Posted on 10/05/2015 7:09:59 PM PDT by naturalman1975
POLICE have this morning arrested a student on his way to Arthur Phillip High School, the same school attended by the 15-year-old who shot a man dead at Parramatta’s police headquarters last week.
Police say the teenager was spoken to by officers on his way to school when during the interaction the boy threatened and intimidated police, officers allege.
The student claimed he was being arrested because police took offence at him videoing them, the ABC reported, however police say the boy was spoken to in relation to alleged posts made on social media.
The arrested student had allegedly published a number of Facebook posts in which the teen threatened western Sydney police saying he hoped they “burn in hell”, according to Fairfax Media.
The arrested student had his belongings emptied on the footpath before being handcuffed and taken away in a police van. Police have confirmed he was taken to Parramatta Police Station.
A number of police were at the school this morning where pupils were returning for the first time today since the fatal shooting last week.
The arrest comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed today police are working on the theory that teen terrorist Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar was acting on the orders of other radicals and was not a “lone wolf’’ killer.
NSW counterterrorism officers are investigating who may have supplied the gun he used to carry out the brutal murder of a civilian staffer at Parramatta police headquarters on Friday afternoon.
“The possibility the teenager was used by extremists is a strong line of inquiry,’’ a senior officer involved in the operation told The Daily Telegraph.
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Mika was going on about how great Aussie gun control is. But the guy that shot the police officer got the gun somewhere.
How odd! Article doesn’t mention motive. Was it politics, police brutality, climate change, animal rights...?
There’s, unfortunately, a lot of misinformation about Australian gun laws circulating around the web. Guns are not illegal in Australia, nor are they that hard to get. But a 15 year old boy shouldn’t have been able to and that does point out that laws restricting guns don’t stop this type of crime.
The post Port Arthur gun laws were intended to address one type of crime and one alone - the very rare ‘spree shooting’. Statistically it’s hard to argue against the idea that they may not have had some effect there - we used to have such crimes on a nearly annual basis in Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and since Port Arthur and the changes, that particular crime has not happened again in Australia - so far at least. But they weren’t intended as a universal solution, nor were they anywhere near as severe as some people try to claim.
Australia should not be being used as some sort of ‘utopian’ example by American politicians. And certainly shouldn’t be being misused.
As there are a lot of other news articles making it pretty clear what the shooter’s motives were, I don’t think the fact that it isn’t stated in every single article is some sort of cover up.
I know Americans are used to the media trying to play down Islamism as a motive in cases like this, but the Australian media - mostly - doesn’t do that, and hasn’t done that.
(Did I say that right?) ;-)
Yes, that’s the correct phrase. :)
Their all-inclusive shaming frame - when used only against the Right - is 'extremist.' For the whole world's social internationalists this includes anyone from Rock-Ribbed Republican members of the Jaycees to the membership of the NRA.
That nasty, unconfiscated gun! Did they get its mug shot?
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