• wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 个月前

    What am I seeing here? The “Designated Peacekeeper” fired at Gamboa? I don’t really know the context behind this. Which shooting was this - SLC?

    • Biddles [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 个月前

      Dude (Gamboa) has a rifle and is walking towards the crowd. A peacekeeper (security guard) shoots at him 3 times, hits the guy with the gun once, and kills a bystander behind him

      • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 个月前

        Uhg. Regardless of whether Gamboa was a justifiable target, it’s in the first four rules of firearm safety - know what is behind your target. Fucking shameful.

        • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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          You’re welcome! It’s a confusing story. The operators of the 50501 protests have attempted to paint this as some kind of active shooter situation that was disarmed by their brave “peacekeepers”, and that seems to be the story the cops are going with as well. This video shows me that the “peacekeepers” were the ones to shoot first, and the individual only ran to protect himself after the first shot was made. The “peacekeeprs” own account was that the individual had raised his gun at them, which is when they opened fire. This clearly isn’t shown in the video.