A Department of Defense official told The Daily Beast that Micah Johnson was a corporal in the Army Reserves. He was part of the 284th Engineering Company, which is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The official said Johnson served in Afghanistan.
He was a carpenter and masonry specialist, CNN reports. It is not known if he had advanced firearms training, DOD officials told CNN.
An Army veteran “upset about Black Lives Matter” and “recent police shootings” who opened fire Thursday night in Dallas in an attack on police officers has been identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, the Los Angeles Times and CBS News report.
Five police officers were killed and seven were wounded, officials said. Two civilians were also wounded in the shootings. Johnson, 25, was killed when a police robot detonated a bomb near him following a standoff that lasted several hours, Police Chief David Brown said Friday at a press conference.
“The suspect said he was upset with white people and wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,” Brown said.
It is not clear if there were any other gunmen, or whether other people taken into custody by police were involved in the shooting. Police initially said two snipers positioned themselves in triangulated locations to fire on officers from elevated positions.
The gunfire began just before 9 p.m. while a peaceful rally was held by Black Lives Matter in response to recent controversial police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The gunman was then cornered in El Centro College in downtown Dallas.
This post will be updated as more information is released. Here’s what we know so far about Johnson and the shootings:
Warning: Some of the videos below may contain graphic content.
1. The Former Soldier Told Police He Was Not Affiliated With Any Groups & He ‘Did This Alone’
After the shootings in downtown Dallas, the gunman, identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, holed himself up inside El Centro College in the downtown area of the city, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at a press conference.
He told police he was “not affiliated with any groups,” and he said he “did this alone,” the chief said.
Sources told the Los Angeles Times that Johnson has no ties to terror groups and no known criminal history. He has lived in the Dallas area and has family members living in Mesquite, Texas, east of Dallas, the newspaper reports, citing federal law enforcement sources.
A black SUV was found at the scene registered to Delphene Johnson, who is Micah Johnson’s mother, according to Facebook posts and public records, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reports. Live helicopter video from the news station showed police at her home in Mesquite.
Johnson served in the U.S. Army Reserve, investigators said.
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The modern US army: unfit for service?
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit
US military: unfit for service?
My journey into the dark underworld of the US military begins on a rainy Tuesday morning in March 2008, with a visit to Tampa, Florida. I am here to meet Forrest Fogarty, an American patriot who served in the US army for two years in Iraq. Fogarty is also a white supremacist of the serious Hitler-worshipping type.
We meet in his favourite hangout, the Winghouse Bar & Grill. In our brief phone call, I'd asked how I would recognise him. "Just look for the skinhead with the tattoos," he said. And sure enough, sitting straight to my right as I walk in is a youngish-looking man, plastered in tattoos, with cropped hair and bulging biceps. "You're British, right," he says, as we order. "I remember seeing black guys with British accents in Iraq, **** was so crazy."
Sign up to our Bookmarks newsletter Read more Fogarty tells me he was bullied at his LA high school by Mexican and African-American children, and was just 14 when he decided he wanted to be a Nazi. He has no qualms about flaunting his prejudice. When black people come into the bar, he emits a hiss of disapproval. "I just don't want to be around them," he tells me. "I don't want to look at them, I don't want them near me."
As a young man, Fogarty was obsessed with Ian Stuart Donaldson, the legendary singer in the British band Skrewdriver, who is hero-worshipped in the neo-Nazi music scene. At 16, he had an image from one of Skrewdriver's album covers – a Viking carrying an axe, an icon among white nationalists – tattooed on his left forearm. Soon after, he had a Celtic cross, an Irish symbol appropriated by neo-Nazis, emblazoned on his stomach. A few years later, he started his own band, Attack, now one of the biggest Nazi bands in the US. But it was never his day job. "I was a landscaper when I left school," he says. "I kind of fell into it. I didn't give a **** what I was doing, I was just drinking and fighting."
For the next eight years he drifted through jobs in construction and landscaping, and began hanging out with the National Alliance, at the time one of the biggest neo-Nazi organisations in the US. He soon became a member. He had always seen himself as a fighter and warrior, so he resolved to do what two generations of Fogartys had done before him: join the military.
US army: Forrest Fogarty Forrest Fogarty, a neo-Nazi who served in Iraq as a part of the military police from 2004 to 2005. Photograph: Courtesy Matt Kennard Fogarty was not the first extremist to enter the armed forces. The neo-Nazi movement has had a long and tense relationship with the US military. Since its inception, the leaders of the white supremacist movement have encouraged their members to enlist. They see it as a way for their followers to receive combat and weapons training, courtesy of the US government, and then to bring what they learn home to undertake a domestic race war. Not all far-right groups subscribe to this vision – some, such as the Ku Klux Klan, claim to prefer a democratic approach – but a large portion see themselves as insurrectionary forces. To that end, professional training in warfare is a must.
The US military has long been aware of these groups' attempts at infiltration, but it wasn't until 1996 that supremacist and neo-Nazi groups were specifically banned from the military, after the murder in 1995 of two African-Americans by a neo-Nazi paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Fogarty was recruited the year after.
He knew that the tattoo he had riding up his forearm could be a problem when it came to enlistment. In a neo-Nazi underworld obsessed with secrecy, racist tattoos remain one of the clearest indicators of extremism for a recruiter, and in an effort to police the matter, the US military requires recruits to explain any tattoos. "They just told me to write an explanation of each tattoo and I made up some stuff and that was that," he says.
Soon after Fogarty was approved, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his eldest child contacted the military. According to Fogarty, she sent a dossier of pictures to his military command that showed him at white supremacist and neo-Nazi rallies, as well as performing his racist rock with Attack. "They hauled me before some sort of committee, and showed me the pictures. I just denied it." The committee, he says, "knew what I was about, but they let it go because I'm a great soldier".
Fogarty remained in the reserves, until finally, in 2004, he was sent where he had always wanted to go: Iraq. Before he left for the Middle East, he joined the Hammerskin Nation – described by the Anti-Defamation League as the "the most violent and best-organised neo-Nazi skinhead group in the United States".
Fogarty maintains that a good portion of those around him were aware of his neo-Nazism. "They all knew in my unit," he says. "They would always kid around and say, 'Hey, you're that skinhead!'" He was confident enough of his carte blanche from the military that during his break from service in 2004, he flew not to see his family in the US but to Dresden, Germany, to give a concert to 2,500 skinheads, on the army's budget.
When he was at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Fogarty even says a sergeant came up to him and said, "You're one of those racist motherfuckers, aren't you?" I ask how the sergeant knew about his racism. "The tattoo, I suppose. I can't hide everything – people knew, even the chain of command."
Another white supremacist soldier, James Douglas Ross, a military intelligence officer stationed at Fort Bragg, was given a bad conduct discharge from the army when he was caught trying to mail a submachine gun from Iraq to his father's home in Spokane, Washington. .
Military police found a cache of white supremacist paraphernalia and several weapons hidden behind ceiling tiles in Ross's military quarters. After his discharge, a Spokane County deputy sheriff saw Ross passing out fliers for the neo-Nazi National Alliance. And in early 2012, a photo emerged of a 10-strong US marine scout sniper unit posing for a photo with a Nazi SS bolts flag in Sangin, Afghanistan. According to the military, the symbolism was unknown to the soldiers. "Certainly, the use of the 'SS runes' is not acceptable and scout snipers have been addressed concerning this issue," marine corps spokesman Captain Gregory Wolf said.
James Douglas
. James Douglas Ross, who served in Iraq as an intelligence officer, in his barracks room. Photograph: Hunter Glass The magnitude of the problem within the military is hard to quantify. The military does not track extremists as a discrete category, coupling them with gang members, and those in the neo-Nazi movement claim different numbers. The National Socialist Movement claimed 190 of its members are inside. White Revolution claimed 12. In white supremacist incidents from 2001 to 2008, the FBI identified 203 veterans. Because the FBI focused only on reported cases, its numbers don't include the many extremist soldiers who have managed to stay off the radar. But its report does pinpoint why the white supremacist movements seek to recruit veterans – they "may exploit their accesses to restricted areas and intelligence or apply specialised training in weapons, tactics, and organisational skills to benefit the extremist movement". The report found that two army privates in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg had attempted in 2007 to sell stolen property from the military – including ballistic vests, a combat helmet, and pain medications such as morphine – to an undercover FBI agent they believed was involved with the white supremacist movement (they were convicted and sentenced to six years in prison). It also found multiple examples of white supremacist recruitment among active military personnel, including a period in 2003 when six active-duty soldiers at Fort Riley were found to be members of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations, working to recruit their army colleagues and even serving as the Aryan Nations' point of contact for the State of Kansas.
The degree of impunity encountered by Fogarty and countless other extremists has caused tensions within the military. The blind eye turned by the recruiters angered many investigators whose integrity was being compromised. Hunter Glass was a paratrooper in the 1980s and became a gang cop in 1999 in Fairville, North Carolina, next to Fort Bragg. "In the 1990s, the military was hard on them, they could pick and choose," he recalls. The change came after 9/11. "The key rule nowadays is ignore it until it becomes a problem," Glass tells me. "We need manpower. So as long as the man isn't acting out, let's blow it off." He recounts one episode in early 2005 when he was requested by military police investigators at Fort Bragg to interview a soldier with blatant skinhead insignia – SS lightning bolts and hammers. Glass worked with the base's military police investigators, who filed a report. "They recommended that he be kicked out," he recalls, "but the commanding officers didn't do anything." He says there was an open culture of impunity. "We're seeing guys with tattoos all the time ... As far as hunting them down, I don't see it. I'm seeing the opposite, where if a white supremacist has committed a crime, the military stance will be, 'He didn't commit a race-related crime.' "
By 2005, the US had 150,000 troops deployed in Iraq and 19,500 in Afghanistan. But the military wasn't prepared in any way for this kind of extended deployment – and just two years into the war in Iraq, people were talking openly about the fact that it had reached breaking point. The slim forces needed fattening up and what followed constituted a complete re-evaluation of who was qualified to serve – a full-works facelift of the service unheard of in modern American history. In the relatively halcyon days of the first Gulf war in 1990, the US military blocked the enlistment of felons. It spurned men and women with low IQs or those without a high school diploma. It would either block the enlistment of or kick out neo-Nazis and gang members. It would treat or discharge alcoholics, drug abusers and the mentally ill. No more. While the Bush administration adopted conservative policies pretty much universally, it saved its ration of liberalism for the US military, where it scrapped many of the regulations governing recruitment.
Many of the wars' worst atrocities are linked directly to the loosening of enlistment regulations on criminals, racist extremists, and gang members, among others. Then there are the effects on the troops themselves. Lowering standards on intelligence and body weight, for example, compromised the military's operational readiness and undoubtedly endangered the lives of US and allied troops. Hundreds of soldiers may have paid with their lives for this folly.
On 1 December 2007, Kevin Shields was murdered in Colorado Springs in an incident involving three of his fellow soldiers, Louis Bressler, Kenneth Eastridge and Bruce Bastien Jr, who all served in Iraq as part of the Second Brigade Combat Team, Second Infantry Division. Bressler and Bastien were each put away for 60 years for their part in the murder, alongside a litany of other crimes in Colorado Springs; Eastridge is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his part. In the aftermath of the arrests, pictures emerged of Eastridge proudly displaying his SS bolts tattoo. After his arrest, Bastien told investigators that he and Eastridge had randomly fired at civilians in Iraq during patrols through the streets of Baghdad. In broad daylight, Bastien alleged, Eastridge would use a stolen AK-47 to fire indiscriminately at Iraqi civilians. At least one was hit, he said. "We were trigger happy," said another member of the platoon, José Barco, who is serving 52 years in jail for shooting and injuring a pregnant woman in Colorado Springs. "We'd open up on anything. They even didn't have to be armed. We were keeping scores." So far, no one has been charged with shooting civilians in Iraq.
US marines pose with neo-Nazi flag A US marine scout sniper unit posing with neo-Nazi SS lightning bolts flag in Sangin, Afghanistan. The military not only ignored Eastridge's extremism, but on his return from combat awarded him a Purple Heart and Army Achievement medals. Eastridge's lawyer, Sheilagh McAteer, becomes palpably angry when I speak to her. She claimed that the military were now knowingly sending mentally unstable young men to Afghanistan and Iraq. "The military is to some extent desperate to get people to go to fight – soldiers who are not fit, mentally and physically sick, but they continue to send them," she told me. "Having a tattoo was the least of his concerns."
In March 2012, a US soldier, on his fourth deployment in a decade, walked out of his base and went on a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan, murdering more than a dozen Afghan civilians, including nine children. Then news came that US army staff sergeant Robert Bales, the 38-year-old suspect, was from Joint Base Lewis-McCord, in Washington state, which just four months earlier had convicted a member of an Afghanistan "kill team" of murder via a military jury.
PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] was not a new phenomenon for the military, but sending soldiers still suffering from severe mental health problems back to the frontline in such large numbers was. "I'm concerned that people who are symptomatic are being sent back," said Dr Arthur S Blank, Jr, a Yale-trained psychiatrist. "That has not happened before in our country." The army's top mental health expert, Colonel Elspeth Ritchie, explicitly accepted that the reason so many mentally ill troops were being sent back was because of the demands on the military for more and more personnel. "The challenge for us," he said, "is that the army has a mission to fight. And, as you know, recruiting has been a challenge. And so we have to weigh the needs of the mission with the soldiers' personal needs."
Bradley Manning, the alleged US military source of the WikiLeaks data, is another example of the mental health of recruits being ignored. Manning was a "mess of a child" who "should never have been put through a tour of duty in Iraq", said an officer from the Fort Leonard Wood military base in Missouri, where Manning trained in 2007. Chase Madar, the author of a recent book on Manning, told me, "He would never have been kept in the army if not for record low recruitment levels in 2007 when he enlisted." The only reason Manning made it on to active duty in Iraq, after repeated warnings about his fitness at all three of his stateside deployments, was the army's "utter desperation for soldiers with IT and analytic skills during its historic low in recruitment".
New recruits were physically, as well as mentally, unfit. In 1993, around 23% of prospective recruits would have been overweight – a pretty significant tranche. By 2006, this had increased to just over 27%, or more than a quarter of potential recruits, due partly to the use of "medical waivers" to make exceptions for overweight recruits.
The three most common barriers for potential recruits were failure to graduate high school, a criminal record and physical fitness issues, including obesity. The criminal record had been dealt with by "moral waivers" and the obesity problem by "medical waivers", but dropping the standards on educational attainment would not be so easy without seriously affecting operational readiness. There was a way for non-graduates to get into the military, however: the general equivalency degree, or GED, which can afford recruits a waiver if they score well enough on the military's entrance exam. The army accepts about 15% of recruits without a high school diploma if they have a GED. Alive to this loophole, the military instituted another program in 2008, the so-called GED Plus, to give more of America's youth the requisite qualifications they needed to go and fight. It opened its first prep school for the purpose, targeted at tough, inner-city areas.
In fact, during the "war on terror", the resources poured into recruiting impressionable young people skyrocketed, with 1,000 new recruiters added in one year to bring high school kids round to the military's way of thinking. The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps expanded across the nation, and no child was free from their solicitations; even 11-year-olds were taking part in the programmes. One in 10 high school students in Chicago wore a military uniform to school and took classes on shooting guns from retired veterans.
One of the main incentives offered was money – a lot of money from the perspective of a 16-year-old. In 2005, the army moved to raise the average bonus given to recruits when they signed on the dotted line from $14,000 to $17,000, with the possibility of as much as $30,000 for hard-to-fill vacancies. Another of the military's slogans was "Join the Armed Forces, get a free education", an offer many of America's poorest kids couldn't turn down.
A report, Soldiers Of Misfortune, by the American Civil Liberties Union, found that the US government was actually in contravention of an international protocol prohibiting the recruitment of children into military service when they are under 18 years old. It also noted that the US military disproportionately targets poor and minority public school students, but its findings were dutifully ignored.
It took a report from the Palm Center at the University of California – a group committed to discussion of homosexuals in the military – to blow the lid on yet more figures the military was trying hard to cover up. In 2007, it published information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that found the number of convicted criminals enlisting in the US military had nearly doubled in two years, from 824 in 2004 to 1,605 in 2006. In that period, a total of 4,230 convicted felons were enlisted, including those guilty of rape and murder. On top of this, 43,977 soldiers signed up who had been found guilty of a serious misdemeanour, which includes assault. Another 58,561 had drug-related convictions, but all were handed a gun and sent off to the Middle East. "The fact that the military has allowed more than 100,000 people with such troubled pasts to join its ranks over the past three years illustrates the problem we're having meeting our military needs in this time of war," said Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center.
One of the most horrific of the reported atrocities by the US military in Iraq, the murder of the al-Janabi family in Yusufiyah, involved a convicted criminal, Steven D Green, whose enlistment required special dispensation because of his criminal record. But research has shown that these recruitment practices engender breakdown within the ranks as well. During the "war on terror", one in three female soldiers reported being victims of some form of sexual assault while in service. In fact, US women service members are today more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire. No one knows how many Iraqi or Afghan women and girls have been subjected to similar atrocities, although cases such as the rapes and murders in Yusufiyah suggest it was equally endemic, and went equally unpunished.
In 2009, the military met its recruitment targets for the first time since 2004 and once again pledged to lock out those with criminal records. Brigadier General Joseph Anderson, deputy commander of the US Army Recruiting Command, said that the "adult major misconduct" waiver, given for felony offences, was now closed and, additionally, those with a history of juvenile criminal activity would not be allowed to recruit without a high school diploma. It was an admission of guilt, but for many in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was too late.
• Extracted from Irregular Army: Irregular Army: How The US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, And Criminals To Fight The War On Terror, by Matt Kennard, is published by Verso Books on 24 September, priced £14.99. To order a copy for £11.99, with free UK p&p, visit the Guardian Bookshop.
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'Is the military radicalizing Afro-Americans?'
Day to day civilian life is enough to do that.
But i would imagine that prolonged contact with the detritus of white society which typically signs up for the military, plus seeing the realities of US policy abroad could piss a brother a off....
Especially when he comes back home and sees nonsense.
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Public Enemy's Professor Griff denies ties to Dallas shooter Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY
Police combed through Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson's social media account Friday to try to understand his actions, a move that's now custom after a mass shooting.
Johnson's Facebook page, which has since been deactivated, bore a selfie taken with Richard "Professor Griff" Griffin, 55, a member of the influential rap group Public Enemy. The photo has since been disseminated by media outlets.
The band, whose heyday was in the late '80s and early '90s, was fronted by Chuck D. (Carlton Ridenhour) and Flavor Flav (William Drayton Jr.). It was controversial for its political, pro-black political stance and backing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
A statement from the Dallas Police Department said Johnson's Facebook page mentioned Griff. In the statement, police said he "embraces a radical form of Afrocentrism" and is the author of a book called Warriors Tapestry. (Editor's note: It is actually an audiobook.)
Afterward, Griff issued a flurry of tweets in which he stressed, "I do not know the shooter" and "I do not advocate killing cops." He also claimed he was being monitored by the police and FBI. One bore the hashtag #HANDSOFFGRIFF.
"Professor Griff" has taken a lot of pictures with people all over the globe, I am sure. Since he is a popular figure in the black community and was part of the international rap group. How does this connect him to these killings committed by Micah Xavier Johnson? SMH
Your article says: "It was controversial for its political, pro-black political stance and backing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan."
When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? While conscious rap was a positive stimulus for black youth.
When are the real issues going to be addressed. Louis Farrakhan has been addressing socioeconomic disparities for over four decades. As if that is a crime.
What needs to discussed is, was has led to "a radical form of Afrocentrism"?
From what I understand is that all political conscious rappers or rap groups have been monitored by the organizations mentioned previously. Gangster rap however never has been a problem. In fact private prisons have become a lucrative business.
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When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? ....
Gangster rap however never has been a problem.
make up your mind
My mind has been made up, as I don't even support/ like gangster rap. Your response was irrelevant as usually and meant to derail and troll. You have nothing valuable to contribute. This is why you took my text out of context. Which directly shows your subliminal racism and incapabilaty of understanding this subject as a whole.
Gangster rap was welcomed and supported by mainstream outlets, while conscious rap was considered controversial and needed to be banned, with little to no radio airplay? lol Yet, I need to make up my mind? LOL You're a hideous white supremacist and it keeps popping up on multiple levels, no matter how much you try to hide it.
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^lioness demonstrates the basic problem: Albino lies! Albinos lie so much, about everything, that when a serious situation arises, they cannot address it rationally, because they already have their Albino lie for it in place. And of course, to try a different tact, would expose their initial lie - they're stuck.
Of course there are SOME Albinos who do try to face the truth:
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When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? ....
Gangster rap however never has been a problem.
make up your mind
My mind has been made up, as I don't even support/ like gangster rap. Your response was irrelevant as usually and meant to derail and troll. You have nothing valuable to contribute. This is why you took my text out of context. Which directly shows your subliminal racism and incapabilaty of understanding this subject as a whole.
Gangster rap was welcomed and supported by mainstream outlets, while conscious rap was considered controversial and needed to be banned, with little to no radio airplay? lol Yet, I need to make up my mind? LOL You're a hideous white supremacist and it keeps popping up on multiple levels, no matter how much you try to hide it.
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quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor:
When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? ....
Gangster rap however never has been a problem.
make up your mind
^^^ this is racist now ??
Again make up your mind you said in the same post
"gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? "
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"Gangster rap however never has been a problem. '
don't get emotional, these things don't make sense together in the same post, period
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quote:Originally posted by mena7: Because this foolish mass murder wear an Afro Dashiki shirt and do the Black power sign some people will use it as an excuse to say some Afrocentric people are terrorist and we must treat them like the Arab and Muslims who do 90% of the terrorist attacks.
Are you sure about this? I do not feel it is right to kill anyone unless they are trying to kill you. But what do you call the many Black men who had fought in Europe during WWI , that during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots that used their military training to protect Blacks through use of arms, or the Black Nationalists in the 1960's who fought the police and National Guard in the Ghettos and died trying to get Afro-Americans their rights? Were these men terrorists? .
. What do you call the Pequot,Tuscarora, Yamasee and other Black Native Americans who killed whites after whites killed and raped their people? Were the Black Native Americans terrorists?
This man was not an Afrocentrist. Afrocentrists do research and write papers and Books on the contributions of Black and African people in World History.
His fist indicate that he believed in Black power. Black power and Afrocentrism are two different things. Black power people believe in Black Nationalism the idea that Black People in the U.S., are part of a " separate nation".
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On cue, Obama is using this event to push the gun control agenda.
He did the same with the Orlando shooting and every other incident.
These shootings are all strange if u look at the details and the perps.
I believe that these events may be orchestrated by factions of government who use the events as a strategy of tension. A form of psych warfare. The object is to convince the American people to give up their arms and agree to 'gun control'. Also to create distractions and 'divide and conquer' opportunties.
Would factions of government actually use terroristic acts on their own population to achieve an agenda ? The answer to that is yes !
1. Operation Northwoods: Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.
2. OPERATION GLADIO - Swiss historian Daniele Ganser in his 2005 book, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, accused Gladio of trying to influence policies through the means of "false flag" operations and a "strategy of tension". Ganser alleges that on various occasions, stay-behind movements became linked to right-wing terrorism, crime and attempted coups d'état.[8] In NATO's Secret Armies Ganser states that Gladio units closely cooperated with NATO and the CIA and that Gladio in Italy was responsible for terrorist attacks against its own civilian population.
....and there is also 9/11.
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^^^ so any time there's a mass shooting the government was really behind it to promote a ban on assault weapons being available to the public
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Mr. Jenkins said Mr. Johnson had used a semiautomatic SKS rifle and a high-capacity handgun. He drove his vehicle to the demonstration and parked it, Mr. Jenkins said, but was on foot at many points throughout the attack.
Mr. Johnson’s knowledge of “shoot and move” — and the fact that a few of the protesters in the crowd who were not involved in the shooting were armed and carrying rifles — has helped shed light on how a theory of multiple assailants emerged.
In Texas, gun owners can legally and openly carry what are known as long guns, including shotguns and rifles. The carrying of handguns is regulated in Texas and requires a state-issued permit, whether concealed or openly carried, but the carrying of rifles is largely unregulated and requires no permit. The so-called open carrying of rifles has become common at many demonstrations in Texas in recent years.
“When the shooting first happened, you had people in the crowd who were carrying long rifles and dressed in camouflage,” Mr. Jenkins said. “And then the shooting happens, and those people begin to disperse and move quickly, and they have guns and they’re not police officers and there’s a shooting, and so one of the things that people would investigate quickly is did they have anything to do with whatever is happening.”
Mr. Jenkins said that Mr. Johnson did not appear to have advance knowledge of the march route. Parts of the route were determined on the spot without planning, Mr. Jenkins said.
Throughout a sweltering Saturday, a section of downtown Dallas remained a closed-off crime scene as investigators faced a second day of piecing together the details of the attack, an inquiry that had included more than 200 interviews. More than 20 square blocks remained cordoned off.
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Johnson left the Army “under a cloud of sexual harassment charges made by a fellow soldier who sought an order of protection against him and said he needed mental health counseling.”
Johnson also liked several militant and black separatist groups such as The New Black Panther Party and the African American Defense League.
The league posted on Facebook after Johnson’s massacre: “ATTACK EVERYTHING IN BLUE EXCEPT THE MAIL MAN, UNLESS HE IS CARRYING MORE THAN MAIL.” Johnson also liked the Black Riders Liberation Party, which describes itself as a “new generation” of Black Panthers. “We need recruits everywhere!” one of the group’s leaders posted on Thursday before the Dallas shooting. “Arm yourself or Harm yourself!” The advertisement for the new group was accompanied by a photo of armed men.
He served at Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. base there, before returning in July 2014. His deployment was apparently cut short, though, when he was accused of sexually harassing a female soldier in May 2014. The Army sent him home and recommended an “other than honorable discharge,” according to the military lawyer who represented him. In a court filing, the alleged victim said she wished Johnson would get “mental help.” Those who knew Johnson told the Dallas Morning News that he was obsessed with military-grade weaponry and wanted to join the armed forces since high school, where he was a member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC). Neighbors said it appeared Johnson was doing military-style training exercises on his property leading up to the attack.
Johnson’s anti-cop sentiment was shared by his sister on Facebook. Two days before the massacre, she posted an ominous message about police being harmed. “Everything coming into the light and I for one think these cops need to get a taste of the life we now fear.” Johnson formerly attended the “self-defense and personal protection” gym Academy of Combat Warrior Arts in Richardson and Fort Worth, Texas, gym owner and CEO Justin Everman told The Daily Beast. The gym’s Twitter account says it provides “reality based training for today’s Urban environment.” Along with more traditional martial arts classes, the gym also teaches seminars in “Urban Everyday Carry and Improvised Weapons” and “Weapons Defense.” Everman said many of the gym’s members are police officers and stressed that “we have completely no affiliation with him whatsoever.”
During his deployment, he did construction work on military bases, he told prospective employers. He also served general guard duty, but there is no evidence that he participated in any combat.
Johnson received an honorable discharge from the Army Reserve in April 2015, military sources told NBC News. Military sources said he was transferred to the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), meaning he was no longer connected to a unit or required to continue with drill.
At the time of his death, Johnson remained in the IRR. Despite allegations — including reports that he sexually harassed a female soldier in Afghanistan — military sources told NBC News he was not convicted of any criminal offense, and if he had anything less than an honorable discharge, he would not have been permitted to join or serve in the Reserves.
NBC News has not confirmed the sexual harassment allegations.
When investigators searched Johnson's home in Mesquite, they found "bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics," Dallas Police said. "Detectives are in the processing of analyzing the information contained in the journal."
Johnson's aunt declined to go into detail about his background, including whether he had a history of violence or emotional problems.
"Of course, someone did go out of their mind briefly," she said.
"Everybody is shocked, everybody is so shocked. But everybody sees what this is about. Did Xavier go too far? Yeah."
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: On cue, Obama is using this event to push the gun control agenda.
He did the same with the Orlando shooting and every other incident.
These shootings are all strange if u look at the details and the perps.
I believe that these events may be orchestrated by factions of government who use the events as a strategy of tension. A form of psych warfare. The object is to convince the American people to give up their arms and agree to 'gun control'. Also to create distractions and 'divide and conquer' opportunties.
Would factions of government actually use terroristic acts on their own population to achieve an agenda ? The answer to that is yes !
1. Operation Northwoods: Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.
2. OPERATION GLADIO - Swiss historian Daniele Ganser in his 2005 book, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, accused Gladio of trying to influence policies through the means of "false flag" operations and a "strategy of tension". Ganser alleges that on various occasions, stay-behind movements became linked to right-wing terrorism, crime and attempted coups d'état.[8] In NATO's Secret Armies Ganser states that Gladio units closely cooperated with NATO and the CIA and that Gladio in Italy was responsible for terrorist attacks against its own civilian population.
....and there is also 9/11.
The only countries were people die in hordes by guns and bullets, is in those countries where random people carry guns. These are statistical facts.
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When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? ....
Gangster rap however never has been a problem.
make up your mind
My mind has been made up, as I don't even support/ like gangster rap. Your response was irrelevant as usually and meant to derail and troll. You have nothing valuable to contribute. This is why you took my text out of context. Which directly shows your subliminal racism and incapabilaty of understanding this subject as a whole.
Gangster rap was welcomed and supported by mainstream outlets, while conscious rap was considered controversial and needed to be banned, with little to no radio airplay? lol Yet, I need to make up my mind? LOL You're a hideous white supremacist and it keeps popping up on multiple levels, no matter how much you try to hide it.
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quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor:
When are they going to address the controversial "gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? ....
Gangster rap however never has been a problem.
make up your mind
^^^ this is racist now ??
Again make up your mind you said in the same post
"gangster rap", which influences black youth and caused high crime rates amongst black youth? "
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"Gangster rap however never has been a problem. '
don't get emotional, these things don't make sense together in the same post, period
You're just dumb.
I explained what my post meant. You just keep trolling your racist dumb **** as usually. Am I not the emotional one, it's you. My post is based on rational reasoning.
So again, gangster rap was promoted by mainstream media, and concious rap was considered controversial, which needed to be banned. It means that gangster rap was never a problem for mainstream media. In fact it was supported by mainstream media outlets.
What part of this you can't comprehend about: "it was never a problem", you dumbass? SMH LOL
For you to keep trolling and strolling on these things, makes you a racist. Since you think this thing is funny. And gangster rap was at the root of negative influence on black youth.
The article stated that Public Enemy was considered controversial. I know a lot of whites considered it be racist. So Puclic Enemy had to defend themselves all the time, also on TV. And bring in a female singer, Taja Sevelle, who sang the song "Love Is Contagious." which struck quite a few white nerves.
You, as usually know very little about the subject you trie to address and or talk about.
I really like to see, what virtual minstrel show face goes with this stupidity.
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'The only countries were people die in hordes by guns and bullets, is in those countries where random people carry guns. These are statistical facts.'
...and your point ?
The only countries where citizens die in hordes of bullets by cops and other government officials is in those where those officials are allowed easy acceaa to guns and the citizens are restricted from having access to them making the citizens sitting ducks.
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'So Obama was in on it, interesting' maybe....
Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000[1]:203[15] firearms,
Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011[2][5] in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers
As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012.[19][20] Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'So Obama was in on it, interesting' maybe....
Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000[1]:203[15] firearms,
Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011[2][5] in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers
As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012.[19][20] Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.
Your profile says you're from New York yet your gun rights sympathies are not typical of New Yorkers.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'The only countries were people die in hordes by guns and bullets, is in those countries where random people carry guns. These are statistical facts.'
...and your point ?
The only countries where citizens die in hordes of bullets by cops and other government officials is in those where those officials are allowed easy acceaa to guns and the citizens are restricted from having access to them making the citizens sitting ducks.
We have less death people over here by bullets (gun violence), so do surrounding countries. This is either by officials or civilians.
By the numbers: US police kill more in days than other countries do in years
quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'So Obama was in on it, interesting' maybe....
Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000[1]:203[15] firearms,
Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011[2][5] in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers
As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012.[19][20] Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.
Your profile says you're from New York yet your gun rights sympathies are not typical of New Yorkers.
From what I know there is gun prohibition by law, in New York. Or at least that is what they told me last time I was there.
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quote:Chicago Cops Have Seized A Gun Per Hour This Year
CHICAGO (CBS) — In the wake of another bloody weekend in Chicago, police said they have seized more than 4,200 guns this year – more than one per hour.
Police said nearly 100 guns were taken off the streets on Father’s Day weekend alone. At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded in shootings over the same weekend.
“With the help of community organizations and gun buy-back events, CPD has been able to confiscate these guns and potentially help prevent crime from occurring,” police said in a statement.
A handful of the guns seized over the weekend were semi-automatic assault-style weapons. At least one fatal shooting over the weekend was committed using an assault rifle.
Salvador Suarez, 17, was killed Sunday afternoon, when someone drove up to him and shot him in the 1700 block of West 46th Street. Police said it appeared the shooter used a high-powered semi-automatic assault rifle.
“Using a high-powered assault rifle, more than 30 rounds of bullets were fired within seconds. These are exactly the types of weapons that have captured the national spotlight, and I can tell you right now there’s no place for weapons of war on the streets of Chicago,” Johnson said Tuesday morning at a graduation ceremony for new police recruits, sergeants, and lieutenants.
Johnson and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said they are working with state lawmakers on stricter gun control laws, including harsher punishments for repeat gun offenders.
“Criminals should not have access to guns that belong in Afghanistan and Iraq right here on the streets of the city of Chicago, or any major city across the United States,” Emanuel said.
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'Criminals should not have access to guns that belong in Afghanistan and Iraq right here on the streets of the city of Chicago, or any major city across the United States,” Emanuel said.'
.....who is supplying these guns ????
Rahm should know he served in the White House.
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Obama Has Killed More People with Drones than Died On 9/11
Nice try by saying obama killed more than 9/11 trying to hit a nerve with low-iq blindly patriotic americans, as if its the worst tragedy in american history.
Has obama killed more people than died during the inception of the United states , has he killed more people with drones than peckerwoods killed people in slavery, has he killed and destroyed more people than peckerwoods did during reconstruction.
Obama is the president of a white nation all he does is carries on the policies of murderous peckerwoods.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'Criminals should not have access to guns that belong in Afghanistan and Iraq right here on the streets of the city of Chicago, or any major city across the United States,” Emanuel said.'
.....who is supplying these guns ????
Rahm should know he served in the White House.
I guess the gun lobby, weapon industry? But I am not sure.
quote: They are, sadly, growing in number: Americans devastated by gun violence. The connections they've forged are strong. But can they defeat the NRA?
. World | Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:13am EDT Related: U.S. Dallas police chief says armed civilians in Texas 'increasingly challenging'
The Dallas police chief stepped into America's fierce gun rights debate on Monday when he said Texas state laws allowing civilians to carry firearms openly, as some did during a protest where five officers were killed, presented a growing law enforcement challenge.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown also gave new details about his department's use of a bomb-carrying robot to kill Micah Johnson, the 25-year-old former U.S. Army reservist who carried out last Thursday's sniper attack that also wounded nine officers.
A shooting in Michigan on Monday underscored the prevalence of gun violence in America and the danger faced by law enforcement, even as activists protest against the fatal police shootings of two black men last week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Two sheriff's bailiffs were shot to death at a courthouse in St. Joseph in southwestern Michigan, and the shooter was also killed, Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey told reporters.
By Monday evening, protesters were marching again in several large American cities, including Chicago, Sacramento, and Atlanta, where news footage showed a number of protesters being arrested after street demonstrations north of downtown.
President Barack Obama and others reiterated their calls for stricter guns laws after last month's massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, but many conservatives responded that such measures could infringe on the U.S. Constitution's protection of the right to bear arms.
Texas is known for its gun culture and state laws allow gun owners to carry their weapons in public. Some gun rights activists bring firearms to rallies as a political statement, as some did at Thursday's march in Dallas.
"It is increasingly challenging when people have AR-15s (a type of rifle) slung over, and shootings occur in a crowd. And they begin running, and we don’t know if they are a shooter or not," Brown said. "We don’t know who the 'good guy' versus who the 'bad guy' is, if everybody starts shooting."
Seeing multiple people carrying rifles led police initially to believe they were under attack by multiple shooters.
Brown did not explicitly call for gun control laws, but said: "I was asked, well, what's your opinion about guns? Well, ask the policymakers to do something and I'll give you an opinion."
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'SIMPLY MISTAKEN'
Rick Briscoe, legislative director of gun rights group Open Carry Texas, said Brown was "simply mistaken" in viewing armed civilians as a problem.
"It is really simple to tell a good guy from a bad guy," Briscoe said. "If the police officer comes on the situation and he says: 'Police, put the gun down,' the good guy does. The bad guy probably continues doing what he was doing, or turns on the police officer."
Police used a Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) Mark5A-1 robot, typically deployed to inspect potential bombs, to kill Johnson after concluding during an hours-long standoff there was no safe way of taking him into custody, Brown said.
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Dallas police chief's grief after his son kills policeman and young father
The new police chief of Dallas said he could not "adequately express" his sadness after his son shot an officer and a passer-by in separate incidents before being gunned down.
David Brown, sworn in seven weeks ago told his 3,600-member department last night: "The past few days have been very troubling and emotional for all of us. My family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son. That hurts so deeply I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart."
Investigators say Brown's 27-year-old son, also called David, killed a 37-year-old police officer in the Texas city's suburb of Lancaster on Sunday, minutes after he fatally shot another man in a random attack. According to local media reports, officer Craig Shaw, who died in hospital, was responding to the first shooting. Jeremy McMillian, 23, died as he was driving his girlfriend and two children through an apartment complex. Officers are said to have shot Brown more than a dozen times.
William Rathburn, who was Dallas police chief from 1991-93, said: "This, in my opinion, is the worst possible personal tragedy any chief of police could have." Brown senior said in his statement that he had offered condolences to the families of both victims.
LaQuita Spence, McMillian's girlfriend, told the Dallas Morning News, she did not blame the police chief for his son's crimes. "Honestly, I don't fault his father because the guy was a grown man and he took his actions upon himself. I think his dad raised him until he was 18. He did his father part. The guy, he chose to do what he wanted to do."
She had earlier told the News about Brown's attack. "He just put the gun to the window and opened fire ... He just had a terrifying look. His eyes were big; they were kind of glossy." The two men did not know each other.
Dallas city manager Mary Suhm, who hired Brown, 49, to be police chief, said in a statement: "What we are dealing with is an unimaginable tragedy affecting three families in two communities. We have a great deal of experience, depth and leadership in the Dallas police department that can back up the command staff in Chief Brown's absence or during any crisis the department may face."
It was unclear when Brown, said to be a private man, might return to work. His son has a minor criminal record, having pleaded no contest to an incident involving marijuana in 2004.
The younger Brown's girlfriend, Misty Conaway, called Lancaster police to their apartment on Sunday morning, seven hours before the shootings, according to 911 tapes released to the media. She said Brown was having "a psychotic breakdown" and had hit her. Conaway did not file a formal complaint, but she and her children were taken to the police station.
Suzie Sawyer, executive director of Concerns of Police Survivors, an organisation that helps families and agencies cope with the death of an officer, called the shootings a horrible family tragedy.
"The brotherhood and sisterhood in law enforcement is extremely tight," she said. "There will be hundreds of questions about this forever. You never expect another cop's child to take the life of an officer."
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: 'to stimulate the Afghan economy.'
Wake up.
LOL TOO RICH! Is that all you can say, when you have nothing relevant to address. SMH
THERE IS MORE NEWS CHANNELS ANF OUTLETS ALL AROUND THE WORLD, DID TOU KNOW THAT?
Let me keep it simple.
Afghanistan's opium poppy production goes into more than 90% of heroin worldwide.[1]
This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords, and drug traffickers.[5] In the seven years (1994–2000) prior to a Taliban opium ban, the Afghan farmers' share of gross income from opium was divided among 200,000 families.[6] In addition to opiates, Afghanistan is also the largest producer of cannabis (mostly as hashish) in the world
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Sorry for the typos above, I was annoyed. AND, YOU.
Kdolo, it is nothing personal. I just asked a simple question.
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Slain Dallas Cop Might’ve Been A White Supremacist: Still A Hero?
Last week five Dallas cops were killed by Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black man who was allegedly motivated to take such drastic action after continually watching the US legal system refuse to hold killer cops to account. Naturally, bootlickers across the globe are unquestioningly celebrating the slain officers as heroes, innocents, and protectors. But what if one of those dead cops was a white supremacist—is he still a hero? And I don’t mean a white supremacist in the sense that all cops are enforcers of a classist white supremacist order, which they are. No, I mean the more common use of the term. The one we associate with Klansmen, neo-Nazis, Skinheads, and your average Brownshirt wannabe.
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