Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were hospitalized in critical condition.
The rare shooting of National Guard members comes as the presence of the troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has been a flashpoint issue for months, fueling court fights and a broader public policy debate about the Trump administration’s use of the military to combat what officials cast as an out-of-control crime problem.
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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 116 pts · 262d
The silence on this matter means it's a Republican that is the suspect.
Naradae@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 262d
And that the suspect is in custody and not dead.
DaMummy@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 262d
So white?
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 262d
Can't wait to see what vaguely antifascist message is scribbled on the bullet casings.
aramis87@fedia.io · 35 pts · 262d
They initially said the Charlie Kirk shooter was trans because TRN was imprinted on the bullets. Until someone pointed out that TRN was actually the bullet manufacturer .... headdesk
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 6 pts · 262d
Trump Bad Ponies! Thanks Obama
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 261d
Immigrant from Afghanistan, unfortunately 😬
MAGAts are gonna have a heyday with that one
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 262d
The sad part of it is that Trump will use this to further clamp down on dissent, regardless of who and why.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 262d
Of course. He was counting on something like that happening
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au · 3 pts · 262d
Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like "Operation Midway Blitz" is to try to instigate things like this to happen.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 262d
He was going to anyways regardless if anyone does anything. It's why the whole "Peacefully protest so he doesn't have an excuse" is so misguided. He doesn't need an excuse.
sepi@piefed.social · 16 pts · 262d
Trump has the mentality of a rapist: he's gonna force himself on you regardless of what you think, do or want. The whole "avoid provoking him" thing is victim-blaming.
Feyd@programming.dev · 43 pts · 262d
Perhaps if these judges would make the intermediary status the historically normal one instead of the fascist dictator one, this kind of thing could be avoided.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 31 pts · 262d
Right after Trump got ordered to remove the troops and ostensibly agreed to do so. Seems suspicious.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 262d
What a disgusting piece of shit demented rapist.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 262d
Weird. This is what he used to say.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
Well that’s definitely part of it, but he’s using his office to divide people. People “not associated with the Office of the President” don’t like them at all according to his piggy face.
It’s about twelve different kinds of wrong.
aramis87@fedia.io · 10 pts · 262d
Also: "The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen ... is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price". Lol until they discover he's a white Republican, then he'll just mysteriously disappear from public discourse, just like the trump assassin and the Charlie Kirk shooter ....
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 262d
So lemme guess, it was a weird ass Republican who did this, yet it's going to cause Preznit Piggy to lash out at democrats for it, forcing more national guards to blue cities (including DC)? They'll use this to try and further their narrative.
jimerson@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 262d
I''d bet an entire stick of RAM on it.
Dhar@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 262d
A stick of RAM? I fold.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
Afghan national
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspect-dc-national-guard-shooting-afghan-national-what-we-know/
"More than 8,000 people from Afghanistan were also granted deportation relief under a separate program called temporary protected status, which Biden extended in 2023 but Mr. Trump chose to end earlier this year."
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 21 pts · 262d
Conservatives before (and after) it's inevitably revealed that the shooter is a right wing nutjob:
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
But Hamas... we mean gay liberals /s
Feyd@programming.dev · 13 pts · 262d
Interesting...
delgato@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 262d
160 soldiers made an excuse to not see family over the holidays, I get that feeling
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 261d
What were they wearing?
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 262d
When the people who signed up to get shot at get shot at
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 262d
People don't join the national guard to invade somewhere and get shot at. The national guard is supposed to be protecting people at home.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 262d
Whoopsies! We kinda threw that out 20 years ago and never fixed it!
MdRuckus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 262d
That’s not true. You serve both state and federal. I was in the NG. I did two tours in Iraq and a Bosnia peacekeeping mission. The NG gets deployed federally all the time.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 262d
Remind me, who's homes are these out of state national guardsmen protecting, because it isnt their own
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 262d
That's what I'm saying. If you signed up to defend and then got assigned to invade DC, getting shot at in DC isn't what you signed up for.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 262d
Then maybe they shouldn't have invaded DC
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 262d
Following orders and dog-like obedience is exactly what they signed up for. Getting shot at for following orders is a risk they proudly take.
Feyd@programming.dev · 6 pts · 262d
Seems they were volunteers at this point in time.
RePsyche@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 262d
Well at least we know the Nat.Guard wasn’t following any illegal orders, right?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 262d
That's not the national guard's charter.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 5 pts · 261d
Weird how the national guard was the target and not the people doing actual kidnappings. Like if you wanted a false flag the National Guard would be the natural choice.
DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
flandish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
and nothing of value was lost.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 261d
Don't go to McDonald's!
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 261d
Awesome