Posted on 06/16/2016 7:15:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Mr Abdallah said the weapon had "looked handmade" and a man who had been wrestling with the gunman continued even after seeing the gun. He said: "The man stepped back with the gun and fired it and then he fired a second shot, as he was firing he was looking down at the ground." "He was kicking her as she was lying on the floor", he said.
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[ I would suspect their equivalent of an “October Surprise” by the anti-Brexit forces who needed a martyr. “It has been announced the Vote Leave and Remain have suspended campaigning in the EU referendum in light of the attack.” ]
If anything it will give them cover to blatantly manipulate the vote to squash the leave vote.
The “Britain First!” claims are being retracted:
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Scene in Birstall where eye witness quoted says did NOT hear anyone shouting “Britain First” #JoCox
Pretty weird situation. The look of the guy adds up to someone being from Britain First, but no one heard him shouting these slogans apart from a foreign guy...
But, it doesn’t matter, since the meme went out to millions of sheeple already.
How convenient that such a statement was made or asserted. The government and the international left will do almost anything to make sure that Britain stays in the EU. A little lying is nothing; they would probably do much more.
Will the NYT blame this attack on the Labour Party for provoking the attacker by selling out their own country?
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