Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

otm. as school district cops i imagine that their days prior to this were spent yelling at kids for wearing 'inappropriate' outfits, directing parking lot traffic, collecting free coffee from nearby businesses, and basking in praise for being theoretical heroes without actually ever having to think about anything or do anything they didnt want to. they reacted like all lazy cops do: do as little as possible and hope that when its all over the buck wouldnt stop with them.

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, June 22, 2022 11:28 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yup. I'm from the Making a Murderer town and it was wild watching people concoct all these convoluted theories about a police coverup as though there was some tightlipped plot to frame Steven Avery. I know these people. I know what the cops are like. I've seen them bust up parties. I've seen them do "investigative" work. I watched them detain and harass my brother, who stupidly threw his backpack behind a bush when he saw them at 2 AM, thinking it had drugs in it when it actually didn't. They're the same people I went to school with and they are bullies to the core, and one of the core traits of a bully is they run away when shit gets real. They didn't botch the investigation because they were trying to hide anything, they botched it because the only thing they know how to do is intimidate and harass. They love nothing more than to respond to a noise complaint and hand out a bunch of underages while simultaneously hitting on the 19 year old girls there. Of course they were gonna screw it up. And if, God forbid, there's a shooting at a school here, I am sure it would be the same story. They don't know how to handle an active shooter situation. They shouldn't have to know. But they know how to fuck with civilians so that's all they'd do.

the police in this country are trained to be terrified. their training is very good.

New Footage Shows Uvalde Police Rushing Into School To Take Selfies With Shooter https://t.co/bW4vYDZcE8 pic.twitter.com/h9hd8u1cib

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 22, 2022

harsh but fair

So this school is in my neighborhood and is where my children will go. I'm pissed they're charging this kid as an adult. Any idea which representative would be the one to contact? Can't tell if it's city or county jurisdiction

A Maryland teenager is being charged as an adult for taking an untraceable, loaded ghost gun to school Thursday, police said. https://t.co/PmwNxfu0Hx

— Tracee Wilkins (@TraceeWilkins) June 24, 2022

"The shooting happened outside a downtown Oslo bar that is popular among the city's LGBTQ community, witnesses and local media said."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-norway-more-than-a-dozen-hurt/ar-AAYQyYt?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=562fec174a8e49a1aac201703312fd6e

I live in Oslo. Had friends in the immediate area. This is terrible and enraging, and comes after a spring of an increasingly nasty anti-trans culture war during which Pride as an event and the Norwegian LHBTQ assosiaction FRI have been broadly painted as «activist», «ideological», «propagandic» etc. You know how it goes of course. And now this, following which the same people who have pounded Pride for months will offer their kind and considered thoughts (we don’t pray much) while for dear life avoiding to consider whether the way Pride has been portrayed contributed to this. Fuck them.

Not much is clear on motive (the gay bar was not the only place hit). The suspect is well-known to the authorities, has a record of violence, a couple of convictions. But there may also be psychiatry involved, apparently.

I dug up Alfreds beautiful piece from after Orlando again this morning.

https://www.mtv.com/news/2891842/only-when-im-dancing-can-i-feel-this-free/

So this school is in my neighborhood and is where my children will go. I'm pissed they're charging this kid as an adult. Any idea which representative would be the one to contact? Can't tell if it's city or county jurisdiction

🐦[A Maryland teenager is being charged as an adult for taking an untraceable, loaded ghost gun to school Thursday, police said. https://t.co/PmwNxfu0Hx🕸
— Tracee Wilkins (@TraceeWilkins) June 24, 2022🕸]🐦

yeah i called her and tweeted at her @SABraveboy but she hasn't responded. i talked to someone who worked for the office of my congressman Anthony Brown and she insisted that there must be more to it bc States Attorney Braveboy strives to not put kids in the system. not buying it.

#BREAKING: Multiple fatalities reported following reports of an active shooter during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

Reports that the suspect is barricaded inside of a Sunset Foods grocery with hostages. pic.twitter.com/1MTAIDg6eM

— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) July 4, 2022

Happy 4th!

#BREAKING: Multiple people were shot along a parade route in the suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, north of Chicago, Monday morning, sources said https://t.co/7fHoMMCMKQ

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 4, 2022

"I saw this guy shooting. I saw his eyes... the first round was maybe 40-50 shots. He stopped and must have reloaded. I realized this was real and got everyone down as flat as we could."
-Man attending Highland Park parade w/ newborn grandson
LIVE: https://t.co/dCUP7VMuz8

— Ben Bradley (@BenBradleyTV) July 4, 2022

This is about 45 minutes from here, a really tony suburb north of the city.

They should cancel all fireworks and parades because this country is garbage and not worth celebrating.

Suspect still at large, 16 people to hospital, 5 dead. So far.

We know at least one person that was there (got away safely).

no violence but this video is incredibly bleak

UPDATE: Five people were killed and 16 others wounded when a gunman started shooting 10 minutes after the Highland Park Fourth of July parade kicked off Monday morning, authorities said. https://t.co/qNB7Ac1jRG

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 4, 2022

sorry meant to direct link the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKHLB1b5jkc

Oh my lord — the guy is still at large and all neighboring burbs have cancelled their parades. Really fucked up!!!

Along with being a nice suburb, Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish. I guess we'll learn if that played a role, but honestly, these days, it could have be anything.

A former editor of mine:

As a Highland Park resident who lives about a 10-minute walk from where this all happened, not sure I can express how unusual any violent crime is for this community. No fewer than six people offered my wife, who was out for a walk, a ride home after alerting her to events.

— Kevin Williams (@TribuneKevin) July 4, 2022

fucking awful and tragic, and another large group of young people terrorized for life

hope this at least convinces a few stubborn people THIS COULD HAPPEN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

holy fuck

Google's 4th of July tribute goes wrong when page is overtaken by news of mass shooting pic.twitter.com/C0pfjKxFk0

— BNO News (@BNONews) July 4, 2022

Paul Verhoeven himself would think that's a little too on-the-nose

Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish.

My first thought too.

If you need an illustration why I don't feel like celebrating.....

To all ilxors in Illinois, please take care.

I’m staying in (cause I have Covid) and am listening to George Crumb’s American Songbooks, whose spooky resettings of folk songs matches my mood about this country.

Watching the Channel 5 live stream on the Trib's site, and the eyewitness accounts -- and accounts by doctors who happened to be on the scene -- are so fucking horrifying.

My grandparents lived in Highland Park for all of my childhood, and apparently the shooter was perched on the building that my grandmother had her office in (she was a child psychologist). I was at that building many times, mostly to sit in my grandma's spinning chair and get candy from her office drawer. When we visited, we shopped at the sunset foods the shooter is apparently barricaded inside. I guess it always feels unimaginable that this happens anywhere, but it feels insanely unimaginable to me that this happened there.

FWIW it's also very close to Skokie of Skokie vs Nazi Party infamy.

wait he is barricaded in a store?~ i haven't heard anything about that
link?

when the news broke there were reports he was holding hostages in a Sunset Foods, but I think they were false (?)

oh my mistake, I thought he was barricaded in the sunset foods

yeah it's confusing, I'm not seeing anything acknowledging/disavowing those earlier reports but updated reports are just saying he's still at large

Update an hour ago said he had left the rooftop “in a discreet manner” after shooting.

#HighlandPark Shooting:

*Shooter still at large.
*Shooter exited a rooftop in a "discreet" way making himself "difficult to see".
*The size of the crime scene making it hard to process.
*Updates at the top of each hour.@cbschicago

— Chris Tye (@TVTye) July 4, 2022

i have heard two witnesses say they tried to protect their children by putting them inside dumpsters -- so fucking grim

They just cancelled our local fireworks. Good.

JUST IN: Photo of suspect: pic.twitter.com/nK0c49ZnjW

— Chris Tye (@TVTye) July 4, 2022

Uh, Googling around I think I found the suspect’s a rapper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlIVDpc_mw

I'm not giving that person more clout.

He apparently left behind a trail/trove of videos, some pretty disturbing. Possibly part of a three+ generation Highland Park family whose grandfather ran a bakery and dad maybe ran for mayor. But given the guy is a walking distinguishing feature, it's just a matter of time before he's caught/killed and all details come out.

Fuck this next toad. Don't want to know him. Line up behind the last white male asshole that threw a tantrum.

considering he is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, it's probably worth getting to know him a little.

news flash that's not shocking to anyone whatsoever: he's a racist coward and his online content is full of hate gore.

erase the fucking mistakes already.

You might want to rethink that last sentence.

xxp fair enough Josh, but an identifying picture will do. Glad you are safe.

Suspect apprehended alive apparently

well, he's white you know

They’ll take him to the station after he finishes his shake and catches some fireworks

burger king run obv

Martinis w/Rittenhouse.