Man Shoots Up Maryland Newspaper Office , 5 Dead
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We don’t know the motive of the Annapolis shooter. It’s unclear when, if ever, we’ll find out. But one thing was true yesterday and is true today. It is grossly irresponsible for the President of the United States to describe a free press as the “enemy of the people”
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A 39 year old white man entered a newspaper office today in Annapolis Maryland and killed 5 people.
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The Latest: Official: Man mutilated fingertips, still ID'd
6:50 p.m.
A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper shooting mutilated his fingers in what investigators think was an effort to prevent him from being easily identified.
The official was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official says investigators believe the suspect was attempting to prevent them from getting a fingerprint match.
The official says that investigators have nonetheless been able to identify the man, though it was not immediately clear how.
--Eric Tucker in Washington.
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6:30 p.m.
The Chicago-based publishing company for The Capital Gazette says it is "deeply saddened" by the attack on its Maryland newspaper.
Justin Dearborn, chairman and CEO of Tronc, Inc., says in a statement, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families." Dearborn says the company is focused on providing its newspaper employees and their families with support during what it called a "tragic time."
Police say five people are confirmed dead in Thursday's shooting at the paper's location in Annapolis, Maryland.
Tronc Inc. publishes the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers and digital news sites in various markets.
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Milo Yiannopoulos says his call for journalists to be shot wasn't serious after Maryland newspaper shooting http:// hill.cm/BO3ix7u
It appears as if someone took him seriously.
Totally irrelevant. The guy had a legal beef going with the paper and lost. Also, I heard that he wasn't just randomly shooting, he was picking out his targets.
It is absolutely disgusting and unforgivable for ANYBODY to be blaming Trump or anyone else for this while people could still be dying and the attacker and his motive are unknown. Trump haters are rapidly distancing themselves from all sane people.
I'll leave a positive note and hope for the recovery of those injured and an end to all the senseless hate and violence.
Im not blaming anyone at the moment. Waiting to hear what the motive was. Maybe it was a domestic incident.
Either way though Trump and Yaponopolous should not be demonizing the media and reporters.
It certainly doesn't look like you're not blaming anyone. Holding the press responsible for bias and misreporting is one thing. This is something else and probably not even political. This small paper doesn't even look like its big enough to have a bias.
Would you like to denounce Sean Hannity's rhetoric for us? That would be the same Sean Hannity who is in daily phone calls with President Trump.
It is a daily newspaper. I imagine they cover all the news any other newspaper does, only with a suburban focus fitting their location.
Do you really want to be on the same level of integrity has Hannity? I don't support anybody on the left or the right making assumptions now. I still say it's irresponsible.
Just sayin...
Personally, I am blaming the shooter. But if it turns out that he attacked a media outlet as the result of trumps all out war on the free press, then trump IS in part responsible for this. Of course, we don't know the motive yet, so for now, I am blaming the shooter, no one, or nothing else.
So I shouldn't be blaming the shooter?
Actually a woman went to jail for telling a guy to kill himself and he did. People go to jail for telling people to kill their spouse. As far as I know Manson never actually committed murder himself.
Then what the fuck are you complaining about?!
Great. Glad you can find a photo of juvenile antics like that. That's almost as classy as a crowd chanting at Jim Acosta.
I applaud your attempts to be neutral, and if trump wasn't always complaining about "fake news" and referring to them as "enemies of the people" it would be easier to believe.
Never the less, this may be a case of a lone dipstick who figured he could solve all his problems by shooting a few people OR similar to someone going in shooting to "save" the poor child prostitutes held in a pizzeria basement when the pizzeria didn't have a basement, or anything in between or maybe just a little domestic terrorism. Time will tell.
I do hope they find him mentally competent to face trial. He was mentally competent enough to own or get a firearm, although in a country with as many guns as we have, getting a firearm in any case isn't that difficult, they're HUGE on the burglary valuables list.
The shooter seems to have had a problem with women, according to his social media writings. Who else disrespects and vilifies women who piss him off? And certain republicans are trying to blame Maxine Waters for what she said? Doesn't even come close to Trump on a daily basis, attacking and encouraging violence against media or anybody he decides to use that day. We are paying attention to what is coming straight from the top.
"Who else disrespects and vilifies women who piss him off?"
Um, let's see.... Samantha Bee. Peter Fonda, the owner of the Red Hen, Randa Jarrar, Alec Baldwin, Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright, many more that I can count....
Why did you vote for whoever you voted for? Because of what they said, right? I rest my case.
I posted the reasoning released for this by the Police in another story that is not laden with the typical spin that is not supported by the true facts of the event.
Tissue?
Trump isnt sane.
Crazy people voted for him. They recognized one of their own.
Must have hit home.
Why not blame Trump? He had a chance to do something after Parkland and, simply "offered thoughts and, prayers" just like now.
What good does that do? Does it make you feel less responsible for not doing something about all the gun violence? Does it ease your conscious to offer good feelings and, nothing more?
It sure does a lot more than the viscous, mindless hate from the left and their supporters. Doing idiotic things like calling for the end of ICE and guaranteed govt jobs for everyone (aka communism) solves nothing.
How many lives have you saved offering good feelings to those who died and, got shot up in all the shootings that have happened since Columbine?
How many lives have been saved pushing gun control that takes weapons away from law abiding adults interested only in self defense? A better question might be how many lives have been lost.
Sean Hannity ties Annapolis newspaper shooting to Maxine Waters
Fox News host Sean Hannity tied, without evidence, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to the deadly shooting Thursday at an Annapolis, Md., newspaper.
As news of the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper was coming in, Hannity said on his radio show the situation was "scary."
""You know, as I've always said, I mean honestly," he continued. "I've been saying now for days that something horrible was going to happen because of the rhetoric. Really, Maxine?"
Sean Hannity is said to be one of President Trump's top advisers.
well johnR, i am not surprised this post has not blown up with tons of comments but that is because we know who did this and its hard for folks to admit that ONCE again it was not the thug, gang member or criminal but just the misunderstood suspect.
it is sad to see this happen again and there is nothing any of these employees did or could do to allow someone to think this is the right way to handle things.
but since he lived some how (cough cough) i guess we can only hope that someday we will know why he did this. but until then i hope he sits in a dark hole in the jail. so sad for the families of the ones lost to this type of violence.
It seems to be such a common occurrence anymore, maybe people are becoming numb to it.
At least with him in custody maybe there will be some answers.
Though no answer could ever justify.
Naw, this isn't going to blow up on NT, the shooter was WHITE. Not Muslim, not one of the terrible invaders from south of the border, not even a black guy. So for a lot of people, this article no fun, shouldn't be commented on and best forgotten as soon as possible.
well you are exactly right and that is why i commented the way i did, just to see if others who comment on NT saw the same thing.
It is always funny to me that when they get up in arms about the OTHERS to blame, they think they dont have a pattern, i see em clear as day!!
what a crappy way to live I M O but then again...........
i just get annoyed knowing that 5 more families will have funerals over this guys selfishness.
One question for Mr. Hannity, which person has been denigrating the media for the past three years, Trump or, Maxine Waters?
Well, Maxine did say for her followers to attack Republicans everywhere they go.
And Trump and his supporters do say (on a daily basis) rhetoric that vilifies anything and anybody who challenges his propaganda, encouraging violence against them. He fricking says it on camera and you can easily find examples. He is the goddamn president who says he'll pay for the lawyers of a supporter that attacks one of his targets (yep, on camera). Address that.
I believe the word she used was protest, not attack.
But I thought all journalists were liberal democrats???? Did I get that wrong, too?
Protesting is a constitutionally protected right, you knew that right?
This recent shooter, unnamed thus far. I wonder what kind of a digital footprint he has and whether that footprint will ever be released.
I mention this because Jared Loughner, the Giffords shooter, apparently never watched TV, listened to radio, subscribed to magazines or interacted on the internet. In other words, he shot those people because he was just crazy and for no other reason. If you believe that.
A lot of mass shootings are senseless and motiveless. Look at the Aurora shooter or Newtown. We still don't even know why the Las Vegas shooter did what he did. Most of these are apolitical.
Maybe. And maybe not.
Just another day in 'Murica'.
Preliminary reports on twitter are saying that the shooter had a personal vendetta against the newspaper related to a defamation case that the shooter lost.
The shooter's name is Jarrod Ramos, 38 years old, who tried to sue the paper in 2012 for defamation but the case was thrown out by a judge.
This makes the 154th mass shooting this year.
Mike Yianniooulos, the conservative provocateur who posted to "the Daily Beast" and "New York Observer" that he couldn't wait "for the vigilante squads to start gunning down journalists on sight" as a way to get them off his back and that it was the news sources that that spread his comments about vigilante squads and he refers to them as "vermin."
See? the newest excuse is "I didn't mean it."
I wish he could be charged with the murder of those people under the legality of depraved indifference.
"To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's conduct must be 'so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant’s conduct, not the injuries actually resulting."
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If Milo doesn't qualify, he's real close.
Less than close has convicted people before. This ahole has been a loose cannon verbally for too long.
Australia had 4 mass shootings in 3 years and they were disgusted to the point of making radical changes to their gun laws.... We have 4 mass shootings in less than a month and the GOP/NRA has no problems with it at all.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, really???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But they do line the pockets of ANY politician that will promise to NOT make gun laws more strict. Jesus, for someone that is literally on here every day all day long you don't seem to know much about how politics works.
Need an example? Fine. After the parkland shooting, trump said he was in favor of raising the age limit to buy a gun to 21. Just 4 days later, the NRA met with trump behind closed doors. Trump never again said a damn thing about raising the age limit. A week later it was revealed that trump was given 33 MILLION dollars to not push for ANY measures that would slow gun sales. So save the BS that the NRA doesn't pass legislation. Money talks, BS walks...
Do you know what an E.O. is?
Let's be real... most don't give a shit about the shooting.....
youre just waiting around to see if you can point fingers at the other side and say "I told you they were violent"
thats all these attacks are anymore...
political cannon fodder
Well, I do give a shit. Every time something like this happens, it hurts me to my inner core.
Really?
It is called having human emotions and a heart, which considering the emoticon you used on your comment to me, makes me wonder if you do.
Ditto
Something tells me you would care if one of your family was one of the victims. The attitude of, "well, no one I know was hurt/killed, so I don't care", is part of the problem.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44645986
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Armed officers escorted more than 170 people from the building in Annapolis, police said
" Police have not confirmed a motive.
They said a white male suspect in his late 30s was taken into custody at the scene of the shooting and was being questioned.
Investigators were said to be looking into "violent" threats that had been made against the Capital Gazette via social media.
"This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette," said William Krampf, deputy chief of Anne Arundel County Police. He added that the gunman "entered the building with a shotgun and looked for his victims as he walked through the lower level".
County executive Steve Schuh told CNN that the suspect was hiding under a desk in the building when police officers arrived "within 60 seconds" of receiving news of the incident. He said there was "no exchange of fire"."
Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen responded to Mr Davis on Twitter, saying "journalists shouldn't have to fend off bullets in the newsroom".
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Maybe they should conceal carry.
E.A If the ONLY ones with a Gun, are those that intent to DO harm, then the rest are as " Sheep for the slaughter " are they not?
How Long does it take LEO to respond, and can they Negate " The Active Shooter " straight away?
And here he is, Jerod Ramos.
Thought people would like to see his face. It's starting to look like vengeance murders, but it's going to take awhile to sort this one out.
That beard will make a nice grab hold of by Bubba in prison.
Doesn't look like a "white guy" to me! And he didn't use an "assault" weapon, let alone a bump stock. The leftists must be very disappointed.
Then what does he look like, Greg?
Then I guess that makes you overjoyed that this asshole killed 5 people?
Just my own answer here but does the phrase "white Hispanic" ring a bell?
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Why? Because he isn't wearing a sheet?
Yes Tex, but it's ok to troll a troll!
Sounds like it was a vendetta over a story they published about him. Guess they shouldn't have offended him and this wouldn't have happened. They deserve part of the blame. Freedom of speech doesn't cover offensive speech! He obviously was offended! #imnotCharlie
So he's a snowflake that was triggered by somebody saying something mean to him?
Pretty much. Hopefully the sarcasm was evident in the post. I don't actually believe that. Still a little pushed off that people blamed the Charlie hebdo attacks on the paper and said they should have expected it
My sarcasm meter needs a tune-up so my apologies.
Joe Biden should be in jail for being complicit in this. Joe told EVERYONE to buy a "Shotgun" !
Apparently this guy took Joe to heart.
clearly you dont get that JOE has nothing to do with this but stir the pot if you think it helps you out.
Liberals do it all the time (concentration camps, Nazis, etc...). I'm not allowed to do the same ?
This "Gander" wants what the "Goose" has. Deal with it !
Of course Crazy Old Joe didn't have anything to do with this. The clip was meant to point out how stupid and hypocritical the left is when it comes to guns.
Ya know Liberals are now batshit crazy when you have to explain something like that to them.
And YES.....it was a FUCKING generalization.
So there !
your assuming i see this as a time for political siding, i dont.
But i did see your comment as a childish immature comment from someone who doesnt seem to get - its not about sides. its about the death of YOUR fellow Americans.
but not surprised at folks here on NT
Didn't y'all hear? We don't have a problem with domestic terrorism in the US. It's the Muslims that we need to worry about!
Sadly we have all sorts of groups of people to worry about- and not Muslims in general. Just radicalized ones or ones from countries that are hostile or collapsed and can't be realistically verified.
You can bet your ass that if all these mass shootings in the USA were done by ISIS there would be some dramatic changes to our gun laws.
We need to start publicly executing the guys who do this and live ASAP. No names in bold type, no photos and life stories, no manifestos. Just put a hood on them and wipe them out of existence.
Should we bother with a trial?
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Never understood a need for a trial when you catch one with weapon in hand actually doing the deed. Seems like a waste of taxpayer money to me....just to seem considerate.
Good friend of mine (now deceased from a heart attack) once told me that, as a Libertarian, he had no problem at all with the death penalty, especially if it was administered on the spot by the intended victim.
Another thing I NEVER understood was this need to take someone into custody, that is actually caught committing the murder/murders "Red"handed.
I'm starting to think that your avatar is an actual selfie. Your dictatorial leader would love nothing better than to establish that kind of precedent.
Who let the dogs out?
I'm only slightly less furry.
I would not go that far, but if it is with 100% certainty that they are guilty of premeditated murder one, one appeal and one only limited to a set time frame of 30 days. No more of this bs numerous appeals which can delay executions, sometimes for years.
Wasn't he just exercising his 2nd Amendment remedies?
Thoughts and prayers.
Can we also ban all, and I mean ALL, semi automatic firearms while we are at it? I mean if we are going to just say "fuck the constitution", why stop with the sixth?
Welp, glad he had a history of making violent threats, had a lawyer, therapist and whoever else say he was a danger to society, and was still able to go out an easily (legally) purchase a firearm. Ahhh, America. Breath in those bullets my fellow countrymen, that is the smell of freedom!