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Deadly shooting during live TV news report in Va.
CBS ^ | 26 Aug 15 | Unknown

Posted on 08/26/2015 6:04:49 AM PDT by LSUfan

A gunman killed a reporter and videographer for a CBS affiliate in Virginia in a shooting that was broadcast live Wednesday morning.

Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a reporter and cameraman for CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV, died in the shooting, Parker's mother confirmed to CBS News.

WDBJ-TV reports that deputies from Franklin County and Bedford County were on the scene.

The shooting happened at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia.


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To: SamAdams76
Having been in those situations, I can understand. When you are in an interview situation, particularly a live interview that you know is being broadcast, you become extremely focused and oblivious to what is going on around you. - The person being interviewed is focused on the interviewer. - The person doing the interview is focused on the interviewee. - The cameraman is focused on both and praying that he doesn't screw it up. It would be very easy for somebody to walk around them and stand in that particular position (out of their line of sight) for a period of time without being noticed. Even with a gun drawn. .

Well said, and I would add, that the camera had a bright light on top as well so when he panned around you'd naturally look at the interviewee instead of at the light anyway.
1,201 posted on 08/26/2015 2:14:46 PM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: MadIsh32; CatherineofAragon

Pay attention this time, muslim terrorist troll. I am BykrBayb, not CatherineofAragon. I am not the FReeper who said in post 246 that she lives near the Red House muslim compound. That was CatherineofAragon. I live in South Carolina, near the “Holy Islamville” terrorist training camp. You asked for evidence. Even though I suspected you didn’t really want evidence, and you were just trolling, I took the time to tell you how you could easily find the evidence. At least two other FReepers also told you how to find the info, but you don’t want evidence. You already know that CatherineofAragon told the truth. You just want to troll on behalf of muslim terrorists. You’ve been called out on that several times, but you continue to disrupt the forum with your pro-terrorist trolling. Stop wasting your time on me and other FReepers. Take your pro-terrorist message directly to Jim, and see what he has to say about it. Hammer away at Jim, demanding that he prove the terrorists are the bad guys. See how far you get with that. But quit humping my leg.


1,202 posted on 08/26/2015 2:17:11 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: maggief

Tantrum? He should have been arrested!
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seriously! police were there...vandalism, destruction of property, etc, etc...

Did the station refused to press charges? Police have no authority, otherwise, to arrest?

What has the workplace become these days? Are companies so intimidated that it is better to dispatch even these violent incidences quietly and quickly?

And yet the perp’s lawsuit against the station was dismissed in July 2014.

Has he not held a job since then?

MSM are already spinning. They can’t use the black grievance industry (no call for Sharpton or Jackson).

Nope... this time it’s easy gun availability and mental illness unchecked.

Already, Hillary is so grieved, and she’s our gal to take on the very heavy burden of going after the guns... How much legs will leftist candidates have...hard to say right now. Obama has not spoken on the matter.

Uncanny how quickly the political agenda can so quickly switch back to guns. Hope conservative candidates don’t take the bait.


1,203 posted on 08/26/2015 2:26:08 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: maggief

Thanks Maggief.


1,204 posted on 08/26/2015 2:33:32 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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CNN has a video up that was posted on youtube, reportedly of Vester in July, 2015. Allegedly Vester went off on a driver and followed this person into a parking lot. The other person taped it and uploaded this today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W_eyKgfcWA


1,205 posted on 08/26/2015 3:10:01 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: thouworm
Already, Hillary is so grieved, and she’s our gal to take on the very heavy burden of going after the guns... How much legs will leftist candidates have...hard to say right now. Obama has not spoken on the matter.

Of course not - Black shoots Whites. If he does speak it will be how the shooter is the victim, institutional racism, workplace racism, etc. Will agree that the Charleston shooter showed how racist society is and drove him over the edge. Secondary theme will be gun violence and availability of guns (but will not mention Chicago Black on Black daily gun shootings).

1,206 posted on 08/26/2015 3:13:38 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: BykrBayb

And Obama is bringing them into the country in droves.


1,207 posted on 08/26/2015 3:14:58 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Yes he is. He needs to be stopped, but I don’t hold out any hope that he will be.


1,208 posted on 08/26/2015 3:26:56 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

He won’t be. The Democrats are complicit and the GOP couldn’t care less.


1,209 posted on 08/26/2015 3:38:29 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: SamAdams76; Mmogamer

Adding to what SamAdams said, reporters get so much of people walking up while they’re doing live interviews, that they consciously try to ignore them and get even MORE focused on the interviewee.


1,210 posted on 08/26/2015 3:44:34 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: MadIsh32; BykrBayb
"How about proving an assertion you made? Or is that too difficult."

Think of it as an intellectual exercise. Or you can resort to insults"

Here's an insult for you, dummy. You're too dense to understand you've been bugging the wrong person. I was the one you directed your "evidence" question to, not BykrBayb.

Just about everyone on this site has heard of Muslims of America. The Red House compound of filthy Muslims has been profiled on Fox News.

If you want to inform yourself, google any of those keywords. I'm not going to do your work for you.

Also, show some manners.

1,211 posted on 08/26/2015 3:44:59 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: maggief

I said earlier this morning after the the first picture came out of this creep flexing his arm that he was a homosexual. It was written all over him. A real man can spot a creep like this a mile off. So now here’s what we know. Another disallusioned homosexual, who hated himself, exactly like other homosexual killers with names like Dahlmer, Gacy, Wayne Williams, Pee Wee Gaskins and a slew of others, has committed a senseless crime. The media will not report that he was a psychotic homosexual. A couple of hours ago on The Five, they would not touch the story with a 10 foot pole when addressing did he have “mental problems” that could have caused him to snap. They read where he whinned about being a “gay black man”, but would dare link it to the crime. A few years ago, when this was a sane country, homosexuality was listed by the AMA as a “mental disorder”. The United States military would not condone the act and you would get kicked out for “conduct not conducive to good order and discipline”. Sodomy was crime in the United States and 50 states. Now homosexuals are passed off as being perfectly well-adjusted people with no mental issues whatsoever, when we all know that’s a bunch of BS! Facts are facts. Almost every time a mass killing happens it’s homosexual who hates himself who’s the perp. It’s about damn time the media quit ignoring the truth. They are already trying to paid this POS as the victim. He was the pitiful gay black man that people discriminated against all the time. Then he just couldn’t take the discrimination from whitey any longer so he goes off his rocker. That’s the story. Listen to the media repeat it over and over.


1,212 posted on 08/26/2015 3:51:27 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', an 8th grade education,Ain't no need y'all treatin' me this way")
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To: Lazamataz
Hell, I like to think my post was what made him attempt to take his life.

+1

1,213 posted on 08/26/2015 3:59:53 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Chickensoup

What keeps getting zapped? He seems to be consistent.


1,214 posted on 08/26/2015 6:21:51 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Classy


1,215 posted on 08/26/2015 7:12:59 PM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: BullDog108

http://www.inquisitr.com/2368397/sherman-lea-jr-friend-of-alison-parker-mistaken-for-shooter-bryce-williams-media-racism-at-work/


1,216 posted on 08/26/2015 10:07:54 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: BullDog108

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122621/man-not-vester-flanagan-and-media-put-his-life-danger


1,217 posted on 08/26/2015 10:14:06 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: oblomov

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122621/man-not-vester-flanagan-and-media-put-his-life-danger


1,218 posted on 08/26/2015 10:15:19 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122621/man-not-vester-flanagan-and-media-put-his-life-danger


1,219 posted on 08/26/2015 10:16:20 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Thank you for those links. You are correct.


1,220 posted on 08/27/2015 12:00:27 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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