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ChisolmTrailDem

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22. The video of the man shooting the officer in the back looked dark-skinned but...

Reply to Legends303 (Reply #20)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 02:25 AM

Jul 2016

...it is pretty hard to tell with the grainy video.

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Female in custody. Male suspect shooting it out still with police amid negotiations. [View all] ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2016 OP

+1, crap... sounds like a winger... ffffuck uponit7771 Jul 2016 #1

Yup, sounds like a crazy right-wingnut. We shall see soon. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2016 #4

Absolutely nothing said leads me to believe anything about the background of the suspects. Ace Rothstein Jul 2016 #6

I agree. However, it appears that it was planned, and I believe by tomorrow still_one Jul 2016 #9

Absolutely. It sounds like the shooters knew the route of the protest. Ace Rothstein Jul 2016 #10

with those they do have in custody, I think we will know by tomorrow still_one Jul 2016 #11

I hope that the shooter who shot the cop point blank was one of those taken into custody. Ace Rothstein Jul 2016 #12

He is probably the one they have cornered in the garage right now. It is still very still_one Jul 2016 #13

I'll bet any money they're white anti government nuts maryellen99 Jul 2016 #2

How much, seriously? Nt Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #3

Broke sorry nt maryellen99 Jul 2016 #5

a lil... uponit7771 Jul 2016 #8

why would they shoot police and not protesters if they were right wingers? mucifer Jul 2016 #14

White supremacist have been pining for a race war for the last 10 years uponit7771 Jul 2016 #15

why would they go after the police and not the protesters? mucifer Jul 2016 #17

Make them more itchy fingered, that one is easy... on edge cops kill. Look, I don't know ... uponit7771 Jul 2016 #18

Yup. silverweb Jul 2016 #23

Ah, the old Charles Manson trick. Kablooie Jul 2016 #31

For the same reason Manson tried to hang the LaBianca murders on the Black Panthers Race war with Monk06 Jul 2016 #29

I am not saying it was anti-government types (none of us in the public have any idea) PersonNumber503602 Jul 2016 #33

Just heard that on the press conference. This appears to have involved planning still_one Jul 2016 #7

They had to have some inside info... this was too well planned uponit7771 Jul 2016 #16

Do you think there may be a connection King_Klonopin Jul 2016 #19

Absolutely. silverweb Jul 2016 #24

Think it, believe it, live it Monk06 Jul 2016 #30

It might they are Black or Muslim Legends303 Jul 2016 #20

So do white supremacists maryellen99 Jul 2016 #21

The video of the man shooting the officer in the back looked dark-skinned but... ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2016 #22

Too far, too grainy. RandySF Jul 2016 #26

I couldn't tell. I thought he was white at first, but after watching it realized I couldn't tell PersonNumber503602 Jul 2016 #35

"the end is near" is a dead giveaway Quantess Jul 2016 #25

Context is everything. Drunken Irishman Jul 2016 #27

They didn't say allahu akhbar Quantess Jul 2016 #28

I honestly don't know what to think. Drunken Irishman Jul 2016 #32

We really should just wait and see Quantess Jul 2016 #34