One of my running buds is a former Marine sniper. Trust me, he could take out a lot of guys from one strategical elevated position. The training turns you into one deadly killing' machine. He was in 8 years and was assigned to protection details on high level people when they passed through his territory.
When I saw the footage of that veteran moving around I told my wife that guy moves like ex-military and when I saw him shoot the cop like he was nothing I knew he'd done combat time. One doesn't move from cover to cover the way he did with armed police so close by. He'd done this before. I wonder if any calls had been placed by anyone in the current administration to any of the New Black Panther's members before this went down...
The needs of combat - the need to shoot your fellow man like they are nothing - can give you single-mindedness. There is every indication he was avenging the dead and thought he was protecting the black community. This is not so very different from the basic forms of a soldier ethic - service, community, lay down your life.
That doesn’t need a call from anyone in the current administration to get the ball going.
So was the shooter moving quickly from one concealment place to another, so he would not be pinned down and so he could engage new targets? He did eventually find himself in a corner where he was pinned down and finally taken out, but unfortunately he did a lot of damage first.
The guy was not infantry. His main job was construction, and his training would not have included advanced techniques. He was nothing like a Marine sniper.
Could have trained on his own of course.
Can someone ask Janet Napolitano if she considers this veteran a terrorist, one that she would have included on her list?