jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoOfficers Texted Each Other About Trump Shooter but Didn’t Approach Himwww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1404arrow-down17
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minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up133·4 months ago“hey u see that guy on the roof with a rifle?” “yah lol”
minus-squareBlackbeard@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up96arrow-down1·4 months ago“Must be a good guy with a gun.”
minus-squareYurkshireLad@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·4 months ago“It’s ok, everyone here has way more guns. That’ll make him stop and go home, mark my w…. Oh shit!!”
minus-squaremecfs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·4 months agoTo be fair they went to confront him and he pointed his gun at their head. Since those who went to confront weren’t armed, they retreated and sounded an alert, but the dude shot towards diaper don before anyone could do anything about it.
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minus-squarefrog_brawler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoWhere did you read any of that?
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/local-cop-trump-shooter-rooftop-retreated-b2580106.html It doesn’t say whether the cop was armed or not, but given that he was holding the ledge, he wouldn’t have been able to do anything anyway.
minus-squaremecfs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoYesterdays NYT article on it. They had a long one in the print.
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 months ago90 minutes before that, probably: officer:1 “You guys see that kid walking around the neighboring building with a gun, lol?” officer2: “Yeah, I waved at him, somebody should make sure he’s not here to shoot the president lol”
“hey u see that guy on the roof with a rifle?”
“yah lol”
“Must be a good guy with a gun.”
“It’s ok, everyone here has way more guns. That’ll make him stop and go home, mark my w…. Oh shit!!”
To be fair they went to confront him and he pointed his gun at their head. Since those who went to confront weren’t armed, they retreated and sounded an alert, but the dude shot towards diaper don before anyone could do anything about it.
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Where did you read any of that?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/local-cop-trump-shooter-rooftop-retreated-b2580106.html
It doesn’t say whether the cop was armed or not, but given that he was holding the ledge, he wouldn’t have been able to do anything anyway.
Yesterdays NYT article on it. They had a long one in the print.
90 minutes before that, probably:
officer:1 “You guys see that kid walking around the neighboring building with a gun, lol?”
officer2: “Yeah, I waved at him, somebody should make sure he’s not here to shoot the president lol”