Posted on 03/29/2018 5:38:43 PM PDT by Libloather
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orlando nightclub shooter intended to attack Disney World's shopping and entertainment complex by hiding a gun in a stroller but became spooked by police and instead chose the gay club as his target, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed the details during their closing arguments in the trial of Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen. Salman, 31, is accused of aiding her husband in the attack that killed 49 people in 2016. She is charged with obstruction and providing material support to a terrorist organization.
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"The target of that terrorist attack was not the Pulse nightclub," Sweeney said. "The target of the attack was Disney."
Sweeney showed a video of the Disney Springs complex that captured Mateen walking near the House of Blues club in the hours before the Pulse attack. In it, he looks behind him at police officers standing nearby.
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He didn't care who he killed or where it would happen. He just wanted numbers.
...Good guys with guns?
Obama turned it into an attack “driven” by the critics of same sex marriage.
Never let a tragedy go to waste.
Yep it sure sounds like a police presence can be a deterrent.
But this contradicts what happened at that place in Oakland, which banned police, supposedly for the safety of their customers.
He made his daddy proud!
Been to that open air didney Spring a few times. Always armed cause I am a FL resident. Many tourists will be easy targets as traveling armed is less likely.
I recall hearing this early on.
Anyway, small nightclub is small potatoes compared to the mecca that is Disney, being basically its own duchy. He would be biting off more than he could chew trying for Disney.
Another FBI fail! we need to open them up like a can of worms and get to the bottom of their criminal activities
Deterred by guns? Hmmmmm...
How long until they admit that it was the FBI that Gave him all the Guns??
I’ve been there....my extended family go there often.....it’s a fun, lovely place.....crowds of people
.....Lots of children are there......which is probably what he hoped for.....
.....devil’s minion, that’s what he was
...the wife was complicit too!....They should find her guilty!
Deterred by people with guns
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