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Shooters in Metro ambush that left five dead spoke of white supremacy and a desire to kill police
Two Las Vegas police officers were killed Sunday in what appears to be a politically motivated ambush in a pizza restaurant that spilled over to a nearby Wal-Mart, where the two shooters committed suicide after killing a woman in the store.
Details are sketchy but Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sources close to the investigation say the shooters shouted that “this is the start of a revolution” before opening fire on the officers, and draped their bodies with cloth showing a [Gadsden ("Don't Tread on Me")] flag. Investigators have also found paraphernalia associated with white supremacists.
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The man told [a neighbor] he had been kicked off Cliven Bundy’s ranch 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas while people from throughout the U.S. gathered there in protest of a Bureau of Land Management roundup of Bundy’s cattle.
Reached Sunday, the rancher’s wife, Carol Bundy, said the shooting and the April standoff against the federal government were not linked.
If what the neighbor was told was accurate, it's definitely to the Bundy supporters' credit in recognizing how "out there" this guy was and sending him away -- if he'd gone Leeroy Jenkins during the standoff there, the ensuing firefight would have made today's tragedy look trivial by comparison.
This isn't to minimize anything, though -- what happened is still appalling. And, tragically, I'm pretty sure we'll see more of this.
Two Las Vegas police officers were killed Sunday in what appears to be a politically motivated ambush in a pizza restaurant that spilled over to a nearby Wal-Mart, where the two shooters committed suicide after killing a woman in the store.
Details are sketchy but Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sources close to the investigation say the shooters shouted that “this is the start of a revolution” before opening fire on the officers, and draped their bodies with cloth showing a [Gadsden ("Don't Tread on Me")] flag. Investigators have also found paraphernalia associated with white supremacists.
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The man told [a neighbor] he had been kicked off Cliven Bundy’s ranch 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas while people from throughout the U.S. gathered there in protest of a Bureau of Land Management roundup of Bundy’s cattle.
Reached Sunday, the rancher’s wife, Carol Bundy, said the shooting and the April standoff against the federal government were not linked.
If what the neighbor was told was accurate, it's definitely to the Bundy supporters' credit in recognizing how "out there" this guy was and sending him away -- if he'd gone Leeroy Jenkins during the standoff there, the ensuing firefight would have made today's tragedy look trivial by comparison.
This isn't to minimize anything, though -- what happened is still appalling. And, tragically, I'm pretty sure we'll see more of this.
