El Paso Shooting: Massacre at a Crowded Walmart in Texas Leaves 20 Dead
A 21-year-old gunman armed with a powerful rifle turned a crowded Walmart store in this majority-Hispanic border city into a scene of chaos and bloodshed on Saturday, stalking shoppers in the aisles in an attack that left at least 20 people dead and 26 others wounded, the authorities said.
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The authorities identified the gunman as Patrick Crusius, from a Dallas suburb.
He was taken into custody after he surrendered to the police outside the Walmart.
The authorities said they were investigating a manifesto Mr. Crusius, who is white, may have posted before the shooting, which described an attack in response to “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
Shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Kills at Least 9
MSNBC says 9 dead and 26 wounded.
Seems everyone else is saying 16 wounded.
At least nine people were killed and 16 were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, the second American mass shooting in less than 24 hours and the third in a week.
The shooting began at 1 a.m. on East Fifth Street in the city’s Oregon entertainment district, the Dayton Police Department said.
It said on Twitter that officers were “in the immediate vicinity when this shooting began and were able to respond and put an end to it quickly.”
Officers shot and killed the gunman, who was using a long gun, the police said.
The mayor of Dayton was on saying police were there in less than a minute from when the shooting began, and still the shooter was able to kill 9 and wound 26.
He did that in less than a minute.
Police have not yet identified the killer or his motive.
My guess is he's another white racist.
To be clear, so far, most if not all of the killers motivated by race politics this year have been whites consumed with hatred of others.
Only a fool could deny that Trump's endless bellowing about an invasion of undesirables and criminals and druggies and terrorists from the shithole countries to our south has created the atmosphere of heightened racial hostility that has resulted in numerous such incidents since the advent of the Duce.
Of course, it might be said he is merely echoing now and then what Fox and Breitbart scream 24/7, so maybe most of the fault is actually theirs.
And that would rightly be said.
El Paso: Beto O'Rourke blames 'racist' Trump for inflaming hatred
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The El Paso killer is said by one network to face hate crime charges, and by another to face charges of terrorism.
If that manifesto records a purpose of the killings was to discourage immigration from the south, that would do it.
Violence to incite terror to achieve a political goal by modifying behavior is pretty much the definition of terrorism.
And wouldn't that be a first?
Charging a white racist mass murderer with terrorism, I mean?
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