1 person dead, suspect in custody following shooting at Denver protests: Police

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1 person dead, suspect in custody following shooting at Denver protests: Police
Two competing protests were held in the area Saturday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/person-injured-suspects-custody-shooting-denver-protests-police/story?id=73543383

One man was killed and a male suspect is in custody following a shooting at a protest in Denver Saturday, authorities said.

The shooting occurred in the courtyard near the Denver Art Museum, officials said. Police initially said one victim was transported to the hospital and their condition was unknown. Denver police later said they were investigating the incident as a homicide.

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One man was killed and a male suspect is in custody following a shooting at a protest in Denver Saturday, authorities said.

The shooting occurred in the courtyard near the Denver Art Museum, officials said. Police initially said one victim was transported to the hospital and their condition was unknown. Denver police later said they were investigating the incident as a homicide.

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1. Any more details about this...?

I notice ABC went out of their way to NOT say which side the shooter and victim were allied with. And none of the other news apps has anything about the incident at all.

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2. Interesting.

The Denver Police Department later tweeted that the suspect is a private security guard and has "no affiliation with Antifa." [snip]

"A private security guard who was hired by 9NEWS is the suspect detained by DPD," the station said in a statement. "It has been the practice of 9NEWS for a number of months to hire private security to accompany staff at protests."

So, the press hired armed private security. Wow.

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3. Can't say I blame them. Twitler has been stirring his idiot base against the press.

I thought I remembered an incident with a Reuters guard a while back.

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4. Statement by police

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5. Apparently this is the moment before the shooting

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6. That's the moment of the shooting.

You can see the brass in the air. Turns out the security guard was hired from Pinkerton.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/10/denver-protests-saturday-civic-center-park/

9News reported that one of their employees and a contractor for the television station were taken into custody. It later confirmed the guard was contracted through Pinkerton and “that it has been the practice of 9NEWS for a number of months to hire private security to accompany staff at protests.”

I'm just gonna stick to "wow" a little while longer on this one.

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7. .

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8. Shifting perspective for a moment, Helen Richardson took this photo

or possibly hanging closeby to "share the shield" of the group the security guard was protecting.

This is a potential award winning photograph of a very tragic event. That's what photojournalism is about, keeping cool under pressure to record history.
https://www.denverpost.com/author/helen-h-richardson/


I also saw a photo taken seconds earlier, just as the right-winger open hand smacked the security guy, knocking his glasses down like that. That preceded the gun display, and it looked like security guy was just trying to get his group past the trouble up to that point. He likely backed up and drew his gun, RWer pulled his mace. Then the single shot we see, followed by the arrest.

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9. Here's a photo some seconds before mace or bullets

Looks like he may have struck first.