Posted on 02/19/2019 8:14:25 AM PST by Mount Athos
Will the media try to tone down the rhetoric that incites these lunatics to threaten or attempt murder of Trump supporters? NEVER, they are responsible but will never admit it. In fact they would probably consider him a hero except that he didn’t pull the trigger.
notice the perp is only named “Phillips” in the article.
for the record, his first name is “James”.
pleading not guilty?
VIDEO: 17 Feb: ABC13: Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat
By Darby Beane
“I have as much right to wear that hat and support my country and my president as he has not to,” said Pierce.
The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce’s wife because of their hats.
Pierce tells 13 News that he was shopping with his wife when Phillips “Pulled a .40 caliber out and stuck it in my face, backed up and said, ‘It’s a good day for you to die.’”...
“I went out the front of the store to confront him again and that’s when I got him in his car. He couldn’t leave because his mother was still in the store. And we were having a verbal altercation outside,” said Pierce.
Pierce added, “He tried telling me I assaulted him and I said, ‘I never touched you.’”
According to the police report, surveillance video confirms Pierce’s story that he did not put his hands on Phillips.
The report does mention that witnesses and Pierce said Phillips pulled a gun on Pierce inside the store but this couldn’t be seen on surveillance video due to Phillips backing out of the view of the camera.
In the report, police say Phillips had a Glock .40 caliber with a round chambered in his back pocket and two additional magazines in another pocket. Police say Phillips has a current concealed carry permit in Tennessee, where he is from.
No one was injured, but police arrested Phillips for wanton endangerment first degree. Phillips is in the Warren County Regional Jail.
https://www.wbko.com/content/news/Man-arrested-after-alleged-incident-at-Sams-Club-in-Bowling-Green-505971901.html
major FakeNewsMSM totally silent on this story.
however, Buzzfeed posted the following 8h ago, which is typical BF, looking for negatives about the victim! read it all:
19 Feb: Buzzfeed: A Man Was Charged With Pulling A Gun On A Kentucky Couple For Wearing MAGA Hats
“Nobody is going to tell me I don’t have the right to believe in America and my president,” Terry Pierce told BuzzFeed News.
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos
PIC: Terry and Cherrie Pierce
The Bowling Green Police Department report said that while Pierce told officers about the gun, surveillance footage did not record that part of the incident because Phillips backed out of the view of the cameras. Police said they found a .40-caliber Glock in Phillips’ rear right pocket at the scene. Phillips has a concealed carry permit in Tennessee; Bowling Green is near the Kentucky and Tennessee border.
Cherrie Pierce has a concealed carry permit, and her husband told BuzzFeed News her gun was in her purse at the time of the incident and she never took it out. Pierce said that when officers arrived at the scene, his wife informed them about her gun and they secured her purse in the police vehicle.
Details of Cherrie Pierce’s reported concealed carry permit are not outlined in the police report provided to BuzzFeed News.
Pierce told BuzzFeed News he wasn’t scared during the confrontation. Instead, he said, he was mad — “the maddest I’ve ever been.”
Pierce is an outspoken supporter of Trump on Facebook, sharing posts favoring the president’s proposed wall on the southern border and praising the president’s stance on abortion.
He has also posted false conspiracy theories about the migrant caravan, calling reports that people are fleeing from hardships in their own countries “fake news.” In another post, Pierce shared an image of the Qur’an in flames with the text “let’s see how many of you have the balls to share this.”...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/gun-allegedly-pulled-couple-maga-hat-trump-supporters
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