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Officer dead after burst of violence outside Pentagon
AP ^ | 8/3/2021 | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SAGAR MEGHANI

Posted on 08/03/2021 11:28:27 AM PDT by Mr.Unique

WASHINGTON (AP) — An officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit station outside the Pentagon, law enforcement officials said.

The Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed on lockdown after gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the building, A Pentagon police officer who was stabbed later died, according to officials who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

More details about the violence were expected at a Pentagon news conference. The connection between the shooting and the stabbing of the officer was not immediately clear. The authorities did not immediately provide details or the sequence of events.

The incident occurred on a Metro bus platform that is part of the Pentagon Transit Center, the Pentagon Protection Force Protection Agency tweeted. The facility is just steps from the Pentagon building, which is in Arlington County, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

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An Associated Press reporter near the building heard multiple gunshots, then a pause, then at least one additional shot. Another AP journalist heard police yelling “shooter.”

1 posted on 08/03/2021 11:28:27 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
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To: Mr.Unique

Stabbed with a semi-auto knife?


2 posted on 08/03/2021 11:29:43 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: Mr.Unique

i would guess its a relationship issue, the shooter knew the person/people and they were targeted


3 posted on 08/03/2021 11:29:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mr.Unique

Multiple gunshots but the police officer was stabbed?


4 posted on 08/03/2021 11:30:58 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Mr.Unique

I wouldn’t be surprised if the gunshots weren’t police or soldiers shooting the stabber.


5 posted on 08/03/2021 11:31:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Mr.Unique
Another AP journalist heard police yelling “shooter.”

If the assailant only had a knife, then who knows what the cops were shooting at.

6 posted on 08/03/2021 11:32:20 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Mr.Unique

Can there be a “burst of violence” without any person being involved? Or is it that the DeepStaters need to fit the person(s) who exhibited the “burst of violence” into an appropriate woke scenario?


7 posted on 08/03/2021 11:34:24 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Mr.Unique

Since this happened on a Metro bus platform outside the Pentagon. It is likely that it is not related to the Pentagon.

However, they may delay releasing details until they are sure that they have no way to blame the “Trump insurrection”! /s


8 posted on 08/03/2021 11:34:28 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Mr.Unique

Eff AP.


9 posted on 08/03/2021 11:35:25 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Multiple gunshots but the police officer was stabbed?

Could be that officers fired on the perp after he stabbed a cop. Probably were afraid to shoot until the perp actually stabbed someone due to msm flat out lying about other incidents causing mass riots.
10 posted on 08/03/2021 11:35:54 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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I'm guessing white supremacists, the mortal threat to “democracy” is involved. Another insurrection foiled!
11 posted on 08/03/2021 11:36:22 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Mr.Unique
according to officials who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Does anyone else see anything wrong there? I know the beltway is known as the "land of 1,000 leaks" but that is absurd.

12 posted on 08/03/2021 11:37:56 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Carl Vehse

Burst of violence can occur anywhere. Like a burst of rain, or wind shear, it just materializes out of thin air, and rains down knives and bullets.


13 posted on 08/03/2021 11:38:03 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mr.Unique

Loose end knot. Jan. 6th nonsense.


14 posted on 08/03/2021 11:38:51 AM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Mr.Unique
Stabbed.

Hmmmm. Sounds like a certain religion to me...

15 posted on 08/03/2021 11:39:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Mr.Unique

It is with a high degree of conspiracy, that the cop was a Jan. 06 good guy.


16 posted on 08/03/2021 11:40:42 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Those darn bursts.


17 posted on 08/03/2021 11:40:42 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Maybe in some places in DC there’s a “Seepage of Violence”?
or a “Difussion of Violence” or a “Slow Steady Drip of Violence?”


18 posted on 08/03/2021 11:40:51 AM PDT by Reily
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“Burst of violence?”

Could they be any less cryptic?


19 posted on 08/03/2021 11:41:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Obadiah

‘Another insurrection foiled!’

They are learning. They brought a weapon this time.


20 posted on 08/03/2021 11:41:34 AM PDT by o-n-money (Not my president: WRONG Not the president: RIGHT)
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