Hollywood shootout
Bubblehead Ray sent us a link to a story about the guy in Hollywood who was blasting random drivers which left one man still in critical condition.
Police aren’t releasing the name, but according to Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs that he was shouting “allahu akbar” while he blasted away at motorists and pedestrians. In this video news report one eye witness mentions the “allahu akbar” at about 2:40;
Of course, the reporters don’t mention the shouting, because that’s not important at all. *eyeroll*
Category: Terror War
Of course the biased, leftist media won’t tell you what he was shouting, because that doesn’t fit the narrative. If it had been a Vet I’m sure the armed, PTSD riddled label would have been immediately slapped at the top of the story. Hell, I’m surprised they didn’t try that right away in this case, like they did with Hasan and Loughner.
Unlike fear profiteers like Pam Gellar, I’ll wait for the Police to release the results of their investigation before I believe a single eyewitness, when other witnesses report that he was yelling “shoot me”, “kill me” and “I’m gonna die”.
There’s more than one narrative at play…..
He was just looking for the intersection of Vine St and Allahu Akbar Boulevard, and got pissed when no one would tell him where it was.
$5 says this is part of a larger pattern.
ya’ see if Calif would give out CCW permits to good honest folks, this would have ended a lot sooner. Remember this from a retired cop: “The cops are only 6 minutes away— when you need them in 30 seconds.”
One of the witnesses said he wasn’t sure if he should run or “try and throw something” at the shooter. Here in Georgia I’d be “throwing” 190 grain .45 semi jacketed hollow points.
Frikken’ workplace violence is starting to get out of hand.
You all what know is REALLY surprising about this story?
Jonn used *eyeroll* in a post.
The Old One #7: There it is!
Damn, the targets were driving 3500lb weapons that would have neutralized the threat … they could have at least given it a good try. If at first you don’t succeed, put it in reverse
Um, CI, WTF does Pam Gellar have to do with the eye witness’ statement in the video? That’s the most half-witted thing you’ve ever said here. You doubt the veracity of the news report because the video was on Atlas Shrugs? She had nothing to do with the video. I swear [insert demeaning insult here] sometimes.
Jonn, Pam doesn’t have anything to do with the eyewitness, I doubt the veracity of the story because there isn’t anything of substance to back it up. Pam prefers not to wait on facts before jumping on her ‘Hollywood Jihad’.
Pardon me if I think she’s a tool. That sort of emotion slips out now and again. I know that never happens around here….*eyeroll*
CI said: “…there isn’t anything of substance to back it up…”
Did you even watch the video? There’s an eye witness, obviously of foreign and perhaps Muslim birth, who tells the news crew that the shooter was shouting “allahu akbar” while he was shooting. If you discount that, then you have to doubt the shooting even happened. Gellar posted a news report, she didn’t conduct the interview, so I don’t know how she rushed anything – it was a news report of an eye witness account.
Aren’t you the least bit suspicious that the police have yet to release the shooter’s name? It didn’t take them this long to release the name of the VT shooter…who, by the way, i heard speculation about on the news shows that he was a veteran. Too bad that didn’t pan out for them.
Pam Gellar has been a friend of this blog since our inception, but just like everyone else, she gets fact checked.
Guess it doesn’t much matter who shot the vid or who posted it where on the net. The only question is: are there witnesses who heard the words or not? If so, they should be reported along with whatever other info has been released.
According to CI’s standards, Paul Revere was a “Fear Profiteer”.
Oh sure…because Pam Gellar is a modern day Paul Revere……
I don’t Paul Revere, because even Paul Revere wasn’t what he has become in modern fiction (he was captured rather quickly.) and was also part of a rather large network.
So yes in some ways she could well be a modern Paul Revere. Of course if she gets captured the results won’t be being treated civilly and released in the morning.
@2: Eyewitnesses said the same thing about Hasan, but their accounts were given the same treatment that you are giving to this eyewitness. In fact, the first thing that popped out of Gen. Casey’s yapper was his concern that we might lose our diversity over the Ft. Hood shooting. Also, the media ran with other speculation (PTSD, Vet being deploed for the 3rd time, etc.) as fact without once mentioning what witnesses heard Hasan say. Why is it so hard for people to take something like that at face value? Don’t forget, the police have at times suppressed the truth, too; so what makes you think they will admit what a witness said they heard the perp say before they arrived? Maybe the other witnesses didn’t hear that statement?
@16 – Casey? And I get accused of introducing a tangent?
Of course anything is possible. Media bias, poor hearing, Police cover-up, etc….
But at “face value” we have witnesses who state they heard what I had reposted above and one witness who says he heard Brehm yell Allahu Akbar. We have the shooters mother and ex-girlfriend speak out already about his use of pharmaceutical drugs and the recent break-up of his relationship. No mention of any ties to Islam.
As I said up front, I’ll wait to hear more facts emerge before I exclaim about a ‘Hollywood Jihad’.
@Jonn – “Aren’t you the least bit suspicious that the police have yet to release the shooter’s name?”
No, because I went to the local media sources and learned his named this morning, soon after you posted the initial piece.
CI–I’m gonna let you in on a little secret–take a trip with me in the “Way-Back Machine” to July 4th, 2002. I was still living in the Los Angeles area back then. Seems that day a guy walked up to the El-Al ticket counter at LAX and started blasting. Killed a couple of people before he himself was killed.
At first they painted the guy as a distraught individual who was losing his house, lost his wife, etc. Only thing is, nobody mentioned the guy was an Egyptian immigrant who walked up to the counter and started hollering, “ALLAH AKBAR” as he started shooting.
Even after that, it STILL took a year for DHS to call it a terrorist incident, and that was buried in the back of the LA Times/OC Register and a couple of MSM websites, and mentioned pretty much nowhere else.
@NHSparky – Your jump to conclusion would be borne out by a linkage between Brehm and Islam. If no link exists, you jumped for nothing.
In the meantime, this is a mental exercise between random people on blog site…..nothing is lost by waiting for facts to surface.
…..And I’m not really sure what your secret was supposed to be.
It’s not a conclusion, it’s a pattern of omission by both the MSM and our government which is afraid to call terrorism what it is for fear of being labeled Islamophobes by the very people perpetrating and enabling the acts against us.
Fuck ’em, says I. If they have to live in denial, that’s their problem, not mine.
And to your point, they did establish a link between him, his actions, and terrorism.
@17, John I know you don’t have many here, but thats what we in SoCal call a MeHEcan. Mexican, probably illegal, but I’d be willing to bet he has his papers in order, his English is actually pretty good for SoCal standards.
@21 Jump to conclusions? Its like pulling teeth to even get painfully obvious conclusions.
@22 – “And to your point, they did establish a link between him, his actions, and terrorism.”
Who, Brehm?
“Who was this man and why did he go on this shooting rampage?”- reporter. Now if it was me, now I’m not a reporter or anything mister, but I’d start with his shout(s?) of Allah Akbar. I don’t know might be a clue, what do you guys call it, “Running down a lead” isn’t it?
What a dumbass.
Seems like another case of S.J.S.(Sudden Jihad Syndrome) will go unreported.
11)”Pardon me if I think she’s a tool. That sort of emotion slips out now and again. I know that never happens around here….*eyeroll*” …being a Yehta is not evidence of being a tool in itself or makes her wrong.
16) Yep. The main problem is to many people in our society will not accept their base motivation. This leads them on an absurd tangent to disprove the obvious, which they can not accomplish. Our decision making ability is perpetually in a state of paralysis. They can’t identify the threat, so how do they counter it, outside of platitudes meant to wrongfully comfort?
I look at like this. LAPD responded to what MSM has labeled as another “Hollywood Shootout” (in reference to the original BoA (Hollywood & Kitrich) robbery & ensuing rolling 48 minute shootout with LAPD patrol units), we have a record company exec in critical condition, several minor wounded and one now dead, foreign born, hopped up perp that met his “Allah” unfortunately, with the assistance of LAPD. Now, watch as the officers involved be persecuted in the MSM to no fricking end…..