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2020-08-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-
President Trump escorted from briefing room after apparent shooting outside White House
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The Secret Service provided details of the shooting in a tweet late Monday. A 51-year-old male allegedly approached a Uniformed Division officer who was standing at his post on the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. The man told the agent he had a weapon and, while he approached, took off in a sprint and "in a drawing motion, withdrew an object from his clothing," the statement read.

"The suspect then crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon," the statement read. At that point, the agent fired his weapon and struck the subject in the torso.

That intersection is right outside the White House grounds.

The Secret Service said in a tweet that a male subject and a USSS officer were both transported to a local hospital. "At no time during this incident was the White House complex breached or were any protectees in danger," the agency said, adding the investigation is ongoing.

A law enforcement source told Fox News it appears the wounds to the suspect in the officer-involved shooting are not fatal.

There was a brief, joint presser late Monday night with the Secret Service and the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department that stressed that the investigation was in its early stages. City police will play a supporting role.
No doubt the details will soon be revealed, but in the meantime the question, dear Reader, as always is: jihadi, Antifa, or nutter?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-11 00:11|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Always the left.
Posted by Dale 2020-08-11 03:56||   2020-08-11 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 No doubt the details will soon be revealed, but in the meantime the question, dear Reader, as always is: jihadi, Antifa, or nutter?

I embrace the power of "and/or".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-11 04:09||   2020-08-11 04:09|| Front Page Top

#3 What I don't get is why the gun isn't picked up doggie poo style in an evidence bag.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 04:40||   2020-08-11 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Given four years of unending hate spewed by the commie media, anyone surprised?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-11 06:51||   2020-08-11 06:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder how many reporters were disappointed he wasn't being frog marched.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 07:05||   2020-08-11 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Not much is being said about who this guy is. Maybe a suicide attempt by cop?
Posted by JohnQC 2020-08-11 07:44||   2020-08-11 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Yup
Posted by Frank G 2020-08-11 07:48||   2020-08-11 07:48|| Front Page Top

#8 that video of the shooting is from 2016. who knows why ZeroHedge is saying it is from yesterday.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-08-11 07:58||   2020-08-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks Bob, good catch. Video removed.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-11 08:05||   2020-08-11 08:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Nutter, my bet, side bet on it being a 'Bernie Bro'.
Posted by magpie 2020-08-11 11:36||   2020-08-11 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 whoever it was, he must've made the media uncomfortable, because the story dropped off the radar faster than a fifth of vodka in front of hill-dawg
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-08-11 13:22||   2020-08-11 13:22|| Front Page Top

#12 never heard that saying before, but that's some country ass shit an I like it.
Posted by Chris 2020-08-11 22:56||   2020-08-11 22:56|| Front Page Top

#13 whoever it was, he must've made the media uncomfortable, because the story dropped off the radar faster than a fifth of vodka in front of hill-dawg

Yeah. Some comments started talking about how Trump disappeared into his bunker at the slightest hint of danger. That stopped, too.
Posted by gorb 2020-08-11 23:57||   2020-08-11 23:57|| Front Page Top

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