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Author: Jonn Lilyea
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Santa Fe High School shooting
Fox News reports that at least eight people have been killed in Santa Fe High School in Texas. The reported firearm was a shotgun;
A student told ABC 13 one of the educators, a former Marine, pulled the fire alarm to alert the school of an active shooting situation.
Galveston County Sheriff’s Maj. Douglas Hudson said units responded to reports of shots fired. Witnesses say a gunman opened fire inside an art class during first period. A student in the class told KTRK she witnessed at least one girl being shot.
“We thought it was a fire drill at first but really, the teacher said, ‘Start running,’” the student told the news station.
Two seniors at the school told KHOU 11 their friend pulled the fire alarm after spotting the shooter and urged other students to run. They also said they saw an injured female student.
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Alex Wolpert is NOT a Marine Corps veteran
Earlier this week, Alex Wolpert made headlines in Sacramento, California when he confronted an elderly Laotian immigrant who was wearing a camouflage T-shirt;
The Laotian couple’s daughter, who first posted the video, explained that her father had just dropped off his wife and parked near 16th Street and Broadway in Sacramento. That’s when Alex Wolpert started yelling at him for wearing a camouflage T-shirt.
“OK, he’s going to take it off,” the woman can be heard saying in the video.
“My friends died! My friends died!” Wolpert yells.
The couple’s daughter claims before the video started Wolpert had grabbed her father and threatened to kill him.
Wolpert allegedly accused the man of being a Vietnamese communist. In truth, the man’s daughter says he actually served in the Vietnam War for Laos on the U.S. side.
“I’m sorry,” the man’s wife says to Wolpert in the video.
“I’m a Marine, I fought for my country. And this mother f—er is going to wear that sh–. No! No!” Wolpert yells angrily.
We’ve been trying to find some active duty service for him all week, and we turned up nothing. Snake called USMC Manpower Management, Records and Performance branch this morning and according to them, Wolpert has never served in the Marine Corps in an active or Reserve capacity.
Of course everyone is just taking Wolpert at his word that he’s a veteran.
A Sacramento veteran has apologized for yelling at an elderly Laotian-American man and his wife this weekend over the immigrant man’s camouflage shirt.
Video of the verbal assault was posted to social media Sunday by the Laotian couple’s child, Van Khon. It shows US Marine Corps veteran Alex Wolpert yelling at the elderly immigrant for wearing a camouflage shirt as the couple was walking near 16th Street and Broadway in Sacramento.
Wolpert told Fox 40 that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is planning to admit himself to a rehabilitation center to get help.
He suffers from something, alright. Whoever his caregiver is had better take him off the street before he gets injured. Nasty-looking piece of shit.
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AF apologizes for tweet
The Air Force tweeted the above message to their followers and then deleted it and apologized, for some reason.
We apologize for the earlier tweet regarding the A-10. It was made in poor taste and we are addressing it internally. It has since been removed.
— U.S. Air Force (@usairforce) May 17, 2018
Own that shit, Air Force.
Thanks to Bobo for the tip.
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Sergeant Elden W. Grimm comes home
Hondo told us that the earthly remains of Marine Sergeant Elden Grimm were identified back in October. DPAA reports that he will finally make it home on May 26th;
Marine Corps Sgt. Elden W. Grimm, 26, of Menasha, Wisconsin, accounted for on Sept. 26, 2017, will be buried May 26 in Neenah, Wisconsin. In November 1943, Grimm was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 18th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Grimm died on Nov. 25, 1943.
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To identify Grimm’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental, anthropological and chest radiograph comparison analysis, which matched his records, and circumstantial evidence.
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Minot AFB missing M240
The other day we talked about Minot Air Force Base missing some Mk-19 ammunition. Today they’re missing an M-240.
Officials at Minot Air Force Base say they discovered that a M-240 machine gun was missing during a standard weapons inventory Wednesday.
The 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing immediately began searching their weapons inventories, and have opened an investigation with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
The weapon is a 7.62 caliber. Lt. Col. Jamie Humphries says that all ammunition is accounted for.
Nice.
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Friday morning feel good stories
From Nashville, Tennessee;
Police say store clerk Zane Friend, 58, was confronted by Gonzales and two other masked suspects at about 11:30 p.m. that evening.
Friend was outside smoking a cigarette when Gonzales, armed with a stolen shotgun out of Clarksville, and other masked men ordered him to get back into the store. That’s when police say Friend pulled out a pistol he was carrying and shot Gonzales in the stomach. The other two suspects fled the scene and dropped a starter pistol on their way.
After Gonzales went down, Friend helped citizens who were rendering aid to the suspect before the ambulance got on scene.
Gonzales was taken to Skyline Medical Center and has since been released. Gonzales is being held on a $36,000 bond.
From St Louis, Missouri;
A former Marine catches a group of thieves in the act, and doesn’t let them get away with it. It happened Monday night in the Benton Park West neighborhood.
Luigi Giovanni said he believes one of the thieves jumped the fence and started examining his bikes.
He said he was playing a video game at the time but noticed some movement outdoors on his surveillance cameras.
“Then I just happened to look up and that’s when I saw two guys coming over the fence,” said Giovanni.
Surveillance cameras show what happened next. Luigi said he grabbed his pistol, ran outside and found one of the thieves standing by the fence.
Luigi said he fired first, but then claims the thief returned fire. The video doesn’t clearly show the thief firing back.
“Right there behind the tree. Right when he was standing by the tree is when he fired. He shot real quick and then I shot back at them and he took off,” Giovanni explains.
The episode didn’t stop there. Later Monday night, Luigi discovered his 8×5 trailer, along with a motorized quad bike, was stolen from his driveway.
“I don’t understand why they picked us, why they picked us to do it,’ said Giovanni.
Luigi said his cameras didn’t clearly pick up the trailer being stolen, but he suspects the same group was behind it.
“The quad runner is not very important to me, it’s the trailer that I really value and cherish,” he said.
Cherished because the trailer was a gift from his dying uncle.
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Media twists Trump’s “animals”
Yesterday, President Trump railed against MS-13 thugs and called them “animals”. Today the media is telling us that Trump was calling all immigrants “animals”. What he actually said;
Trump was asked about the brutal gang by Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims when addressing California sanctuary city laws. Mims specifically said, “There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about, if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them.”
The president responded, “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people, these are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.”
Now, from the Associated Press;
While railing against California for its so-called sanctuary immigration policies, President Donald Trump referred to some people who cross the border illegally as “animals” — drawing a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders for the harsh rhetoric.
Trump’s remark at meeting with local leaders was in response to a complaint about gang members.
“We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them,” Trump said during the immigration round table after a sheriff commented about gangs. “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., responded on Twitter to the president, saying, “When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t ‘animals,’ and these people aren’t either.”
And from Yahoo News;
President Trump portrayed some immigrants crossing into the country illegally as “animals” while speaking Wednesday at a White House event targeting California’s sanctuary city policies.
“We have people coming into the country, who are trying to come in, and we’re stopping a lot of them, but we’re taking people out of the country, you wouldn’t believe how bad these people are,” Trump said in reference to alleged gang members. “These aren’t people. These are animals.”
That broad-brush assertion itself is jarring, but not uncommon for Trump. In fact, it’s just the latest instance in which Trump has sought to dehumanize those he considers undesirable.
He’d probably only offer illegals one scoop of ice cream, too.