, really going to deal with dinner.
Ditto.
I have attended many of these protests in Houston. The officers walk with us, take pictures with us, block streets for us. We all talk to each other. Hugs everywhere.
Dallas is the same way.
This is not a situation where cops in riot gear were throwing tear gas. There was no confrontation and escalation with protestors. These are our friends.
This breaks my heart.
I hope they have not posted that image of the “person of interest” too early.
This is going to get real ugly.
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re: #212 Shimshon
People wearing red and blue are warning signs of gang affiliation.
I know that. Almost every woman has red and blue shoes. That was a silly comment. In some areas, sure, but hardly everywhere.
Freepers are reacting as you would expect: blaming Obama, planning for the race war.
It’s going be a long fucking night in Dallas…
re: #214 Jenner7
Their shoes. Come on.
re: #215 MsJ
I know that. Almost every woman has red and blue shoes. That was a silly comment. In some areas, sure, but hardly everywhere.
Minorities are afraid to wear red and blue unless they have gang affiliation in almost every big city. I can find hundreds of stories of people shot or in fights due to wearing blue or red and not knowing what it can mean.
re: #211 ObserverArt
I hope they have not posted that image of the “person of interest” too early.
This is going to get real ugly.
If this isn’t there guy, I see him getting the hand of vigilante justice knocking him down before the police get a chance to clear it up.
And if they’re already on a manhunt themselves, I feel like this is an extremely reckless thing for them to do if they only ‘think’ he’s a possible suspect, regardless of if he really is or isn’t one of the shooters.
re: #206 Dr. Matt
More proof that open carry is fucking stupid.
More like, open carry is a white only right.
re: #217 jaunte
I wear blue a lot.
Go walk around minority neighbourhoods and tell me what kind of response you get. It isn’t even just blacks the gangs are desperate for numbers and power they have become affiliated with other races. Lots of white and Hispanic now part of crips and bloods and others. It’s a sad mostly unknown experience that society doesn’t talk much about.
re: #219 Shimshon
Minorities are afraid to wear red and blue unless they have gang affiliation in almost every big city. I can find hundreds of stories of people shot or in fights due to wearing blue or red and not knowing what it can mean.
You don’t live here, do you?
re: #212 Shimshon
People wearing red and blue are warning signs of gang affiliation.
She’s also wearing blue pants, and the guy next to her has a blue striped shirt. So, MAYBE not racist, but definitely O_o
re: #212 Shimshon
People wearing red and blue are warning signs of gang affiliation.
The Texas Rangers are the baseball team associated with that area, so of course people are going to be wearing fucking red and blue in the middle of summer.
Worth viewing. Dallas PD protected #BlackLivesMatter protestors and moved into line of fire. pic.twitter.com/kWe94UrsKT via @Conflicts
— Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) July 8, 2016
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
She’s also wearing blue pants, and the guy next to her has a blue striped shirt. So, MAYBE not racist, but definitely O_o
Some of the gangs have merged and wearing blue and red is their gang affiliation showing that. Crips and bloods in a lot of cities have been pushed out by Cartels and Asian/Eastern European mobsters so the black gangs unite. I guess a lot of people are unfamiliar with the strength of gangs in major cities… I just pointed out that wearing those colors can be a warning sign. But whatever.
re: #219 Shimshon
Minorities are afraid to wear red and blue unless they have gang affiliation in almost every big city. I can find hundreds of stories of people shot or in fights due to wearing blue or red and not knowing what it can mean.
Enlighten us with some links, dipshit.
And yet, in armed-to-the-teeth Texas, no good guy with a gun has yet to stop him. https://t.co/U9r6dHPeqG
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 8, 2016
re: #212 Shimshon
People wearing red and blue are warning signs of gang affiliation.
I wear red and blue stuff and I’m not in any gang.
re: #226 No Depression
The Texas Rangers are the baseball team associated with that area, so of course people are going to be wearing fucking red and blue in the middle of summer.
I said it could be suspicious, we are talking about possible accomplices to a mass murderer. Not a baseball fan walking casually down the street after a game or supporting their team. Do you wear the colors of your favorite sports team in every day clothing? Like I said I guess a lot of people don’t know anything about gang culture. So be it.
The sad thing here is, Dallas Cops are pretty good in the grand scheme of things. They were taking friendly pictures with protesters earlier.
Seems unlikely police photo of suspect was one of the snipers. Video shows him on street when shooting occured https://t.co/CdgQnY25hK
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 8, 2016
re: #223 MsJ
You don’t live here, do you?
Comedian Deon Cole on WTF podcast recently: ‘in south Chicago you didn’t dare tip your hat one way or the other if you wanted to live in my neighborhood.’
re: #229 Shimshon
Some of the gangs have merged and wearing blue and red is their gang affiliation showing that. Crips and bloods in a lot of cities have been pushed out by Cartels and Asian/Eastern European mobsters so the black gangs unite. I guess a lot of people are unfamiliar with the strength of gangs in major cities… I just pointed out that wearing those colors can be a warning sign. But whatever.
Or, you know, a fashion choice. Especially in a city where the local team’s logo looks like this…
re: #234 Shimshon
I said it could be suspicious, we are talking about possible accomplices to a mass murderer. Not a baseball fan walking casually down the street after a game or supporting their team. Do you wear the colors of your favorite sports team in every day clothing? Like I said I guess a lot of people don’t know anything about gang culture. So be it.
I gang infested areas, yes. But not in “every major city”. You’re high if you believe that.
I’m from Chicago and have spent weeks in every major and many minor cities. You’re full of shit if you think it’s that widespread. It’s not.
Edited for autocorrect making me look stupid.
re: #236 Kragar
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He also looks like he’s carrying an AR-15 or a similar weapon, not a sniper rifle.
Oh boy, the story just took a massive twist. Suspect apparently has brother talking on CBS11 explaining what was going on.
I’m just so done right now.
I just want to curl up into bed and just not hear about anything anymore for at least a week. It’s all gotten too fucking much.
re: #231 teleskiguy
Enlighten us with some links, dipshit.
Really? This is such a foreign concept to you? Does no one here know anything about gangs?
Authorities are searching for a suspect who gunned down a developmentally disabled man because he was wearing red shoes in South Los Angeles.
“That’s Norteno territory,” Gittens said, adding that the teenager may have unintentionally attracted attention by wearing blue clothing associated with the Sureno members.
Eric Adorno was mistaken for a gang member because he wore a red football jersey.
Do you want more?
re: #240 No Depression
He also looks like he’s carrying an AR-15 or a similar weapon, not a sniper rifle.
You can kit out an AR-15 for sniping. Even with iron sights, you can hit a point target up to 550 meters away accurately if you know what you’re doing.
re: #234 Shimshon
I said it could be suspicious, we are talking about possible accomplices to a mass murderer. Not a baseball fan walking casually down the street after a game or supporting their team. Do you wear the colors of your favorite sports team in every day clothing? Like I said I guess a lot of people don’t know anything about gang culture. So be it.
WHOA. Somebody’s skipped steps 1-12 and gone right to crazy.
Tell me, why would an accomplice be down on the street marching, when the shooters are shooting from elevated positions?
Ok, the suspect is definitely not the shooter. Look at about 18 seconds.
Shots fired at #blacklivesmattertx March @dallasnews pic.twitter.com/2TqIQgkXVm
— DMN Photo (@dallasnewsphoto) July 8, 2016
re: #239 MsJ
I gang infested areas, yes. But not in “every major city”. You’re high if you believe that.
I’m from Chicago and have spent weeks in every major and many minor cities. You’re full of shot if you think it’s that widespread. It’s not.
gangs control territory in EVERY MAJOR CITY whether you see them or not. Mostly you don’t see them in groups because the police will just harass them and search them
I am commenting on someone who is a suspected accomplice to a suspected murderer wearing gang colors. red and blue. If you think this means nothing, fine, but I think it does.
Gangs are businesses, and their business is disrupted by a shooting war with police. This shooting is not gang-related.
I don’t understand something about the “person of interest.” I thought reports were the guys were firing from a parking garage. The guy in the photo is down on the street. The shooting seemed to be very targeted at the police. I would think the snipers were in place and didn’t just walk by police all over and position themselves in the garage later to open fire.
re: #245 Jenner7
I don’t think it’s him either.
Even in the presser, they called him a “person of interest”, not a suspect.
With heavy hearts, we are devastated to report a fourth officer has been killed.
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
re: #247 Kragar
You can kit out an AR-15 for sniping. Even with iron sights, you can hit a point target up to 550 meters away accurately if you know what you’re doing.
Okay, thanks for the info.
re: #243 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh boy, the story just took a massive twist. Suspect apparently has brother talking on CBS11 explaining what was going on.
Curioser and curioser, as Alice said O.O
re: #248 Blind Frog Belly White
WHOA. Somebody’s skipped steps 1-12 and gone right to crazy.
Tell me, why would an accomplice be down on the street marching, when the shooters are shooting from elevated positions?
wtf? did you not read the tweet I was responding to? The PD posted pictures of the man and female as suspects.
re: #253 blueraven
I get that, but some are saying suspect.
Call[no phone numbers allowed] if you have info on this shooting suspect. Call 911 if you see him. DO NOT approach @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/YT6OwnzxKb
— Lynnanne Nguyen FOX4 (@LynnanneFOX4) July 8, 2016
re: #250 Shimshon
gangs control territory in EVERY MAJOR CITY whether you see them or not. Mostly you don’t see them in groups because the police will just harass them and search them
I am commenting on someone who is a suspected accomplice to a suspected murderer wearing gang colors. red and blue. If you think this means nothing, fine, but I think it does.
Again I ask…do you live in America?
re: #254 MsJ
Gang. Infested. Areas.
This is not widespread in all fucking American cities.
You think gangs only stay in “infested” areas? do you know where they make the most money? in the suburbs. They control territory not just gang infested areas. Go look at gang territory maps for every major city, you might be surprised. Here is an article about the gangs in the DFW area star-telegram.com
re: #222 Shimshon
What the hell are you going on about? Flush that nonsense down the toilet.
Manchester, NH is having a real problem with small-time wanna-be gangs. The problem is is that they are the vital link in trading guns for drugs. Several shootings and fights every month. re: #251 jaunte
Gangs are businesses, and their business is disrupted by a shooting war with police. This shooting is not gang-related.
Good point. Spoke too quickly.
re: #260 MsJ
Again I ask…do you live in America?
Do you have any idea about gangs? Judging by your comments, the answer is an obvious, no. Yet you’re still responding to me like an expert.
re: #257 Teukka
It’s really clear cut that the suspect is probably not the shooter. The tweet I embedded previously shows him on the video as the shooting was going on. Look at the 18 second point.
3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded.
This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you.— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
“Real America” meaning White Nationalist shitbags who support Donald Trump and the NRA? https://t.co/2yYnPetZFa
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #246 Shimshon
So what does that mean? Where does this all fit in the scheme of things going on right now? All those links are gang-related things that happened in California.
Do you live in Dallas?
And why the fixation on street gangs? Somethin’ you want to say to us?
re: #251 jaunte
Gangs are businesses, and their business is disrupted by a shooting war with police. This shooting is not gang-related.
That means some gang member or members aren’t capable of attacking police because they are angry? Case closed then I guess.
re: #259 Jenner7
I get that, but some are saying suspect.
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Oh, I know. Even the police did at one point.
re: #265 Shimshon
Do you have any idea about gangs? Judging by your comments, the answer is an obvious, no. Yet you’re still responding to me like an expert.
Actually, I do. And fuck you for your condescending attitude, the total bullshit you’re spewing as some supposed fucking expert.
Brother of person of interest says the rifle was unloaded and he gave rifle to police earlier in protest. Police checking into that.
re: #246 Shimshon
Please, Just stop. You have nothing to prove here. Especially right now. Just stop.
re: #256 No Depression
Okay, thanks for the info.
500 yard line was my bread and butter. It was always the damn kneeling position I dropped my points on.
re: #252 ObserverArt
I don’t understand something about the “person of interest.” I thought reports were the guys were firing from a parking garage. The guy in the photo is down on the street. The shooting seemed to be very targeted at the police. I would think the snipers were in place and didn’t just walk by police all over and position themselves in the garage later to open fire.
That is a daytime picture, though. It’s certainly possible he had enough time to take up position for the shootings at night.
re: #268 teleskiguy
So what does that mean? Where does this all fit in the scheme of things going on right now? All those links are gang-related things that happened in California.
Do you live in Dallas?
And why the fixation on street gangs? Somethin’ you want to say to us?
I made a comment on the pictures posted by Dallas PD requesting info about possible suspects, that the red and blue stood out as interesting to me and could be someone in a gang, because wearing those colors by minorities can be a death sentence. But okay it looks like I accidentally found my way into middle America comment section where no one has any idea about the gangs in their cities. Bye.
Yep…sounding like they jumped the gun on that picture.
Do the police and media not understand the precarious situations is in this country?
Oh wait, I shouldn’t be even be thinking that way. Not in John Roberts world.
re: #271 MsJ
Actually, I do. And fuck you for your condescending attitude, the total bullshit you’re spewing as some supposed fucking expert.
I’ve posted a handful of citations you can either respond to them, or ignore them and just spew anger because you have nothing in reply. I can guess what you will keep doing…
re: #249 Ziggy_TARDIS
Ok, the suspect is definitely not the shooter. Look at about 18 seconds.
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re: #258 Shimshon
wtf? did you not read the tweet I was responding to? The PD posted pictures of the man and female as suspects.
Yes, I did. In fact I looked at it again. WTF are you talking about a female? No Dallas PD tweet shows a woman as a suspect. Here’s the only DPD tweet of the suspect.
This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him! pic.twitter.com/Na5T8ZxSz6
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White
There is another photo of him and a woman.
re: #277 Shimshon
You’re badly mistaken that you assume none of us in “middle America” know anything about street gangs in cities. You’re being a goddamned blowhard, a real asshole, right now.
I lived in Denver for three years, spent some time in some pretty sketchy neighborhoods, kept a loaded shotgun in my closet for a time.
Fuck you.
re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White
Yes, I did. In fact I looked at it again. WTF are you talking about a female? No Dallas PD tweet shows a woman as a suspect. Here’s the only DPD tweet of the suspect.
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He’s a fucking idiot. He thinks every city in America is South Central, LA.
Brother is now saying the guy in the picture released is not a person of interest and gave his gun to cops. I think it’s safe to say that right now the only thing this picture is evidence of is that this wasn’t a gun free zone
Brother of “person of interest” says his brother is not a suspect, handed his long rifle over to a police officer. pic.twitter.com/H2nUX7CKFN
— Brian New (@BrianNewCBS) July 8, 2016
re: #283 Jenner7
There is another photo of him and a woman.
Not on DPD twitter feed, that I can find.
The other open carry guy with woman with red shoes.
re: #288 Blind Frog Belly White
Oh, sorry, it’s not. I saw the photo from Blueravens #75.
re: #289 Jenner7
That fucker needs to shut his cakehole.
Okay, chill. I was trying to tell you where Smishon might have seen that photo. Damn.
When I was a stupid teenager I dated the president of a local Latin Kings chapter in Chicago (for three months). He was sweet. To me. His friends were not good people. His brother was a scary motherfucker.
So, yeah, I know gangs. And I know America and what is and is not.
Guys#287…
Not the dude. Police have the weapon. Quit!
Please please take care when circulating photos. Please.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 8, 2016
Jesus christ. I didn’t check the news for a bit and the world goes nuts.
- Open carry is fucking stupid and this is one reason why.
- Even as spread out as Texas is, you don’t need to be a military genius to shoot up a crowd with an AR. People gussy up their ARs like fancy pickup trucks here. Any idiot could have walked to their vantage point & done this (see: open carry is stupid).
- DART cops? Seriously? Those people keep the rail line safe… This terrorist cockhead didn’t even target regular PD.
- Fuck this state. Seriously. I almost got out this weekend (friend & I had to walk away from a house because seller wouldn’t concede on the 15K worth of rewiring it needed, else I’d be packing right now). I can’t wait to see the idiotic bullshit spewing from our so-called “governor” and the mob of cretinous wall-eyed paint-licking garbage toads we’ve sent to D.C.
Joe Walsh:
3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you.
re: #287 mr.fusion
I think it’s safe to say this wasn’t a gun free zone
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And there’s another guy with a gun smart enough not to go try shooting at the snipers. He would have gotten killed if he had.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
Christ I’m old. I was alive & just graduated high school in 1968. Remembering 1968 now is like remembering World War I in 1968.
Right there with you—I was a sophomore in college in 1968. Remember going to parties in Bed Stuy that summer—there were bad things happening there, but it was where my friends lived, so I went—the invincibility of youth.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse or I’m confused.
Sorry.
re: #302 mr.fusion
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I think it’s time for the Secret Service to pay Mr. Walsh a visit.
re: #300 Pawn of the Oppressor
Upding especially for
‘mob of cretinous wall-eyed paint-licking garbage toads we’ve sent to D.C.’
re: #291 Single-handed sailor
The other open carry guy with woman with red shoes.
What I don’t get is why Shimshon immediately jumped to ZOMG GANGS! I find it much more likely that she chose red shoes to add a little pop to her black ensemble than to show gang affiliation.
Seriously, lets all just chill out. Info is sketchy, people handle things differently, terrible night. Terrible week.
re: #305 Jenner7
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse or I’m confused.
Sorry.
Shimshon’s idiocy added to the tension we’re all feeling.
re: #285 MsJ
He’s a fucking idiot. He thinks every city in America is South Central, LA.
He’s not a fucking idiot. But I agree with jaunte, they don’t want the attention that this would bring. Every city (mostly medium to somewhat large) I’ve lived in in the last 10 years has been shown to be a node of the drug-distribution network with some gang activity. We hate Trump, but he’s right that the drugs are largely coming from the Mexican cartels. That creates armed criminals here hired by them who make sure the drugs get into the cities (which means that however you define it, many small to large cities have some gang element). Competition is most fierce in south and west Chicago, the main hub. That’s why there are endless killings.
re: #308 No Depression
A Blood under every Christian Louboutin
re: #302 mr.fusion
And a total garbage human is itchin’ for more bloodshed. https://t.co/qKYvYffrc6 @WalshFreedom
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 8, 2016
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
And they’re fighting over territory, not to bring the wrath of the entire city down on them.
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
He’s not a fucking idiot. But I agree with jaunte, they don’t want the attention that this would bring. Every city (mostly medium to somewhat large) I’ve lived in in the last 10 years has been shown to be a node of the drug-distribution network with some gang activity. We hate Trump, but he’s right that the drugs are largely coming from the Mexican cartels. That creates armed criminals here hired by them who make sure the drugs get into the cities (which means that however you define it, many small to large cities have some gang element). Competition is most fierce in south and west Chicago, the main hub. That’s why there are endless killings.
The pictured Person of Interest has turned himself in.
Joe Walsh right now: pic.twitter.com/V0IYUqKG8y
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #267 Kragar
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@WalshFreedom As a White guy all I can say is fuck you Walsh.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) July 8, 2016
What the hell? Freeper goes over to the enemy?
If the police anywhere want sympathy from me they need to protest the FBI.
There is no rule of law in the US anymore.
Until Hillary Clinton is prosecuted there is no reason to support any law enforcement.]
re: #303 Belafon
And there’s another guy with a gun smart enough not to go try shooting at the snipers. He would have gotten killed if he had.
Particularly since his rifle was not loaded.
re: #302 mr.fusion
Joe Walsh:
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Who is this asshole? His honesty about wanting to shewt Ni*clangs* is refreshing. Mm, race war! MAKE AMERICA LYNCH AGAIN!
/fuck me. I’ve had enough. Wonder if I should move to Rotterdam, in an ironic reversal of my ancestor’s journey to the new world.
re: #318 Ziggy_TARDIS
The pictured Person of Interest has turned himself in.
MAN, that would take some stones to do - “Hi, I’m the black guy with the long rifle you’re looking for, after somebody with a rifle shot 11 of you, killing 4”.
re: #324 Blind Frog Belly White
MAN, that would take some stones to do - “Hi, I’m the black guy with the long rifle you’re looking for, after somebody with a rifle shot 11 of you, killing 4”.
One healthy set of cojones(sp?)…
re: #317 Teukka
That’s disturbing…. What’s wrong with these people??
@WalshFreedom Making a threat against The President? TIme to report your threat to The Secret Service
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) July 8, 2016
Dallas PD has good reputation. Excessive force complaints dropped 64% from ‘09 to ‘14 after “shift to de-escalation” https://t.co/1eZNfpe6AI
— Albert Samaha (@AlbertSamaha) July 8, 2016
re: #324 Blind Frog Belly White
I hope he will be ok.
Two others have been taken into custody. Bomb report came from suspect.
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
He’s not a fucking idiot. But I agree with jaunte, they don’t want the attention that this would bring. Every city (mostly medium to somewhat large) I’ve lived in in the last 10 years has been shown to be a node of the drug-distribution network with some gang activity. We hate Trump, but he’s right that the drugs are largely coming from the Mexican cartels. That creates armed criminals here hired by them who make sure the drugs get into the cities (which means that however you define it, many small to large cities have some gang element). Competition is most fierce in south and west Chicago, the main hub. That’s why there are endless killings.
Of course! But there’s a big difference between gang activity and shooting people for wearing rival colors “in every major city”. That’s just bullshit.
re: #324 Blind Frog Belly White
MAN, that would take some stones to do - “Hi, I’m the black guy with the long rifle you’re looking for, after somebody with a rifle shot 11 of you, killing 4”.
Running wouldn’t have helped. Imagine being the black guy that the police have said is a suspect in Texas. He’s probably safer in custody right now until the police tell everyone he’s clear.
Later…I’ve had enough of America for today. And our media. Gah.
re: #326 Dave In Austin
That’s disturbing…. What’s wrong with these people??
Group narcissism focused on race.
Group narcissism is like vanilla narcissism, only the malignant self-love is focused to a group one belongs to, like national, religious, racial or political.
Only problem is that only the race case is barely recognized, the other three get mistaken as patriotism, party loyalty or devotion.
re: #331 Belafon
He definitely has some big brass ones though.
re: #334 No Depression
I’m guessing that means “Day of the Rope” from a cursory google search. Ugh.
Yep. hence why felt Walsh forgot it.
re: #313 Barefoot Grin
Sorry. I should have waited to post. You know more than I do.
Don’t sweat it. The broad brush he was painting every metropolitan city with pissed me off.
Brother of the suspect in the photos talking to CBS 11 in Dallas pic.twitter.com/wiOHua0bjI
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) July 8, 2016
re: #331 Belafon
Running wouldn’t have helped. Imagine being the black guy that the police have said is a suspect in Texas. He’s probably safer in custody right now until the police tell everyone he’s clear.
Oh, absolutely! But your first instinct has gotta be to drop the gun, tear off the shirt, and bug out.
But you can’t responsibly drop the gun, so you have to walk up to an officer while you’ve still got it slung, because you can’t have it in your hands. And do it right after some fuckheads have killed 4 cops, and you know you’ve been identified as a suspect.
And all that while being black in America.
Gives me the willies just thinking about it.
This shit takes planning. No way was this conjured up just in the last 24-48 hours.
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) July 8, 2016
This too.
re: #339 teleskiguy
Dallas PD fucked up. Poor guy.
True, they did. But this is what open carry brings to the table. Some day an innocent person will get killed.
re: #341 Blind Frog Belly White
Oh, absolutely! But your first instinct has gotta be to drop the gun, tear off the shirt, and bug out.
But you can’t responsibly drop the gun, so you have to walk up to an officer while you’ve still got it slung, because you can’t have it in your hands. And do it right after some fuckheads have killed 4 cops, and you know you’ve been identified as a suspect.
And all that while being black in America.
Gives me the willies just thinking about it.
Agree.
I can’t wait for some pro gun person to ask “Why was he carrying a gun?” You know someone will.
re: #323 Pawn of the Oppressor
Who is this asshole? His honesty about wanting to shewt Ni*clangs* is refreshing. Mm, race war! MAKE AMERICA LYNCH AGAIN!
/fuck me. I’ve had enough. Wonder if I should move to Rotterdam, in an ironic reversal of my ancestor’s journey to the new world.
My home state (IL) elected that asshole. He served one term and got the boot. He’s a deadbeat dad. Now a radio talking head.
Before tonight, no Dallas officer had been killed in the line of duty since 2009.
— Tristan Hallman (@TristanHallman) July 8, 2016
re: #343 mroop
It’s always person of interest until they know for sure since Richard Jewell got millions in settlements after the Atlanta bombing. Eric Rudolph was the bomber.
Well, he is not a suspect. Pay attention.
re: #349 blueraven
Well, he is not a suspect. Pay attention.
DPD identified him as a suspect in their tweet.
This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him! pic.twitter.com/Na5T8ZxSz6
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
re: #302 mr.fusion
Seems like he deleted that tweet. But I already reported it to Twitter and the Secret Service. He’s a terrible person.
re: #342 Jenner7
But the protest has only been planned for a little bit.
This seems like Benghazi. A rapidly occurring protest was taken advantage of to create an attack by well-trained attackers.
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) July 8, 2016
re: #330 MsJ
Of course! But there’s a big difference between gang activity and shooting people for wearing rival colors “in every major city”. That’s just bullshit.
I agree. Here it seems to be over bad drug deals, territory, and between wanna-bes. But they do identify themselves through tattoos and clothing. And again, the connection here seems to be between the trade in guns for drugs between New York and New Hampshire. We don’t have the LA or Chicago or NYC thing, but the kids here are trying to identify as part of the loop of drugs and guns and money. If this were a small thing, NH wouldn’t lead the nation in heroin addiction per capita.
re: #328 jaunte
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Dallas PD is great. So is HPD. No police force in a massive city is completely clean but they’ve done a lot of work to get into the communities and do community policing. It’s made a difference. I just respect the hell out of them, and I’m always on the “other side” of these protests too. Cannot tell you how much we love these guys.
re: #350 Blind Frog Belly White
DPD identified him as a suspect in their tweet.
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I know they did. But I think that has pretty well been debunked.
In the presser they referred to him as a person of interest. Now it looks like he is just an open carry freak.
Can you guys imagine what would happen if something like Oslo and Utøya were to occur here?
re: #357 blueraven
I know they did. But I think that has pretty well been debunked.
In the presser they referred to him as a person of interest. Now it looks like he is just an open carry freak.
The luckiest and unluckiest open carry freak in Texas tonight.
re: #359 electrotek
What happened in Orlando was not too far off from that.
Not to mention, I don’t think we could get a Utoya scale event. Norway had and still has certain vulnerabilities that the US simply doesn’t have.
I saved a copy for him. @franifusco @tomcolicchio @allanbrauer pic.twitter.com/z2hkVeAWED
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #351 SoundGuy 2016
Seems like he deleted that tweet. But I already reported it to Twitter and the Secret Service. He’s a terrible person.
He’s a teabagging lunatic who was swept into office with all the other teabagging idiots were. Then teabaggers started to become radioactive. Some remain. Far too many.
IL got some sense and sent him packing. Now he makes money like rush. With his big ass hateful mouth.
I wonder if he ever coughed up his back child support n
re: #302 mr.fusion
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The deadbeat fuckstick deleted the tweet.
*sorry. Late to the party as usual.
re: #364 MsJ
I also reported that teabagging SOB’s threat to the Secret Service. Typical teabagging idiot who forgets to put his brain in gear before he tweets…
A story I was planning to write: TX professors suing to stop Campus Carry. This world. These guns.
— Karoli (@Karoli) July 8, 2016
re: #351 SoundGuy 2016
Walsh has always come across to me as someone who is good at getting mess started but would be MIA when those he incites take action and bullets start flying. If he thinks that most of us blacks want a race war, he hasn’t been paying attention. We want to get along with our fellow citizens Iike those in other groups in this country. I come into contact with a lot of other blacks, many of them I don’t know personally. We discuss a lot of things, but starting a race war isn’t one of them.
re: #347 Blind Frog Belly White
Does it, though? Why?
To expand on this, how much planning does it take, in a state with open carry, to get a long rifle downtown? None. You don’t even have to conceal in a box.
How much planning does it take to spot elevated, accessible spots overlooking an urban street? Not much. Just look up.
You might choose a parking garage, because they’re big and open and you can tell the other guy to go to the other end.
So, really how much advance planning is needed?
re: #354 Barefoot Grin
I agree. Here it seems to be over bad drug deals, territory, and between wanna-bes. But they do identify themselves through tattoos and clothing. And again, the connection here seems to be between the trade in guns for drugs between New York and New Hampshire. We don’t have the LA or Chicago or NYC thing, but the kids here are trying to identify as part of the loop of drugs and guns and money. If this were a small thing, NH wouldn’t lead the nation in heroin addiction per capita.
It’s rare that someone who isn’t known would be shot for wearing rival colors. There is usually some connection to the gangs, as you mentioned. If gangs in most areas just started popping average citizens the cops would rain down holy hell. It just doesn’t happen to the average Joe or Jane Citizen.
re: #369 majii
Walsh has always come across to me as someone who is good at getting mess started but would be MIA when those he incites take action and bullets start flying. If he thinks that most of us blacks want a race war, he hasn’t been paying attention. We want to get along with our fellow citizens Iike those in other groups in this country. I come into contact with a lot of other blacks, many of them I don’t know personally. We discuss a lot of things, but starting a race war isn’t one of them.
To borrow from the second X-Men movie, there are some on both sides that want a war. Not most people, but there are some.
If they know which garage at least one of them was firing from, they can get security footage. But that may take some time.
Everyone looks like hell this week because we keep getting locked to our phones at night to watch the most brutal shit on earth and scream.
— Chris Person (@Papapishu) July 8, 2016
re: #372 Belafon
To borrow from the second X-Men movie, there are some on both sides that want a war. Not most people, but there are some.
Observing the Israelis and Palestinians for a couple decades, it doesn’t really need to be that many.
Oh, fuck.
Breaking: At least three shot on Gus Young, about four blocks from site of #AltonSterling shooting & protests. pic.twitter.com/F09xjxW6j3
— Bryn Stole (@BrynStole) July 8, 2016
You mean like the Bundy Militia and Michele Fiore, who say you need guns to shoot cops? https://t.co/5PMZhJv1CJ @WalshFreedom
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
It’s time 4 patriotic Americans to stand up & stand against all the Cop haters - from Obama to the thugs on the street.
It’s way past time.— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2016
Two fucking words. Race. War.
What in the utter fuck, man. This shit is sickening.
Just fucking say it you coward dead-beat dad. You want a race war. You want to live out The Turner Diaries, you sick fuck. @WalshFreedom
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 8, 2016
Or do you mean this guy? https://t.co/SQ89yzFrsg @WalshFreedom
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
How the assholes were found.
Update: pic.twitter.com/ukWSZJeZo3
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
Let’s not let schmoes like @walshfreedom get away with this #DeletedTweet @secretservice #Dangerous pic.twitter.com/H6kzbUf4SV
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 8, 2016
Got some news for you @WalshFreedom
You and your psychopaths aren’t fucking real America, and we’re tired of your shit— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #362 Ziggy_TARDIS
What happened in Orlando was not too far off from that.
Not to mention, I don’t think we could get a Utoya scale event. Norway had and still has certain vulnerabilities that the US simply doesn’t have.
We have right-wing fanatics in this country who have the same thought process as Breivik. I’ve personally encountered people HERE in Dallas that said the victims got what they deserve and that Breivik was pushed to the limit by Muslims and liberals.
The problem with open carry laws is in a emergency everyone looks like a suspect
— Political Line (@PoliticalLine) July 8, 2016
re: #386 Kragar
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Am I too brutal?
@WalshFreedom @SecretService PING
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 8, 2016
re: #342 Jenner7
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Not at all. The Venn diagram of “angry dude”, “AR-15 owner”, and “Knows downtown Dallas” is pretty large. You might need a little local knowledge of which garages overlook which streets, which you could pick up in a half-hour walk. DFW lends itself to this sort of shooting pretty well.
If I suddenly decided to kill cops at a protest, I could come up with a workable plan in minutes, and I don’t even work downtown.
Update: pic.twitter.com/qBJe3q0EtN
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
re: #387 electrotek
I know.
However, a few key differences would limit damage here. For one, the events like Utoya don’t happen quite out as in the boondocks here as they did there. Not only that, but the Norweigan Government was crippled by the bombing which disputed most government ministries, and created confusion, and a weakening of command and control. In the US, even on a city level, things tend to be hardened, which prevents the sort of thing that caused so much chaos and confusion there.
And I say that as someone who lost family in the Attacks in Norway. I am still angry at conservatives in the US for it, 5 years later in just a few weeks. It has dulled, and certain people who are conservative I have given leeway, but I still have issues with it.
re: #391 blueraven
They got one of the suspects alive? It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this
re: #369 majii
Walsh has always come across to me as someone who is good at getting mess started but would be MIA when those he incites take action and bullets start flying. If he thinks that most of us blacks want a race war, he hasn’t been paying attention. We want to get along with our fellow citizens Iike those in other groups in this country. I come into contact with a lot of other blacks, many of them I don’t know personally. We discuss a lot of things, but starting a race war isn’t one of them.
As far as I can see, from the days of the white slaveowners right on down through the Klan to Charlie Manson and certainly to the present day of right-wing militia crazies, American history is full of white people howling about imminent race war. Black people doing so are extremely rare, if they exist at all.
re: #393 KGxvi
They got one of the suspects alive? It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this
I don’t think they have any idea yet if they have the right suspects in custody. They also have some folks in for questioning from a traffic stop (see the tweet in #383 , which is actually more recent).
re: #395 klys (maker of Silmarils)
That behaviour is beyond suspicious though.
re: #392 Ziggy_TARDIS
I know.
However, a few key differences would limit damage here. For one, the events like Utoya don’t happen quite out as in the boondocks here as they did there. Not only that, but the Norweigan Government was crippled by the bombing which disputed most government ministries, and created confusion, and a weakening of command and control. In the US, even on a city level, things tend to be hardened, which prevents the sort of thing that caused so much chaos and confusion there.
And I say that as someone who lost family in the Attacks in Norway. I am still angry at conservatives in the US for it, 5 years later in just a few weeks. It has dulled, and certain people who are conservative I have given leeway, but I still have issues with it.
Oh trust me dude, there’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think about what that fucking animal did.
re: #397 Ziggy_TARDIS
That behaviour is beyond suspicious though.
I think it’s absolutely proper for them to take them in for questioning, and I think it’s a lot more suspicious than the person of interest they called out on their Twitter account earlier, but like I said, I’m doing my best to be aware of my biases and not jump to conclusions, especially when working with such limited information.
Twitter gets a lot of stuff wrong.
re: #398 electrotek
I never fully recovered from the Norway Attack.
The way I express politics has become more emotional, and much more personal than it was before. And more brutal.
Former congressman Joe Walsh deleted his tweet warning Obama to “watch out,” but these are still up. pic.twitter.com/bsFLIN6AH5
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 8, 2016
re: #400 Ziggy_TARDIS
I never fully recovered from the Norway Attack.
The way I express politics has become more emotional, and much more personal than it was before. And more brutal.
When I dealt with people who said Breivik was a “victim” of Norwegian “liberal” policies, I restrain the urge to brutally beat them senseless.
So number of shooters seems wrong. Rooftop seems wrong. How far from protests?
— Armando (@armandodkos) July 8, 2016
They are showing on CNN a ground fire fight.
A very special message from all of Twitter to @WalshFreedom
Spread the word and let your voice be heardhttps://t.co/BjNmcwGMkY— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #400 Ziggy_TARDIS
I never fully recovered from the Norway Attack.
The way I express politics has become more emotional, and much more personal than it was before. And more brutal.
Same here. That could’ve been me not that many years ago. Used to be active in Labor Youth here in Sweden.
Press conference at 130.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 8, 2016
Adam Silverman over at Balloon Juice makes a good point: We haven’t heard anything about the police overreacting. It’s a bad situation, and it could have easily gotten a lot worse.
re: #403 Jenner7
City combat is notoriously chaotic. Shots echoing off buildings makes it almost impossible to know where shot are coming from, then you have to deal with ricochets, all while adrenaline is pumping and you’re trying to find the danger
tv says ‘awaiting dallas pd press conference’
re: #402 electrotek
Yeah, I understand that reaction.
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re: #404 Kragar
This one is far better.
meanwhile…
.@GovMikeHuckabee: “When @JeffFlake needs something for Arizona, he ain’t going to get it” if Trump is president. pic.twitter.com/zf5QGmVkLX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 8, 2016
re: #405 Teukka
Same here. That could’ve been me not that many years ago. Used to be active in Labor Youth here in Sweden.
I’m fucking angry still that there were no fucking vigils (save for one in Toronto and another one in the UK at a mosque organized by an imam) for the victims of Norway compared to Paris and Brussels.
re: #407 Belafon
Adam Silverman over at Balloon Juice makes a good point: We haven’t heard anything about the police overreacting. It’s a bad situation, and it could have easily gotten a lot worse.
I think the vast majority of cops are good. That they won’t police their own paints them all in a bad light.
BREAKING: Dallas police say the two suspected snipers are in custody, threat to the public is over. 11 officers shot, at least 4 killed.
— FM NewsTalk 97.1 (@971FMTalk) July 8, 2016
BREAKING: Dallas police say the two suspected snipers are in custody, threat to the public is over. 11 officers shot, at least 4 killed.
— FM NewsTalk 97.1 (@971FMTalk) July 8, 2016
re: #413 electrotek
I’m fucking angry still that there were no fucking vigils (save for one in Toronto and another one in the UK at a mosque organized by an imam) for the victims of Norway compared to Paris and Brussels.
Wasn’t it portrayed as basically a HJ camp by the media half of the country follows?
re: #406 withak
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I’m beginning to wonder if he means 12:30 CDT, given suspects in custody, etc.
I don’t pray. I haven’t set foot in a church outside of weddings, funerals, and a handful of services with my mom since I was 18. Nights like tonight make me almost wish I could.
What a fucking mess.
Flipped over to Faux news, they’re trying to blame it on Obama. Shocker
Wife and I arrived late in Sundance, Wyoming on our trip to Canada. We were talking outside our motel with three truck drivers from Texas.
They filled us in on what is happening in Dallas, and could not believe that someone would shoot at police officers - none of them are blaming the protesters, they were simply stunned. The drivers’ were convinced someone is trying to stir trouble with the protesters and the police and are not part of either group.
Flipped on MSNBC; the scene is horrible.
re: #421 Lidane
I don’t pray. I haven’t set foot in a church outside of weddings, funerals, and a handful of services with my mom since I was 18. Nights like tonight make me almost wish I could.
What a fucking mess.
These are the kinds of things that made me stop believing. I can easily argue that the Biblical God expected us to act like adults by now, so these are our problems, but He sure fucked up the basic design if He is all powerful.
re: #423 Anymouse
Wife and I arrived late in Sundance, Wyoming on our trip to Canada. We were talking outside our motel with three truck drivers from Texas.
They filled us in on what is happening in Dallas, and could not believe that someone would shoot at police officers - none of them are blaming the protesters, they were simply stunned. The drivers’ were convinced someone is trying to stir trouble with the protesters and the police and are not part of either group.
Flipped on MSNBC; the scene is horrible.
And this coming from truck drivers, that speaks volumes there.
Hospital tonight in #Dallas. pic.twitter.com/i3fEpFyqGr
— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) July 8, 2016
re: #422 VegasGolfer
Flipped over to Faux news, they’re trying to blame it on Obama. Shocker
I blame it on all the hate the Republicans, Fox and Rightwing Radio has been spreading over the last 30yrs or so.
MSNBC is reporting that this protest was supposed to represent the best that police and protesters could do together: the police noted that the protesters and police coordinated with each other before the protest, and the police were there for the protesters’ protection.
As the shooting started, the police realised that they specifically were the targets and not the protesters at all.
UPDATE: This is the man police pulled over on I-35E. He is NOT the suspect and has been let go. pic.twitter.com/pxS3TJlyur
— Tim Ciesco (@TimCiescoNBC5) July 8, 2016
Dude’s got a NIRVANA shirt on. I love rock ‘n’ roll.
Dallas Police Presser at bottom of the hour. Should start anytime.
re: #425 electrotek
And this coming from truck drivers, that speaks volumes there.
They are three affable white fellows from East Texas. They are pretty much convinced it is some outside agitator neither associated with the police or the protesters.
re: #432 Anymouse
They are three affable white fellows from East Texas. They are pretty much convinced it is some outside agitator neither associated with the police or the protesters.
Did you ask them what they think of Louie Gohmert?
re: #432 Anymouse
They are three affable white fellows from East Texas. They are pretty much convinced it is some outside agitator neither associated with the police or the protesters.
It’s a reasonable assumption.
Whatever happens, one thing is sure to be constant: Shimshon’s ignorant assholery.
Takes your “thoughts and prayers” and shove them up your worthless ass. @GregAbbott_TX
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
SIL in Austin watching Dallas news. They have a 7-11 surrounded.
re: #433 electrotek
Did you ask them what they think of Louie Gohmert?
No, I left the dumbest man in Congress out of it. The Mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings, is now on MSNBC.
I suspect that President Obama will be ordering the flag to half-staff later; I will need to send an E-mail to my village board to lower the village flags if that happens (there is a person who has agreed to do that for me while we are away).
Suspect in a garage. They’re trying to negotiate with him. He’s not cooperating. He’s shooting at them.
Also have a female suspect in custody.
Guys in Mercedes not yet dismissed. They’re being interviewed.
Listening to the press conference, they have said they don’t have a complete confidence level that they have all the suspects.
Suspect said “the end is coming”.
Said there are bombs all over the place.
3 DPD cops and 1 DART deceased.
re: #441 MsJ
Suspect said “the end is coming”.
Said there are bombs all over the place.
3 DPD cops and 1 DART deceased.
Christer Wingnut?
re: #440 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Listening to the press conference, they have said they don’t have a complete confidence level that they have all the suspects.
Definitely sounds like a well planned out thing.
Suspect they are negotiating with says there are bombs all over the place. What a nightmare.
re: #441 MsJ
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
re: #445 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
Was my momentary thought even before seeing this…
Maybe not ISIS, but some other religious fanatic.
re: #442 Teukka
Christer Wingnut?
Right now, other than the guy in the garage, too much unknown - including whether any of the other people are even involved.
re: #445 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
Not everything has to be inspired by DAESH. More likely, if these people are targeting the police for the two shootings by cops, they’re just a group that planned something. I do kind of wonder if they had some kind of inside knowledge on the protest coordination that was mentioned to have occurred between the police and protesters.
re: #445 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
To be fair, apocalyptic ravings aren’t just a Muslim affair. Plenty of Christians, Jews and other assorted faiths have violent eschatological beliefs.
re: #445 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
Either Daesh or y’AllQaeda.
re: #450 Belafon
Not everything has to be inspired by DAESH.
True, but ISIS did issue statements to the effect that BLM protests should be used to sow chaos.
They’re saying they believe there were 4 people involved, now. (I missed the beginning of the press conference.) Two in the garage, two in the car.
JFK book depository is right at the location where this all went down too. Not necessarily relevant. Just eerie.
re: #447 Nyet
Was my momentary thought even before seeing this…
Maybe not ISIS, but some other religious fanatic.
Or a Klan fanatic, or a white supremacist group … the police chief says it appears to be at least four shooters. He also seems to think there must have been some knowledge of the march to have planned such a thing.
He notes the police attended the planning meetings for the march (indicating the police in fact were working with the protesters to ensure a safe march).
They think all the people in custody, along with the guy in the garage, are all working together as they were triangulated in elevated structures.
No clue on motive. Don’t know much else now.
re: #451 Dr Lizardo
To be fair, apocalyptic ravings aren’t just a Muslim affair. Plenty of Christians, Jews and other assorted faiths have violent eschatological beliefs.
Could also be the end of that particular guy and he knows it.
Or he wanted a race war as an end game.
Totally unknown right now.
I would say that the holed up suspect is about to get blown up.
re: #455 GlutenFreeJesus
JFK book depository is right at the location where this all went down too. Not necessarily relevant. Just eerie.
I walked all around that part of Dallas one afternoon in April.
The sixth floor, looking up. pic.twitter.com/Hk0qGaJVqO
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) April 23, 2016
re: #461 Dave In Austin
I would say that the holed up suspect is about to get blown up.
Yeah, “the end” may indeed be coming - for him.
re: #460 MsJ
Could also be the end of that particular guy and he knows it.
Or he wanted a race war as an end game.
Totally unknown right now.
The language seems to be impersonal: “”The suspect has told our negotiators that the end is coming,” Brown said.”
MSNBC making a similar statement to that which NPR makes about such things, that ofttimes the press initially gets things wrong, and that information will change as more comes out.
As this evening’s tragic shooting in Dallas continues to unfold, Governor Abbott has spoken with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to express his condolences and offer any assistance from the State that the City of Dallas needs.
Additionally, the Governor is cutting short an out of state trip and will be heading directly to Dallas.
MSNBC notes that the police by making themselves so public in ensuring the safety of the protesters exposed themselves as unwitting targets.
re: #464 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, “the end” may indeed be coming - for him.
I’m sure they’d love to bring him in for Intel.
re: #462 teleskiguy
My SIL, bro, niece were there last weekend.
re: #445 Ziggy_TARDIS
Oh hell, could this be a another DAESH inspired lunatic?
Doubt it. I’ll bet on wingnuts trying to initiate the Race War. Just a guess, but killing Police overseeing a peaceful BLM parade down a street in Dallas points to shit-stirrers.
Any info on the race of the shooters?
That will absolutely be the story this morning.
Could be the end of the “system”, of course. Or the end as in detonation of the explosives as the end of the operation.
Graphic video aired by KDFW appears to show #Dallas shooting suspect firing on unknown individual pic.twitter.com/AxYtQqlDhW
— The Feed (@FeedNewsLive) July 8, 2016
re: #469 austin_blue
Doubt it. I’ll bet on wingnuts trying to initiate the Race War. Just a guess, but killing Police overseeing a peaceful BLM parade down a street in Dallas points to shit-stirrers.
Any info on the race of the shooters?
That will absolutely be the story this morning.
If they shared that information, it was in the part of the press conference I didn’t catch.
re: #458 Teukka
To quote Wonkette, Matt Drudge is a bungle****.
5 dead, 15 wounded in Bangladesh in a shooting at the end of Ramadan today.
re: #463 TedStriker
What a limp-dick pissant shitstirrer.
He has to be the most insecure successful internet entrepreneur of all time. He won’t even appear on camera for InfoWars! Dude lives a tortured life down there in Miami.
The 7-11 was being looted. Nothing to do with the shootings. :-/
No educated person thinks Obama is going to declare martial law. Grow the fuck up. @JakeDawson2311 @pressley_dawson
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
Oh, you’re being serious? @sarahnlayne pic.twitter.com/qaFzvm8gwh
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #474 teleskiguy
He has to be the most insecure successful internet entrepreneur of all time. He won’t even appear on camera for InfoWars! Dude lives a tortured life down there in Miami.
Odd thing is he used to have a TV show on FNC back in the day. He used to be a fairly public person. I wonder what changed that.
MSNBC showing video of police taking cover behind a police car, and a front wheel is hit and the bloody wheel is knocked sideways off the axle. That wasn’t an AR-15.
Holy. shit. This Vanity Fair reporting from two decades ago reads in a different way today. https://t.co/hA7965eZ6v pic.twitter.com/wXHdJt98ML
— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) July 7, 2016
“Not an anti-Semite”
@WalshFreedom Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down you sniveling, irrelevant piece of crap. Put a backpack of bricks on and swim. #Dallas
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) July 8, 2016
re: #478 Anymouse
MSNBC showing video of police taking cover behind a police car, and a front wheel is hit and the bloody wheel is knocked sideways off the axle. That wasn’t an AR-15.
That would be a Barrett .50 caliber rifle if that video is accurate.
re: #478 Anymouse
That has to be something like a .50 Cal Rifle to do something like that.
re: #478 Anymouse
MSNBC showing video of police taking cover behind a police car, and a front wheel is hit and the bloody wheel is knocked sideways off the axle. That wasn’t an AR-15.
Foxtrot.
Uniform.
Charlie.
Kilo.
re: #477 Dr Lizardo
Odd thing is he used to have a TV show on FNC back in the day. He used to be a fairly public person. I wonder what changed that.
He’s a deeply closeted homosexual, at least that’s the story with internet gossip.
I tend to believe this line of thinking.
re: #472 klys (maker of Silmarils)
If they shared that information, it was in the part of the press conference I didn’t catch.
Most of the questions at the press conference, the answer was “that has yet to be determined.”
Game changer if the suspects are white. They certainly tried to get away, perhaps hoping to disappear and leave someone else to take the blame, and the onslaught of hordes of enraged vigilantes. There are probably a million armed racists in the Metroplex.
re: #487 teleskiguy
He’s a deeply closeted homosexual, at least that’s the story with internet gossip.
I tend to believe this line of thinking.
Yeah, I’ve certainly heard that over the years……I wouldn’t be shocked one iota.
re: #482 Nyet
This first youtube comment (I know, I know) has 307 likes:
handrapist2 weeks ago
Enough. How long are they going to milk this for. Why did we liberate them again? Every single year another mediocre exaggerated prison camp movie, in English, by Hollywood.
Reply
307
re: #488 sagehen
Most of the questions at the press conference, the answer was “that has yet to be determined.”
Right, but the race of the three in custody should be pretty straightforward to determine, even if they don’t know it for the one in the garage.
I missed the beginning of the press conference though, and it’s possible that that information was given there. I doubt it, given that I haven’t seen anything on Twitter, but in situations like this I try to be clear about what I can speak to with knowledge and what I can’t.
re: #489 Shiplord Kirel
Game changer if the suspects are white. They certainly tried to get away, perhaps hoping to disappear and leave someone else to take the blame, and the onslaught of hordes of enraged vigilantes. There are probably a million armed racists in the Metroplex.
I don’t see how it changes much. Sandy Hook didn’t change anything. If it’s black people, then the whites will go on hating black people. If it’s white people, lots of thoughts and prayers will be offered for those affected by these extremists.
re: #489 Shiplord Kirel
Game changer if the suspects are white. They certainly tried to get away, perhaps hoping to disappear and leave someone else to take the blame, and the onslaught of hordes of enraged vigilantes. There are probably a million armed racists in the Metroplex.
Only a million? This is after all, Dallas.
Good lord that video they just played was unbelievable. How terrifying.
re: #489 Shiplord Kirel
Game changer if the suspects are white. They certainly tried to get away, perhaps hoping to disappear and leave someone else to take the blame, and the onslaught of hordes of enraged vigilantes. There are probably a million armed racists in the Metroplex.
If the suspects end up being white, there’s going to be a lot of people suddenly doing lot of tap dancing around that uncomfortable fact.
re: #497 austin_blue
Only a million? This is after all, Dallas.
We’re not all that bad. Not everyone has a gun either.
What. In. The. Ever. Loving. Fuck.
Dallas PD chief: Suspect told #Dallas PD negotiators ‘the end is coming… and there are bombs all over the place.’ https://t.co/xSXCT2GaHS
— ABC News (@ABC) July 8, 2016
re: #500 Lidane
If the suspects end up being white, there’s going to be a lot of people suddenly doing lot of tap dancing around that uncomfortable fact.
A bunch of “troubled” “lone wolves”.
Facebook video of DPD’s original person of interest, handing over his weapon to authorities
Via facebook live videohttps://t.co/hDmeV6T4sz— Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) July 8, 2016
re: #501 Belafon
Yeah, DFW, with a few exceptions (McKinney, Irving, Frisco) is fairly nice.
MSNBC now interviewing Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex). She believes it is a direct attempt to divide, and use a peaceful protest to assassinate police officers.
Brian Williams calling it “fiendish” especially in regard to how quickly it was executed. Rep. Lee concurs. She also opines (but does not assert) that outside agitators are likely the cause (and notes she was marching this evening in a protest in DC).
re: #504 FormerDirtDart
He’ll get it back. Good on him.
re: #493 Nyet
This first youtube comment (I know, I know) has 307 likes:
Nice handle. What as asshole.
re: #494 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Right, but the race of the three in custody should be pretty straightforward to determine, even if they don’t know it for the one in the garage.
I missed the beginning of the press conference though, and it’s possible that that information was given there. I doubt it, given that I haven’t seen anything on Twitter, but in situations like this I try to be clear about what I can speak to with knowledge and what I can’t.
It wasn’t given. I was listen in from the start.
re: #501 Belafon
We’re not all that bad. Not everyone has a gun either.
Hell, we all do in Austin. Libruls with gunz seem to make the Gaspers uncomfortable.
re: #509 MsJ
I went through the first few screens of comments. Not a single positive one. All are antisemitic, distasteful, chan-like and have numerous likes. Bet most of the folks are Trump supporters too.
re: #500 Lidane
If the suspects end up being white, there’s going to be a lot of people suddenly doing lot of tap dancing around that uncomfortable fact.
My first imagining (granted I have a vivid imagination)… is neo-Nazis trying to frame BLM for attacking cops, in hopes that the cops would retaliate against the protesters.
(Maybe because I’ve been watching “Aquarius”, a TV drama with David Duchovney as a cop investigating the Manson family the year before the Tate/LoBianco killings).
re: #504 FormerDirtDart
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One of the replies:
@MikeLeslieWFAA Very Professional cop given that 4 of his fellow cops had just been gunned down. Alot better than Lavoy Finicum was treated!
— Woo Guy (@NFLWooGuy) July 8, 2016
Did the guy not watch the video of Finicum reaching, twice?
Fox News is now blaming the Daesh (ISIS) for the Dallas shootings. They are so far down to inner core now.
— Knight of Cerebus (@SciOperative) July 8, 2016
Brian Williams now interviewing a protester. He has been in several protests before, and when the shooting started a block ahead of him and people started running, he directed running protesters away from the apparent centre of the shooting.
He points out the officers with the protesters were in that block ahead, and could not believe when he realised the shooters were targeting the police. He points out the police were being peaceful themselves before the shooting started, and ensuring the march was secure. They stayed on the periphery of the march after the speakers.
re: #513 sagehen
My first imagining (granted I have a vivid imagination)… is neo-Nazis trying to frame BLM for attacking cops, in hopes that the cops would retaliate against the protesters.
(Maybe because I’ve been watching “Aquarius”, a TV drama with David Duchovney as a cop investigating the Manson family the year before the Tate/LoBianco killings).
How is that show? Any good? The trailer I saw looked interesting.
re: #512 Nyet
I went through the first few screens of comments. Not a single positive one. All are antisemitic, distasteful, chan-like and have numerous likes. Bet most of the folks are Trump supporters too.
My country has lost its mind and its soul. It’s incredibly sad.
wtf.
I was out for a loverly evening with friends. Great dinner & drinks, no phones.
On my way home was the BBC on NPR.
what
Well, this situation isn’t going to have a lot of sunlight anytime soon, is it? I’m for the rack. Night all, sweet scaly dreams.
See, thing like that happens on the night before the election, and all the bets are off.
re: #513 sagehen
My first imagining (granted I have a vivid imagination)… is neo-Nazis trying to frame BLM for attacking cops, in hopes that the cops would retaliate against the protesters.
Not that far-fetched for Neo-Nazis or the Kook Klutz Klan IMO.
Help me catch up if you will
never seen Obama more exhaustedly try to distill his message in a way that wouldnt rile up racists. still death threats. from a CONGRESSMAN
— DVS (@DVSblast) July 8, 2016
re: #515 Kragar
Got to have blame established before the “Curvey Couch” and 5 million wingnuts tune in at 6.
The protester being interviewed says he saw one protester bring a rifle (open carry state and all), and when the shooting started he immediately gave his rifle to the police to ensure there was no confusion on his part (the police initially ran his picture as a suspect but retracted that statement, so expect to see his photo up on wingnuttia sites as one of the shooters).
Brian Williams noted that information (about the gun being turned over immediately) was confirmed from multiple sources (naming them).
re: #523 Stanley Sea
Help me catch up if you will
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This?
Let’s not let schmoes like @walshfreedom get away with this #DeletedTweet @secretservice #Dangerous pic.twitter.com/H6kzbUf4SV
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 8, 2016
I’m wondering if this will trigger a national shift in our attitude towards privacy and municipal cameras. We have always resisted following the London model where the average Londoner is on camera all day. I’ve always been uncomfortable with that level of public surveillance, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking it could be an option given the havoc that can be unleashed in an urban area by a single person with a powerful weapon.
re: #528 Stanley Sea
No, Joe Walsh.
There was a BLM protest in Dallas tonight. Peaceful, until the end when someone(s) started shooting at the police. Eleven officers hit, 4 have died. Completely unclear who the shooters were, as of right now.
That didn’t stop Joe Walsh from being a reactionary idiot.
re: #521 Nyet
That’s crazy talk. And, for fuck’s sake, somewhat plausible.
re: #528 Stanley Sea
Tom Collichio?
WTF. I am not understanding.
I heard on the BBC that 4 cops were killed.
Correct. Eleven shot, four killed. One known shooter still in the parking garage, it appears that the shooting was an ambush of police officers. There is also a concern there are bombs hidden around downtown Dallas.
re: #532 Stanley Sea
Walsh is not a congressman
Adding former might have run into Twitter character limits.
re: #514 Belafon
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Did the guy not watch the video of Finicum reaching, twice?
What in the ever loving fuck does this have to do with Finicum in the first place?
re: #517 Dr Lizardo
How is that show? Any good? The trailer I saw looked interesting.
I’ve been enjoying it; some of the subplots and characters (anti-war activists, Black Panthers, “women’s lib”, etc) are a bit 2-dimensional, but the costumes and music are excellent.
re: #529 InfidelOfFreedom
I’m wondering if this will trigger a national shift in our attitude towards privacy and municipal cameras. We have always resisted following the London model where the average Londoner is on camera all day. I’ve always been uncomfortable with that level of public surveillance, but I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking it could be an option given the havoc that can be unleashed in an urban area by a single person with a powerful weapon.
Guarantee you we won’t have one about guns.
re: #536 BeachDem
What in the ever loving fuck does this have to do with Finicum in the first place?
Guns. Assholes. SSDD.
re: #533 Anymouse
Correct. Eleven shot, four killed. One known shooter still in the parking garage, it appears that the shooting was an ambush of police officers. There is also a concern there are bombs hidden around downtown Dallas.
Several still in surgery; death toll could rise.
re: #540 Stanley Sea
WAS. Whoever put it in present tense is incorrect.
I’d think character limitations. That was a long tweet.
I read the comment as Congressman blah blah hate kill
Thought it was a real Congressman.
Catching up. I apologize, Just gonna read.
re: #537 sagehen
I’ve been enjoying it; some of the subplots and characters (anti-war activists, Black Panthers, “women’s lib”, etc) are a bit 2-dimensional, but the costumes and music are excellent.
OK. I was curious as to that program….it looks interesting and has a fascinating premise; what was Manson up to in the period leading up to the Tate/LaBianca murders.
Possibly they just flash banged the suspect in the garage.
Blast heard in the last few minutes from the parking garage. Reporter thinks it might have been a police device (such as a flash grenade) because the reporters were warned by police first.
re: #521 Nyet
See, thing like that happens on the night before the election, and all the bets are off.
And there is one party and certainly one candidate that I don’t trust at all not to try to make sure a “thing like that” happens.
Watched “All the President’s Men” again tonight. Highly recommend it to anyone who doesn’t know that the Repubs have been yoooge ratfuckers for decades. Also to anyone too young to remember that there was once something called journalism.
re: #542 MsJ
I’d think character limitations. That was a long tweet.
The point of the tweet was to express outrage that it was done by a congressman. “Former” is not a secondary detail here…
re: #547 MsJ
Are PD’s allowed to use frags?
I have a cat curled up on my desk, asleep and dreaming, paws twitching.
re: #552 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Pics or never happened. /
re: #550 Nyet
The point of the tweet was to express outrage that it was done by a congressman. “Former” is not a secondary detail here…
that fuck shouldn’t ever be considered as anything but a RWNJ trying to make $.
re: #539 MsJ
Guns. Assholes. SSDD.
Oh, I know—but the comparison of a guy turning a gun over to police vs. an asshole running a roadblock and then reaching for his gun for a shootout is—well, not really a comparison at all.
I need to go to bed—this shit is making me crazy.
re: #555 Stanley Sea
that fuck shouldn’t ever be considered as anything but a RWNJ trying to make $.
A walshed up has-been.
re: #551 Dave In Austin
Are PD’s allowed to use frags?
I’d imagine they can use almost anything they want. It’s a new American century.
Someone said they may have neutralized a device belonging to the suspect. I find that hard to believe when the guy is shooting at them.
re: #554 Nyet
I don’t even get why he likes the messy desk but it’s a favorite for naps. pic.twitter.com/0tXU3So9Oh
— sylk (@sylk) July 8, 2016
re: #522 Teukka
Not that far-fetched for Neo-Nazis or the Kook Klutz Klan IMO.
As much as they yammer about false flag ops, it would not be a surprise if a gang of them decided to try it. In true gun-shop commando/movie ninja fashion, they would also be likely to overestimate their ability to get away free and clear.
re: #556 BeachDem
Oh, I know—but the comparison of a guy turning a gun over to police vs. an asshole running a roadblock and then reaching for his gun for a shootout is—well, not really a comparison at all.
I need to go to bed—this shit is making me crazy.
I must have misunderstood. The guy who turned over his gun is just some average Texan who loves to carry around his massive penis shooting machine. I didn’t mean to refer to him as an asshole. Just an average Murkin!
re: #560 Shiplord Kirel
“they would also be likely to overestimate their ability to get away free and clear.”
This is something I’ve never understood about the gun owners who seem to think that they can take on their local PD and the military at the same time, and win.
re: #562 MsJ
I must have misunderstood. The guy who turned over his gun is just some average Texan who loves to carry around his massive
penisshooting machine. I didn’t mean to refer to him as an asshole. Just an average Murkin!
All open-carry-in-public types are assholes by def…
re: #561 mroop
This reeks of militia nutbags to me.
I have to agree. That was my first thought. Shitstirrers.
.@DianaZogaFox4 says hearing explosions from direction of El Centro parking garage. Possibly flash grenades to use to surprise suspect.
— Steve Eagar (@steveeagar) July 8, 2016
re: #562 MsJ
I must have misunderstood. The guy who turned over his gun is just some average Texan who loves to carry around his massive
penisshooting machine. I didn’t mean to refer to him as an asshole. Just an average Murkin!
If ya noticed the officer who took possession gave him a receipt for the weapon. He can prolly get it back next week.
re: #562 MsJ
I must have misunderstood. The guy who turned over his gun is just some average Texan who loves to carry around his massive
penisshooting machine. I didn’t mean to refer to him as an asshole. Just an average Murkin!
I know you didn’t—I was just disgusted with the tweeter, who had to relate it to Finnicum, even though it had nothing to do with him and wasn’t even an apt comparison.
One last sick thought, then I really should go to bed.
Wonder where CCJ was flying to yesterday.
re: #560 Shiplord Kirel
As much as they yammer about false flag ops, it would not be a surprise if a gang of them decided to try it. In true gun-shop commando/movie ninja fashion, they would also be likely to overestimate their ability to get away free and clear.
If they’ve really got .50 caliber rifles like someone said, that proves they’re not BLM people. They’re either right wing domestic terrorists or jihadis. I think the probability of the former is well over 50%.
Just catching up—it’s been a long night.
I don’t care if you use your gun to shoot rattlesnakes at your ranch.
But if you’re gonna appear in a public square with your rifle, you’re an ass and maybe close to a sociopath, and shouldn’t have the gun in the first place.
IMHO.
Lidane just retweeted this.
This. Is. Important.
Any political spin done tonight was baseless and pure speculation. #Dallas https://t.co/VyncG8I2Qq— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 8, 2016
Speaking of CCJ, is he still on teh Twitters? What are his last 5 handles I wonder?
re: #576 Dave In Austin
The less said about that creature, the better.
re: #571 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If they’ve really got .50 caliber rifles like someone said, that proves they’re not BLM people. They’re either right wing domestic terrorists or jihadis. I think the probability of the former is well over 50%.
Just catching up—it’s been a long night.
If they were in fact using a .50 caliber sniper rifle, that seems to me RW militia types. More so than your average would-be jihadist.
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Walsh is not only a total asshat, but a cowardly, lying one as well.
My version of Firefox weirded out. Everything on my computer froze that was running. Rebooted and back.
One protester on MSNBC noting that when the gunfire started a police officer pushed him down and out of the way, and credited him with saving his life.
Brian Williams calling it “urban warfare” and the protester “an all-American guy.”
re: #570 mroop
I’ve seen Red Dawn many times. Love the movie, but I realize it’s just that, a movie. I was surprised when I realized a couple years ago that many right-wingers think the things they saw in the 24 series were real. I can’t see Keifer Sutherland fighting real terrorists, I just can’t. Now, if anyone wants him to sing, he can do that. He was here in my city in Middle GA performing at a local venue a couple weeks ago.
re: #583 majii
I’ve seen Red Dawn many times. Love the movie, but I realize it’s just that, a movie. I was surprised when I realized a couple years ago that many right-wingers think the things they saw in the 24 series were real. I can’t see Keifer Sutherland fighting real terrorists, I just can’t. Now, if anyone wants him to sing, he can do that. He was here in my city in Middle GA performing at a local venue a couple weeks ago.
One of my personal fave performances of Keifer Sutherland was in Dark City.
re: #572 Nyet
I don’t care if you use your gun to shoot rattlesnakes in your ranch.
But if you’re gonna appear in a public square with your rifle, you’re an ass and maybe close to a sociopath, and shouldn’t have the gun in the first place.
IMHO.
Well, there would be a bit of difference if I were walking from my house to the river with my shotgun to go hunting (a very rural area and a village of 128 people) versus open-carrying a rifle or pistol in the middle of a metropolis.
re: #569 BeachDem
I know you didn’t—I was just disgusted with the tweeter, who had to relate it to Finnicum, even though it had nothing to do with him and wasn’t even an apt comparison.
One last sick thought, then I really should go to bed.
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re: #585 Anymouse
Well, there would be a bit of difference if I were walking from my house to the river with my shotgun to go hunting (a very rural area and a village of 128 people) versus open-carrying a rifle or pistol in the middle of a metropolis.
Yup. You got my idea.
re: #576 Dave In Austin
Speaking of CCJ, is he still on teh Twitters? What are his last 5 handles I wonder?
Not a complete list: @ Chuckcj0hnson, cantcuckchuck, gingerharbinger, ChuckCJohnson2 — the first and last have been the most active, mostly pointing to WeSearchr and GotNewsDotCom and retweeting alt right and pro-Trump shit
re: #571 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
If they’ve really got .50 caliber rifles like someone said, that proves they’re not BLM people. They’re either right wing domestic terrorists or jihadis. I think the probability of the former is well over 50%.
Just catching up—it’s been a long night.
The Barrett .50 is an icon to militia types, many of whom believe it can stop tanks.
re: #587 Teukka
Not a sick thought. Valid concern.
He did say he was flying somewhere yesterday. He does have kind of a ghoulish fascination with the book depository in Dallas. And we know he hate BLM with a passion. Just thinking out loud…
re: #590 Shiplord Kirel
The Barrett .50 is an icon to militia types, many of whom believe it can stop tanks.
Precisely. That’s one of their dream guns.
Whatever is transpiring in the parking garage, I hope they capture him alive. You can’t get information from a corpse.
The Dallas police chief noting there was fire from three different places at different elevations.
re: #594 Anymouse
Whatever is transpiring in the parking garage, I hope they capture him alive. You can’t get information from a corpse.
The Dallas police chief noting there was fire from three different places at different elevations.
May the patron saints of law enforcement and criminal investigation smile upon them :)
re: #591 mroop
It’s a goof. It was directed by John Frankenheimer - right wing nut job. Militia groups were big in the Pacific Northwest robbing banks and stuff like that. They murdered a Alan Berg - Jewish talk show host. The movie on that is Talk Radio, which is based on Alan Berg.
Actually, Red Dawn was written and directed by John Milius, who is also a RWNJ.
I spent some time with Luntz when he was still teaching at Penn. Privately, he was partisan but not a bad guy. Definitely had some insightful ideas about how people react to words. But that was a long time ago, and the Fox gravy train is pretty compelling.
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#BREAKING ~ A fourth Dallas PD officer has died after Thursday night’s shooting in downtown. Total of 5 officers now dead.
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) July 8, 2016
Local Dallas station (CBS 11) is reporting a fifth police officer has died.
Unrelated to tonight’s horrific news:
It cost me $5 in gasoline to drive from my house in the Nebraska Panhandle to Torrington, Wyo., and $11 from Torrington to Sundance.
I love how cheap my car is to drive. Will need to go to bed soon (though not quite yet), as after Devil’s Tower the press will be to get to Saskatchewan.
RWNJs continually deride this man as nothing but a riot instigator and hater.
Prayers for the victims of all violence tonight.
— deray mckesson (@deray) July 8, 2016
Whatever, man.
A law abiding citizen was unnecessarily detained while exercising his 2nd Amendment right in an open carry state. https://t.co/gTbcn3xW2d
— ☔️ April ☔️ (@ReignOfApril) July 8, 2016
#BREAKING: 5th officer has died after shootings in downtown Dallas, according to Dallas Police Association. https://t.co/OEna8pX3ZT
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) July 8, 2016
Hey, man, I’m with this dude.
Why would anyone #PrayforAmerica when it hasn’t prevented any of the previous tragedies? America needs people who can take action, not God.
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 8, 2016
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The reliable Charles C. Johnson is reporting on his awarding winning web site that this guy is a convicted pedophile. He has what appears to be a screen shot of an official record that states, “Carnal knowledge of a juvenile”. If this is correct, then I’m not feeling so bad for family man Alton Sterling.
re: #599 Nyet
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I was kinda pissed earlier today, hearing POTUS tow the line.
I was in meat world during this shitshow. But hearing 4 cops dead, now 5?
I have nothing.
night.
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Not one article has mentioned that this guy had to be selling illegal bootleg cd’s and movies. I guess it’s not relevant, but it is funny when they call him a cd salesman. It doesn’t sound so good if they call him a bootlegger. The RIAA and MPAA are outraged.
re: #605 Kragar
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Local TV station just got finished interviewing Mark Hughes (the guy in camo who was open-carrying a rifle at the protest). There has been video relased showing him handing his weapon over to Dallas police immediately after the firing started and getting a business card from one of the officers. Later on, they posted his picture online as a “person of interest” even though they already had his weapon - and proceeded to interrogate him accusing him of killing police - up until the video showing his cooperating with police surfaced. Dallas PD still confiscated his clothing and his weapon and are refusing to return either to him, and are not even acknowledging his cooperation, or apologizing for detaining him unneccessarily.
re: #611 Nyet
That person is a valuable and indispensable contributor to this place. They’re just being honest! -274 Karma to 193 comments. That’s impressive. The clueless nature of mroop couldn’t be more clear.
re: #616 Bill and Opus for 2016!
I imagine there are plenty of touchy folks around Dallas tonight.
DART grieving the loss of Ofc Brent Thompson, 43, killed during Thurs protest. First DART officer killed in line of duty. Joined DART 2009.
— dartmedia (@dartmedia) July 8, 2016
How will the NRA react if police unions are the next group to take them on? I just don’t see them capitulating, even to cops. How would their lackeys in Congress respond?
An analyst at MSNBC notes that when the firing started, the police did what they are trained to do: Get the parts of the car that are hardest to fire through (the engine block, &c) between them and the gunfire.
Because of the elevation of the shooters (and the different positions), that strategy was not helpful: Gunfire coming in from different directions would negate that strategy.
(The analyst served in the Iraq War and noted this was one strategy of insurgents to attack troops or police, for the same reason.)
re: #616 Bill and Opus for 2016!
Local TV station just got finished interviewing Mark Hughes (the guy in camo who was open-carrying a rifle at the protest). There has been video relased showing him handing his weapon over to Dallas police immediately after the firing started and getting a business card from one of the officers. Later on, they posted his picture online as a “person of interest” even though they already had his weapon - and proceeded to interrogate him accusing him of killing police - up until the video showing his cooperating with police surfaced. Dallas PD still confiscated his clothing and his weapon and are refusing to return either to him, and are not even acknowledging his cooperation, or apologizing for detaining him unneccessarily.
You know, there was/is a lot of confusion with what was going on. Yes, they fucked up but FFS, they have more to worry about than issuing apologies to some open carry freaks at the moment. He will get his gun back.
KTVT found the man Dallas Police earlier called a shooting suspect. He’s pissed. pic.twitter.com/wXhmGektYo
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) July 8, 2016
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I try like hell not to get worked up by anything, but when I see the words of an ass such as yourself, I fail miserably. I’m going to go fix a bike.
That is not good for you. You shouldn’t let the internet upset you so much, not healthy.
We did not choose the route of the protest. Dallas PD chose the route of the protest. We followed the route they decided on.
— Glow Gawddd (@onewhoisheard) July 8, 2016
re: #615 Nyet
Strange, I knew that Sterling was selling CDs. I wonder how I could have possibly learned that living in Florida…
And, I wasn’t aware selling CDs was punishable by death. I mean, I know it’s been the punishment for selling “loosies” in Staten Island. But CDs?
Too many media headlines are making it sound like the original protestors are the ones who killed the police.
Mark Hughes and his brother are getting death threats because of mistaken identification as ‘person of interest’
— Karoli (@Karoli) July 8, 2016
re: #627 freetoken
Would these be the same ones who allowed the cops to participate in the planning and posed for photos with them earlier?
Stupid fucks.
re: #625 Kragar
I’d hate to find out it was some disgruntled cops that did this. I’m ashamed to be even thinking it.
re: #626 FormerDirtDart
Strange, I knew that Sterling was selling CDs. I wonder how I could have possibly learned that living in Florida…
And, I wasn’t aware selling CDs was punishable by death. I mean, I know it’s been the punishment for selling “loosies” in Staten Island. But CDs?
Moreover, I did not see it reported that they were “bootleg” CDs (though that may be because I simply did not see where that was reported).
Hopefully this clears up why mroop = ding on sight and why his karma is so low?
re: #630 GlutenFreeJesus
Doubling up on that remark? /s
re: #633 Anymouse
Heh. Phone hiccuped for a sec.
When I jumped onto the computer and saw the headline, and over 600 comments already, I knew it would be bad.
I have a lot to catch up on
re: #631 Anymouse
Moreover, I did not see it reported that they were “bootleg” CDs (though that may be because I simply did not see where that was reported).
The CD sellers on the sidewalk on Broadway… are selling used. Along with LP’s, paperback books, videotapes, etc.
re: #632 Nyet
Hopefully this clears up why mroop = ding on sight and why his karma is so low?
I replied to his CCJ comments and downdinged him, then reviewed some of his other comments. He sounds like a concern troll, dropping a few random remarks then skipping out after he stirs the pot.
Guy needs a better hobby.
re: #628 Kragar
If one of them gets killed it will be a huge fucking lawsuit.
re: #636 sagehen
The CD sellers on the sidewalk on Broadway… are selling used. Along with LP’s, paperback books, videotapes, etc.
What’s next, sellers on E-bay?
Fox4 in Dallas reporting shooter in garage has shot himself.
re: #637 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Not the first time too (thus the karma). Then he engages in a friendly chit-chat, like in this thread. And people upding him.
Only group of people happy with tonight’s massacre in Dallas are the Conservatives. Now they can slander liberals, the mainstream media, and the black community for the rest of the election year.
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re: #642 DodgerFan1988
Only group of people happy with tonight’s massacre in Dallas are the Conservatives. Now they can slander liberals, the mainstream media, and the black community for the rest of the election year.
Depends on who the shooters are.
re: #641 Nyet
Not the first time too (thus the karma). Then he engages in a friendly chit-chat, like in this thread. And people upding him.
Well, approvingly referring to CCJ as “usually reliable” was the tip-off for me. mroop either has no idea what he talking about, or he’s failing at being sarcastic.
re: #640 KingKenrod
Fox4 in Dallas reporting shooter in garage has shot himself.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all. The majority of mass shooters usually have no intention of being taken alive.
Understatement now on MSNBC: “we could hear from some quarters the connexion drawn between his remarks yesterday and the mass murder tonight in Dallas.”
#Dallas pic.twitter.com/rmVFVyaq4L
— Joao Barao (@jbarao85) July 8, 2016
re: #648 Nyet
If they are anything right-wing, Walsh better hide.
Hopefully he’ll get a call from the Secret Service asking if he has time to sit down for a chat for an hour or two.
Isn’t he the guy who yelled during President Obama’s State of the Union speech “you lie?”
re: #651 mroop
I recognized the first part as sarcasm. This one, not so much.
He has what appears to be a screen shot of an official record that states, “Carnal knowledge of a juvenile”. If this is correct, then I’m not feeling so bad for family man Alton Sterling.
Typhoon Nepartak made landfall in Taiwan, with heavy rains and high winds
It’s now barrelling toward Fujian province on the mainland.
re: #653 Anymouse
Hopefully he’ll get a call from the Secret Service asking if he has time to sit down for a chat for an hour or two.
Isn’t he the guy who yelled during President Obama’s State of the Union speech “you lie?”
Yep, same assclown.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate if a dead black man was a pedophile based on something one read on a “very reliable” (psyke!) Chuck Johnson site.
re: #655 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Typhoon Nepartak made landfall in Taiwan, with heavy rains and high winds
It’s now barrelling toward Fujian province on the mainland.
That is some serious damage.
re: #662 Blind Frog Belly White
Nope. Different Joe W, That was Joe WILSON, from SC.
Ah, OK. I stand corrected.
re: #651 mroop
If you don’t recognize sarcasm then I feel sorry for you. Usually reliable! That’s funny. I also called him an award winning journalist. That might have been a tip off.
Sorry, but typed words do not convey sarcasm reliably. That’s why we use the slash / to convey sarcastic intent. You might try using them, so that we understand your intent better.
As someone who doesn’t comment around here much, you might make yourself more welcome by engaging in a conversation, rather than trying to be “funny.”
Also, stuff it.
re: #663 Anymouse
That is some serious damage.
I think the winds peaked at 160 mph while still at sea.
KXAS in Dallas is reporting the suspect in the parking garage “was neutralised.” They do not say whether he killed himself or they did. Police are now packing up guns and equipment, so it would appear that is over.
The question remains if there are in fact bombs around the city, which the police, the FBI, and the ATF will investigate. There are no more press conferences scheduled for the evening.
Just a note to watch out, fake news sites are currently reporting IDs for the shooters. I’m not linking here, but I’ve seen two different names from two different fake Twitters so far.
Also seeing more places saying the “threat is neutralized” but nothing on the official Twitters yet.
OK that somehow passed below my radar.
Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied for years
I hate such people.
Joseph Hirt said he fabricated story of being sent to camp and meeting Nazi doctor Josef Mengele to ‘keep memories alive’ about history of the Holocaust
Congrats, idiot, you just threw the deniers a huge juicy bone. Fucker.
Brian Williams keeps calling it “urban combat,” which this sort of looks like.
re: #674 Anymouse
Brian Williams keeps calling it “urban combat,” which this sort of looks like.
I agree. They set up a “kill box”.
I keep waiting for the “fever to break”. It just gets worse.
Eric Trump says sister Ivanka should be GOP running mate because of her “beautiful looks” https://t.co/FgCMULOpoJ pic.twitter.com/tD6aUu6s4b
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 8, 2016
Everything about this family is wrong. https://t.co/TMTaM6N0fc
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 8, 2016
STOP THE PRESSES! A new front page…
MADNESS
- Snipers shoot 11 cops, killing 4 in Dallashttps://t.co/YONYVTn0ks pic.twitter.com/S7uQ4fppTF— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 8, 2016
Friday’s cover: 4 cops killed in Dallas tragedy https://t.co/NpUskqqtLt pic.twitter.com/tlqx0P721y
— New York Post (@nypost) July 8, 2016
re: #673 Nyet
Look at him go:
And the so-called journalists of course never bothered to find out whether he was really an Auschwitz survivor (it’s not hard to do; I could do that in 5 minutes if I only knew his “number”, which he stole from Primo Levi btw).
re: #677 goddamnedfrank
Ever seen Yuzna’s Society? That scene at the end is peak Trump family.
re: #678 FormerDirtDart
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right wing yesterday: let’s not jump to conclusions, we don’t know the whole story
right wing today: pic.twitter.com/vD3ppdXqnt— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 8, 2016
.@shaunrabbfox4 reporting that shooting suspect involved in standoff at El Centro with DPD has shot himself.
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) July 8, 2016
re: #453 Nyet
True, but ISIS did issue statements to the effect that BLM protests should be used to sow chaos.
I’ve been lurking since around midnight when I woke up and saw BREAKING news about this from the BBC show up in the push alerts of my iPad. Within the first hour I began wondering if Da’esh my have a hand in it, even if indirectly.
They’ve gotten really good at recruiting online and I assume that they, like AQ before them, also use their websites (and perhaps social media) to publish instructions on how to carry out terrorist attacks, especially mass shootings, which seem to be all the rage at the moment—not surprising since guns are so easily accessible.
I mean, one wouldn’t necessarily need to be Muslim to take advantage of the info the terrorist groups provide. I’m thinking specifically of an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” type of mentality. There are elements both here & abroad that would love to see the U.S. descend into chaos and become a first-world failed state.
Also, when this kind of crap goes down, how do we know who’s behind the (non-official) tweets we see? We don’t—it could be anyone trying to make a bad situation worse and attempting to turn people/groups against each other.
re: #685 CuriousLurker
Yeah, once out there, the info can be used by anyone.
re: #680 Nyet
Ever seen Yuzna’s Society? That scene at the end is peak Trump family.
Um no and now I’m scared to.
4th suspect died from self inflicted wounds according to CBS News.
re: #675 Single-handed sailor
I agree. They set up a “kill box”.
This also—urban combat is something groups like Da’esh have a lot of experience in.
re: #687 goddamnedfrank
Um no and now I’m scared to.
It is pretty sick if you are not into body horror. I posted it yesterday when we were discussing whether the Trump family members all fuck each other, because it sure seems that way. ;)
G’night, Lizards.
I’m hoping for a better day tomorrow.
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re: #691 klys (maker of Silmarils)
G’night, Lizards.
I’m hoping for a better day tomorrow.
Same here. Gonna try to go back to sleep.
Later, lizards.
@CNN just suggested #Dallas shooters are fringe group and are not mentally well. Y’all know what that means.
— Marissa (@southards_3) July 8, 2016
#BrianWilliams right now pic.twitter.com/3amRjo5m5J
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
re: #689 CuriousLurker
This also—urban combat is something groups like Da’esh have a lot of experience in.
Aye. Hence why they are #2 on my list of suspects.
re: #695 Kragar
CNN has realized the true nature of Breitbart “News”?
The Dallas standoff is over, a city spokeswoman tells us. https://t.co/yK0436MDFB
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) July 8, 2016
Ah duh derp…
Houston Craigslist: crisis actors needed in Houston July 4-6th.
— Dan Bidondi (@DanBidondi) July 8, 2016
EVERY mass shooting drills take place same area prior to live shooting
Noticed that NBC is pushing that NYPost incendiary front page:
#EvolutionDebunked #Evolution pic.twitter.com/GkXQHxuJ16
— Dan Bidondi (@DanBidondi) July 7, 2016
re: #702 freetoken
Noticed that NBC is pushing that NYPost incendiary front page:
Fucking careless bastards.
re: #703 Nyet
Judging by the spelling, I’d say whoever produced that nonsense was Exhibit A in the throwback line.
re: #703 Nyet
That’s such a 19th century gimmick.
In general, I don’t want people to die from violence.
In specific, I don’t want people to die from violence that is the product of assumptions about inherent threat and collective guilt.
Mercy and compassion are not zero-sum.
I mourn for these officers and their loved ones.
That is all.
re: #703 Nyet
Rhode Island #EducationDebunked
@skynewsmichelle link?
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 8, 2016
Seems reports of neo-nazi shooter also in #Dallas fake. 3 suspects in custody. Unconfirmed reports another suspect shot himself #BLM
— Michelle Clifford (@skynewsmichelle) July 8, 2016
re: #711 Nyet
Ppl saying based on a fake.
I’ll wait for confirmation from the Dallas PD or whatnot. I imagine the three suspects (IIRC) in custody are being interrogated as we speak.
re: #711 Nyet
Deleted it till something more concrete shows up
This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him! pic.twitter.com/Na5T8ZxSz6
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
Why is this tweet still up? Cleared hours ago, just reckless as all fuck to continue mislabeling him as a suspect. https://t.co/tCiaWtuX9N
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 8, 2016
The narrative has been set: “Obama posted this message saying (I didn’t read it but basically it musta said) all cops are murderers and then somebody understood that it’s okay to go out shoot down a bunch of cops. Because BLM hates police and wants to kill them all, and I endorse this message.”
I was sure getting fed up with all the European Cup nonsense here in Europe, but boy, am I glad to be an expat right now…
re: #714 goddamnedfrank
Why is this tweet still up? Cleared hours ago, just reckless as all fuck to continue mislabeling him as a suspect.
because, according to the RW narrative, he is just the sort of fellow who would be inspired by Obama to go on a police shooting spree…because Black Lives Matter but Police Lives obviously Don’t.
This can only get uglier, regardless of who the shooter turns out to be…
re: #703 Nyet
Of course a human being much over eight feet in height would risk breaking bones is they stood up.
There’a a reason Apatosaurs and elephants have the same body shape. It’s the only shape that can support such massive weight on land.
re: #604 teleskiguy
I continue to admire and support Deray. I don’t recall seeing him falter or lose his imperative: his message has been constant and focused on peace and justice.
He’s hated because of this.
re: #692 TK-421
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