Oh yeah, I remember him. He’s the one that threatened to prosecute anyone that was involved and who talked about the drill on social media. Wasn’t he also one of the state police standing by the coroner while he was talking and trying to keep from laughing?
“As I said, if you answer a conspiracy theorist’s question,”
And when a hoax defender gives a BS answer that still proves nothing, I still have the same question.
“Oh yeah, I remember him”
Good. So you do know (or should know) that the Conn. State PD took the lead in that investigation, since they were holding the press conferences.
“And when a hoax defender gives a BS answer that still proves nothing...”
Well, there was no hoax to defend, but I see you would rather double down on stupid than quit when you are behind. Okay. If it is proof that you want, then I actually can prove that the Sandy Hook victims were included in the numbers that the state reported to the FBI, rather than the numbers that Newtown reported the the FBI.
See, the UCR report published by the FBI is not the only place that these statistics are published. Each state actually publishes its own report of what it and all its constituent counties and municipalities have reported to the FBI each year. As it happens, the Connecticut UCR report for 2012 has some very pertinent information that we can compare with the FBI report. Here’s a link to the state report:
https://www.dpsdata.ct.gov/dps/ucr/data/2012/Crime%20In%20Connecticut%20COMPLETE%202012.pdf
Now, if you go to page 245 of that report, you can see the breakdown of the offenses that Newtown reported for that year. This page includes the same zero total for homicides as the FBI report, but it also includes this relevant footnote for the “Murder” category:
“Does NOT include 27 victims of Newtown mass shooting (see State Police Misc.)”
So there, clear as day in the official Connecticut report, if any conspiracy theorists had bothered to read it, is the same explanation that I gave you. Just to be sure, let’s look up that “State Police Misc.” section that is referenced and see what that says. It’s on page 415. What do you know? Right on page 415, under the investigating agency State Police, we have 27 murders reported to the FBI under the UCR program, with another footnote that tells us:
“Includes 27 victims of Newtown mass shooting”
There’s really no way to argue your way around plain language like that. Game over.
This just goes to show how dishonest conspiracy theorists are with their “unanswered questions” spiel. These questions were clearly answered back in 2013 when all these reports were published on the internet for any interested member of the public to review. It took me less than an hour to look them over and find the answers, but the conspiracy theorists who pretend to be so concerned with this burning question couldn’t be bothered to do the most basic of investigative work in six entire years.
In fact, they wouldn’t have even needed to do this themselves. I’m certain if anyone had contacted the Connecticut State Police, or the Newtown PD, or the FBI and asked them where they could find the murders reported, they would have pointed them in the right direction. Apparently none of the conspiracy theorists could even be bothered to take two minutes to type up that email and fire it off.
Just goes to show they don’t really want answers, since they don’t take even the most basic little baby steps to try and find them.