I don’t know about that. They kind of luckboxed the Kirk shooter as he turned himself in and it seems like if a few things unfold differently, it would have taken a lot longer.
I hear they’re bringing Tyler Robinson’s father and pastor to Rhode Island in the hope that the killer confesses to them.
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This is the picture I took at the Bondi Beach Hanukkah party one minute before the shooting began. My daughter and I had only just arrived. We were at the petting zoo, and she was squealing with joy as she patted a sweet little goat.
When the gunshots started, I ran with the crowds until we all instinctively threw ourselves on the ground on top of our children. I entertained the idea that I was imagining all of this, that it was not gunshots at all, that we had all made a terrible mistake and that in a minute we would laugh at ourselves for piling on top of one another. But the gunshots came closer and closer, and there was no mistaking it. This was a massacre. And it dawned on me that I was no longer preparing to survive. I was preparing for how I wanted to die, for where I wanted my thoughts to rest in my final moments.
In the meantime, I had been so obsessed with shielding my daughter, not having a single inch of her body exposed, that I had been pressing down on her with my full body weight. I suddenly realised she was not moving at all. At least ten minutes had passed since I had lain on top of her. I thought I had suffocated her. Then I felt her tiny sob from underneath me, like a small miraculous rumble from the earth, and it impelled me to speak loud and clear into her ear the only words that came to my mind:
Go inside yourself, my darling. Go into your heart, where all the love is. Stay there, my baby. Stay there.
I did not want her to die in the hell out there. I did not want her to die with the screams and the wailing and the shots and the sirens and the flying bits of flesh and bone that were spraying over us. I wanted her to die from the inside, in the magnificence of who she was, in the world of her choosing. No one could rip that place away from here.
And then, after an eternity, by some stroke of miracle, we survived.
I speak to you now, to myself, as I spoke to my babe on Sunday. Stay there, friends. In your hearts. It will carry us to where we have always wanted to go. To love.
These are the only words I have for now. More soon
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this patel fbi is so embarrasingly incompetent. the combination of the tweeting/gloating of wrong information in an active investigation (which he’s done more than once) in combination with subsequently begging the public to do their police work for them (do you recognize his gait?? plz reach out to the fbi!!)
great police work guys. you have unfettered and unconstitutional sanctioned access to the most comprehensive and invasive surveillance network ever created in human history, without any real comparison, and you have to resort to social media posts. GREAT police work guys, much applause, much wow. I guess those serious resources can only be burned on people (aka ANTIFA) tweeting about genocide, not on campus shooters.
why do we pay these people?
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FBI probably a day away from just charging Rosie O Donnell
https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/2000789828699578382
Every pic I see of Patel looks like he’s paralyzed by fear.
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He has trademarked his own personal look: “deer on cocaine in the headlights”.
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Mass shootings are so common I can almost see why the FBI would be treating it as just another Tuesday. It basically is in America.
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It has a death toll of 2 and there’s no evidence the shooter is one of the marginalized groups Trump is trying to persecute. It barely crosses the threshold for FBI involvement.
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yeah, the primary component to mass shootings mattering is media coverage.
Australian Financial Review has a new timeline of the Bondi shooting based on new footage. It is generally similar to the older one but a bit quicker. Police started returning fire somewhere between 4 and 5 minutes after the gunmen started firing and the gunmen were incapacitated in 6 minutes, 10 seconds. The footage is low quality enough that the AFR did not attempt to identify the officers. There are questions to be asked about this guy…
The two police officers outside the fence – denoted as Officer A and Officer B – dash south to the barbecues for cover.
Officer A can be seen leaping the fence behind the barbecues. He disappears and is not seen again in the footage, and it is unclear if he is injured as Naveed continues to fire at police and into the crowd.
“Unclear if he is injured” but I mean, he’s jumping a fence. Seems questionable. Aside from that the police appear to have done their jobs though.
Which is the one who got shot in the face?
Also. Is this saying that the cops with handguns were the ones who took the shooters down?
That would be an obvious win for gun control laws working. No way that happens if the shooters have fully automatic weapons.
Aussies tend to be much braver and crazier than the people from other countries from my experience. I have no doubt the police there wouldn’t hesitate to be as brave or braver than their training allows them to be.
I know we generally hate police on this forum, but I truly believe a solid percentage of police are genuinely good people and that number is significantly higher in police forces outside the US.
I’m gonna need you to be more specific here.
Seriously doubt that this has anyrhing to do with being ‘Aussie’. Cops outside of the US in western countries make better and braver decisions because they rarely encounter people with AR15’s as even hardened criminals struggle to get their hands on weapons like that.
I mean. Some are nice
But an Australian cop tasered a 91 year old woman with a walker frame because she was holding a dinner knife and she died. So it’s not like we don’t have our own problems.
Also. They go and kill aboriginal people at an astonishing rate, in public, in police stations, in prisons…
So.
Australian Cops Are Bastards (too)
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Between this and the Charlie Kirk shooter almost getting away, are we entering a new era of school shootings where we just never find the killer?
He will get caught. Someone will recognize him from all the video.
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