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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:52PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @06:52PM (#576729) Journal

    Why the emphasis on cops? Are cops, and off-duty ones at that, somehow more special in the eyes of Americans, or more likely the American media perhaps?

    In the eyes of the government, certainly. Some states have even passed laws such that assaulting an off-duty cop is a felony while assaulting a regular citizen is merely a misdemeanor.

    http://kfor.com/2015/04/22/bill-signed-into-law-will-increase-penalties-for-assaulting-off-duty-officer/ [kfor.com]

    To me, this helps fuel the us-vs-them attitude that we non-Americans see of cop-vs-public brewing in America.

    Yup. As if things like the "Police Officers' Bill of Rights" that nearly every state has enacted -- which gives police officers special rights if they are accused of any crime -- didn't do that already...

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