• Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    99·
    2 天前

    Authorities say not to approach anyone matching the description [of a police officer]. Well ahead of you buddy, those guys like to kill non-legislators too, you know

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    59·
    2 天前

    Dressing up as a police officer is an extremely effective way to confuse law enforcement response and evade detection during the ensuing manhunt. Just look at the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting spree. The shooter had a mocked up cop car & uniform, he killed 22 people and caused all sorts of confusion among law enforcement (of course there’s also a lot more to that case including his organized crime ties and links to prison guards but I’m getting off topic) including a few of them opening fire on a community hall.

    • BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      2 天前

      It’s extremely possible he was a police informant and the “confusion” was them not knowing what to do about ‘their guy’ going around killing people. He was pulled over by the police a week earlier which is a common way they use to contact informants and a bunch of other things.

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
        24·
        2 天前

        My personal theory that he was essentiallyboth-sides between being a police informant and being involved with cigarette/liquor/weapon smuggling across the border.

        To me it’s very likely he was an informant, he was able to get away with shit (his open secret police car, performing a citizen’s arrest on a pair of cops) that would get most people in trouble and there was that large cash withdrawal shortly before the shooting that was more than suspicious. He had close ties to both biker gangs like the hells Angels and law enforcement. Hell, one of his targets that day was a couple of prison guards he knew, he spent something like an hour and a half at their property and burned it to the ground as he left.

  • Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    631·
    2 天前

    This is from a Guardian article about it:

    The gunman is still at large, law enforcement said on Saturday, and the city of Brooklyn Park still on a shelter-in-place order. The shooter was impersonating a police officer, dressed in a uniform that would appear to be real to most people, police said.

    “They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car,” Brooklyn Park’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said at a press conference. “It was equipped with lights, emergency lights, that looked exactly like a police vehicle, and yes, they were wearing a vest with taser, other equipment, a badge very similar to mine, that no question, if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer.”

    So they had actual law enforcement vehicle? This seems very sus. Less like a “lone wolf” and more like an organized hit.

    EDIT: After hearing about the assassin’s background, him just being a larper makes more sense but I’m still a little suspicious.

    • cmhickman358 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      55·
      2 天前

      I get the feeling that the next thing we’re going to hear is something along the lines of “It turns out he’s been impersonating an officer for the past 26 years! He impersonated his way through the police training and on to the force, then proceeded to impersonate an officer for decades just to get his hands on police equipment and a vehicle so he could impersonate an officer to carry out these lone wolf attacks!”

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      41·
      2 天前

      Yeah, someone either planned this so well as to get a hold of a police cruiser (via auction, theft or some other malfeasance)

      Or this is a porker pulling a Gavrilo Princep

    • hotspur@lemmy.mlEnglish
      29·
      2 天前

      I’m surprised shit like this hasn’t happened yet with people dressed as ICE, since you get to wear balaclavas and don’t need to have warrants or any kind of explanation for any action you take.

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 天前

      You can buy or salvage lights and have pretty much any decal you want put on a large magnet.

  • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    2 天前

    So you’re telling me the Boer CEO of a private military contractor company somehow mysteriously got access to an unprecedented quantity of real cop equipment and then halfassedly printed out a bunch of liberal protest signs to leave on the passenger seat?

    And you’re telling me that he received minimal to no pushback from police as he carried out multiple political assassinations, specifically targeting DFL politicians so that Republicans could gain the majority in the state?

    And the state recommended that the protest be cancelled, so the cops can just go ahead and bungle the manhunt long enough for him to maybe get a couple more kills in?

    Wow, I think I need to formally apologize to Tom Clancy. Turns out he’s not as much of a hack as I thought. America just really is this stupid.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    60·
    2 天前

    Early reports say shooters were impersonating police officers. Watch it be actual police officers.

  • groKKK [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    321·
    2 天前

    As always, the victims were white! And people then go on think that I was programmed badly for speaking out about the possibility of white genocide! Sure, this isn’t in South Africa, but then again this may precisely by why the mainstream media is reporting on it. If it were one of the countless attacks on white farms in South Africa, there wouldn’t be a whisper about it. Such a complex issue is completely sidelined by a corrupt government and their journalist friends. This is disheartening.

    • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      2 天前

      I wish we had a real grok bot that replied with real grok responses about white genocide every time “white” was used or something similar

  • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    Zionist lawmakers, not gonna shed a tear for fascist infighting. My prayers go out to the innocent bullets