Patrick Crusius, 21, emerged with his hands up from a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection shortly after last Saturday’s attack and told officers, “I’m the shooter,” Detective Adrian Garcia said in an arrest warrant affidavit.

Crusius later waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with detectives, telling them he entered the store with an AK-47 assault rifle and multiple magazines, and that he was targeting Mexicans.

Twenty-two people were killed and about two dozen were injured. Most of the dead had Hispanic last names and eight were Mexican nationals.

Authorities believe that shortly before the attack, Crusius posted a racist screed online that railed against an influx of Hispanics into the U.S. The document parrots some of President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric about immigration, but the writer said his views predate Trump’s rise and that any attempt to blame the president for his actions was “fake news.”

Many El Paso residents, protesters, and Democrats have blasted Trump over his incendiary words, blaming Trump for inflaming political and racial tensions throughout the country. Trump has denied stoking division and violence, contending this week that he “brings people together. Our country is doing incredibly well.”

Authorities say Crusius drove more than 10 hours from his hometown near Dallas to carry out the shooting in the largely Latino border city of El Paso. An attorney for the Crusius family, Chris Ayres, told The Associated Press that the rest of the family never heard Patrick Crusius use the kind of racist and anti-immigrant language that was posted in the online screed.

Crusius has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond. Federal prosecutors have said they are also considering hate-crime charges.

The attack came hours before another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed. The dual shootings, which killed 31 people in all and wounded dozens more, reignited calls for Congress to take immediate action to reduce gun violence.

Trump said Friday that he believes he has the influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws. But at the same time, Trump said he had assured the National Rifle Association that its gun rights views would be “fully represented and respected.”

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Bleiberg reported from Dallas and Weber reported from Austin.

Source: https://www.apnews.com/456c0154218a4d378e2fb36cd40b709d

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Go ahead.  Look at the headlines of the major “news” outlets.  Try tuning in to the mainstream news networks or cable channels, and you’ll know what full-blown insanity looks like.  Up to this point, the writers, anchors and their guests have been somewhat clever in their linking of millions of American citizens to mass shootings and white supremacy.  They couched their accusations in terms that stopped just short of saying that President Trump and all who support his agenda were directly guilty of heinous crimes, and of course, white supremacy.

That changed this week.  In the wake of the El Paso Walmart massacre, the socialist candidates and mainstream media decided to go all the way.  The Walmart shooter (or somebody) posted a lengthy manifesto just prior to his hideous rampage which killed and injured random shoppers who had no idea what was happening.  You won’t hear it on the news, but he wrote that his emotional fury about the out-of-control flood across America’s southern border predated the presidency of Donald Trump, but said the fake news would probably blame Trump anyway.  Interestingly enough, that’s not the part that’s being reported.

But then there was another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.  This guy was fascinated with “extreme violence” and was a big supporter of violent Antifa activities.  Somehow, the mainstream knows nothing about him.  Last night the butch Mayor of Chicago said, “We still don’t know anything about the Dayton shooter.”  We don’t?!?  In fact, we know quite a bit, and it doesn’t fit the mainstream narrative.  But the Mayor of Chicago claimed not to know, and the interviewer let the statement go by unchallenged.  Sure, “news” people have no inkling about information already published and known by millions of Americans.  It’s incredible what they don’t know, or pretend not to know.

It’s gotten to the point where you can’t even check the mainstream to see what they’re saying without having them directly accuse you and everybody else who loves the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence or the Bible of being a bunch of racist accomplices to mass murder. The gaggle of presidential hopefuls have spoken almost as if one voice.  “It’s Trump’s fault.  His rhetoric instigated the mass murder in El Paso.  He has blood on his hands.  His supporters are all accomplices.”  That’s an accurate paraphrasing of what they’re all saying.  The bug-eyed sputterer said, “Trump izth directly rethponthible,” trying to downplay his carefully crafted speech impediment.

This, they believe is the best way to defeat logic, common sense, and any who dare use either.  Declare everyone who doesn’t demand an all-pervading socialist, gay, “diverse” and GREEN authoritarian gun-confiscating federal government a bunch of racist murderers.  That ought to fix us!

The strategy of the elite, the mainstream, the global warming diversity movement is becoming clearer by the minute.  They’ll accuse whoever won’t go along guilty of the most vile, evil, dangerous thoughts and motives.  After the murderous events in El Paso, Dayton, and one narrowly prevented in Springfield, Missouri, we’re all wondering how safe it is to be anywhere there’s a crowd.  But the major papers and networks are busy declaring all patriotic Americans accomplices to murderous racism.

It seems that Venezuela may remain in the hands of the ruinous socialist regime longer than anticipated.  It has managed to stay afloat by doing business with Turkey, China, and Russia, successfully eluding the full effect of U. S. sanctions.  So the Trump administration has slapped sanctions on several top regime officials.  It might not bring the regime down, but it will have an impact, just as it has in Iran.  Maybe Venezuela will be the new Cuba, destined for long-term poverty under the brutal totalitarianism of a socialist/communist dictatorship.

Europe continues to live with the blight and ever-present threat of violent attack from the Middle Easterners and Northern Africans imported under the insistence of the pope and German Chancellor.  The fact that daily incidents don’t rate notice in American headlines doesn’t mean they’re not occurring.  They are, and it’s enough to make you cry.

We’ll see if any meaningful action is taken against the big tech conglomerates.  They are primarily responsible for shaping public opinion, and every one of these major outlets is sworn to re-define what is truth, and make sure no one with common sense ever rises to a position of leadership again.  This is the kind of deception foretold for the end time in the prophecies of the Bible, and we now see how they’re going to pull it off.

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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