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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:15PM
Full fucking stop. That kid didn't go nuts because people defended a majority of Muslims who aren't violent or immigrants. That kid was incited by the same kind of propaganda as pizzagate. He was convinced that people were out to get him because of his religion. This kid is not much different than the pizza shooter. He read into a false narrative, believed it, and acted on it.
You know its getting bad when you go out of your way to downplay a shooting in a restaurant because no one was hurt. You live in a really fucked up reality bubble, don't you? Hello! McFly! These are the same kinds of incidents incited by the same kind of propaganda.