First, my deepest sympathies go to the family and friends of the person killed by this shooter and to those who were injured! As I've been reading several reports through the day the article titled LAX shooting: Gunman targeted TSA officers,wraps up a few things I've heard that have left me wondering and puzzling about this incident.
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"It appears the gunman targeted unarmed Transportation Security Administration agents. Another law enforcement official told The Times that investigators were looking into the possibility that the shooter “wasn’t a fan of the TSA.”
Authorities said he approached several people cowering in the airport terminal, pointed his gun at them, asked if they “were TSA,” and then moved on without pulling the trigger if the answer was no. And a witness told The Times that the gunman cursed the TSA repeatedly as he moved through the terminal.
A classmate of Ciancia’s said Friday that the suspected gunman was a loner and had been bullied at his private high school.
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“In four years, I never heard a word out of his mouth,” said David Hamilton, who graduated with Ciancia from Salesianum School in Wilmington, Del., in 2008, and is now an editorial assistant at a publishing firm in Philadelphia. “He kept to himself and ate lunch alone a lot. I really don’t remember any one person who was close to him.”
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“He wasn’t moving like he was being chased,” said Cardenas, the executive chef at State Social House restaurant in West Hollywood who was preparing to fly on Virgin America to Philadelphia to conduct auditions for the television show “MasterChef.”
Rather, Cardenas said, the gunman was moving slowly and methodically; Cardenas said he thought instantly of the grainy surveillance footage of the teen shooters moving through Columbine High School in 1999 — “roaming around with nowhere to go.”
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Months before Friday's shooting at LAX, officials removed armed police officers from their permanent assignments protecting TSA checkpoints, one veteran airport police officer told The Times.
Those officers were moved roving patrols in the passenger terminals, said Marshall McClain, an airport police officer and president of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Assn.
LAPD officers and Los Angeles airport police were first assigned to the checkpoints after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.
After the attacks, LAX , the nation’s third-busiest airport, was designated as a top potential target for terrorists.
McClain said officials at the time were concerned that armed terrorists could easily breach the checkpoints and make their way to the passenger gates and parked aircraft.
LAX officials could not immediately be reached for comment. But in the past, they have added more police across the airport and increased security measures.
In a news conference Friday afternoon, LAX police chief Patrick Gannon confirmed changes were made in where officers were deployed. But he said those changes enhanced safety by placing the officers in a better position to address problems.
“Our officers did what they were supposed to do and performed heroically,” Gannon said.
McClain said he did not want to speculate why the officers were removed from the checkpoints. He added, however, that the association has been concerned about staffing levels at LAX."
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The second article is worth mentioning only because it has a rash of libtarded comments trying to blame the TEA party beneath it when it is first of all reported from an un-named source. And the material it describes that the man was carrying doesn't indicate which view of a New World Order the materials reportedly were stating (if they even existed) whether pro or con or what defined this particular new world order due to the fact that this un-named source also indicated there were racial overtones. The author of the article however saw fit to give his own version of what New World Order is and what people who are concerned about it supposedly believe. He obviously hasn't a clue in reality as to what he is talking about and wasted internet space to use this supposed un-named source & his opinion of NWO to stir up the sh_t! (See how silly this gets when we talk about un-named sources and then argue over it? Lets stick to what we know.)
