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Ongoing gun violence/injury thread

Common sense core: forget tricky math problems we need fire arms training starting in Pre-K.
 
Who wouldn't think you get away with showing up a US government building wearing a mask, carrying an assault weapon and opening fire?
 
Off-duty cop killed a nonverbal man with a learning disability and injured the man’s parents in a Costco.

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Kenneth French of Riverside lived with his parents and had the mental capacity of a teenager, said his cousin, Rick Shureih, in a phone interview with the Los Angeles Times on Sunday night.

“He was a gentle giant,” Shureih said. “He’s never been violent in the past. He’s always been very cooperative and kept to himself.”

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Shureih doesn’t know what might have led to the shooting, but he said it’s unlikely that Kenneth French initiated a verbal confrontation. His cousin’s mental condition had declined in recent years, and he no longer spoke.

“It could have been that he bumped into somebody but couldn’t communicate the fact that he was sorry,” Shureih said.
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This is the official police story:

“According to Corona police, an off-duty officer with the Los Angeles Police Department was shopping at Costco with his family when he was attacked while holding his young child. Police said the assault was unprovoked and led the officer to fire his weapon, striking French and two of his family members.”

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow...r-intellectual-disability-20190616-story.html

What kind of idiot shoots people up a Costco? A cop.
 
Let's see the surveillance tapes - a Costco should have cameras on every aisle.
 
The cop claims he was “knocked out” before he shot three people in a Costco.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow...ing-off-duty-lapd-officer-20190617-story.html

Really poor look. He was “knocked out” and instead of tending to his son, he grabbed his gun and shot people in a store in his compromised state. That’s not a good defense.

Icker, the shooting was on Friday. If the surveillance video cleared the cop, we would have seen it by now. Police really should not be able to investigate themselves.
 
It seems pretty unlikely that shooting was justified or necessary.


Very sad and concerning.
 
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