Posted on 06/16/2024 4:56:22 AM PDT by texanyankee
ROUND ROCK, Texas —
Two people were killed and multiple others were injured in a shooting during a Juneteenth Celebration Saturday night around 10:50 p.m. in Round Rock, Texas, according to Round Rock Police.
The suspect or suspects responsible for the shooting are still at large. Round Rock Police urge anyone with information about the shooting or video of the shooting to call Round Rock Police at (512) 218-5500.
The shooting began when two groups began fighting with each other near the vendor area during the Round Rock Juneteenth Festival at Old Settler's Park. During the fight, at least one person pulled out a gun and began shooting. Round Rock Police are unsure if there were multiple people shooting during the incident.
Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said that the identity of people killed and injured will be revealed later and that information will include the total number of people injured.
Round Rock Police officers and Round Rock Firefighters that were working at the event immediately responded to the shooting, applying tourniquets to the wounded and performing CPR.
Police did not release a description of the suspect. Chief Banks said that there were multiple descriptions of the suspect and different accounts of what happened during the shooting.
Old Settler's Park will be closed Sunday morning.
Yawn. What else is new?
My bank is closed Monday. That makes it official!
So was there a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation at the June Teenth celebration, which somehow triggered unruly youth? Were they protesting the legacy of slavery?
Gunteenth.
CC
The History of Juneteenth
Juneteenth is now a National Holiday and is the oldest known celebration commemorating the emancipation of slavery in the state of Texas. Historically, the celebration falls on June 19th and commemorates the day in 1865 that Texans were told by Union troops that the Civil War had ended and that all slaves were now freed. Though the Emancipation Proclamation became official on January 1, 1863, there was little impact on the lives of Texans until 1865.
No, it was a spirited discourse about the relative merits of the Hegelian dialectic.
CC
Ain’t this the traditional way of celebrating Juneteenth?
It ain’t Juneteenth unless blood is spilled!
We really need to start regulating and bannign vendor areas.
Yes. The perpetrator or perpetrators, had arms, legs and hands. The perp(s) were ambulatory and had eyes and ears, possibly have hair on their head(s).
What’s a celebration of blackness without a little shooting?
It is a Juneteenth tradition.
So Juneteenth is celebrated on June 15; okay. And it sounds like Juneteenth is not an actual date, but more of a frame of mind. Or a cultural thang.
Ah, the old thesis/antithesis bit; yeah, I stand corrected — they couldn’t agree on the synthesis.
June 17, 2021
The Juneteenth National Independence DayAct was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in June 2021. The bill was signed by President Joe Biden on June 17, 2021, which officially made the day a federal holiday.
The Umpteemf celebrants got carried away and started acting like Confederates.
Juneteenth is the celebration of thug culture. If no one got shot it would have to be moved to a worse neighborhood next year.
I wonder who was responsible for bringing those to this land
now called the USA. I know Columbus sailed in 1492 and the
immigrants began to arrive there after.
In the 1800’s the negroes were ignorant that Lincoln signed an amendment to m, even whites are so stupid, that they solemnly commemorate this date for 2 weeks? an entire month?
This is too much like Pride month for me, a made up event to give stupid people a long time to be “proud” of being sodomites.
In the world I grew up in, we had one Independence day, and people shut their traps, about their perverse sexuality. They celebrate no longer being ashamed, when that was their tether to repentance and eternal life.
Without shame, humans are irredeemable.
Without a set date to celebrate National Unity and Indepence, we are not a nation.
The Mexicans have Cinco de Mayo. Blacks have Juneumpteemf and Americans have Independence Day. I don’t think we’re “one nation under God” anymore, Toto. Now each tribe of scumbag jackasses want their own country with their own holidays, their own politicians, their own flags, their own National Anthems and assorted other retarded culture club crap. The only thing they want to keep are government free stuff benefits provided by the U.S. taxpayers and the good old U.S. dollar.
This is what they are replacing July 4th with.
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