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QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 06:57 PM) I'm not a conspiracy theorist but have a hard time believing one guy did all this. What happened to the four?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 05:42 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/us/nra-polic...ings/index.html LOL. NRA will reserve comment (on the Minnesota case) until after the results of the investigation come out. Just like they didn't do at Ruby Ridge or the more recent situation in Oregon. For that matter, has the NRA commented EVER when "minority/non-white" victims were involved in these situations the NRA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades to defend (right to carry)? Is the NRA going to defend the rights of African-American protesters in Dallas to carry assault rifles in the streets, too (Texas law/statute)? Why not? Seems they have boxed themselves into a corner. And just calling for more "law and order," that's really going to "demilitarize" this entire struggle...sure!!! http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/08/ne...ack-in-america/ Newt Gingrich, on the plus side, finally said something most everyone can agree with... f*** them. I am a lawful gun owner and I hate their values and retorts. I wouldn't attack and AR-15 in a video game let alone real life. It's like they aren't in the real world. The answer is arming many many less people legally. I should have to jump through hoops to obtain a murdering instrument. It's way too easy.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 05:05 PM) Cops will now reply with blowing a few blacks away. I f***ing hope not. Where is the love people. I had a long conversation with a random group on the L today. Maybe I'm just from too diverse of an area but I appreciate everyone. I don't get the people who don't. ELE. Everyone love everybody

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 10:08 AM) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/b...rops+to+zero%29 Anyone else hear anything about this? Seems fake as hell

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) Hm kind of difficult to believe with the momentum of this race war that is going on right now. Is it really a race war? Maybe I live in too diverse of a community to see the tension

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 09:59 AM) I read that there was a black man found by hanging in Atlanta. Is this true? This s*** isnt going to stop even for a day. I sure hope its not.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 09:07 AM) I've been reading Nixonland off and on over the past couple of months. It just keeps getting more surreal as the mid-late 60's and 2016 overlap. Bizarre, clownshow political campaigns, "nothing matters" politics, law-and-order and racial unrest, now even police snipers. The political climate including this presidential election is only making things worse unfortunately. I wish we could just reset

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:54 AM) It's really unusual, but in the end is it all that different from SWAT rushing in and shooting him? Absolutely. There's video out there of one of the shootings that the local Fox affiliate aired live. Don't know if the officer shown is one of the ones who died, but it did not look good. I don't know if deadly force includes bombs not designed to kill humans. Seems like a gray area

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/officer-bren...-castile-dalla/

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:36 AM) It was the bomb squad robot they'd normally use to remotely investigate bombs. Instead, they strapped a bomb to it and detonated it near the suspect because they felt they had no safe way of approaching him and that he wasn't going to be taken alive either way. He had also been claiming that there were IED's scattered throughout the area. Man I hope they don't get sued for that.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) I'm still a little amazed that the "robot bomb" thing. I've never heard of anything like that. It is a robot carrying a bomb or a robot that is a bomb?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:23 AM) Not really clear from the press conference, and they said they weren't answering questions due to it being an ongoing investigation. But right now, the latest word was 1 dead who was for sure a shooter and 2 others in custody, but I still don't think it's entirely clear (at least publicly) how many shooters there were. In a place like that, big buildings creating corridors, you're going to get all kinds of loud echos and it'll be next to impossible to tell where the shots are actually coming from. It's conceivable that one guy firing from an elevated and concealed position could shoot 12 people in a crowded area before anyone really knows what's going on. I saw 3 in custody and one dead.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:14 AM) I'll be the bad guy and ask, were they all black? Pretty sure that's the case here. f***

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 08:04 AM) I can't go on social media today. So disappointed in the divide that exists between black and white people that are my friends. Unfortunately I am convinced that at the core of this, for the most part, black and white people do not like each other in this country right now. I see a lot of my black friends talking about white people like we are the devil (literally with some) and white people talking down black people and blaming them for being innocently shot by police. There is hate coming from all sides and I feel like I am trapped in the middle. Just disgusted with everyone. The ignorance on social media is at an all time high for sure. It's sad. I was hoping this shooting wasn't as racially motivated as I feared.

So Frank is kind of a dirtbag

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 06:30 AM) From Radley Balko, a guy who writes frequently on police abuse/violence/exploitation: By all accounts and that means literally all, the police were helping make the protest and march effective and peaceful and even saved several lives when the shooting started.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 06:23 AM) This is sounding like a professional terrorist attack with their tactics, armor, weapons. I wonder if the suspects will be ex military. Why is all that s*** available to the public? It's crazy to me. I am also wondering what the NRA will say about this happening in an open carry state. Clearly even protesters armed with rifles couldn't do s***.

Ok now I read three in custody and one dead.

Four possible shooters and only one in custody. f***

Guy was seen open carrying an AR15

Protest was peaceful, several people are reporting how their lives were saved by officers. And situation is still active.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 10:30 PM) Protest was peaceful. Police officers and protesters had been taking photos together. It was calm and friendly. I saw that. Wtf. Evil wears many different kinds of clothing.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 09:27 PM) Just saw some video of it, holy macro. I don't know the first thing about guns but that is absolutely the loudest gun I've ever heard. Have to wonder if it's sniper fire, but again, wouldn't know. Don't know what type of gun would be that loud. Prophetic on the sniper rifles. This is sickening.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 06:00 PM) via Every detail that comes out about this makes me angrier

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 7, 2016 -> 04:02 PM) Glad the governor manned up and said what needed to be said. f*** that cop. Agreed. People in Minneapolis tend to be fairly progressive and I am not surprised they are appalled.