Posted on 12/17/2024 7:50:40 PM PST by NetAddicted
After ducking questions for much of the day, Madison, Wisc. Police Chief Shon Barnes finally revealed the identity of the suspected shooter found dead inside a private Christian school on Monday. While there is currently no evidence suggesting that the suspect is transgender, Chief Barnes said that he won’t even consider whether gender status or ideology was a factor.
In earlier press briefings, Barnes first denied knowing if the body found was either “male or female,” then later said he would not reveal the students “gender.”
Chief Barnes’ obfuscations and the terminology he used throughout much of the day fueled speculations about the suspect's gender identity.
At his last update of the day, Barnes identified 15-year-old biological female Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name “Samantha,” as the suspect in the deadly shooting.
But, when asked if the suspect was transgender, Chief Barnes said he didn’t know, wasn’t interested and wouldn’t consider gender identity as a factor in the shooting:
“I don’t know whether Natalie was transgender or not. And quite frankly, I don’t think that’s even important. I don’t think that’s important at all. I don’t think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify.”
Barnes dismissed the suspect’s gender identity as “of no consequence”:
“Whether or not she was, he was, they were transgender is something that may come out later, but for what we’re doing right now, today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time.”
Chief Barnes went so far as to suggest that people who even ask the question are bigots:
“I wish that people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this.”
“Very odd and bizarre…,” Libs of TikTok commented in a viral social media post, noting how the police chief used three different pronouns to refer to Rupnow:
“Madison, WI police chief says he doesn’t know if the shooter was transgender and then uses he, she, and they pronouns to describe the shooter. Very odd and bizarre...”
Replies to the post largely attributed Chief Barnes’ comments to political correctness run amok amid the woke culture prevalent in Madison.
Incompetence on display. Complicity as well?
Of course it matters. Everything which caused her to snap matters. And eventually it will all get out.
[“Very odd and bizarre…,”]
Every time something happens we are ALWAYS told something ..... _______else________
It’s all we get these days
Pay no attention to the tranny behind the curtain.
Yeah. It’s just like that. Might as well be CNN/ABC/CBS/MSNBC.
Maybe she liked Bewitched.
Chief Shon seemed like a woke idiot. The shooter’s preferred pronouns might be of interest to the media, but the Chief had more pressing issues. I’d give him a pass on this one. He likely didn’t have a clue, anyway.
Why? It’s common for kids to adopt or make up nicknames. She looks like a girl, dressed like a girl, had a “boyfriend” and there’s no indication of anything trans about it.
Stop reaching and either apply Occam’s Razor or wait for actual evidence to the contrary.
That's literally what he said. Nobody had the guts to ask him how he could call it a "safe space" when 8 people had just been shot, and two of them had died.
It’s quite relevant when you are pumping the hormones of the opposite sex into the developing body of one who hasn’t even learned to manage their own hormones.
That chief is an uneducated bully in the work place. People have a right to know all about a killer. Especially a dead one.
Incompetent fool needs to GTFO.
From what I have read, she had an unpleasant relationship with her mother.
She may have chosen a different name because she didn’t like her given name or because she wanted to distance herself from her parent.
wasn’t interested and wouldn’t consider gender identity as a factor in the shooting:, number one we are not interested in your “not interested “idea which seems to be a personal opinion and secondly “TRANS IS A FACTOR IN THESE SHOOTINGS, PERIOD! He seems to be a DEI hire
If you bury your head in the sand...it’s all good
Was she hopped up on puberty blockers and testosterone?
If so, those shot and the families of the dead should be suing the doctors involved.
Wonder if he’s related to Mandela Barnes.
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