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At least four shot at Sikh Temple, SWAT team helps people out (Oak Creek WI)
Milkwaukee Wisconsin JS Online ^ | August 5, 2012 | Mike Johnson

Posted on 08/05/2012 9:50:55 AM PDT by Pinkbell

Edited on 08/05/2012 10:46:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

At least four people were shot just after 10 a.m. Sunday at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, and a police SWAT team entered the building before noon and brought uninjured people out of the building at 7512 S. Howell Ave.

Among those who were shot was the president of the temple.

People were in the temple as early as 6:30 a.m. Sunday and many more were arriving for a service that was to begin about 11:30 a.m.

There were reports that children were taken to the building's basement after shots were fired.

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To: TomGuy
300 burgers is what the police guy on scanner said.

There can't be 300 people in there. The criminals are going to force them to gorge on "sacred" beef, aren't they? It's like forcing a Muslim to burst his stomach open with pork.

81 posted on 08/05/2012 10:57:59 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Pinkbell

I think cows are sacred to Hindus, but Sikhs are not Hindus.


82 posted on 08/05/2012 11:00:11 AM PDT by risen_feenix
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To: LucyT

from Greenfield police chief:

first 911 call came at 10:25am

officer who shot first shooter was shot in return multiple times!

still a hostage situation...


83 posted on 08/05/2012 11:00:52 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: risen_feenix

OK, who besides me heard that idiot reporter on CNN ask the polieceman “You said the shooter is down, does that mean he is dead?” (What an idiot!!!!)

My response would be ...”NO, he isnt dead, we just asked him to sit down, you blithering idiot”


84 posted on 08/05/2012 11:02:23 AM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: Pinkbell

Confirmed at least one gunman shoot by police down outside of temple. 1 policeman shot. Police don’t know if additional shooters are inside...


85 posted on 08/05/2012 11:02:30 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Pinkbell

Maybe they’re going to force the hostages to eat beef against their religious beliefs?


86 posted on 08/05/2012 11:02:30 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: concerned about politics

Hope the cops screw up and get chicken.


87 posted on 08/05/2012 11:03:58 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (It's time for a fundamental restoration, of our country's principles!)
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To: 3Fingas

Swat clearing rooms in temple looking for more shooters


88 posted on 08/05/2012 11:05:03 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: risen_feenix
You’d really have to be blindingly ignorant to mistake Sikhs for Muslims. Doesn’t mean this guy was half a retard, but it’s almost beyond belief that someone, at this point, would make that mistake.

IOW, a public skool graduate...

89 posted on 08/05/2012 11:05:40 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1293 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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Froedhert hospital is currently treating 3 males with gunshot wounds.


90 posted on 08/05/2012 11:07:01 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: creeping death

Truly it is exactly what I thought when I heard this. Staged to help pave the way to take down concealed carry that we finally got through because although we have open carry, we get arrested and harassed for that.

Just seems too convenient. Plus all the recent nutter butters who have done this crap have been extremely pissed off liberal nutbags.


91 posted on 08/05/2012 11:07:14 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: null and void

Please let it be someone other than a “Bubba”.

Looks like the police got to the scene very quickly.


92 posted on 08/05/2012 11:08:05 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Pinkbell

placemarker


93 posted on 08/05/2012 11:08:26 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Gay State Conservative

For what?!? How’d he even know who to look for?

He better check the DNC donor list, have way better chance of finding this guy there.


94 posted on 08/05/2012 11:09:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: risen_feenix

Sikh temples serve food free of cost to all as a way of welcoming outsiders into their temples. The activity is called ‘langar’ and it is food prepared by the Sikh community.

The food is vegetarian so that no specific community feels unwelcomed.

As for beef, the ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, composed by the Aryans who arrived India, has plenty of references to the consumption of cows. Vegetarianism arose with the advent of Buddhism in India, and strictly, there is no scriptural sanction against beef consumption in the core Hindu texts - the Vedas or the Gita.


95 posted on 08/05/2012 11:09:53 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I told my girlfriend that I’m starting to feel like I’m living in 1930’s Germany. Media was told that the first responding officer was shot multiple times but he took down the shooter in the parking lot. I heard on the scanner that the basement has been cleared but they’re going to double check.


96 posted on 08/05/2012 11:10:33 AM PDT by creeping death
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To: Yardstick
Maybe they’re going to force the hostages to eat beef against their religious beliefs?

Read the bottom of post #80. The religious leader is condemning liberalism - big time.

I'd like to know how this religion feels about certain elements of the liberal agenda. Bald headed, sleeveless white guys don't sound like Muslims. They sound like thugs, and maybe they're forcing the people inside to do something contrary to their beliefs. That type of thing would fit right into a liberal mind.

There's no reason anyone from a right wing group would oppose these people in any way IF this slaughter was based on political beliefs.

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97 posted on 08/05/2012 11:11:22 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

That was my first thought. My other thought is, what if it has nothing to do with eating. What if they just want to defile the bodies by throwing beef (in the form of hamburgers) on them.

If it’s anything at all along these lines then it means the shooters know (or think) their victims are Hindus/Indians and not Muslims.


98 posted on 08/05/2012 11:12:41 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: creeping death

AS of 1:11 pm reported tactical teams are working their way through the temple building.


99 posted on 08/05/2012 11:12:47 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: 3Fingas

Per police scanner they are checking out suspicious white male with backpack near scene.


100 posted on 08/05/2012 11:12:54 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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