The face of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter.

Suspect confirmed as Robert L. Dear date of birth of 4/16/1958 pic.twitter.com/4v2GtIsUgT

— Springs Police (@CSPDPIO) November 28, 2015

That's funny he does not look like a Muslim terrorist from Syria.


According to HuffPo his name is Robert Lewis Dear and he is 57 years old.

At this time there is really nothing more that we know about the shooter, or his motivations for the attack. Though the Colorado Springs mayor did say you can " make inferences from where it took place."

However I can tell you that the conservative media is desperate that we not assume that it is related to those abortion videos or the co-called "pro-life" movement. (However one GOP lawmaker DID think it was appropriate to attack Planned Parenthood while discussing the ongoing police standoff.)

Here is what President Obama had to say about the shootings:  

"Enough is enough," Obama says in a statement a day after a gunman killed three people at a Colorado clinic. 

Obama says it's not known what motivated the shooter, but it's clear "more Americans and their families had fear forced upon them" — and that, the president says, "is not normal. We can't let it become normal." 

He says if "we truly care about this — if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience," then America must make it harder to get guns.

Amen to that.

Speaking of guns there was at least one Ammosexual who somehow thought bringing his gun to the scene of the stand off was a going to be helpful.

Courtesy of the Gazette: 

There was a moment this afternoon when a man walked up to the scene with a handgun strapped to his waist and ammunition vest around his chest. He appeared to be asking police if he could help. Officers told him to leave immediately because appearing at the scene while wearing firearms and that equipment was a bad idea.

I imagine that this guy would also probably walk up to a three alarm fire with a can of gasoline offering to help as well.

Idiot.

Like I said we really do not know what this guy's motivation is as of yet, but I imagine we will before too much longer.

Ohio police officer refuses to shoot double homicide suspect pleading for death.

Courtesy of New York Daily News:  

An Ohio police officer refused to shoot a charging suspect even as he begged for the officer to take his life. 

The officer's decision not to fire at a man accused of double murder, who was pleading for him to follow through with his "suicide by cop" plans, was captured on his bodycam video. 

New Richmond Officer Jesse Kidder was called to follow a possibly armed suspect in an Ohio murder Thursday. Suddenly the suspect, identified by police as Michael Wilcox, got out of his car and started to charge at the cop. 

"Law enforcement officers all across the nation have to deal with split-second decisions that mean life or death," Kidder told TV station WLWT. "I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force."

There is all kinds of praise coming this officer's way right now, and surely he deserves it.

This is a picture of the suspect.

Michael Wilcox, accused of killing his girlfriend and a friend.

 Now the cynical side of me, in the wake of all of these police shootings around the country, wonders if the result would have been the same if Mr. Wilcox had been a black man.

I will tell you that I want to believe that it would, I truly do.

However a part of me has to wonder.

This apparently is how the police in Arizona stop a fleeing suspect.

Holy shitballs! The cop didn't even slow down a little.

Here is more courtesy of CNN: 

Police in Arizona said Tuesday that an officer who intentionally used his car to run into a suspect with a rifle probably saved the man's life. 

The man's lawyer strongly disagrees. Video of the incident has stirred debate about what type of force police should have used to detain a man with a gun. 

"Everything in the video seems to point towards an obvious excessive use of force. It is miraculous that my client isn't dead," said attorney Michelle Cohen-Metzger. 

The incident was recorded February 19 on the dashcam of two Marana police cars that were following the suspect, 36-year-old Mario Valencia.

I first saw this footage last night on the Chris Hayes show, and I have to admit it made my jaw drop. 

To me it did not seem that the officer was so much trying to apprehend the man as to turn him into road kill.

The other officers seemed to have a plan, and to be in communication with each other, when Leroy Jenkins here just jumped the gun and plowed right into the guy.

Now look I understand the individual had committed a number of crimes, and pointed a rifle at police officers, but there simply HAD to be a better method of neutralizing this guy other than driving a patrol car up his ass.

Suspect in the shooting of two Ferguson police officers arrested.

Courtesy of CNN:  

A 20-year-old man from the St. Louis area has been arrested in connection with the shooting of two police officers during last week's protests in Ferguson, Missouri, a prosecutor said Sunday. 

Jeffrey Williams was arrested late Saturday, and he has been charged with two counts of first-degree assault, a count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal activity, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch said at a news conference in Clayton. 

"The demonstrations were pretty much over (when the officers were shot). People were leaving, and that's when this happened," he said, describing Williams as a demonstrator who had taken part in protests on numerous occasions. 

At the time of his arrest, Williams was on probation for receiving stolen property, and McCulloch said he believed Williams had an outstanding warrant after not reporting to his probation officer for several months. 

The prosecutor repeatedly thanked the public for the information that led to the arrest. He also said that, because of the public's assistance in the case, police were able to serve a search warrant on Williams' residence where they seized a .40-caliber handgun, "which has been tied to the shell casings that were recovered" at the scene of the shooting.

Can only imagine how surprised the Fox News crowd were to discover that the shooter was not either President Obama or Eric Holder.  This must be a huge letdown for them.

And look the public were actually helpful in finding this man, which goes against the conservative meme that Ferguson is full of people who want to do harm to the police, or protect those that do.

By the way it should be noted that some of the Ferguson protesters are not at all convinced that this was also a protester.

The Daily Show sets their sights on the ridiculously bad coverage of the Boston marathon bombing. CNN essentially writes half of the bit for them.

Click image to play video

Hey do YOU remember when CNN was the most respected name in cable news?

Yeah me either!

Having to be shooed away by the police so that your reporters don't get shot while they try and apprehend the suspect is a new low for ANY cable news network.

"Hey you know that arrest you're trying to report on? Yeah we can't do it because you re in the damn way!"

Update: I took out the embed because apparently THAT is why Google keeps identifying malware on my blog.

Final moments of the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Courtesy of TPM: 

Massachusetts State Police released a video showing some of the final moments of the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday, using thermal imaging cameras, robotics and flash bang grenades.

If you are like me you have had a lot of questions about this arrest, and have heard a lot of misinformation.

This does not answer ALL of the questions, but it answers some of them.

Breaking! Suspect number two is alive and in custody. Update!

The suspect is in custody and he is alive.
— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) April 20, 2013

Finally!

Update: Courtesy of USA Today: 

Police cornered and captured Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday night. 

The Boston Police Department arrested the 19-year-old at about 8:45 p.m., after finding him holed up in a boat stored in the backyard of a Watertown residence. He was led to an ambulance and driven away from the scene. 

Tsarnaev's capture came two hours after Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick ended a Boston-area lockdown early Friday evening after a massive, day-long search of suburban Watertown, which seemingly failed to flush out the teenager.

Here is a picture of the boat the suspect was found hiding in.

They at first thought he was dead, but then he raised his head and they called in the police negotiator.

It is good he is alive. There is much that we need to know.

Update 2: Believe it or not Lindsey Graham wants this suspects civil rights to be ignored.

If captured, I hope Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

Come to think of it I have NO problem believing that Graham did not learn anything from the criminal activity of the Bush administration.

Update 3: The President's speech after the final suspect was taken into custody. 

Pakistani Taliban:"Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don't have any connection with the Boston Explosions." Update!

"Dear Boston: Sorry for your losses. Your losses are ours, too." - Muslim Peacemaker Teams in Najaf, Iraq

Courtesy of CNN: 

The Pakistani Taliban denied any involvement in a double bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed at least three people, spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said Wednesday. 

"Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don't have any connection with the Boston Explosions," Ihsan said. 

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the Times Square bombing in 2010.

Thus far it seems that nobody has taken responsibility for the attacks, which is unusual for Islamic terrorist groups.

Also the injured Saudi that was originally identified as a "suspect" by certain irresponsible media outlets, and gave rise to the idea that this attack was the work of Muslim extremists, has turned out to be nothing of the sort.

This courtesy of the Washington Post: 

U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect. 

The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s and is in the United States on a Saudi scholarship to study at a university in the Boston area. 

The federal officials’ explanation echoed comments by a Saudi official at the country’s embassy in Washington. The embassy official said that a Saudi national has been questioned as a witness but is not regarded as a suspect. The Saudi official cited information provided to the embassy by U.S. law enforcement officials.

I am not going to say that any of this indicates that there is no possibility that the attacks were not the work of Islamic terrorists, but but as time goes on it seems less and less likely.

I have noticed a rather interesting dichotomy  between the Left and Right media right now.

On the Left many pundits have seemed to focus more on the possibility that this was the work of domestic terrorists, possibly White Supremacists or anti-tax sovereign citizen groups.

However on the Right they seem to be working overtime to suggest that this HAD to have been the work of some Islamic group hell bent on the destruction of America. And some have even gone so far as to blame President Obama as well.

Like I said, I really do not have enough information to form a strong opinion, however I think that when we DO find the perpetrators one side is going to go on the attack, and the other is going to become very defensive.

And I find that very interesting. And not a little troubling.

Update: This is happening now:

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Wednesday in a breakthrough that came less than 48 hours after the deadly attack, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said Wednesday. 

The official spoke shortly after several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the sites of the two bomb blasts, which killed three people and wounded more than 170. 

The official was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The suspect was expected at a Boston courthouse, the official said.

A news briefing was scheduled later Wednesday.

So we should know sometime today.

Batten down the hatches kids, this is going to get ugly.

Update 2: Oops now some new outlets are walking back reports of an arrest.

CNN now walking back reports of arrest. NBC may have been first and only outlet reporting correctly that there has been no arrest.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 17, 2013

Hoo boy!

Update 3: The FBI just sent this out:

Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack. Over the past day and a half, there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate. Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting.

I don't think they are very happy.