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Florida man arrested after shooting AR-15 at Census worker
nydailynews.com ^ | Oct. 6, 2020 | DAVID MATTHEWS

Posted on 10/07/2020 7:57:38 AM PDT by PROCON

A Florida man was arrested Monday after shooting an AR-15 assault-style rifle at a U.S. Census worker who had come near his property.

Flagler County deputies were called to a home in Bunnel, about 70 miles north of Orlando, around 6:15 after the Census worker reported that Michael Cooper, 32, had fired a shot at him, according to WKMG-TV.

Neighbors told officers that the Census worker had parked on the street, away from Cooper’s home, in a vehicle that identified him as a Census worker. The worker was also wearing a lanyard that identified him as a Census worker. The man was also clearly heard identifying himself as a Census worker.

Witnesses told officers that Cooper started screaming at the man as soon as he began approaching Cooper, who was on the home’s porch. After yelling at the man to get off his property, Cooper allegedly went inside the home and returned with a black rifle and chambered a round.

As the Census worker turned and walked away, he heard a gunshot. The victim’s wife, who was in the car the Census worker had driven to the scene, then began honking her horn as Cooper allegedly raised the rifle to aim at the victim.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: ar15; banglist; census; censusworker; florida; floridaman
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To: Theoria
FV requires a gps collection at a min, he could have did his knock and identify and then was run off.

Yeah, I missed this.

Field Verification DOES require the mapspot proximity thingee.

I haven't gotten a FV case in the last month...

41 posted on 10/07/2020 10:23:05 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: PROCON

“Florida man arrested after shooting AR-15 at Census worker”

a simple, “Get off my lawn!” would have sufficed ...


42 posted on 10/07/2020 10:25:28 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Theoria
What's p*ssing me and everyone else off [including the respondents] is what I call "stealth reinterviews" (COMPLETE!) - where the Census database/IT is pretending it doesn't have the completed questionnaire from the case list address.
43 posted on 10/07/2020 10:26:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Tax-chick
I wish to say for the record, I have never shot at a Census Worker. I just threatened to tell his mother what he said to me.

I sent in how many people live here, they do not need to know the number of bathrooms in the house.

44 posted on 10/07/2020 10:28:44 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That seems entirely reasonable.


45 posted on 10/07/2020 11:21:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My whole problem is the amount of information they’re requesting. I want to answer only what I absolutely have to, no more! I tried filling out on-line, however, it requested information that I will not provide. What exactly am I required to devulge? Do you know the minimum?


46 posted on 10/07/2020 4:01:29 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper
Just how many people live in the house. Ages, names and citizenship status.

That is actually a bit more then necessary.

47 posted on 10/07/2020 6:44:47 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Do I have to provide the sex and ages of the people living here? I just want to say 3 America citizens live here, goodbye.


48 posted on 10/07/2020 6:53:05 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

I do it but I do not think it is required. I think adult or child is required but would not be the first time I was wrong.


49 posted on 10/07/2020 7:18:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Good enough to repel the Grunion Invasion.


50 posted on 10/08/2020 8:11:30 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: PROCON

”I nicked the census man.”

51 posted on 10/08/2020 8:14:00 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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