Mug shot of James T. Hodgkinson from December 31, 1992
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 8:06:00 A.M. EDT
[WEJB/NSU Update, 3:25 p.m.:
Assassin James Hodgkinson, 66, is reportedly dead. That is all we know at this point.]
“Multiple shooting” involving Congress members reported in Alexandria, suspect in custody
WUSA 8:00 AM. EDT June 14, 2017
ALEXANDRIA, VA. (WUSA9) - Alexandria Police Department is investigating a “multiple shooting” Wednesday morning.
The shooting happened in the 400 block of E Monroe Street, according to police.
A suspect is believed to be in custody.
A CBS Special News Report is scheduled for this morning.
There are some reports that members of Congress were involved.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 8:14:00 A.M. EDT
Rep. Mo Brooks was on TV relaying his eyewitness account of the shooting of colleague, majority whip Steve Scalise (LA), AND capitol police. An obvious assassination attempt with a high-powered rifle. It occurred at a local YMCA near a baseball field. Multiple people shot. Scalise bleeding badly.
One news report identified this as a later mug shot of Hodgkinson, and gave it the ID of a sheriff's office, but it doesn't look like one to me, besides which, who posts a mug shot of himself to his own Facebook page?
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:24:00 A.M. EDT
FOX reporting, the shooter is identified as James Hodgkinson, 66, from Bellville, Illinois. A Facebook page allegedly of the shooter, rants about Trump being a traitor, along with threats to do something about it. He lists Bernie Sanders as his fave politician.
This shooting is the direct result of the political anti-Trump verbiage that the networks spew out on a daily basis. It's comparable to the dashcam videos that were released, of cops shooting black thugs on Negro Nightly News (and others) that incited riots.
The constant dehumanizing news reporting about Trump by the networks has now achieved its first goal. It would be naive to think this shooting stops the hate talk for more than a few days. It's possible yesterday’s Sessions hearing was even the tipping point. These networks have dirty, filthy hands in this.
This might as obvious an attempt at a political assassination in my lifetime. When Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy in 1968, he apparently did so because RFK promised to sell jet fighters to Israel.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I was for RFK, having graduated from high school that spring. And it would have been nice if Bobby had employed professional bodyguards who had walked in front of him, not behind like Rafer Johnson and Rosey Grier.