GUILTY MD - Multiple Fatalities At Capital Gazette Newsroom In Annapolis, 28 June 2018 *arrest*

[dotr]

If he objected so strongly to a newspaper reporting a crime that he pleaded guilty to, his head must be exploding now.

Unless for him it is " mission accomplished " because he thinks that he has finally impressed the female victim he had been stalking.
speculation, imo.

 

[kimlynn]

Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to the alt-right


Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to...

This might be the tip of the iceberg. It seems reasonable to me that he would gravitate toward and search out like minded people.IMO

 

[dotr]

'It feels so personal': Tight-knit Maryland city mourns after deadly newspaper shooting | CBC News

Candles representing the slain workers of the Capital Gazette newspaper are displayed during a candlelight vigil near the Capital Gazette's office in Annapolis, Md., on Friday. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
The historic state capital of Annapolis is draped in grief from a shooting attack on the local newspaper, which killed journalists who chronicled soccer games, art exhibits and the fabric of small-city life.

A sign outside The Annapolis Bookstore, a block from the Maryland State House, starkly expresses the depth of sorrow many are feeling in this quaint waterside capital of about 40,000 near the Chesapeake Bay. "There are no words," it says.

 

[CARIIS]

Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to the alt-right


Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to...

scary stuff

since it seems like the court appearance tape is not gonna be released at this time does that mean it won't ever

i want to see his eyes and how he is standing etc

I dont understand why it is not released tho

i tried to find the dispatch tapes i could not find them either

 

[bluesneakers]

Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to the alt-right


Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to...

Interesting, and not surprising.
From the link:

The only two politicians Ramos had tweeted about, according to Hutson, were Donald Trump and Michael Peroutka, a wealthy neo-Confederate funder turned Maryland county councilman. Hutson has written about Peroutka, as have I. Peroutka had major funding ties to former Alabama judge and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well to the League of the South, whose leader, Michael Hill, had written approvingly about plans to form paramilitary groups to fight a militarized “fourth generation” culture war, one of whose targets would be the media.​

 

[Fairy1]

LOL, Salon is a progressive/liberal website created by David Talbot in 1995 and part of Salon Media Group. Naturally they'd be inclined to project that. Just look how they all but excused James Hodgkinson assassination attempt of GOP senators at a ballgame.

Steve Scalise is a victim of political violence — but that does n...

Time will tell, I suppose. I don't believe an "LOL" is appropriate, in any case. Humans were murdered. Let's not forget that, please.

 

[bluesneakers]

LOL, Salon is a progressive/liberal website created by David Talbot in 1995 and part of Salon Media Group. Naturally they'd be inclined to project that. Just look how they all but excused James Hodgkinson assassination attempt of GOP senators at a ballgame.

Steve Scalise is a victim of political violence — but that does n...

This is a thread about a violent attack on a newsroom. Five people were murdered. Journalists, just like those who work at Salon. LOL.

 

[CARIIS]

The pump action whatever type of machine gun makes it worse IMO

it is creepy sound like the jaws theme kinda

you know more bad things are coming in a second

I had never heard of one of these things being used before have they

I did not play the whole video the noise is GROSS

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

LOL, Salon is a progressive/liberal website created by David Talbot in 1995 and part of Salon Media Group. Naturally they'd be inclined to project that. Just look how they all but excused James Hodgkinson assassination attempt of GOP senators at a ballgame.

Steve Scalise is a victim of political violence — but that does n...

Blaming the messenger is, in this case, like blaming the victim. IMO

Disagreeing with what's reported is fair. Slagging a reputable source and the hard, credible work the journalists who work there are doing is not fair. But that's just my opinion.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Hardly anything new, it's as old as the printing press itself.

Yes, to some degree. It's called scapegoating. Trump isn't the first president to do it, true, but he's mightily and dangerously vociferous about it, which is well documented.

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

I found this Poynter article enlightening, especially in reference to the Annapolis shooting.

bbm

Can journalists counteract hatred toward the press? It starts with explaining what we do.

“There’s always been people who hated journalists - we tell stories that people don’t want to tell, we show up at moments in their lives that are chaotic and hard, and people get upset. But there's something that’s changed, fundamentally shifted,” Tomlin said, “whether it’s the rhetoric or whether it’s the divisiveness in our politics.”

It’s undeniable that some partisans, led by the president and aided by influential voices on Fox News and extreme websites, have led a drumbeat of attacks on the press in an effort to discredit reporting that questions their political agendas or exposes wrongdoing.

There’s no evidence that President Trump’s verbal abuse of the press inspired Jarrod Ramos to burst into the Capital Gazette and kill five employees, years after a judge dismissed his defamation lawsuit because the article published about him was factual. But there is a frightening through line between the president’s and the gunman’s anger over unflattering press coverage of a special counsel’s investigation or a harassment conviction, even when stories are accurate - and they are not alone. Too many Americans don’t appreciate that it’s journalism’s job to tell truths even when they’re uncomfortable, and that without a free press, there cannot be a healthy democracy.​

Note: Poynter is rated highly factual and "least biased."

More about the Poynter Institute

Here's another Poynter article about perceived media bias and the negative impact of rhetorical attacks on the press: Is media bias really rampant? Ask the man who studies it for a living

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Anyone else here remember this brouhaha?


Photo source

Walmart Removes Shirt Threatening Journalists From Store

The shirt had previously been spotted at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in 2016.

According to the U.S. press freedom tracker, there have been 35 physical attacks on journalists so far in 2017, and journalists have had their equipment seized, stolen or damaged in 24 instances.​

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Capital Gazette reveals how shooting unfolded as memorial services begin in Annapolis

Eleven people were in the room. Within minutes, Hiaasen, editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, 61, editor-writer John McNamara, 56, sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34, and reporter-editor Wendi Winters, 65, would be fatally shot.

The attacker fired twice at he entered, striking Smith, then picked his way through the room, shooting Winters, Fischman and Hiaasen. McNamara was last, then the shooter apparently ducked under a desk.

Surviving staffers trembled under their desks. The room smelled of gunpowder as police fearlessly swept in, less than two minutes after the first 911 calls. Some tended to victims, others began the search for the gunman.​

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

The motive behind JR's attack on the Capital Gazette was very specific. I don't see it as an attack against media or journalism in general. This attack was not political. IMO

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

So far in 2018, there have been:

• 17 U.S. journalists attacked
• 3 U.S journalists arrested
• 3 equipment seizures from working U.S. journalists
• 13 subpoenas of U.S. journalists
• at least 6 U.S. journalists killed

Source

For additional context, documented assaults on journalists doing their jobs in the last 12 months. In no particular order:

Jon Ziegler attacked by white nationalist protesters in Tennessee

Missouri reporter assaulted at his home after reporting on sexual misconduct allegations

Police officer strikes journalist in Puerto Rico

KGTV reporter and photographer attacked while filming in San Diego

Fox News cameraman shoved by Roy Moore campaign official in Alabama

Filmmaker Drew Burbridge beaten, pepper sprayed and arrested by St. Louis police

Journalist Taylor Lorenz punched while filming aftermath of fatal attack

Independent livestreamer kicked while reporting in Charlottesville

Unicorn Riot journalist attacked while reporting in Charlottesville

AP photojournalist hit with rubber bullets in Puerto Rico

EPA security guards refuse entry to AP reporter, then shove her out the door

St. Louis police shoot University of Missouri student journalist with pepper balls

Independent journalist Zack Stoner shot and killed in Chicago

TV reporter assaulted while covering protest in North Carolina

Media reporter Mike Stark arrested while covering Republican candidate for Virginia governor

Former White House aide Seb Gorka shoves Mediaite reporter at CPAC

University of Texas journalist attacked at immigrant rights protest

Local newspaper editor shot by police officer in Ohio

PIX11 reporter Howard Thompson attacked with bat during interview

Alpha News reporter Preya Samsundar attacked by protesters in Minnesota

TV reporter Maria Lisignoli assaulted while documenting public fight

WABC reporter Tim Fleischer punched by stranger in New York City

Reporter and photographer chased onto highway after trying to interview New Jersey funeral director

KAPP-KVEW reporter Maria Leal threatened with knife, had camera damaged

Independent livestreamer, Heather DeMian, pepper sprayed by St. Louis police

Independent livestreamer Jon Ziegler pepper-sprayed and arrested in St. Louis

Fox News host soaked with water at Brooklyn bar

Protesters threaten, throw water on KTVI reporter covering protest in St. Louis

Fusion video journalist pushed into wall and detained by St. Louis police

Protesters attack independent livestreamer in San Francisco, steal his phone

Independent journalist Dave Minsky beaten and attacked with pipe by protesters in Berkeley

Documentary production assistant has phone knocked out of hands by protesters

Reporter Mike Kessler’s camera is smashed in Berkeley

Photojournalist Brooke Anderson struck with baton by Berkeley police officer while covering protest


Others from 2017, a banner year, it seems:

GOP Congressional candidate assaults Guardian U.S. reporter

FCC security guards pin reporter against wall as he tries to ask FCC commissioner a question

Alaska state senator slaps journalist

OC Weekly photographer Julie Leopo attacked at pro-Trump rally

OC Weekly photographer Brian Feinzimer attacked at pro-Trump rally

OC Weekly intern Frank Tristan attacked at pro-Trump rally

Reporter Noah Hurowitz accosted by ‘Proud Boy’ at NYU protest

Reporter Jake Offenhartz attacked by ‘Proud Boy’ protester

WJLA photographer injured during Trump Inauguration protest

Chicago Sun-Times reporter punched while covering inauguration protest

Edit: hyperlinks, headlines

 

[Cryptic]

The motive behind JR's attack on the Capital Gazette was very specific. I don't see it as an attack against media or journalism in general. This attack was not political. IMO

I agree completely.

All indications are that this attack was motivated by a personal grudge. Sure, the attacker like most people, has political views. In addition, A lot of rampage shooters are fundamentally angry people and angry people tend to drift to the far right or extreme left.

The facts that most people have political views and that angry people tend to drift to the extremes, however, does not mean that this attack was politically motivated.

 

[CARIIS]

I found this Poynter article enlightening, especially in reference to the Annapolis shooting.

bbm

Can journalists counteract hatred toward the press? It starts with explaining what we do.

“There’s always been people who hated journalists - we tell stories that people don’t want to tell, we show up at moments in their lives that are chaotic and hard, and people get upset. But there's something that’s changed, fundamentally shifted,” Tomlin said, “whether it’s the rhetoric or whether it’s the divisiveness in our politics.”

It’s undeniable that some partisans, led by the president and aided by influential voices on Fox News and extreme websites, have led a drumbeat of attacks on the press in an effort to discredit reporting that questions their political agendas or exposes wrongdoing.

There’s no evidence that President Trump’s verbal abuse of the press inspired Jarrod Ramos to burst into the Capital Gazette and kill five employees, years after a judge dismissed his defamation lawsuit because the article published about him was factual. But there is a frightening through line between the president’s and the gunman’s anger over unflattering press coverage of a special counsel’s investigation or a harassment conviction, even when stories are accurate - and they are not alone. Too many Americans don’t appreciate that it’s journalism’s job to tell truths even when they’re uncomfortable, and that without a free press, there cannot be a healthy democracy.​

Note: Poynter is rated highly factual and "least biased."

More about the Poynter Institute

Here's another Poynter article about perceived media bias and the negative impact of rhetorical attacks on the press: Is media bias really rampant? Ask the man who studies it for a living

IMO the climate answers why now

 

[CARIIS]

So far in 2018, there have been:

• 17 U.S. journalists attacked
• 3 U.S journalists arrested
• 3 equipment seizures from working U.S. journalists
• 13 subpoenas of U.S. journalists
• at least 6 U.S. journalists killed

Source

For additional context, documented assaults on journalists doing their jobs in the last 12 months. In no particular order:

Jon Ziegler attacked by white nationalist protesters in Tennessee

Missouri reporter assaulted at his home after reporting on sexual misconduct allegations

Police officer strikes journalist in Puerto Rico

KGTV reporter and photographer attacked while filming in San Diego

Fox News cameraman shoved by Roy Moore campaign official in Alabama

Filmmaker Drew Burbridge beaten, pepper sprayed and arrested by St. Louis police

Journalist Taylor Lorenz punched while filming aftermath of fatal attack

Independent livestreamer kicked while reporting in Charlottesville

Unicorn Riot journalist attacked while reporting in Charlottesville

AP photojournalist hit with rubber bullets in Puerto Rico

EPA security guards refuse entry to AP reporter, then shove her out the door

St. Louis police shoot University of Missouri student journalist with pepper balls

Independent journalist Zack Stoner shot and killed in Chicago

TV reporter assaulted while covering protest in North Carolina

Media reporter Mike Stark arrested while covering Republican candidate for Virginia governor

Former White House aide Seb Gorka shoves Mediaite reporter at CPAC

University of Texas journalist attacked at immigrant rights protest

Local newspaper editor shot by police officer in Ohio

PIX11 reporter Howard Thompson attacked with bat during interview

Alpha News reporter Preya Samsundar attacked by protesters in Minnesota

TV reporter Maria Lisignoli assaulted while documenting public fight

WABC reporter Tim Fleischer punched by stranger in New York City

Reporter and photographer chased onto highway after trying to interview New Jersey funeral director

KAPP-KVEW reporter Maria Leal threatened with knife, had camera damaged

Independent livestreamer, Heather DeMian, pepper sprayed by St. Louis police

Independent livestreamer Jon Ziegler pepper-sprayed and arrested in St. Louis

Fox News host soaked with water at Brooklyn bar

Protesters threaten, throw water on KTVI reporter covering protest in St. Louis

Fusion video journalist pushed into wall and detained by St. Louis police

Protesters attack independent livestreamer in San Francisco, steal his phone

Independent journalist Dave Minsky beaten and attacked with pipe by protesters in Berkeley

Documentary production assistant has phone knocked out of hands by protesters

Reporter Mike Kessler’s camera is smashed in Berkeley

Photojournalist Brooke Anderson struck with baton by Berkeley police officer while covering protest


Others from 2017, a banner year, it seems:

GOP Congressional candidate assaults Guardian U.S. reporter

FCC security guards pin reporter against wall as he tries to ask FCC commissioner a question

Alaska state senator slaps journalist

OC Weekly photographer Julie Leopo attacked at pro-Trump rally

OC Weekly photographer Brian Feinzimer attacked at pro-Trump rally

OC Weekly intern Frank Tristan attacked at pro-Trump rally

Reporter Noah Hurowitz accosted by ‘Proud Boy’ at NYU protest

Reporter Jake Offenhartz attacked by ‘Proud Boy’ protester

WJLA photographer injured during Trump Inauguration protest

Chicago Sun-Times reporter punched while covering inauguration protest

Edit: hyperlinks, headlines

The graphic is really scary

 

[CARIIS]

IMO the climate answers why now

he was able to manage his rage for years something turned into action now

 

[EuTuCroquet?]

Dogpiling. Gross.

Newspaper Says It Received Threats Following Shooting

The Maryland newspaper where five people were killed by a gunman last week said it received death threats and emails celebrating the shootings following the attack.

The Capital Gazette said in a Sunday editorial that it would not forget being called “an enemy of the people.” President Donald Trump has used identical language to describe the news media.​