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Sikh Temple shooting being treated as domestic terrorism, Oak Creek police say
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | August 5, 2012 | Staff Writers

Posted on 08/05/2012 3:29:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek about 10:15 a.m. Sunday that left at least seven people dead, including the shooter, and three people injured is being treated as a domestic terrorist incident, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said.

Oak Creek police officers who responded to a 911 call about the shooting were helping a victim when the shooter ambushed one of the officers, shooting the officer multiple times.

A second Oak Creek officer returned fire, killing the shooter, Edwards said.

The wounded officer, described as at least a 20-year veteran of the department, was in surgery Sunday afternoon and was expected to survive, Edwards said during a 4 p.m. news conference.

Of those killed, four of the dead were inside the temple at 7512 S. Howell Ave. and three of the dead, including the shooter, were outside the temple.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; india; oakcreek; racine; sikh; sikhs; wadepage; waronterror; wisconsin
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To: calljack
If he's white, conservative, or a ‘white looking Hispanic’ this will be story of the year... if he's not, the story will be relegated to ‘must have more gun control’... and maybe mentally ill...
41 posted on 08/05/2012 4:22:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (...you can't reason somebody out of a position reason didn't get them in to. Freeper Uriah_lost)
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To: jjotto
The fact that it is called terrorism means it wasn’t a muzzie. If it was a ma muzzie it would be a ‘personal’ or ‘neighborhood dispute’ or maybe ‘workplace violence’.

If the person's black or gay it's not terrorism either - those groups are 'protected'. I pray it's not a conservative - the press would love to rip us to shreds... Especially the New York Times...

42 posted on 08/05/2012 4:27:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (...you can't reason somebody out of a position reason didn't get them in to... Freeper Uriah_lost)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reichstag Fire


43 posted on 08/05/2012 4:28:19 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: GOPJ

A Conservative isnt going to go into a place of worship and murder innocent people..It might have been a Loughner type whack job, or someone else..This is an election year, notice these shootings are all happening so close to the election, makes you wonder


44 posted on 08/05/2012 4:30:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Daus
The shooter is apparently from Cudahy... The odds of him being a ‘bubba’ just went way up.

Are there any "bubbas" in Wisconsin?

45 posted on 08/05/2012 4:31:22 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have always been at war with Eastasia, and Tea Partiers have always hated Sikhs.


46 posted on 08/05/2012 4:33:52 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Sorry for being a complete newb at this but what is a “bubba”


47 posted on 08/05/2012 4:39:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Zionist Conspirator

They just stated on Fox that police have gone to a home in Cudahy and are not allowing reporters near. I imagine there will be updates sometime this evening.
It is just so sad.


48 posted on 08/05/2012 4:39:53 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (Will there even be an election in 2016?)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Are there any "bubbas" in Wisconsin?

Hehe. I take it you have never been to Wisconsin, or even met anyone from there?

49 posted on 08/05/2012 4:39:53 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thanks - in my heart I know you’re right. It’s just that groups like NBC and ABC are after us - and you know what they would do if they could...


50 posted on 08/05/2012 4:41:49 PM PDT by GOPJ (...you can't reason somebody out of a position reason didn't get them in to... Freeper Uriah_lost)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Check out the twitter hashtag #templeshooting. The agenda libs, racist libs out in full force. One pro-union poster says the “union” is the reason the gunman was taken down. More using this to attack Gov. Walker and push gun control. CNN being praised by lib
tweeters.


51 posted on 08/05/2012 4:43:51 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: GOPJ

EVERYONE in the media is after the Tea Party..even Fox News jumped in today when I heard Gregg Jarrett say “Maybe the gunman mistook the Sikh’s for Muslims” OH COME ON, it doesn’t take a genius to tell the difference, and somehow that gives the shooter an excuse..the media is already going with the “Poor misunderstood Muslim” angle.


52 posted on 08/05/2012 4:50:30 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: GOPJ
I pray it's not a conservative...

No need to worry. When was the last time -- if ever -- that a Conservative committed an act more heinous than maybe exceeding the speed limit or running a red light? All of the brutal crimes of the last hundred years have been the work of liberals. Joseph Stalin's wholesale slaughter of tens of millions came from his communist belief system. Likewise, evil socialist Adolph Hitler committed atrocity after atrocity. All of the assassination attempts on US Presidents or nominees were done by leftists. And, last but not least, the murderous Ted Kennedy was an unabashed liberal.

There may have been some crime committed by a Conservative but I've not heard of any. Unlike liberals, Conservatives are obedient to God and are good, salt-of-the-earth law-abiding people.

53 posted on 08/05/2012 4:54:29 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Uh...

http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/2003/10/10/146961-mesa-man-gets-death-for-killing-sikh/

...Frank Silva Roque was convicted last week of murdering Mesa gas station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi, whom prosecutors said was targeted because Roque thought the victim was Arab. Sodhi wore a turban and beard as part of his Sikh faith...


54 posted on 08/05/2012 4:56:39 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Plenty. Cudahy would be their capital. Seriously, the South has changed a lot... Now very mixed. Large Muslim and Hindu communities. The Islamic Societies Mosque is about two miles north of this temple.


55 posted on 08/05/2012 4:57:34 PM PDT by Daus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Desperately searching . . . searching . . . searching . . .


56 posted on 08/05/2012 4:57:34 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: jjotto
Hehe. I take it you have never been to Wisconsin, or even met anyone from there?

Never been there, though I've met someone from there. It was a long time ago, he was visiting a neighbor, and I was just a kid. I have since come to recognize some of the things he said as evidence of neo-nazi white racialism.

However, he was not a "bubba." "Bubba" is a first name associated with Southern whites, especially of the lower classes. When have any people in the North been named "Bubba?"

57 posted on 08/05/2012 5:05:34 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: TChad

“We have always been at war with Eastasia, and Tea Partiers have always hated Sikhs.”
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You forgot to put “/sarc” in your posting. The tea partiers I know like Sikhs and their attitudes about things in general. Nikki Haley (born a Sikh) was put over the top by tea partiers and Sarah Palin.


58 posted on 08/05/2012 5:10:32 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do you have ANY idea how long the media has been wanting to call something “Domestic terrorism”? They have phrase all dusted off and then find out some Muslim or Occupy type went crazy and it fizzles.

Please, please, please tell us this guy is a Tea Partier. :)

We can fan racial strife right before the election. :)


59 posted on 08/05/2012 5:20:39 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://livewire.wisn.com/Event/Oak_Creek_Temple_Shooting

Live thread above.

Dead guys is a large white man with 2 guns in a white “Wife Beater” T-shirt. They are now checking his week old rented apartment with bomb squads etc, and have evacuated his neighborhood.


60 posted on 08/05/2012 5:22:06 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady ("When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson)
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