Posted on 06/12/2016 2:52:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Authorities in Santa Monica arrested an Indiana man Sunday morning ahead of the LA PRIDE parade in nearby West Hollywood after the discovery of possible explosives in a car, according to California law enforcement.
Just before 3 p.m. ET, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the Associated Press a heavily armed man was arrested, and that man told police during his arrest he was going to the PRIDE parade. Investigators removed items from the suspect's white Acura sedan and placed them on the sidewalk near the driver's side door, according to KNBC.
Santa Monica Chief of Police Jacqueline Seabrooks identified the suspect on her official Twitter feed as James Howell of Indiana. She said Howell told officers he wanted to harm the PRIDE event. Chief Seabrooks said he was arrested for weapons and explosive materials possession.
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Howell ... any relation to that shooter in the Denver theater a few years ago?
Good, probably connected to Orlando along with the singer that was just murdered...
Was that his name before or after his conversion?
Sorry, my error - the theater shooter was named Holmes.
Good question
Oh, no!
Mass exodus to closets.
Why would he go to CA when Indy Pride is going on this weekend too?
Thurston
You’d have to ask the Indiana FReepers to explain that. All the states send their kooks to Cali.
You can tell a person by their eyes...look at his eyes...he’s not all here!!!
Is he part of the explosives matter movement?
“See, it isn’t just muslims.”
I can already hear that mantra from all the propaganda outlets
Not sure what you mean. Looks like my next door neighbor who blew up his cat. /s
“Youd have to ask the Indiana FReepers to explain that. All the states send their kooks to Cali.”
I’m reminded of “Alice’s Restaurant”....
“Well down at the bottom of the ditch was a little pile of garbage and we decided that it’s better to one big pile of garbage than it is to have two little piles of garbage and instead of bringing their garbage up the hill... we decided to bring ours down.”
It doesn’t make sense.
If he was going to attack a parade, why not just rent a truck, worm through the barriers, and start running people down?
Cheap, simple, practical.
My first reaction is that this is all made up to take the pressure off the muslim killer from Florida.
I’d like to know what the explosives actually were.. Did I miss that ?
I have a feeling that they needed a white guy with a CCW and a pack of firecrackers (Or a zippo, or chapstick) to arrest ... and QUICK.
I had some neighbors like that, landlord the other day, had the police out here, hand cuffed them and away they went, still don’t know what happened...
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