Shooting near White House that interrupted Trump briefing is under review; no gun found

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Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON – An internal investigation has been launched into the shooting of a 51-year-old suspect by a Secret Service officer near the White House complex late Monday, which prompted agents to briefly remove President Donald Trump from a press briefing.

Shortly before 6 p.m., according to an agency statement, the man allegedly approached a Secret Service uniformed officer standing post about a block from the White House grounds, telling the officer that he had a weapon.

"The suspect then turned around, ran aggressively towards the officer, and in a drawing motion, withdrew an object from his clothing," the agency said. "He then crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon. The Secret Service officer discharged his weapon, striking the individual in the torso. "

No firearm was found on the suspect, said a law enforcement official who is not authorized to comment publicly.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/shooting-near-white-house-that-interrupted-trump-briefing-is-under-secret-service-review-no-gun-found-on-suspect/ar-BB17PKoZ?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=hplocalnews

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Attempted suicide or a Trump Whitehouse attempt at distraction?

[SheltieLover]

1. Contrived distraction imho.

[matt819]

23. No doubt about it

As others have asked. . . any video? any other sources?

[hlthe2b]

2. Are there witnesses to this or is this the summary of the USSS officer?

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[getagrip_already]

14. there has to be video......

That area has more cameras per square foot than the ces camera pavillion. Every square inch of the area within blocks of the wh is under ultra-hd surveillance. They likely caught it from a dozen angles.

If they say there is no video, it is a bald faced lie.

[BamaRefugee]

18. Never forget that The Pentagon supposedly has more cameras than any place on Earth, yet mysteriously

no footage of a plane on 9/11....I'm not a conspiracy nut, just saying that cameras in Washington seem to have extremely selective lenses.

[Grasswire2]

3. please see our "forensic" examination of the info at the other thread.

[link:https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100213884050|

[monmouth4]

4. My money is on the latter. n/t

[LizBeth]

5. OR we will hear a whole different story in time. I will wait and see.

[llashram]

6. I put nothing past

his fevered, panicked inner circle

[LittleGirl]

7. Tv drama for your entertainment

That was to distract from the unending deaths by this POTUS’ inaction.
Deflect, deflect and deflect.

[TomVilmer]

8. He did have something like a gun though...

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https://dateway.net/the-moment-secret-service-shoots-gun-toting-man-outside-white-house-dateway/

[Jarqui]

11. I agree.

Not sure what he was up to but not too smart strolling up to the White House with what looks like a pistol drawn.

[IronLionZion]

16. That video is from 2016 with a very different president

President Obama experienced frequent attacks on the white house and they had to step up security and put in new processes.

[SeattleVet]

17. That is a video from 2016.

Dateway seems to be a very strange 'news' site, and I don't think it is a valid source of reality.

[TomVilmer]

20. Damn - it also looked to good to be true!

I'll wait patiently for some real stuff then...

[yaesu]

9. sounds like suicide by cop attempt if any info coming from the tRump regime can be trusted nt

[George II]

10. Maybe the SS knew he was about to go on a diatribe about the "1917" (it was 1918) plague....

....being responsible for the end of WWII.

[TomCADem]

12. "I saw him reaching into his wasteband for what appeared to be a gun..."

It is just amazing why unarmed men have this habit of reaching into their waistband. Perhaps it is a weird compulsion to immediately give yourself a wedgie upon seeing law enforcement.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-shootings_n_6303846

Police Shootings Of Unarmed Men Often Have Something In Common: The Waistband Defense

WASHINGTON — After police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown to death in August in Ferguson, Missouri, he claimed the teenager had reached into his waistband, causing Wilson to fear Brown had a weapon. Brown was unarmed.

“Guns do come out of waistbands,” said Eugene O’Donnell, former police officer and current lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Yet the waistband claim has become a cliche of the aftermath of police shootings.

“Some departments around the country need to be reined in on a lot of this stuff,” O’Donnell said, adding that the recent uproar over the killing of Brown and others is a good opportunity to address police practices before and after shootings.

Scouring recent news archives, The Huffington Post turned up many stories about police officers shooting armed suspects who reached for their waistbands. But it also turned up many stories in which police cite waistbands after shooting unarmed suspects.

[BamaRefugee]

19. All these guys can afford a gun but they can't afford anything to carry it in.

[TomCADem]

21. Worse, They Cannot Even Afford a Gun, Which Is Why They Are Unarmed...

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...perhaps that is why unarmed men keep on reaching into their waistbands in front of police? They do not want to look too poor to afford a gun, so they reach into their waistband as if they have a gun?

[BamaRefugee]

22. Truth

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. so many fucking tails wagging on so many fucking dogs

[Lonestarblue]

24. Perhaps some mental issues.

[idahoblue]

25. It was staged

Donald was slurring and slopping Through his “press conference”. They took him away, he comes back a few minutes later coherent and awake.

[LisaL]

26. They shot the guy for real.

[applegrove]

27. After discussion with hosts ... LOCKING

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