Despite having been the one to shoot and kill Ah Loo and wound Arturo, the yet unidentified No Kings “peacekeeper” was detained and released without charges after being questioned by police.

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    11 hours ago

    One of the victims was apparently preparing a mass shooting, and was, at the time, running toward the crowd with his weapon.

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      11 hours ago

      Idk if new information came to light I can’t find, but that was a cop propagated rumor early on. I believe he was a known, legal carrier who provided security for previous protests. He was arrested for “brandishing” his legal rifle at a crowd after the chucklefucks already shot at him and he was running away.

      At least afaik, if there’s other evidence, sure. I’m skeptical though because the cops already lied about it twice.

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      My understanding from what I’ve read and the video I saw was that he was open carrying completely legally and peacefully and did nothing to indicate he was gonna shoot anyone. Then the “peacekeeper” shot him and a bystander, killing the bystander

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      10 hours ago

      when I read about this originally that person was open carrying (but not otherwise problematic) the two “peacekeepers” started threatening him, he fled and so they fired into the crowd. Has anything new come out to support that the open carry guy was dangerous in anyway or is it just successive levels of whitewashing violent (pseudo)authorities?