Posted on 06/14/2017 9:58:11 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Republican Representative Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip, and two Capitol Police were shot during baseball practice on Wednesday morning.
Scalise was shot in the hip and tried to drag himself off the field after he was shot.
The shooter, James T. Hodgkinson was a Bernie supporter who was obsessed with Trump-Russia conspiracy theories. He is now dead.
The New York Times tipped off the GOP shooter on the GOP baseball practice field in an April article.
When members of Congress practice in the early mornings in an Alexandrea, Va., public park for their Congressional Baseball Game, plainclothes United States Capital Police are sitting there in a blac S.U.V.
Hodgkinson asked lawmakers, Are those Republicans or Democrats? before gunning down Rep. Scalise and his security detail.
In addition to Scalise, those shot were Matt Mika, the director of government relations for the Washington office of Tyson Foods and a former congressional staff member who was shot twice in the chest; Zachary Barth, a staffer for Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), who was hit in the leg by a bullet and was treated and released; two Capitol Police officers who were part of Scalises security detail were wounded in the attack: Officer Crystal Griner was shot in the ankle, Officer David Bailey sustained minor injuries and was also treated and released.
Capitol Police were there only because Scalise was present. Had he not been there and they not had the courage to respond under fire it would have been a turkey shoot by the perp.
Also interesting no Republican Congressmen don't conceal carry or have staff members that do. Never leave home without it.
It’s a charity game and the public can attend. I want NYT to be flushed down the toilet but this is a bit of a stretch.
Can we imagine the possible reason for such disclosure? I have never seen news outlets publish security operations details on government employees.
The game. The practices? Put that info out for the public to read?
Real danger (SEE ABOVE) is the constant ‘mainstream’ media and Democrat leaders constantly using language such as ‘stolen election’ Putin’s puppet, Nazi takeover, worse than Hitler, etc.
Only so much of that on NBC CNN and you’re going to have some nuts thinking he’s in 1930s Germany and has to act. Exactly what happened here.
Bizarre. Agenda driven solicitation for trouble, by the times.
They showed plenty of leg with this one.
Bizarre. Agenda driven solicitation for trouble, by the times.
They showed plenty of leg with this one.
When members of Congress practice in the early mornings in an Alexandrea, Va., public park for their Congressional Baseball Game, plainclothes United States Capital Police are sitting there in a blac S.U.V.
Think about it, why would they mention where the security was, and that it was in a black suv. Why was that information mentioned?
Will it be worth it when they are in Hell?
I agree with the fact the language and actual call for violence against Trump and his supporters has lead to what happened today.
‘Think about it, why would they mention where the security was, and that it was in a black suv. Why was that information mentioned?”
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Good point.
Nice point. Why mention there’s security there, what they are driving, and what they are wearing? Almost like they’re trying to tell someone with bad intention this is an target rich environment and not well defended.
Young skull fresh out of Harvard mush used to push information for someone. Is he a Bernie-bot, too?
Time to read the messaging to the social justice warriors sent out by their command and control in the media very carefully.
That's the crux of it. Every one of them ends up thinking he's John Brown.
The talking point is “They can’t be blamed for their actions. They’re afraid of Trump and rightly so.”
That’s what I thought too....a very descriptive warning about potential opposition.
Old Red is complicit
Lock his ass up
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