While I had class most of the day (and when I did not have class I was preparing for class), I had little chance to peruse the various news organizations to get the information on what happened. Fortunately, my iGoogle page has news for me and so I clicked on the first report on it during a small break during studying. The article, from msnbc.com, fingered a young black man as the shooter, saying that a description over the police scanner described him as wearing fatigues and carrying a rifle. The article even included a blurry cell-phone photo of the man in cuffs and some quality
So why is this a big deal? Some black guy in fatigues shot up a mall in middle America, or so I was told. You can imagine my surprise to see, rather than a file photo of a black man, a scrawny white kid (not that a white kid had committed the crime, but that the initial report of a black shooter was false). Either this person pulled a reverse Michael Jackson since his photo had been taken to when the shooting occurred or MSNBC had it wrong. I figured I would just read MSNBC's updated article and find out where the discrepancy lay. Nothing. No mention of anyone of color shooting up the mall, or false (media codeword: initial) reports of a black shooter.
Maybe it was a dual-shooter type situation? Not so, according to Sergeant Teresa Negron (presumably from the Omaha PD), who says, "We do not believe that we have any other shooter. The person we believe to be the shooter has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound." None of the other articles I have read from various news sources name this mysterious
Photos (top to bottom): The mysterious black shooter (www.msnbc.com), Robert Hawkins, the real shooter (www.cnn.com), The scene outside of the Westroads Mall (www.cnn.com)
Sup kane, this is Xavier again. Props to the immortal technique reference!
ReplyDeleteIn regards to the dancing israelies:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
Apparently the guys were Mossad agents and I even recall watching videos of the guys in public Israeli TV discussing their role in 9/11.
Sup X,
ReplyDeleteProps to Immortal Technique in general.
Second, that is a very interesting web site. Usually I do not go for those types of websites (ones that make grandiose claims of governmental conspiracies with little evidence of it), but this one cited some legitimate sources and brings up a lot of good questions.
I have not had a chance to go over the website in great detail, just went over some of the main points and looked at some of the sources referenced. Definitely on my to do list.
Glad you're still reading the blog.
Peace.
Kane
Yeah no doubt I am a regular reader now :)
ReplyDeleteAs for that site, it has a lot of great resources - but I am sure it can easily be shot down as wacky conspiracy theorist site.
In any case it has a lot of good reading material and usually the author backs himself up with decent citations/evidence.
Looking forward to your next post!
regards,
X