This seems pretty well organized to just pop up literally a day after these shootings
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
people have so much lying around though
― schlump, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
feel like there's going to be further clampdowns on people's right to protest now
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Could be the motivation behind a right wing or govt or police affiliated provocateur - not to get the tinfoil out, but anything seems possible. the timing of this all is insane
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
Yah I was wondering that, but didnt want to sound all grassy knoll
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
i mean, it is Dallas!
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
a 4th officer has died
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
if these ppl hit 10 cops and no one else in that crowd they r prob very good at sniping this is bizarre and terrible
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
meanwhile the cops put out a picture of a black guy at the rally open carrying a rifle as a person of interest and it took twitter like 90 seconds to find footage of him innocently standing in the crowd during the shooting
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
Yes, that's a life ruiner. Apparently the guy was a speaker at the rally and this being Texas open carry of rifles has always been legal and open carry of anything newly legal.
Dallas also has an active New Black Panther group that's been armed at more than one protest, not that I'd expect many of the people on Twitter to know that though maybe someone at DPD should have.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
This whole thing is happening about 3 blocks away from Dealey Plaza.
― what_have_you, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
Repeal the Second Amendment
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
Important to follow local affiliates during times like this. These guys are interviewing the brother of the 'person of interest' right now, it's obviously a red herring, now just hearing that whoever this guy is turned himself in to the police to clear up any confusion. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Protests-in-Dallas-Over-Alton-Sterling-Death-385784431.html
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm was marching with the Portland demo earlier. White dude who had been filming things drew a gun, and was moved away from the crowd. Cops eventually arrested him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/751254710934315008
Portland PolicePortland Police @PortlandPolice
Officers have arrested a man in Downtown Portland after he was displaying a gun during a demonstration. No shots were fired by anyone.Jul 7, 2016, 8:20 PM216 RETWEETS103 LIKES
Here's vid of the arrest:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/751254607301672961
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
I'd love to know what all those false flag nutbags are thinking of this turn of events.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:36 (seven years ago) link
its a false false flag
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
Don't be naive. What if it's a false false false flag? Eh?
― augh (Control Z), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
False flag to distract from Roger Stone's AMA tonight about men's style on *nfowars.
― Any Given User (Eazy), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link
the zeitgeist is feeling like the late '60s this week; blood after blood
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
Next up, Weather Underground
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
Video of one of the shooters supposedly. Not a sniper, on the ground. https://twitter.com/CainRaisin/status/751285500846026752
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
Good Grief, the press conference...
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
false flaggers can assimilate any new piece of information into their theories, it's like a superpower
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
If that's the video that was aired on the news, a cop is killed in it, FYI. Heads up for people who don't want to see that.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
didn't see anyone get killed but that is some pretty precise looking shooting
― akm, Friday, 8 July 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Shit, I thought I put a graphic tag before that link. Sorry about that. My observation about the shooter being on the ground was just that, not trying to suggest it's false flag evidence.
Apparently suspects are still on the loose?
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 July 2016 05:45 (seven years ago) link
1 still in garage 'negotiating' with police while shooting at them, 1 woman who was nearby under arrest, 2 people who fled the scene with camo bags were pulled over and arrested
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
According the the Police Chief, they've got a suspect cornered in a parking garage whom they've been exchanging fire with, and who claims that they've got bombs all over downtown and war is declared on cops etc.
XP The camo bag people have been released.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/751268398890229760
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
what the fuck is happening with this country
― Treeship, Friday, 8 July 2016 06:04 (seven years ago) link
http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2016/07/07/18347709/a-man-was-arrested-for-pulling-a-gun-on-black-lives-matter-protestors-in-portland-thursday-night
Here's the dude who pulled a gun and got arrested. Naturally, he runs a blog called Laughing at Liberals and is not helping anyone's confirmation bias.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:04 (seven years ago) link
i've heard about that dude. he targets young pdx trans women and posts videos of them on youtube encouraging likeminded assholes to mock them irl. special place in hell.
― Clay, Friday, 8 July 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
Apparently he was spotted at the Orlando memorial by Embers, too.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Vigil, rather. Not necessarily memorial.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:29 (seven years ago) link
fuck a john walsh
― akm, Friday, 8 July 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link
John Walsh is a good reminder that the other side is just flat wrong.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:33 (seven years ago) link
Here's Periscope vid of the guy pulling a gun.
https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins/status/751248080121442304
The portland event is still going on, btw. Cops have apparently threatened chemical weapons now.
https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2016 06:33 (seven years ago) link
We are so fucked. I'm feeling sick.
― how's life, Friday, 8 July 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
What if this ends up being some supremacist group trying to give Helter Skelter a head start? How is that going to go down...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 July 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
Ugh...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 July 2016 09:38 (seven years ago) link
Wow, I picked a hell of a time to stop paying attention to the news last night. This fucking country.
Just FYI, y'all who are excoriating John Walsh upthread, that Twitter account belongs to the non-Eagles-affiliated Joe Walsh. I'm glad at least to realize that John Walsh hasn't turned into a racist scumbag.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
when a white guy shot up Dallas police HQ last year
― Any Given User (Eazy), Friday, 8 July 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
i dont know all the details about the sniper, but it was just waiting to happen. i dont want to see people die, but when police dont take this kind of thing seriously, it creates the right environment for this kind of thing to happen. erykah badu on facebook was suggesting its a setup, but i dont buy it. when people can arm themselves, its only natural that someone would eventually organise themselves in this way. and IMO, someone enacting revenge killings in this way is more organised, and knows his targets better than people rioting aimlessly, etc.
i dont want to watch the snuff videos of the men being killed, but i saw a brief bit of one on the news (thank god they stopped it before the actual shooting), and that was enough. police have an unchecked combination of fear, hatred, and abuse of power.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 8 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
I can't help but be sadly amused and disgusted by Dallas police attempting to blame the first black guy they could plausibly blame. They apparently even told him they had video of him shooting.
http://gawker.com/dallas-police-just-released-the-man-they-wrongly-identi-1783329739
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
Cops always tell suspects that they have evidence that they did it. I was in a traffic stop once where a cop told me that he had sent a bong (found in the car - not mine) back to the crime lab and my fingerprints were all over it. I had only been sitting on the curb for ten minutes. I guess it gets some people to confess quicker. I was pretty insulted.
― how's life, Friday, 8 July 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
i feel physically ill from the last few days
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
xp yeah, that's how a lot of innocent people end up in prison
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:04 (seven years ago) link
so they're now thinking it was just one shooter, killed by a bomb the cops deliberately detonated?
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
Who is thinking that?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link
Latest headline at the DallasNews site says "Bomb squad's robot killed Dallas sniper who targeted white officers to avenge police shootings."
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link