I'm so tired of this. 4 confirmed dead in a mall shooting outside of Seattle. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/us/washington-mall-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn What is wrong with this world?
What the fuck is wrong with people? Seriously... I'm absolutely fucking amazed at what that video shows.
I honestly have no idea what is going on in colleges these days. Heaven forbid you have your own ideas instead of some pussy micro-trigger. How about historical fact that free blacks owned slaves? Or that numerous countries didn't outlaw slavery until after America? Or that a college education isn't a fucking privilege? Nobody owes you an education after high school. Work hard, gain a scholarship, and graduate debt free.
Pronouns do not matter. Opinions do not matter. "Culture apporopriation" is not real and does not matter. Microaggressions are both not real and do not matter. What happened 160 years ago no longer matters. This generation of Participation Ribbon-demanding youth is in for a very, VERY rude awakening when they realize the career-driven working world isn't go into apologize or slow down and feel sorry for them. It's also not going to get them a career in the first place because they majored in genders studies. Snowflakes are going to melt.
New Orleans is set to join the party today. A group of protesters is going to march to Jackson Square with plans to destroy the statue of Andrew Jackson. David Duke and his assholes will be attending. http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/nopd-prepares-for-protests-at-jackson-statue/324884934
I'm sure that will end peacefully. In other shitty news, a fifth person has died in the mall shooting and the suspect is still on the loose.
Trump threatens to bring Bill Clinton's ex-mistress Gennifer Flowers to the debate... That's the craziest/funniest troll attempt I've heard in a while. Dear god.
Videos from Charlotte were released. They don't clearly show his hands, but a gun was recovered with his DNA and fingerprints, and he was wearing an ankle holster like some witnesses claimed. I'm sure this will calm everyone down.
Meanwhile, one of the main witnesses of the event has been shown to be wrong in her recollection. She said she saw him get out of the truck, with his hands up, holding a black book. That video shows that he never got out of the truck with his hands up... It could be that they don't want to release the videos right away in order to get official statements from witnesses on record before they become tainted with any other sources. In this case, now that the video has been seen, we can pretty safely discount that witness who was claiming that he wasn't doing anything wrong and that it was just white cops shooting a black man. Here's the video of her statement at the scene: https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/778663856763604992
In the dashboard video it looks like an ankle holster on his right leg. That's what I thought before I heard there was a holster in evidence. His pant leg is up so he must have been messing with it at some point (ankle holsters are deep conceal, not open carry unless you just want it to be just super fucking inconvenient). Beyond that, everything just else doesn't give me enough evidence to armchair quarterback one way or another. Not sure the drugs mean anything other than probable cause. Yeah he has a gun as a convicted felon, but that's not relevant in my opinion whether or not the shooting was justified. It is frustrating though to hear people talk about how the cops "shoot to kill." No you idiots, they don't shoot to kill, they shoot to hit. Center mass. Movies are not real life. You shoot someone in the shoulder, there's a major artery there (same thing with the legs). Never mind that it's more difficult to hit a smaller target like an extremity with the massive amount of adrenaline the cops are fighting, never mind that there's a greater chance of someone other than the target getting hit with a round either from a miss or a pass-through. You shoot center mass, and you keep shooting until the threat no longer poses a threat.
When people say "they shoot to kill", it really means they only shoot someone with the expectation of killing them. They don't fire warning shots, or shoot to disarm, or anything like that.
I wasn't able to hear the commands he was being given too well. Was he doing something specifically against the instructions he was being given?
Gee, imagine that... That's pretty much the MO of every single BLM riot....embracing a false narrative, causing millions of dollars in damage, and in the end the false narrative is imprinted on many people's mind as fact.
Not to beat a dead horse, but not everyone thinks rationally or with common sense. The family claims he had a brain injury. Normally I'd doubt a claim like that, but while the encounter was happening his wife yelled, "He has a TBI!" It would be odd to make up a lie like that in the heat of the moment, never mind to use the correct acronym while her husband was being killed. So, if this man was in some way cognitively impaired, that would perhaps explain the odd behaviour. It's very easy to armchair quarterback when you haven't had a gun suddenly pointed at you. I'm not suggesting that in this specific case the shooting was unjustified. I'm trying to interject some empathy towards the fact that a number of factors could inhibit someone from doing what they're told. That's why police need way more training and their threshold for life threatening behaviour must me much higher than the general public.
Apparently the suspect in the Washington shooting, while a Turkish immigrant, might not have acted as a terrorist. He allegedly went to the makeup counter where his ex girlfriend used to work and screamed her name as he fired. Mass shooting perpetrators have only two demographics, it seems: - Young adult male, who is a radicalized Islamic fundamentalist. - Young adult male, who is a loner with mental health issues. I can't think of too many exceptions. The husband/wife team in California last year. The Columbine shooters (although one was under control or the other, who was a clinical sociopath). Dangerous to a society to have the idle, unfocused young males left to their own devices. It's going to get even better when the HUGE generation in India and throughout Asia comes of age and never dates or marries, because genders selective abortions upset the balance. But that's a whole other thread.
I see your point but on the flip side of this, we have the growing concern for copycats based on televised footage of the event. Don't you think that if we took more time and more effort to shine a light on the shooters actual motives and to understand them would invite even more mass shootings, where people who feel marginalized now know that people will pay very close attention to them and their thoughts/feelings? I think this should be done behind the scenes to understand the makeup of a mass shooter and maybe it is but I think publicly, in the media, we should report the facts of the event and leave it at that.