Shot fired at US capitol

[RedBen]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-capitol-hill-shooting-20131003,0,187473.story

Gunshots were fired outside the U.S. Capitol this afternoon, injuring several people including a law enforcement officer, according to reports. The Capitol was placed on lockdown.

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were in session when the gunshots were heard. Police called in a Medevac helicopter, a Senate aide and a U.S. Capitol policeman said.

The Senate chamber was locked with staff inside. Senate leaders were locked in their offices.

The shots were fired near the Hart Senate Office Building at 2nd St and Constitution Avenue Northeast, only a few blocks from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Emergency vehicles swarmed the area after an order given over the speaker system told people to shelter in place because of an active shooting situation, CNN reported.

[UFO137]

Olympia Has Fallen ?

[RedBen]

Olympia Has Fallen ?
no, just... no

[Stalinist Speaker]

Nothing to serious.

[RedBen]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/3/shots-fired-on-capitolhill.html

Shots were fired outside the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Thursday in an incident that left at least one Capitol police officer injured, a Senate aide and another Capitol police officer told reporters.

A female suspect has been killed, a U.S. official told Reuters.

One person was removed from the scene of the incident with ‘life-threatening’ injuries, said Tim Wilson, a spokesman for the D.C. Fire Department.

The shots were fired near the Hart Senate Office Building at 2nd Street and Constitution Avenue Northeast, only a few blocks from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Eyewitnesses said police chased a female suspect, who was driving a small, black sedan, after she tried to ram a barrier along Pennsylvania Avenue, shortly after the gunshots were heard.

The Capitol Building, where Congress was in session, was put on lockdown in accordance with a "shelter in place" order from the Capitol Police, or USCP.

Just before 3 p.m. the lockdown was lifted.

An aide to Congressman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., told Al Jazeera America that she had been told she may return to the Capitol Building and resume work.

The House is set to reconvene at 3:30 p.m.

President Barack Obama has been briefed on the reported gunfire, the White House said, and will continue to monitor the situation.

[Red Commissar]

So as best I can understand it, a chase that spilled over onto the Capitol compound.

I wonder whether the individual who had the "life-threatening injuries" was hit by the cops or the suspect that they ended up killing.

[Aleister Granger]

Nothing major; just the capitalists overblowing things since the savages got a little too violent too close to their palaces.

[Blake's Baby]

Or, 'Cops shoot dead woman and take away 1-year-old child, probably co-incidedntly near some government buildings'.

Even Sky (which is pretty much the UK version of Fox, but slightly less crazy) is titling the story 'Woman shot dead after US Capitol Hill chase' - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-capitol-lockdown-shots-fired-183413598.html#nuOft5L

[Per Levy]

so from reading that article the police shot an unarmed woman who fled from them. if she was armed they probally would have said it allready, and the only 2 pigs who got hurt, got hurt because they had accidants. well the victim was black, so she had to die i guess.

[adipocere]

From Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/police-lock-down-capitol-after-shots-fired/2013/10/03/48459e0e-2c5a-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html): A car chase that began when a driver struck a White House security barrier ended across downtown Washington, when police shot and killed the driver on a street near the U.S. Capitol, police said. The woman driving the car was unarmed, law enforcement sources said. All the shots in the incident, which began about 2:14 p.m., were fired by police trying to stop her. Police fired at the car in at least two locations, as the car drove across Washington, and around the Capitol area....


I wonder if she ran for the capitol building because the police were shooting at her, in the mistaken belief that they wouldn't kill her so publicly.



“The security perimeters worked,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Thursday evening. “They did exactly what they were supposed to do.” I suppose that is the punishment for our slightest rebellion. Like a sheep that breaks out of a pen and as punishment is set upon by wolves.


Afterward, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) took to Twitter to thank the police. “We all owe the Capitol Police a debt of gratitude for their work every day; no finer examples of professionalism & bravery,” Boehner wrote.
On the House floor, legislators rose for a round of applause after Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) praised Capitol Police for providing protection for the Capitol complex.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) spoke after the round of applause, telling the police force, “We really appreciate it.”
The chamber also stood and applauded for the staff of the House Sergeant at Arms.
...eerie

[Red Commissar]

It's good to know that even when the state is presumably too cash strapped to provide services to the poor, they'll still be willing to murder someone. They'll write this off as necessary due to its location and because the car bumped into one of their cruisers.

[Marxaveli]

Really, really sad story from what I can see.

And these sadistic fucks celebrate the death of a human being while they get their fat paychecks and cut services for the working class.

Its time to tar and feather the oligarchs and their corporate sponsors, and then hang them. Hang them all. And sweep them to their rightful place: The dustbin of history.

[RedBen]

i only reported this as i heard it. they seemed to allude to some kind of pre conceived goal, it seems not to be the case. i assumed there was a political motivation behind this... appears there is not

[Red Commissar]

i only reported this as i heard it. they seemed to allude to some kind of pre conceived goal, it seems not to be the case. i assumed there was a political motivation behind this... appears there is not

Well, that's the media for you I suppose. Something "big" happens near a center of power like shots fired and everyone wants to be the first to report it. I know that my phone was going off with alerts from different news agencies trying to get their scoop.

Yet what we got in the end is that the shots were fired by the cops, and that the individual was unarmed (if you don't count the car). We get a different story of a chase spilling over into a "secure" zone and now attempts to justify the police's reaction here, either from a standpoint that the suspect intruded into a secure zone or endangered people with the car.

So we can get some useful things out of this even if it was not a politically motivated case such as:

-Crass behavior of major media trying to be the "first" to get something
-How we continued to presume the suspect was armed until it was revealed she wasn't
-How police in general respond to these kind of situations
-Media ignorance of crime outside of privileged areas unless it has a high death count

[Os Cangaceiros]

Some dude supposedly soaked himself in gasoline and set himself on fire on the National Mall today.

[bcbm]

Some dude supposedly soaked himself in gasoline and set himself on fire on the National Mall today.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-man-national-mall-fire-20131004,0,2723735.story