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Brooklyn Subway Shooting Unexploded Devices Found In Brooklyn Subway.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/m ... s/3641743/.

Multiple people have been shot in a Brooklyn subway station and several undetonated devices were also found at the location, according to fire officials and law enforcement sources. They stress the investigation is preliminary.

The FDNY says it responded to a call for smoke at the 36th Street and Fourth Avenue station, which serves the D, N and R lines in Sunset Park around 8:30 a.m. and found multiple gunshot victims. No details were immediately available on the devices.

Information on a possible suspect also wasn't immediately known.
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Watching live coverage on this.

They are saying 13 injured; that appears to be 5 shot, and 8 injured in the chaos that followed the shooting, there are stories on "shrapnel" but it's not clear if that came from an exploding device or what else. Of the 5 shot, 2 are alive but in critical condition.

Shooter said to be wearing a gas mask and what was clearly intended to look like a construction worker's yellow vest. Still at large.

Stories of "devices" also in the subway - again not clear - unexploded explosive devices, smoke bombs?, ... still not clear.

Not yet using the "t" word but this is still being looked into.
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The nearby school is under lockdown as well. No word on the shooter's identity.
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Suspect Description: Police Look for U-Haul With Ariz. Plates in Hunt for Brooklyn Subway Gunman

A manhunt for the man who opened fire on a Brooklyn subway car, wounding 10 people and sending dozens running in terror, was still underway hours after the train pulled into a Sunset Park station during rush hour Tuesday morning.

The gunman's identity has not been confirmed, but investigators are combing through videos and speaking to witnesses to piece together clues to help track him down. Police described the suspected shooter as a man about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 170 pounds.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/s ... t/3642022/
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What is Abbott doing at the border to fuck over the economy?

Story?

Why is there NEVER a story of a democrat purposely doing something to hurt America but there is daily stories of cons doing it?

https://theweek.com/greg-abbott/1012447 ... -governors


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Frank James' status in the case has been upgraded from "POI" to "suspect".

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Still no reported fatalities, but 29 people shot or injured. 5 in critical but stable condition.

James, 62, African-American, doesn't appear to have a residence in NYC; addresses for him are in Philly and Wisconsin. So we don't know why he was in NYC. They have said he was making social media posts critical of Mayor Adams.

There were no explosive devices. He did hurl a smoke grenade, after putting on a gas mask, then started firing into the train and the platform with a Glock semi-auto pistol. (He had several large-round magazines.)

The Subway station cameras were not working at the time, but it seems somebody caught him on cellphone video.

Still at large.
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Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank R. James in custody

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Wednesday afternoon, Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank R. James was taken into police custody following a stabbing incident.

It is not yet known if James was the attacker or the victim in the stabbing.

https://abc7ny.com/brooklyn-subway-shoo ... /11743662/
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Irony.

Frank R. James: What we know about Brooklyn subway shooting suspect
https://abc7ny.com/frank-james-r-who-is ... /11744265/

[snip]

Investigators were examining social media videos in which the 62-year-old decried the United States as a racist place awash in violence and sometimes railed against Mayor Eric Adams.

"This nation was born in violence, it's kept alive by violence or the threat thereof and it's going to die a violent death," he said in one video. "There's nothing going to stop that."

[snip]

However, rambling, profanity-filled YouTube videos apparently posted by James, who is Black, are replete with violent language and bigoted comments, some against other Black people.

In one video, posted a day before the attack, he criticizes crime against Black people and says drastic action is needed.

"You got kids going in here now taking machine guns and mowing down innocent people," James says. "It's not going to get better until we make it better," he said, adding that he thought things would only change if certain people were "stomped, kicked and tortured" out of their "comfort zone."

[snip][end]

You know, Mr. James, you're not wrong; but did you think what you did helped make anything ... better?

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Oh this is just swell.

Frank James Made Numerous Video Threats as YouTuber 'Prophet of Truth 88'
https://www.newsweek.com/frank-james-yo ... yn-1697496

The 62-year-old, who New York authorities are actively searching for, made videos predicting a race war between Black and white people. He also made threats and derogatory statements against Black people, white people, Jewish people and Mexicans.

In his latest uploaded video on April 11, 2022, James said that he has wanted to watch people die and that he has been through a lot in his life.

[snip]

"I'm not built for no prison, I am just not. I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words], I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words] now let alone all day every day."

[snip]

In another video that he posted on Facebook under his profile Profitofdoom008, he used racist terms for Mexican people and threatened to shoot a man he believed had wronged him.

"I will tell you about this s**c, he was another counselor [for me]," James said in a video called "they hate Jew."

"There is an old saying in the ghetto, 'what can you expect from a [n-word]' and the same thing can be said about a f***ing s**c, he is counseling somebody, a f***ing s**c."

He went on to say: "Even though I am not mad at [him] I would still like to shoot him in the f***ing face, I would still like to blow his brains out, just for old times sakes.

[snip][end]

In that video "I hate jew" ... Uploaded in 2017, the video consisted of James engaging in an antisemitic rant while displaying photos of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and several harrowing images of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

He complained about white racism ... validly, but then said he believed the races should self-segregate. He also often referred to fellow Blacks as the n word, and as noted above, posted bigoted stuff about Jews and Hispanics.

Yeah he was a person of color ... I'm just noting this stuff maybe it belongs in "you don't have to be white to be a bigot".
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ProfX wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:47 pm Oh this is just swell.

Frank James Made Numerous Video Threats as YouTuber 'Prophet of Truth 88'
https://www.newsweek.com/frank-james-yo ... yn-1697496

The 62-year-old, who New York authorities are actively searching for, made videos predicting a race war between Black and white people. He also made threats and derogatory statements against Black people, white people, Jewish people and Mexicans.

In his latest uploaded video on April 11, 2022, James said that he has wanted to watch people die and that he has been through a lot in his life.

[snip]

"I'm not built for no prison, I am just not. I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words], I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words] now let alone all day every day."

[snip]

In another video that he posted on Facebook under his profile Profitofdoom008, he used racist terms for Mexican people and threatened to shoot a man he believed had wronged him.

"I will tell you about this s**c, he was another counselor [for me]," James said in a video called "they hate Jew."

"There is an old saying in the ghetto, 'what can you expect from a [n-word]' and the same thing can be said about a f***ing s**c, he is counseling somebody, a f***ing s**c."

He went on to say: "Even though I am not mad at [him] I would still like to shoot him in the f***ing face, I would still like to blow his brains out, just for old times sakes.

[snip][end]

In that video "I hate jew" ... Uploaded in 2017, the video consisted of James engaging in an antisemitic rant while displaying photos of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and several harrowing images of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

He complained about white racism ... validly, but then said he believed the races should self-segregate. He also often referred to fellow Blacks as the n word, and as noted above, posted bigoted stuff about Jews and Hispanics.

Yeah he was a person of color ... I'm just noting this stuff maybe it belongs in "you don't have to be white to be a bigot".
Like so many of these shooters the guy is mentally unstable. Probably should spend the rest of his days confined to a mental health facility instead of a jail cell.
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ProfX wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:47 pm Oh this is just swell.

Frank James Made Numerous Video Threats as YouTuber 'Prophet of Truth 88'
https://www.newsweek.com/frank-james-yo ... yn-1697496

The 62-year-old, who New York authorities are actively searching for, made videos predicting a race war between Black and white people. He also made threats and derogatory statements against Black people, white people, Jewish people and Mexicans.

In his latest uploaded video on April 11, 2022, James said that he has wanted to watch people die and that he has been through a lot in his life.

[snip]

"I'm not built for no prison, I am just not. I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words], I don't want to be around a bunch of [n-words] now let alone all day every day."

[snip]

In another video that he posted on Facebook under his profile Profitofdoom008, he used racist terms for Mexican people and threatened to shoot a man he believed had wronged him.

"I will tell you about this s**c, he was another counselor [for me]," James said in a video called "they hate Jew."

"There is an old saying in the ghetto, 'what can you expect from a [n-word]' and the same thing can be said about a f***ing s**c, he is counseling somebody, a f***ing s**c."

He went on to say: "Even though I am not mad at [him] I would still like to shoot him in the f***ing face, I would still like to blow his brains out, just for old times sakes.

[snip][end]

In that video "I hate jew" ... Uploaded in 2017, the video consisted of James engaging in an antisemitic rant while displaying photos of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and several harrowing images of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

He complained about white racism ... validly, but then said he believed the races should self-segregate. He also often referred to fellow Blacks as the n word, and as noted above, posted bigoted stuff about Jews and Hispanics.

Yeah he was a person of color ... I'm just noting this stuff maybe it belongs in "you don't have to be white to be a bigot".
What a freak. F this guy.

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ProfX wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:09 pm You know, Mr. James, you're not wrong; but did you think what you did helped make anything ... better?
This freak sounds a lot like those Black Hebrew Israelite/Black Gods of the Metropolis types who stand on the corner and berate EVERYBODY who passes them, including Black women. Especially those of us whom they perceive as non-hetero.

Same rhetoric, same flimsy nationalism, same M.O., except those guys are basically toothless as far as physical violence is concerned. Verbal violence, though...:?
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Glennfs wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 9:46 pm Like so many of these shooters the guy is mentally unstable. Probably should spend the rest of his days confined to a mental health facility instead of a jail cell.
a. I do see he has had some contact with the mental health system, that will be for a jury to decide. There certainly was some pre-planning. Now I don't know how well thought out his escape was. He left behind a lot of stuff including a van and a backpack that made him easy to identify. But then if evasion was a priority - looks like he called the police tip line on himself?
b. I still think this is a canard insofar as many mass shooters didn't meet the clinical definition. Also, they're often just spouting stuff that many supposedly sane people say...
c. I also think what's really crazy is a society that makes it easy for them to obtain weapons. He didn't kill anybody, fortunately (so far), but he injured a lot of people because ... surprise ... semi auto pistol plus large cap magazines.
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I was watching a movie based on a Steven King novel called cell where a signal came through the cellphones and turned all the people into crazed zombie killers except the ones who didnt have the phone on.

In reimagining it as the same kind of thing but only instead the signal came from our economic and justice systems and wealth distributions it would create one group of paranoid delusional vindictive crazed psychopaths constantly worried about losing something or being taken advantage of or robbed or cheated or wanting to cheat and rob other people and inversely at the same time create another group of people desperate, constantly worried roaming the streets for their survival and at the same time it would create a third group that roams the street and does violence against the 2nd group on behalf of the 1st group then another group forms that is indifferent to it all just so comfortable and sheltered and clueless but mostly side with the 1st group because they dont want to be in the 2nd one.

Maybe whats causing these things is the inequality.
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NY Gov. Candidate Jumaane Williams on Mass Shooting: More Police Won’t Solve Gun Violence
.....“the answer to the gun violence problem cannot be solely sending police,” adding that New York must respond with a comprehensive plan to beef up social services and programs. He also speaks about the resignation of Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin — who was arrested on bribery charges — and recent news that disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo may run in the November election....
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10-Shot At In Columbus South Carolina Mall.

https://www.rawstory.com/mall-shooting- ... -carolina/.


Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook briefed reporters after a mass shooting at a mall in South Carolina.

"Columbia police say 12 people were injured--including 10 by gunfire--after a shooting Saturday at the Columbiana Centre mall in northern Columbia. Police say at this point, however, there are no fatalities," News 19 reports.

The chief said he believed those involved knew each other and three people were detained.

"Holbrook said 911 got a call at 2:03 p.m. of a shooting from someone near the Gap Store in the mall. When police got there, they determined 12 people were injured. Holbrook said 10 suffered gunshot wounds, and 2 of those are in critical but stable condition.. Two people were injured in the stampede that followed," the station reported.
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marindem01 wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:56 pm 10-Shot At In Columbus South Carolina Mall.

https://www.rawstory.com/mall-shooting- ... -carolina/.


Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook briefed reporters after a mass shooting at a mall in South Carolina.

"Columbia police say 12 people were injured--including 10 by gunfire--after a shooting Saturday at the Columbiana Centre mall in northern Columbia. Police say at this point, however, there are no fatalities," News 19 reports.

The chief said he believed those involved knew each other and three people were detained.

"Holbrook said 911 got a call at 2:03 p.m. of a shooting from someone near the Gap Store in the mall. When police got there, they determined 12 people were injured. Holbrook said 10 suffered gunshot wounds, and 2 of those are in critical but stable condition.. Two people were injured in the stampede that followed," the station reported.
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Number6 wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:10 pm Conservatives will offer their "Thoughts and Prayers" for the victims but what they're really offering is their "Thoughts and Prayers" for the gunmen.
True That.
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Number6 wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:10 pm Conservatives will offer their "Thoughts and Prayers" for the victims but what they're really offering is their "Thoughts and Prayers" for the gunmen.
Or just the gun.
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carmenjonze wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:56 pm Or just the gun.
What the hell is everybody talking about?

How about that texASS governor who board con would love to vote for who is PURPOSELY blocking trucks from entering the country so it will HURT the economy so we will BLAME Biden...


GO TO HELL all of you SCUM :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Libertas wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:13 pm What the hell is everybody talking about?

How about that texASS governor who board con would love to vote for who is PURPOSELY blocking trucks from entering the country so it will HURT the economy so we will BLAME Biden...


GO TO HELL all of you SCUM :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Turns out 25pct of the trucks coming across the border from Mexico failed US safely standards.
If you were ever there and were to see first hand the equipment they are running you wouldn't be surprised.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 1:42 pm Turns out 25pct
Link?
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Libertas wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:13 pm GO TO HELL all of you SCUM :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
And stop trying to take us with you, miserable conservative a-holes!

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carmenjonze wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:11 pmLink?
The Troll is grbbing numbers out of his ass.

And cosidering that he is way off topic (again) this is not surprising.
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marindem01 wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:24 pm The Troll is grbbing numbers out of his ass.

And cosidering that he is way off topic (again) this is not surprising.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/04 ... -continue/

3400 inspections
800 trucks put out of service
79 drivers put out of service
11000 violations

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