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Jo Cox MP critically injured amid shooting reports
BBC ^ | 16 June 2016

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: england
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To: PAR35

[ 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.


21 posted on 06/16/2016 8:11:03 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The “Britain First!” claims are being retracted:

Andy Bell Verified account
@andybell5news

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.


22 posted on 06/16/2016 8:16:35 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

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.


23 posted on 06/16/2016 8:31:16 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Will the NYT blame this attack on the Labour Party for provoking the attacker by selling out their own country?


24 posted on 06/16/2016 10:50:15 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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