Posted on 08/09/2025 11:31:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The shooter opened fire outside the CDC headquarters, striking windows across the sprawling campus and killing the officer before he was found dead.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White of Kennesaw, Georgia.
The GBI statement says White died and Officer David Rose with the DeKalb County Police Department was shot and killed during the shooting Friday.
The shooter opened fire outside the CDC headquarters, striking windows across the sprawling campus and killing the officer before he was found dead in a nearby building, authorities said. The attack prompted a massive law enforcement response to one of the nation’s most prominent public health institutions, but no one else was reported to be injured.
At least four CDC buildings were hit, Director Susan Monarez said in a post on X. Images shared by employees showed multiple agency buildings with bullet-pocked windows, underscoring the breadth of the damage to a site where thousands of scientists and staff work on critical disease research.
Police officers block Clifton Road near Emory Hospital as they respond to a shooting near the campuses of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 Photo by: Hyosub Shin/AP Police officers block Clifton Road near Emory Hospital as they respond to a shooting near the campuses of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 By: AP via Scripps News Group Posted 9:58 AM, Aug 09, 2025
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White of Kennesaw, Georgia.
The GBI statement says White died and Officer David Rose with...
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Can’t seem to find a pic.
White boy name sounds like.
Probably had several family members die of ‘safe and effective’.
Coulter’s law?
yeah, i wonder what his beef was? ... a bit unusual for a black man to engage in a pointless political shooting ... usually, shooting are over one or more of the following: a female, money, drugs, drug territory, gang fight, or because somebody dissed somebody ...
They’re saying it without saying it.
Ha.
Been watching noir movies of the mid-50s to mid-60s.
People used to have a little table by the front door of their homes for men to set their hats down. And the job of hat check girl got women employees tips at clubs and restaurants.
When the Stephen King movie of his novel 11/22/63 came out it had a line that the guy advising the time traveler going to 1963 said a grown adult man wears a suit and hat when he goes out of the house.
“Officer David Rose, 33, was a former Marine who served in Afghanistan and graduated from the police academy in March and “quickly earned the respect of his colleagues for his dedication, courage and professionalism,” DeKalb County said in a statement.
“This evening, there is a wife without a husband. There are three children, one unborn, without a father,” DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said.”
RIP David. May his family find peace. God bless them.
Black as the ace of spades...
Shooter’s dead. No excuse for no pic.
They generate suspicion every time they withhold information.
Motive and Background: Law enforcement officials and media reports, citing anonymous sources, indicate that White was fixated on anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and believed the Covid-19 vaccine had caused his own physical ailments.
He was reportedly disturbed and had recently sought mental health assistance.
His neighbor described him as "unsettled" and deeply committed to his belief that vaccines were harmful.
Shooter was reportedly angry at CDC over COVID. The incident is being used as a pretext for blaming RFK, Jr. by a group of activists associated with CDC called Fired But Fighting, led by Abigail Tighe and Sarah Boim and others, who appear to be allied with Democratic Party candidate Kate Denny (husband Gerald B. Denny II aka Jeb Denny, possibly relative of CDC researcher Clark H. Denny but unconfirmed). Boim was active in the April anti-ICE Hands Off insurrection coordinated by 50501, Indivisible, DSA, and the ACLU.
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Fired CDC workers vow to fight against cuts as they find a tight job market outside the agency
By: Jill Nolin - May 2, 2025 3:00 am
. . .Frustrated former employees at the town hall said the firings are misguided and will harm public health. Several members of a group called Fired but Fighting said Ossoff is not doing enough to help.
Fired CDC worker Abby Tighe questions Sen. Ossoff. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
“We want to know why we have gotten no response from your staff,” asked Abby Tighe, a former public health advisor in the CDC’s division of overdose prevention who was let go in February. “We are a huge coalition. We have emailed, we have called, we have tried many times to meet with you and your staff to talk about the concerns that we have from public health, and we have been ignored. We are a huge constituency and we protect you and everyone else in this room from public health disaster.”
Tighe also asked what Ossoff will do as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee to help fund public health.. . .
Sarah Boim, a former communication specialist with the CDC, also welcomed the chance for a meeting.
“I’m shocked that he has not been standing up more because we drive a lot of the economic activity where we live and we’re generally blue voters so he should be listening to us,” she said.
Kate Denny, a mom from Avondale Estates, expressed frustration at what she characterized as a lack of opposition in opposing Trump. . .
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https://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/policy-action-institute/speakers/abigail-tighe
Abigail Tighe
Abby Tighe is a founding member of Fired but Fighting (FBF), a coalition of terminated CDC-ers and public health allies. Abby along, with her colleagues from CDC established the FBF coalition following their illegal terminations from the Centers for Disease. She is a former CDC public health advisor. In this role, she served as a project officer in the Drug Free Communities branch, where she worked directly with local organizations to support youth substance use prevention. Abby’s experience prior to CDC includes serving as the communications lead for a CDC-funded research grant at Emory, holding an associate role at a PR firm that served NCHHSTP, and working as a Pathways Intern at HRSA where she worked on opioid crisis response.
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https://defector.com/an-interview-with-a-fired-cdc-health-communications-manager
. . .Boim and other terminated employees soon created Fired But Fighting, a coalition of CDC workers who were terminated for their probationary status or affected by the vast, relentless reductions in force, or RIFs, ordered by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. “We’re advocating for the reinstatement of terminated public health workers,” Boim said. “We’re exposing the political interference undermining public health infrastructure. We’re informing the public and the press with data and stories and first-hand accounts, and we’re also supporting our peers through coordinated outreach and action.” Although Boim was fired in February, she and her co-organizers have been actively recruiting people affected by April’s mass layoffs at the CDC, which have affected tens of thousands of workers.
Boim, who is currently on administrative leave, hopes this outreach might return some of these terminated employees to their former posts. “I would love to continue to do my job, because I feel like I was making a difference,” Boim said. I spoke with Boim about the CDC’s crucial work, her decision to become a public advocate for fired workers, and the generational harm that will come to a nation bereft of robust public health protections. (Fired But Fighting is not associated with the CDC or any government agency, but rather represents a grassroots coalition of people who were illegally terminated or improperly RIFed. Boim spoke on behalf of herself and the group Fired But Fighting.). . .
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Sarah Boim recently was affected by the layoffs at the CDC. She’s a firecracker that while looking for a new full-time position, is co-heading a group called Fired but Fighting (firedbutfighting.com) and was a speaker at Saturday’s Hands Off march at the Georgia capital attended by approximately 30,000 people.
From Sarah: I am a strategic communications leader and digital media strategist seeking a long-term role in a health-adjacent field. Learn more and contact me at www.sarahboim.com
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https://kateforstate.com/meet-kate-denny/
Meet Kate Denny
Katherine “Kate” Denny is a candidate for Georgia’s Senate District 10 in the 2026 General Election. With a platform focused on healthcare, education/childcare, wages, and housing, Kate brings nearly two decades of medical experience, having been a trauma nurse for nearly 20 years, and a lived understanding of the challenges facing working families across Georgia.
“fixated on anti-vaccine conspiracy theories “
No bias there.
“Black as the ace of spades...”
That would be the dead officer.
As more and more evidence about the harm caused by the vaccine comes out. Also evidence concerning the government’s and big pharma’s knowledge and involvement, this kind of thing will become routine.
Whoops!
Thx for the clarification...🙄
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