Media Cover-Up of Dead NSA Attacker’s Criminal History! First, the Headline was “Man killed by NSA police had lengthy criminal record,” but Once the Ministry of Truth Learned that He was an Insane, Homosexual Prostitute Who Thought He was a Woman, It Disappeared the Story, and Replaced It with, “Person killed at NSA identified as transgender, friend says”

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Thanks for this story to Prince George’s County Ex-Pat, who quipped,

Was Magic Johnson the other "guest" at the party?

Note, however, that this is literally a cover story. AP-WTOP have sent the original story down the memory hole, while using the same URL, so it can’t be recovered, and removed all of the dead attacker’s relevant background.

As the example of the Miami Herald shows, the original story has been “disappeared” elsewhere, too.

The first piece below appears to be the original story, although it has an incorrect date. Since the byline on the original story is Meredith Somers, but the fake one has Somers’ and Juliet Linderman’s bylines, I’m guessing that Linderman wrote the fake one.
 

Dress-wearing man killed by NSA police had lengthy record

Associated Press
By MEREDITH SOMERS, Associated Press 1/1/2015 [sic]
MSN
 

AP Photo/WJLA-TV In this image made from video and released by WJLA-TV, authorities investigate the scene of a accident near a gate to Fort Meade, Md., on Monday, March 30, 2015. A spokesman at Fort Meade says two people are being… treated for injuries at one of the gates of the sprawling Army installation near Baltimore.
 

FORT MEADE, Md. — Court documents show that a cross-dressing man killed during a violent encounter at the National Security Agency had a history of theft and assault, and was mistaken at least once for being a woman.

The FBI has identified Ricky Shawatza Hall as the person who was killed Monday after the NSA said he failed to obey orders to drive away from a heavily guarded gate leading into the highly secure NSA campus. An NSA police officer was treated for minor injuries and released.

Hall, 27, was accompanied by a second man who was not identified and who remained hospitalized Tuesday with unspecified injuries. The two men were dressed as women, but "not in an attempt to disguise themselves from authorities," FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson said.

Court documents show Hall had a criminal record. In 2013, he was charged after he assaulted a woman and stole a bottle of methadone from her pocket. Hall had been wearing a yellow dress at the time of the assault and was mistaken for a woman, the documents show. In 2014, Hall was charged with robbery after stealing a vest and skirt from a Baltimore clothing store.

On Monday, police determined that Hall and his passenger were driving the SUV of a 60-year-old Baltimore man, who told investigators he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore and brought them to a Howard County motel.

Howard County Police spokeswoman, Mary Phelan, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the driver did not tell police why they made the roughly 10-mile drive to the Terrace Motel.

The man told police they checked into a room about 7:30 a.m., and that he used the bathroom about an hour later. When he came out, the men were gone, along with his car keys, Phelan said.

Police said they could not confirm whether drugs, alcohol, or sex were part of the roughly one-hour stay.

Just before 9 a.m. and minutes after the man called to report the stolen car, Hall and his passenger took a highway exit that leads directly to a restricted area at the NSA entrance at Fort Meade.

The driver of the SUV did not obey a guard's instructions for leaving the campus, said spokesman Jonathan Freed.

Instead, the SUV sped up and headed toward an NSA police car blocking the road, Freed said in a statement.

"NSA Police fired at the vehicle when it refused to stop," Freed said, after which the SUV crashed into the police car.

It's not the first time someone has disobeyed orders at an NSA gate. In July, a man failed to obey an NSA officer's command to stop as he approached a checkpoint. That man drove away, injuring an NSA officer and nearly striking a barricade. He was later arrested and is awaiting trial on federal charges.

Thousands of daily commuters who traverse the Baltimore-Washington Parkway pass the NSA's heavily secured campus at Fort Meade each day. About 11,000 military personnel and about 29,000 civilian employees with security clearances work inside the complex, which is surrounded by barbed wire.

The FBI is investigating and working with the U.S. attorney's office in Maryland to determine if federal charges are warranted.
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Associated Press Writer Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.
 

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik A police officer directs a vehicle to turn away at the National Security Agency, Monday, March 30, 2015, in Fort Meade, Md. Earlier, a firefight erupted when two men dressed as women tried to ram a car into a gate, killing… one of them and wounding the other, officials said.
 

[Fake cover-up story:]
 

http://wtop.com/ann-arundel-county/2015/04/man-killed-by-nsa-police-had-lengthy-record/ [See?!]
Person killed at NSA identified as transgender, friend says
By Juliet Linderman and Meredith Somers
April 1, 2015, 9:58 a.m.
AP-WTOP

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A friend of the driver killed in a confrontation at the entrance to the National Security Agency said the individual identified as transgender and was a sex worker in Baltimore.

Twenty-seven-year-old Ricky Shawatza Hall was killed Monday when NSA police opened fire on a stolen car that then crashed into a police vehicle. A passenger was wounded, as was an officer.

Kayla Brooks, who works at a transgender outreach program in Baltimore, says she last saw Hall on Sunday. Brooks says Hall “seemed high and was looking for a date” while walking up and down a Baltimore strip known as a hotspot for sex work.

Brooks says Hall went by the name Mya and was nice and friendly but “very troubled.”