"Multiple Gunmen Set Shooting Apart" And The FBI's Useless Mass Shooting Report
12/02/2015
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In Multiple Gunmen Set Shooting Apart, the NYT says

The shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday was unlike nearly every other mass shooting that has occurred in the United States in the past decade and a half as it involved more than one gunman and the perpetrators managed to flee the scene.

Just 2 out of 160 active shooter incidents from 2000 to 2013 had more than one gunman, according to a 2014 report released by the F.B.I. Only 25 of the gunmen got away without being arrested, killed or committing suicide

I have looked at this report [PDF] and it is totally useless, suppressing all reference to race or immigration status. But I can tell you that in the two other incidents mentioned where there were more than one shooter, the gunmen were non-white. One was the Jake England/Alvin Lee Watts shooting in which two Cherokees targeted blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because the father of one of them (Jake England) had been killed by a black gunman who claimed self-defense. [2 CN citizens plead guilty in Tulsa shootings, Cherokee Phoenix, ]

The other was a barbecue in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, in which Tyrone "Big Rumbles" Miller and an unidentified friend—Tyrone presumably refused to name him—having been thrown out of a house party, came back with guns and shot 11 people. By the way, I haven't seen a picture of Tyrone, but Tyrone's victims included Deshawn and Lenaesha, and if a white guy had shot up 11 blacks in Queens, you would have heard of it.  [Victims of gun violence speak out, By Christina Santucci, Queens Ledger, March 3, 2012]

 

 

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