As you undoubtedly already know, yesterday evening, a gunman tried to rush by security and burst into the Washington Hilton ballroom where the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) was being held. This is the first WHCD which President Trump attended as President. The gunman opened fire, striking a Secret Service agent, but reports indicate that the agent was uninjured because of his Kevlar vest.
The shooter was identified as 31-year old Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif., who apparently worked as a teacher at C2 Education, a tutoring and test prep company. Considering that he graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, this seems rather a step down.
Records also showed that he had donated to the Kamala Harris campaign in 2020. The photographs show that he is a POC. Per the Post's article, "[h]e was part of a group called 'The Wide Awakes' and is believed to have attended a 'No Kings' protest in California, where he attended college and worked as a teacher." Presumably "The Wide Awakes" is in reference to this group which uses the Illuminati eye symbol. (The historic "Wide Awakes" group were young militant Republicans opposed to slavery).
Per the DC Police, Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives as he ran into that checkpoint. According to a manifesto Allen sent to family members just minutes before his attack, his attention was to kill "Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest" and would go through whomever he needed to get to his targets (he believed anyone attending the dinner was complicit), yet also states that he selected buckshot rounds instead of slugs in order to minimize casualties due to over penetration from the slugs. He apparently was triggered by Trumps opposition to illegal immigration and drug cartels.
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He was black, so this will be swept under the rug. Or, he won't be convicted because the jury pool is in D.C.
ReplyDeleteProbably the latter.
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