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socialjusticeinamerica · 2 months

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#end the gun violence chaos #gun violence #gun crime #never trump #gun control #the nra is a terrorist organization #parkland shooting

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Manuel Oliver, the father of a 17-year-old Parkland shooting victim, was arrested Thursday on Capitol Hill after he appeared to shout at a Republican lawmaker who was speaking during a hearing on gun regulations.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., a 26-year-old freshman who is also a survivor of gun violence, tweeted a video of officers detaining a man he identified as Oliver.

Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, afterward that said some people “were disruptive during the hearing.”

“We asked Capitol Police to remove them. They were then removed and then one decided to come back in while we were still gaveled in and disrupted the hearing,” he continued. “That’s when we had a recess. Capitol Police were overwhelmed outside in the hallway and now we’re back in session.”

U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement: “Around noon, a man was arrested for D.C. Code §22-1307 (crowding, obstructing, or incommoding) after he disrupted a hearing.”

In the video tweeted by Frost, a woman could be heard yelling: “Let my husband go!” A Democratic aide with knowledge of the situation said Oliver and his wife, Patricia Oliver, attended the hearing.

The hearing, held by the House Judiciary Committee, titled “ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment: When is Enough Enough?” elicited a spirited debate over gun deaths and firearm regulations.

Fallon was asking panelists a series of questions aimed at arguing that guns are “merely a tool” and shouldn’t be banned, any more than cars or alcohol should be banned when they’re misused and cause deaths.

A man in the room could be heard yelling and interrupting him.

Fallon looked across the room and said: “Is this an insurrection? So will they be held to the same — I don’t want another Jan. 6, do we?”

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., jumped in to say: “If they’re trying to overthrow the government they ought to be held to the same standard. But I think they’re trying to express their views.”

Fallon fired back to say Cicilline was “out of line.”

Fallon continued to speak, and was interrupted again. “Does the Capitol Police not do their jobs?” a frustrated Fallon said. “What the hell’s going on?” He then recessed the hearing, before the arrest appeared to take place, and continued it afterward.

Later, Frost tweeted: “Manuel and Patricia Oliver were just kicked out of this committee hearing on gun violence. Patricia said one thing and the chair escalated the entire situation. Then, Police arrested Manuel Oliver who lost his son in the Parkland shooting. His son was shot to death.”

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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kp777 · 28 days

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#david hogg #march for our lives #gun control #parkland shooting #activism

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haha-im-a-mess · 10 months

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Some of Nik's drawings

#nikolas cruz #nikolas jacob cruz #parkland #parkland shooting #tcc #tcctw

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criminol · 1 year

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The Parkland Shooting Victims: Alyssa Alhadeff

Alyssa Alhadeff was a 14-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Alyssa’s family remember her as bright, energetic, happy and athletic, she was an honours student and a star soccer player. Alyssa enjoyed sports, dancing, singing and fashion. She dreamed of playing for the US women’s national soccer team.

Alyssa was one of 17 people murdered when Nikolas Cruz entered the high school and began shooting. Cruz was sentenced to life in prison for the crime committed in 2018.

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follow-up-news · 10 months

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A former school security officer was found not guilty Thursday over a failure to confront the gunman who massacred 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. Scot Peterson, who was a Broward County sheriff's deputy and worked as a resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was charged in 2019 with seven counts of neglect of a child and three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury. He broke down in tears as the unanimous decision was read Thursday. The charges carried a maximum potential sentence of 96½ years in state prison, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office said. Seventeen students, teachers and staff were killed in the shooting Feb. 14, 2018, and another 17 were injured. Peterson, 60, was the only other person at the school with a gun when the shooter opened fire. He was forced to retire following the school shooting.

#parkland shooting #gun violence

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hellyeahscarleteen · 1 year

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#power #crime #parkland shooting #first person #gun violence

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xgoddessoffandomsx · 2 years

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He should've gotten the death penalty but whatever

#parkland shooting #tcc #true crime community

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) went on a bizarre tangent after she was called out for lying about her past comments suggesting the Parkland, Florida, school shooting was staged.

During an interview with CBS News’ Lesley Stahl broadcast Sunday on “60 Minutes,” Greene was asked for her stance on the 2018 massacre, which left 17 students and staff dead. Two years before she was elected to Congress, Greene responded to a comment on Facebook calling the shooting a “false flag” operation.

But when asked about it by Stahl, Greene tried to rewrite history.

“I never said Parkland was a false flag,” Greene said. “No, I’ve never said that. School shootings are horrible. I don’t think it’s anything to joke about.”

As she was speaking, “60 Minutes” showed a screengrab of Greene’s now-deleted 2018 Facebook comment.

“We fact-checked,” Stahl replied. “Before I got to this interview.”

Greene offered a word-salad comeback, derailing the discussion.

“Have you fact-checked all my statements from kindergarten through 12th grade and in college? And as I’ve paid my taxes and never broken a law, and the only, I got a few speeding tickets, do we need to talk about those too?” she said. “Because I think where you’re going down is the same attacks that people have attacked me with over and over.”

Stahl didn’t challenge Greene further.

Greene, a Trump-supporting firebrand who was the first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory to be elected to Congress, has on multiple occasions endorsed conspiratorial nonsense about school shootings and was filmed in 2019 harassing a Parkland victim who advocates for gun control.

In another 2018 Facebook comment section unearthed by the Media Matters for America watchdog, Greene responded “this is all true” to a user who said that “none of the School shootings were real or done by the ones who were supposedly arrested for them.”

Greene, during her “60 Minutes” interview, tried to shift blame for her past social media activity, suggesting that “other people also ran my social media” when she liked a 2019 comment suggesting Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) should get a bullet to the head. (Greene was not a member of Congress in 2019.)

Even if that were the case, Greene has publicly alluded to her belief that school shootings are staged. Last year, Greene suggested in a video that the July 4 shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, was orchestrated “to persuade Republicans to go along with more gun control.”

CBS News faced significant backlash over the weekend for interviewing Greene and giving a platform to her dangerous rhetoric. Following the release of the sit-down, Stahl was criticized for allowing Greene to hijack the conversation, failing to adequately call out the lawmaker’s false claims, and normalizing the extremist’s unhinged behavior.

“I have known Lesley Stahl for more than 40 years, worked alongside her for many election weeks. She has been a great journalist, but this is a disgraceful, cringeworthy performance. Shameful to the max,” tweeted Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

“This is even worse than I thought it would be,” wrote The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols. “Imagine getting outflanked by MTG, whose answer was ‘what, are you going to go back to everything I’ve said and done since kindergarten’ and Stahl just took it.”

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thesleepykuma · 1 year

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It’s sad that there has been so many school shootings in the US that I had to be confused about which one Cruz was for an hour before finally settling on “oh, it’s the one who pretended to see demons in that one interrogation video”.

#parkland shooting #rip parkland victors #school shooting #fuck cruz

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printedword · 1 year

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Burgundy-colored T-shirts [the color shirt worn by the shooter] make me uncomfortable and he used to be so understanding he stopped wearing it around me. That person is completely gone and I miss him so fucking much.

I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax. — Vice News

#parkland shooting #school shootings #qanon #stoneman douglas high school shooting #marjory stoneman douglas high school #us politics #words

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sleepysera · 1 year

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11.1.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Iran: University students stage sit-down strikes (BBC)

“University students have staged sit-down strikes in support of the anti-government protests in Iran, despite an intensifying crackdown by authorities. Videos and photographs posted online showed young men and women gathered in corridors, courtyards and roads at campuses in Tehran and other cities. Some held placards warning there would be no classes until fellow students arrested while protesting were freed. Activists say 300 have been detained since the unrest erupted six weeks ago.”

Israel: Exit polls point to Netanyahu win (AP)

“Exit polls in Israel indicated Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies may have won enough seats to return to power in a nationalist religious government after 3 1/2 years of political gridlock. The polls are preliminary, however, and final results could change as votes are tallied.”

Brazil: Bolsonaro declines to concede defeat in first address (AP)

“Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday did not concede the election he lost to leftist Lula da Silva in a brief speech that marked his first comments since results were released two days ago. But afterward, Chief-of-Staff Ciro Nogueira told reporters that Bolsonaro has authorized him to begin the transition process. Bolsonaro’s address didn’t mention election results, but he said he will continue to follow the rules of the nation’s constitution.”

US NEWS

Migos: Rapper Takeoff dead after Houston shooting (AP)

“Police are looking for witnesses and video that will help them identify the people who opened fire outside a Houston bowling alley Tuesday, wounding two people and killing the 28-year-old rapper Takeoff, a member of the Grammy-nominated trio Migos. Kirsnick Khari Ball — who was one third of the group along with Quavo and Offset — was shot around 2:30 a.m. after an argument broke out among a group of 40 people who were leaving a private party at the bowling alley, Houston police said.”

Parkland Shooting: Families unleash grief and anger at sentencing (AP)

“Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered cursed him to hell, wished him a painful death and called him a coward Tuesday as they got their one chance to address him directly before he is sentenced to life in prison.”

Twitter: Musk floats paid verification, fires board (AP)

“Twitter’s new owner fired the company’s board of directors and made himself the board’s sole member, according to a company filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk later said on Twitter that the new board setup is “temporary,” but he didn’t provide any details. He’s also testing the waters on asking users to pay for verification. A venture capitalist working with Musk tweeted a poll asking how much users would be willing to pay for the blue check mark that Twitter has historically used to verify higher-profile accounts so other users know it’s really them.”

#current events #news #iran #protest #israel #netanyahu #brazil #bolsonaro #united states #migos #takeoff #parkland shooting #mass shooting #school shooting #gun violence #crime #twitter #musk

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criminol · 1 year

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The Parkland Shooting Victims: Alaina Petty

Alaina Joann Petty was a 14-year-old student living in Parkland, Florida. Described as bubbly and determined, Alaina’s family remember her love of crime shows, dogs and Spanish music, she loved helping others and was a member of several volunteering groups.

On 14th February 2018, Alaina was shot and killed during her English Class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nikolas Cruz, the shooter, was sentenced to life in prison for the massacre in which he murdered 17 people including Alaina, Cruz was 19 at the time.

#parkland #parkland massacre #parkland shooting #alaina petty

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