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Nearly 400 good guys with guns standing around for more than an hour while the shooter killed more kids and others were allowed to just bleed to death. Because no one knew who was supposed to be in charge?

Uvalde School Police Chief Helped Write Active Shooter Plan That Put Him in Charge

Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who has faced mounting criticism over his handling of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, insists that he didn’t think he was the incident commander at the time. Yet, a report detailing the failed police response found that claim dubious, as Arredondo was the only person who could have been in charge under the school district’s active shooter plan, which was co-authored by Arredondo himself. As KHOU11 reported, Arredondo classified the mass shooting as a “barricaded subject” situation rather than an “active shooter” situation, a miscalculation that the state congressional committee investigating the response named as likely the biggest error of the day. Of the botched classification, the committee wrote, “With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that this was a terrible, tragic mistake.”

Read it at KHOU11


https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvald...shooter-plan-that-made-him-commander?ref=home

 

Another far right extremist neo Nazi armed by treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans

Indiana mall gunman posted 'grim message' to 4chan hours before attack: report

Sky Palma
July 20, 2022




Jonathan Sapirman, the 20-year-old gunman who opened fire in a suburban mall near Indianapolis on Sunday, apparently posted a message to 4chan with an ominous message hours before , VICE News reports.

Sapirman killed three people and wounded two others before he was shot and killed by a bystander who was carrying his own weapon. In his 4chan post, he declared that "today seems like a good day to die" and included an image of a wedding being carried out in Nazi Germany. He also shared an image to the Imgur, that included several images of himself wearing a white button-down shirt, blue jeans, a face-covering, and posing with two AR-15-style rifles, a handgun, and multiple magazines.

"Police have not yet identified any clear motive in the attack. At a press conference Monday, they said the shooter had left his laptop in a heated oven, alongside a can of butane, and submerged his cellphone in the toilet," VICE News reports. "Police did not speculate on the reasons the shooter did this but said investigators were trying to acquire as much information from the damaged devices as they could. The FBI took the damaged laptop to their lab in Quantico for further analysis. Police told VICE News that they were familiar with the comments and images purportedly posted by the gunman prior to the attack."

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As VICE News points out, 4chan has been the preferred platform for numerous ideologically motivated mass killers, including the Buffalo supermarket mass shooter and the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque attacker.

“This means that there is a large aesthetic appeal for using 4chan or a similar chan site to announce an attack,” radicalization researcher Blyth Crawford told VICE News. “By aligning themselves with this mass shooter subculture and emulating past shooters who have announced their attacks on chan sites, they are effectively positioning themselves to potentially become regarded as ‘saints’ online as well, providing them with personal glory within a community that might be very important to them, and also acting as a new aspirational figure that can be used to radicalize others."

Read the full report over at VICE News.

https://www.rawstory.com/indiana-mall-gunman-posted-grim-message-to-4chan-hours-before-report/

 

What a nice story.
Um. How come the hero who shot this piece of shit gets no mention in your post stumbler?

 

I was going to post this on the GUN RIGHTS thread but can't find it. Does anyone know what happened to it?

But anyway enough of the racist dog whistles of treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans constantly screaming about Chicago.


Emerging crime capitals of America: These cities have the highest murders per capita

Audrey Conklin
Tue, August 2, 2022 at 12:00 AM·8 min read




There are certain U.S. cities that have consistently battled violent crime — particularly homicide — throughout the past three decades: Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, even New York City.

Violent crime stories out of these beloved American cities frequently make news headlines due to local and national concern for their residents and the tourists who frequent these historic areas.

Perhaps more light needs to be shed on other cities in the South and Midwest that make national headlines less frequently than the aforementioned cities but have higher or comparable murder numbers per capita (or 100,000 residents), including New Orleans and Birmingham, Alabama; as well as Milwaukee; St. Louis; Cleveland; Rochester, New York; and Atlanta.

A compilation of June police data from cities with populations greater than 200,000 by AH Analytics co-founder Jeff Asher lists the top 31 U.S. cities with the highest murder rates, in order, so far in 2022.


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On Asher's list, New Orleans has a murder rate of 36.8 per capita so far this year, followed by Baltimore at a rate of 29.1; Birmingham at a rate of 29.1, St. Louis at a rate of 27.8, Milwaukee at a rate of 19, Cleveland at a rate of 16.9, Rochester at a rate of 16.6, Philadelphia at a rate of 15.1, Atlanta at a rate of 14.9, and Kansas City, Missouri at a rate of 14.6. These numbers only reflect murder numbers halfway through 2022 and are subject to change.

"I think … you can see a trend in increased violence across our country as a whole," Alabama Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Everett Johnson told Fox News Digital. "…Birmingham, just based off the per capita [murders], I think that falls in line with what's going on with the rest of our country … for the past two or three years."



In 2021, more than a dozen cities reported record homicide numbers, following a trend of violence that began in 2020.

For example, New Orleans recorded 145 murders as of June 30, putting it on pace for nearly 300 murders this year, which would put the city's homicide rate at 74.12 per 100,000 population by the end of the year. That rate would dwarf Chicago's 18.26 murders per 100,000 population, even though the Windy City recorded more murders in 2021 than it had in a quarter-century.


New Orleans would also rank 9th in homicides among major cities in the world that are not at war, according to 2018 data compiled by the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, a Mexico City-based advocacy group. New Orleans saw murders rise from 119 in 2019 to 201 in 2020. That number continued to climb in 2021, reaching 218, an 83% increase over 2019 numbers.

"I can't speak for the country, but people in Louisiana certainly know it's one of the…most dangerous cities," Darrell Basco, president of the Louisiana FOP, said, adding that what they see on the news and "experience personally" when they visit the city has made Louisianans aware of the violence in New Orleans.



The Big Easy attracts "a lot of tourists" to Louisiana year-round, Basco said, adding that city council members and other elected officials need to partner with community organizations to get a handle on violence before it impacts tourism revenue.

Basco blamed part of the issue in both Louisiana cities on a "progressive-leaning" district attorney, difficulty attracting and retaining police officers, and "the demonization of police officers" — a trend that other major U.S. cities are also grappling with since 2020.

Five hours north of New Orleans in Birmingham, Alabama, police have recorded 74 murders so far this year as of July 26, according to the Birmingham Police Department, putting the city's murder rate at about 35 per capita for the city of more than 210,000.



"Based on my knowledge of Birmingham and similar cities, they have a very lenient bond process and pretty much a signature bond that let you back out regardless of the crime. When violent offenders aren't locked away, violence increases," Everett Johnson, president of the Alabama FOP said. "…I think it's a lenient bond system and a lenient criminal justice system. We currently in Alabama have a ‘good time’ law that allows offenders back on the street for serving so many days for good behavior, but I think that law is…being perverted."

He also believes there is a cultural lack of "respect for human dignity and human life" in cities like Birmingham with high murder rates. There is also "a drug culture" of Birmingham residents trying to compete with one another that leads to violent crime, he explained.


St. Louis is also high on the list of the most murders-per-capita in the country, but homicide trends have decreased so far in 2022 by 15% since 2021. St. Louis ranked No. 1 in murders per capita in 2020.

Aside from the decreasing homicides, in St. Louis County, aggravated assaults including firearms and other dangerous weapons, robberies and larcenies are also down as of this month, according to St. Louis government officials.

"One of the major spikes in non-violent crime not only locally but nationally has to deal with larcenies, many of them involving vehicles," St. Louis Police Department Lt. Schellman said in a July 6 statement. "Larcenies in St. Louis County are down 7% overall. Much of this credit goes to the hardworking individuals of the St. Louis County Police Department. Our department is over 1,200 men and women, many working behind the scenes to keep our community safe."

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, Ph.D., attributed the success so far this year to police funding, saying in a July 6 statement that the county spends about $166 million per year on policing, which represents 48% of the general fund budget.

"This allows our department to offer highly specialized services that smaller communities cannot match," Page said. "This includes the Bureau of Crimes Against Property, Bureau of Crimes Against Persons, Commercial Vehicle Unit, Highway Safety Unit, Metro Air Support Unit, Tactical Operations, and the K9 Unit."

Memphis, which did not appear on Asher's list, has also taken a turn for the better after ranking fourth for the most murders per capita in 2020.

Memphis has recorded a 16% decrease in homicides and a 20% decrease in total violent crime incidents, including aggravated assault, though auto theft, theft from auto and shoplifting incidents are happening more frequently, WREG reported earlier this month. The outlet attributed decreasing violent crime to an initiative to bring retired police officers back into the force.

"We're a little bit behind where we were last year, thank goodness, but one homicide is too many," Scott DeLaSchmit, president of the Tennessee FOP, said.


"Memphis is an interesting city," he continued. "The most of the crime happens in certain zip codes, which are the lower-economic zip codes. … But they don't have too much crime in the tourist areas. It's mainly in the lower-economic neighborhoods. And a lot of times it's crime with people that know each other, domestics, things like that. It's not just this unique city. It's what happens in other parts of the country."

While Jackson, Mississippi, did not appear on Asher's list (it has an estimated population of less than 200,000), the city recorded about 153 homicides in 2021, pegging the homicide rate at 99.5 per 100,000 residents. So far this year, the city has recorded 70 homicides, putting it on track to reach a similar murder rate by the end of 2022, according to WLBT.

Nearly all the top 10 cities on Asher's list are led by Democratic politicians. They also suffer from some of the highest poverty and/or inequality rates in the country, according to 2020 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, led by Cleveland, Detroit, Rochester and other major U.S. cities with high crime rates.

Thirty years ago in 1991, Washington, D.C., had the highest murder rate in the nation but ranked No. 7 overall in terms of total violent crime, according to a Washington Post article from that year, citing FBI data.

Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit and St. Louis also made the top five list of cities with the highest murder rates in 1991, the Post reported. Miami ranked No. 1 for total violent crime. Baltimore and Chicago began appearing at the top of the list for most homicides per capita in the early 2000s into the mid-2010s.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/emerging-crime-capitals-america-cities-060007194.html

 

It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. What a deadly and disgusting lie. When bad guys with guns show up the good guys with guns are either hiding or standing around in a hallway outside an unlocked door while kids are being slaughtered.


Armed guard was at Michigan school when mass shooting took place and failed to stop it: attorney

Sky Palma
August 04, 2022



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As Ethan Crumbley was carrying out his killing spree at Oxford High School, an armed guard who was roaming the school at the time opened the door of a bathroom where Crumbley was still carrying out the attack, then closed the door and walked away, according to an attorney representing the shooting victims' families.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Ven Johnson, who represents parents of shooting victims in multiple civil lawsuits against school district officials, said he believes the guard opened the door just before Crumbley shot student Justin Shilling.

The guard told investigators she did not see or hear anything in the bathroom, so she shut the door.

"Anybody would have seen three young men in that bathroom. ... Justin Shilling was still alive," Johnson said, adding that the guard told investigators that she walked past now-deceased Tate Myre, who had been shot, and believed he was participating in a shooting drill and was wearing makeup to make it look realistic.

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Security video shows Crumbley walking out of the bathroom and putting his hands up, apparently surrendering to police who came on the scene.

Four students died in the shooting. Six other students and one teacher were injured.

https://www.rawstory.com/ethan-crumbley-shooting/

 

Wow!

 

I know right. Here again an armed law enforcement officer could have saved lives but instead of confronting the gunman just walked away.

 

"It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. What a deadly and disgusting lie. When bad guys with guns show up the good guys with guns are either hiding or standing around in a hallway outside an unlocked door while kids are being slaughtered."
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Well played, american hater.

Never, ever, acknowledge the hero Elisjsha Dicken, a 22 year old who stopped dead (pun intended) a miserable piece of shit (you devoted an entire half page post to, without once mentioning the hero who stopped him.)

Did Elishjsha hide or stand around when your piece of shit came out of that restroom shooting?
NO?

Did Elishjsha save lives?
Without question.

But say, lets concentrate on a SECURITY GUARD we can demonize cause that fits our agenda better. Lets not even mention the name of a hero who stopped a mass shooting. A hero with no law enforcement or military training who stepped up. A hero who understands with freedom comes responsibility, and with great freedom, great responsibility.

That heros name is Elisjsha Dicken.
Say it.
Acknowledge him.
Promise, you won't burst into flames.

 

Now if only he were everywhere. He could singlehandedly stop every single mass shooter.

Now, let's watch shooter go ballistic over this... "You didn't praise him enough! You're evil trash!"

Come on, shooter, tell us like it isn't!

 

You just can't do it can you?
It was you who called Elisjsha Dicken a "vigilante with a pet gun" and "a numbnut who might have a gun trying to be a hero"

You've lost any reason to have anything to say about any of this.

You need a reminder from the last time you tried to minimalize Elisjsha Dicken do you?

 

I will acknowledge according to police Elisjsha Dicken killed the shooter within 15 seconds of when he started firing.

Now you tell me how many shots the shooter managed to get off with his assault weapon and extended magazine in 15 seconds? How many people did he kill and how many did he wound?\

I doubt the people killed and wounded are over joyed Elisjsha Dicken happened to be there when a mass shooter with an assault weapon and extended magazine opened fire on them.

 

Aw get down off your high moral ground.
Unlike bitter old haters, those people in the mall are probably grateful there was someone willing to step up and do what needed to be done.

Promise. If you really acknowledge that Elisjsha Dicken is a hero you won't burst into flames.

But you go on and keep yapping about semi automatics and extended magazines.

 

It is the assault weapons and extended magazines. Not armed bystanders that matter.


Indiana mall shooting: Gunman fired 24 times in 15 seconds, police say

https://www.q13fox.com/news/indiana-mall-shooting-gunman-fired-24-times-in-15-seconds-police-say

 

Happens every fucking day in the Democrat run hell hole known as Chicago.....

 

We won't mention the 10 shots Elisjsha Dicken fired, with 8 hits.
A truly remarkable feat that many military and law enforcement couldn't match.

Unfortunately for Dicken, a good guy with a gun isn't in the despicable agenda.

A bad guy with a gun who kills innocent people for no reason deserves more attention than a hero.

 

Uvalde school board fires chief Pete Arredondo for Robb school massacre response: report

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune
August 24, 2022



Uvalde Police Department on Facebook.


The Uvalde school board agreed Wednesday to fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief broadly criticized for his response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, in a unanimous vote that came shortly after he asked to be taken off of suspension and receive backpay.

Arredondo, widely blamed for law enforcement’s delayed response in confronting the gunman who killed 21 people at Robb Elementary, made the request for reinstatement through his attorney, George E. Hyde. The meeting came exactly three months after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Arredondo didn’t attend the meeting.

“Chief Arredondo will not participate in his own illegal and unconstitutional public lynching and respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits and close the complaint as unfounded,” Hyde said in a statement.

About 100 people showed up to the meeting Wednesday. Many chanted “coward” and “no justice, no peace.” Four people spoke during a public comment period before the board went into closed session to deliberate Arredondo’s employment.

Arredondo was one of the first law enforcement officers to respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24. Nearly 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers waited more than an hour to confront the 18-year-old gunman after he entered the school.

The board began deliberating his fate behind closed doors shortly before 6 p.m. Trustees faced intense public pressure to fire Arredondo, whom many state leaders have publicly blamed for the delayed response to the shooter.

Hyde asked school officials to read a statement on Arredondo’s behalf at the meeting. They did not comply with the request.



https://www.rawstory.com/uvalde-pete-arredondo-fired/

 

Police: Heroic Safeway employee confronted gunman in store


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The Forum Shopping Center in Bend, Ore. remained closed Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 as police investigated a shooting at the Safeway there that left two people and the suspected gunman dead Sunday night. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)
GILLIAN FLACCUS
Sun, August 28, 2022 at 10:53 PM·5 min read



PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Safeway employee who previously served in the U.S. Army for two decades attacked a gunman in the produce section of the Bend, Oregon, supermarket, police said Monday, possibly preventing more casualties from a shooting that left the employee and one other person dead.

Police hailed the employee, 66-year-old Donald Ray Surrett Jr., of Bend, as a hero and said his actions may have saved shoppers at the store in the high-desert city ringed by mountains in the central part of the state. Customer Glenn Edward Bennett, 84, of Bend, was also killed Sunday evening, police spokeswoman Sheila Miller said.

“Mr. Surrett engaged with the shooter, attempted to disarm him and may very well have prevented further deaths. Mr. Surrett acted heroically turning this terrible event,” Miller said at a news conference as she struggled against tears.

Police said Monday the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; his body was found by police near an AR-15-style weapon and a shotgun. Police identified the gunman as Ethan Blair Miller, 20, of Bend.


The gunman lived in an apartment complex behind The Forum Shopping Center. Witnesses said he began shooting Sunday evening as soon as he left the complex and continued firing as he entered the shopping complex's parking lot and then went into the Safeway.

Bennett was killed at the store's entrance, police said, and the shooter then moved through the aisles “spraying shots” from the assault rifle until Surrett confronted him. The entire incident — from the first 911 calls to officers discovering the suspect dead in the store — unfolded in four minutes, Miller said.

Police entered the supermarket from the front and rear as shots were still being fired.

Debora Jean Surrett, the ex-wife of the Safeway employee killed in the attack, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that Surrett served in the Army for 20 years as a combat engineer.

He wasn’t deployed to active combat zones, but during the 20 years they were married from 1975 to 1995, they were stationed in Germany three times and lived on military bases across the U.S.

“They’re trained to be the first ones to go into war and the last ones to come home,” she told the AP.

Bend Mayor Pro Tem Anthony Broadman said Americans “need to guard against the cynicism of thinking of these attacks on order and peace as regular, unavoidable things. I won’t accept that.”

“We know that in the face of the kind of chaos that we saw last night, we had brave first responders, brave citizens, people willing to stand up for their neighbors,” he added.

Authorities later found three Molotov cocktails and a sawed-off shotgun in the shooter's car. The Oregon State Police bomb squad was called in to sweep the store, the car and the suspect's apartment for explosives, authorities said, forcing the evacuation of eight surrounding apartments on Monday morning.

Miller said reports that there was a second shooter were not true.

Authorities are seeking a search warrant to comb through online materials on an unspecified number of digital devices they found at the shooter's apartment but declined to comment on reports that the suspect posted his plans online in advance. Bend police are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine where the suspect got his weapons and if he did so legally, Miller said.

“We are aware that the shooter may have posted information online regarding his plan. We’re investigating this,” she said. "We have no evidence of previous threats or prior knowledge of the shooter. We received information about the shooter’s writings after the incident had taken place. And the shooter has no criminal history in the area.”

The shooter graduated from Mountain View High School in Bend in 2020, according to online records, and a former classmate remembered him as an extremely combative person who had few friends.

He was a huge fan of mixed martial arts and “tried to fight everyone at Mountain View and kept getting his (expletive) kicked and he just never learned,” said Isaac Thomas, who was suspended for a week as a freshman for fighting with the gunman. The gunman held onto a grudge from that fight and once threatened to shoot him, Thomas told AP.

“At one point he said he was going to shoot me and I was like, ‘Get over yourself’ because I didn’t think he had a gun, but I guess I was wrong,” Thomas said.

Thomas recalled running into the shooter in 2020 in the parking lot of the Safeway, where the gunman was gathering up carts as part of his job. He recognized him and threatened him again although several years had gone by, Thomas said.

“It was kind of crazy when I heard about it,” he said of the shooting. “But it makes sense that he chose Safeway because he worked there and he knew the layout.”

Oregon's elected leaders reacted to the shooting Monday with pledges to fight for more gun control.

Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement that the shooting was one of several in Oregon over weekend and that “Oregonians deserve to be safe from gun violence.”

Oregon residents will vote in November on one of the strictest gun-control measures in the nation. If passed, Measure 114 would ban large capacity magazines over 10 rounds — except for current owners, law enforcement and the military — and require a permit to purchase any gun.

To qualify for a permit, an applicant would need to complete an approved firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a criminal background check. The state police would create a firearms database.

Bend is a city of about 97,000 approximately 160 miles (257 kilometers) southeast of Portland, Oregon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-2-killed-oregon-grocery-045314793.html

 

Ethan Miller, Bend Safeway Shooter: 5 Fast Facts to Know | Heavy.com

 

Ever notice how the people from other countries talk about U.S.A. shootings, but never say a word about their own or other countries crimes? Like the German cover up of a thousand rapes on new years night by muslims.Or the Aussie police beating people for not wearing masks ? Both shone on videos.