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How a Texas Gunfighter Cop Stopped the ISIS Attack in Garland, Texas
AmmoLand ^ | 15 March, 2021 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 03/17/2021 7:27:00 AM PDT by marktwain

Screenshot from CBS interview in Dallas, May, 2019, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten

U.S.A.-(AmmoLand.com)- In Garland, Texas, on 3 May 2015, Gregory Stevens, a veteran police officer with the Garland Police Department, was working off duty as armed security for the “Draw the Prophet” cartoon contest event.

Pamela Geller organized the Draw the Prophet event as a response to Islamic demands that Western Civilization submits to Islamic censorship.

The particular demand was no one would be allowed to draw images of the Prophet Mohammed or to mock him or make fun of him.

The infamous attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris had occurred just five months earlier, by two Islamists with AK-47 type rifles and Tokarev pistols.

Many will remember the Draw Mohammed event, in the Dallas suburb of Garland, which was attacked by two Isis recruits.

Few know the details of how one prepared gunfighter police officer faced two Islamic riflemen armed with semi-automatic rifles, handguns, plenty of ammunition, soft body armor, and the element of surprise. He fought them at close range and prevailed.

Gregory Stevens was that officer. For his own safety and security, and, possibly, to shield the FBI from exposure, the details of the attack and his defensive actions were hidden for more than a year.

Many of the details have been revealed, Officer Stevens explained the events of that day in a video presentation which has been viewed by less than a thousand people on Youtube. It deserves a much wider audience. The video is an hour and eight minutes long.

(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...


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The details of the gunfight in Garland, Texas, at the Draw Mohammad event have not been widely known. Much of the details are now available.
1 posted on 03/17/2021 7:27:00 AM PDT by marktwain
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Btt


2 posted on 03/17/2021 7:33:46 AM PDT by Max_850
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At over an hour in length for the video, would someone be so kind as to provide a synopsis?
3 posted on 03/17/2021 7:33:59 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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The FBI knew in advance and did nothing to warn the organizers and sat back and watched hoping to see the Islamists kill these people.


5 posted on 03/17/2021 7:39:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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Do you know this is Barack Obama’s policy. He also attacked the cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo and blamed their deaths on their stupid cartoons


6 posted on 03/17/2021 7:39:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: marktwain
no one would be allowed to draw images of the Prophet Mohammed

This statement is itself a submission to Islam by referring to "the Prophet Mohammed" in a reverend way. In your wildest dreams can you imagine a reporter referring to "the son of God, Jesus"?

7 posted on 03/17/2021 7:42:14 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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This is the kind of story that a credible watch dog media would love.

FBI conspires with isis terrorists to murder American citizens.

Too bad we don't have that media.

8 posted on 03/17/2021 7:42:32 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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The details apparently confirm the initial reports that the FIB were acting stupidly.


9 posted on 03/17/2021 7:42:59 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Absolutely disgusting what the FBI gets away with. And f*ck the judges that are complicit. This is disgusting on every level.


10 posted on 03/17/2021 7:43:15 AM PDT by qaz123
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Thanks for posting. I was there, at the front door asking a policeman about a good place to eat, when he received the message “shots fired”. It was a night from Hades for us attendees after that. CBS interviewed me the next day when I was FINALLY able to retrieve my car. I didn’t fall for prodding to show any regret for standing up for our first amendment.


11 posted on 03/17/2021 7:43:16 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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It is shocking...the first time you hear it.

Now, it's "Yeah, I could see the fbi doing that".

12 posted on 03/17/2021 7:44:50 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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And remember, this was an fbi agent, not a CI.


13 posted on 03/17/2021 7:45:52 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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14 posted on 03/17/2021 7:48:50 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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I hate to be the one to point this out, but for decades civil libertarians - actual civil libertarians, not the pretend civil libertarians like the ACLU employs - have been screaming about the abuse of civil rights and generally horrible behavior of the FBI.

People like Ron Paul told anyone who would listen that all this new ‘War on Terror’ legislation would eventually be turned inward to punish political enemies. Virtually everyone on the mainstream ‘conservative right’ dismissed Paul and his brethren as crazy an alarmist. That includes me. I thought Paul was a certifiable nutter.

Put another way, we’re being eaten by the beast we helped create. Conservative ‘law & order’ Republicans made the FBI what it is and there doesn’t seem to be much appetite , even still, on the right to come to terms with that.


15 posted on 03/17/2021 7:51:17 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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Tucked Carlson did a story about this a while back.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/12/04/tucker_carlson_the_fbi_is_out_of_control_considers_itself_above_the_law_threat_to_every_american.html

Back in 2015, two Islamic extremists attempted to shoot up a Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Remember that? Later it emerged that an undercover FBI agent knew the two shooters personally and even egged them on to “Tear up Texas.” That agent even traveled with the terrorists to the scene at Garland was present right before the attack and try to flee as it began.

It’s hard to believe that actually happened in America, but it did happen. You would probably like to know why it happened, wouldn’t you? Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin would like to know. He has repeatedly asked the FBI to explain white shield terrorists, how it could have failed to stop the shooting that happened later. And yet he still doesn’t know. Senator Johnson’s request to repeatedly have been stonewalled by the FBI.

I wonder if this agent is one of the 99% of the good ones that that clown Hannity likes to talk about

On a side note, that is some legit shooting from the officer. Very legit. I doubt many could make those shots under static conditions


16 posted on 03/17/2021 7:51:22 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Uncle Miltie

The article is the synopsis.


17 posted on 03/17/2021 7:52:12 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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"People like Ron Paul told anyone who would listen that all this new ‘War on Terror’ legislation would eventually be turned inward to punish political enemies. Virtually everyone on the mainstream ‘conservative right’ dismissed Paul and his brethren as crazy an alarmist. That includes me. I thought Paul was a certifiable nutter.

Put another way, we’re being eaten by the beast we helped create. Conservative ‘law & order’ Republicans made the FBI what it is and there doesn’t seem to be much appetite , even still, on the right to come to terms with that."

Excellent point. Count me in too, except I hope that most of us have come around to understanding the truth of the matter. At least those of us who are paying attention.

18 posted on 03/17/2021 7:58:25 AM PDT by OKSooner (BFF: Blame Fauci First)
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To: qaz123

On a side note, that is some legit shooting from the officer. Very legit. I doubt many could make those shots under static condition


And a guy with real courage.

I have not looked at the video yet, but I believe from the description that he advanced in the face of enemy fire in order to improve his hits accuracy.


19 posted on 03/17/2021 7:58:40 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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Thanks, Dean for both the after action report and the debrief.

Wish I could shoot and commit that well.

20 posted on 03/17/2021 7:59:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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