Attack On Texas Shoppers To Be Handled As Domestic Terrorism

[Elderberry]

KBPS 8/4/2019

An FBI official in El Paso, Texas, says there's no credible intelligence that the suspected gunman in a mass shooting was working with a group planning other attacks.

FBI Special Agent Jeanette Harper said Sunday at a news conference that federal investigators were focusing their interviews related to the shooter around Dallas and San Antonio. Harper also made a plea for anyone with pictures or video from the shooting scene or the Dallas area to upload them to the FBI's website.

The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, was from a Dallas suburb more than 600 miles from where Saturday's shooting unfolded at a Walmart. Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured.

Harper says the gunman didn't have any contacts in El Paso.

Original story:

The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the gunman that could carry the death penalty.

A local prosecutor announced that he would bring capital murder charges against the suspect, saying the assailant "lost the right to be among us."

The attack on Saturday morning was followed less than a day later by another shooting that claimed nine lives in a nightlife district of Dayton, Ohio. That shooter was killed by police.

Investigators were focusing on whether the El Paso attack was a hate crime after the emergence of a racist, anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly beforehand. Detectives sought to determine if it was written by the man who was arrested. The border city has figured prominently in the immigration debate and is home to 680,000 people, most of them Latino.

Federal officials were treating the attack as a domestic terrorism case, according to the U.S. attorney.

More: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/aug/04/attack-texas-shoppers-be-handled-domestic-terroris/

[austingirl]

"An FBI official in El Paso, Texas, says there's no credible intelligence that the suspected gunman in a mass shooting was working with a group planning other attacks."


Puts me in mind of FBI statements made in Las Vegas.

[dfwgator]

Another Goal of the Left:  A National Police force, like the Gestapo.

[Smokin Joe]

"An FBI official in El Paso, Texas, says there's no credible intelligence that the suspected gunman in a mass shooting was working with a group planning other attacks."


Puts me in mind of FBI statements made in Las Vegas.

Wasn't that Janet Reno's bit? "There is no evidence that exists..."

The FBI has seen only what they want to for a long time, now.

I doubt he was planning to pull off another. How about his handlers?

[jafo2010]

This behavior will never end until something changes.  While under our current system of justice, which is virtually nonexistent, justice does not serve the people.

So let's make one change as a nation.  People that commit terrorists acts that result in multiple deaths should face the death penalty, and upon being found guilty, the next day at sunrise are brutally executed.  No appeals, just justice.  Terrorists are exempt from any appeal process, and it is mandatory that they suffer their end within 24 hours of sentencing.  And forget humane anything.  Take the most painful form of capital punishment and administer it.

[Smokin Joe]

This behavior will never end until something changes.  While under our current system of justice, which is virtually nonexistent, justice does not serve the people.

So let's make one change as a nation.  People that commit terrorists acts that result in multiple deaths should face the death penalty, and upon being found guilty, the next day at sunrise are brutally executed.  No appeals, just justice.  Terrorists are exempt from any appeal process, and it is mandatory that they suffer their end within 24 hours of sentencing.  And forget humane anything.  Take the most painful form of capital punishment and administer it.

Drawing and quartering?

[goatprairie]

Drawing and quartering?

Spain used to employ the garrote. That has to be pretty painful. Wouldn't mind seeing it used on the El Paso shooter. Might deter a number of others.

[Smokin Joe]

Spain used to employ the garrote. That has to be pretty painful. Wouldn't mind seeing it used on the El Paso shooter. Might deter a number of others.

History is replete with painful and gruesome ways to bring about the demise of the condemned.

Mongolian 4-horse make-a-wish?
Vlad Tepes' favorite seemed to have substantial deterrent effects as well.
Anthills and stakes in the hot sun has more of a native flair,
but if traditional Mexican fare was in order, there is still ripping a beating heart from a chest cleaved with an obsidian blade.

So many options.
A psych eval would probably reveal what the guy fears most...