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Did You Hear About the Shooter Who Killed Two Cops and a Paramedic in Minnesota?

AP Photo/Morry Gash, File

As we reported earlier, Ann Coulter blew the minds of Van Jones and Bill Maher when she said you can usually tell the ethnicity of a shooter by the speed with which the media discloses the names and photos of the suspects. They were talking about the shootout during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl celebration that killed one bystander. President Joe Biden's comms team quickly rushed out a post calling for an assault weapons ban, though we doubt the gang-bangers involved in this shooter were using "assault weapons."

I did a post noting how Biden didn't rush out a tweet after a 35-year-old Mexican man was shot in the chest and killed after being caught in a shootout between rival gangs in a New York subway station. 

To be fair, the mainstream media did cover this next shooting, although the Libs of TikTok account was the first I'd heard of it. A man shot and killed two police officers and a first responder in Minnesota. That's three people dead … one short of a mass shooting that the gun control lobby could have exploited.

The AP's entire report reads:

A man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn’t legally allowed to have guns and was entangled in a years-long dispute over the custody and financial support of his three oldest children, court records show.

Authorities on Monday identified Shannon Gooden, 38, as the man who opened fire on police in the affluent suburb of Burnsville after they responded to a domestic disturbance call early Sunday. The call reported that he had barricaded himself in his home with family members, including seven children aged 2 to 15. He was found dead inside the home hours later.

Two officers and a firefighter were killed — you'd think Biden could tweet something.

"I’m absolutely shocked that criminals can get hold of guns even when they’re not allowed to have one!"

A lot of people said the same thing about the subway shooting — New York has some of the toughest gun laws on the books.

It is interesting how some shootings blow up into major national incidents while others seem to fly under the radar. Domestic disturbance calls are some of the most deadly situations for police officers. How many cops have been shot and killed this year? I have no idea, but I'm guessing it's more than two.

Maybe Black Lives Matter could use some of its millions to send the families fruit baskets or something. 

Here's an experiment: search Google for "thin blue line flag racist." You'll be amazed at how many results you get. "Thin blue line flag causes controversy in Montgomery County." "Thin Blue Line Flags Stir Controversy In Mass. Coastal Community," reported NPR:

But many others see it differently. Because the flag has also been associated with white supremacist groups, some say it symbolizes a blatantly racist agenda. And since it has also been adopted by the "Blue Lives Matter" movement, which launched in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, many believe it connotes opposition to the goals of ending police brutality and systemic racism.

So when college student Max Giarrusso saw the flags flying in his hometown, he asked Hingham selectmen to take them down, saying it was not appropriate "for a public safety vehicle to don such a politically charged flag.

"The thin blue line has become a political symbol and a symbol of racism in my opinion," he told NPR. "So I was upset that our publicly-owned taxpayer-paid vehicles [were] flying a symbol that could make a lot of residents in this town uncomfortable."

"Yes, if I see that flag I am scared," said Emmanuel Oppong, one of few Black residents of Hingham, and one of those who've been joining the call for the flags to be removed. No matter what its original intent was, Oppong said, the thin blue line symbol has come to represent a counterforce to Black Lives Matter, and its efforts to combat systemic racism and police brutality. So, seeing law enforcement officials embrace it, he said, just exacerbates the fears that weigh on him every day, even as he's driving to and from work.

"Politically charged."


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