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The Consul » Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:22 am wrote:Don't know if this has been mentioned. But I found it odd shooter would turn his emergency lights on as he pulled his Chevy SUV over by the white pillion building. Maybe the answer is in the journal!
A federal judge has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to give her a better explanation for its refusal to turn over information to a student researching an alleged plot to assassinate “Occupy” protest leaders in Houston.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student who is seeking records from the FBI related to a Houston spin-off of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests and an alleged sniper plot. The student claims that the heavily redacted responses he got back from the government violated the Freedom of Information Act.
Information about the alleged plot first surfaced in FBI documents — released through a prior FOIA request by a civil-rights legal organization in Washington – that referenced a “plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles,” according to court documents. It’s not known who was behind the alleged plot or whether the FBI investigated it.
The Consul » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:25 am wrote:When I saw it being broadcast the person who supposedly shot the footage said he saw Chevy pull up and the shooter get out & start blasting. He also said shooter was hit by PO who he killed without effect and must've been wearing body armour. I thought the video and phone call with....Don Lennon(?). was a bit strange. But maybe it was just my oh what the fuck are they setting us up for now mindset. Still he didn't get back in car cause he had better cover among the columns and could continue to fire. Guy on phone also said shooter dropped at least two magazines and they were thirty rounders. There are two segments. Shooter was exceptional. Knew cop would go to right of column because he was right handed, them broke to left to drop him from behind. He moved very well for someone taking hits. Does not seem too match description of military experience. Maybe that's not what he really did if indeed it was him at all.
Already, authorities have seized rifles, ammunition, bomb-making materials and a personal journal of combat tactics from Johnson's Mesquite home. The bomb-making materials and the large amount of ammunition owned by Johnson has investigators speculating that his assault plans were even grander.
Officials at El Centro College said Saturday that it appears Johnson parked his car at a parking garage adjacent to the school, then made his way inside. It's still unclear when and where he began his deadly assault, but at some point, he shot his way into one of the school's three buildings, then ran upstairs to another building and finally to a third where he was trapped by police.
"Our account is that he tried multiple locations to shoot his way into the building, and eventually he was able to do that and enter the A building and go up the stairs in the B building, which gave him access to the second floor," said Ann Hatch, a school spokesperson. "He then went down the hallway on the second floor into the C building."
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/he ... ay-out.ece
In 2013, Johnson's reserve unit, the 420th Engineer Brigade based in Seagoville, Texas, deployed to Afghanistan. His rank - private first class; his specialty – carpentry and masonry; his location – the sprawling Bagram Air Base, north of the capital, Kabul.
Johnson underwent combat training. But he was confined to base for virtually his entire deployment – there is no record of him being injured or even seeing combat; the service medals he was awarded were the kind soldiers get merely for turning up – as opposed to displaying courage or bravery.
Sarah Castaneda recalls serving alongside Johnson in Afghanistan, describing him as "my battle buddy, my brother in arms". But the evidence suggests that in Afghanistan Johnson might have started to unravel – just six months into the deployment, in 2014, he was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague and was sent home in disgrace, with a recommendation that he be shunted with an "other than honourable" discharge.
The detail is murky. But Bradford Glendenning, a military lawyer appointed to represent Johnson, concluded his behaviour must have been pretty bad – the word he uses is "egregious" – because, he said, discipline for sexual harassment rarely went beyond counselling in the military.
Wells Newsome, a soldier who claimed to have served with Johnson, is derisory: "We all knew he was a pervert because he got caught stealing girls' panties". And in her formal complaint, Johnson's accused claimed he had bought her Victoria's Secret underwear – unsolicited.
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"I got the sense he was generally disliked by his command, that he was the black sheep of his unit."
Read lots more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/dallas-shoo ... q2j3l.html
0_0 » Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:49 am wrote:The guy was a carpenter in the military. Btw i think the story now went from multiple snipers working together in a coordinated attack from elevated positions to one lone sniper to no sniper at all. Apparently all the casualties were streetlevel kills like in that one video.
Here's a short timeline video http://www.onenewspage.us/video/2016070 ... events.htm
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