Shooting At The Capitol Visitor's Center!

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  1. Yvonne Smith

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    The news is just reporting that there was a shooting at the nation's capitol today, and it happened at the visitor's center there.
    As seems to happen many times, there was a drill for this same thing that happened earlier today, which always creates confusion because law enforcement can't tell which is the real event and which is from the drill.
    Apparently, one police officer was injured, a White House staffer was injured by shrapnel, and the shooter was "taken down" and is in custody and en route to the hospital.
    One peron stated that they were at the visitor's tour, and heard a volley of shots go off, leading to the possibility that the shooter had a weapon with a large clip. Or, possibily, what they heard was the law enforcement shooting at the suspected shooter.
    Not a lot of info being put out thus far; but they are saying that they think the situation is now under control.
     
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    Have we lost out minds?
     
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    They have now identified the shooter as someone named Larry Dawson from Tennessee. Apparently, none of the law enforcement involved was wounded at all, and they are now saying that a woman (bystander) was injured by shrapnel.
    Because of Spring break,,,, and the cherry blossom festival in DC, there were a lot of children at the visitor's center when the shooting happened.
    Fox has not yet reported anything about the shooter; but (interestingly) Russia Today already has that information available.
    One of the things they did say was that law enforcement might have known that the shooter was going to be there, which begs the quesstion of why they then allowed all of the children as well as the other viitors to come to the center. And, if they just had an "active shooter" drill there this very morning, you would not think that there would be visitors allowed anyway, since there was a drill in progress.
    Staff members initially thought the shooting was part of the drill, according to some of the statements being released.
    Here is the update that i found on RT webpage.

    https://www.rt.com/usa/337483-shooting-lockdown-us-capitol/
     
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    There is also a report that the White House was also on lockdown today after someone tried (again) to jump over the White House fence.
    The president was nearby, hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll at the same times that both the shooting at the visitor center and the fence-jumping was going on.
    Staffers were undersandably confused since they had earlier received and email that there would be a drill where they would be required to shelter in place, so they didn't know whether this was a drill or an actual incident.

    The man who was shot had apparently been to the visitors center, and to the Capitol several times before.
    He is described as a Christian pastor, a 66 year old senior, and last fall interrupted Congress when he anounced that he was also a prophet of God.
    From what I read, he didn't fire any shots himself, and was shot immediately; so the "barage of shots" that witnesses reported hearing must have all been from the security officers shooting the pastor.

    http://www.quintonreport.com/2016/03/28/white-house-lockdown-due-fence-jumper/
     
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    Coincidence that this action took place at the very same time when a mock exercise was planned? Or, a set-up by someone knowing of the exercise in advance. Sounds fishy, to me.
     
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    Such breaches of security could readily be imagined as imaginary, flawlessly planned and carefully reported to media, as a means of garnering public support for yet more "Patriot Act" legislation. Thank John Ashcroft, who authored it, for preventing future terrorism in America, at the cost of it's freedom.
     
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    Ah, we're getting into Truther stuff now ...
     
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