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jwinslow

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And now from my hometown :sad2:


Source: At least 3 dead in shooting at Berrien County courthouse
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- At least three people are dead at the Berrien County Courthouse following a shooting, an employee at the county prosecutor's office said.

Three people are dead and one person is injured, said the employee, who wished not to be named. Michigan State Police confirmed the shooting around 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 11.

Two of the people dead are court bailiffs. The other person dead is the shooter, the employee said.

State police have not confirmed those numbers nor the status of the shooter.

The employee at the prosecutor's office said the courthouse is under lockdown, and employees are being kept in their offices.

A Berrien County Commissioner told WZZM's ABC affiliate WBND reporter Vahid Sadrzadeh on scene that a man who was on his way to jail took a gun off a deputy and started opening fire.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder tweeted that police have secured the scene at the courthouse and have begun their investigation.
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
How is the BLM movement associated with this shooting, Jwins?
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Feel free to move it to a more appropriate (police violence) thread. I really hope it's not. It's awful that we need to find a catch all thread for this stuff.

Having lived there for years, it's been a pressure cooker of racial strife for awhile. I only lived on the outskirts of the town (in the country), but race relations between affluent white St. Joseph and poor urban Benton Harbor (largely black) have been AWFUL for decades. I'm bracing for what comes next.

It's awful to even hope that it's not another black suspect vs white cop incident, because that doesn't change the tragedy of this event (or Dallas, or the shooting that 27 and I are fighting about).
 
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jwinslow said:
Feel free to move it to a more appropriate (police violence) thread. I really hope it's not. It's awful that we need to find a catch all thread for this stuff.

Having lived there for years, it's been a pressure cooker of racial strife for awhile. I only lived on the outskirts of the town (in the country), but race relations between affluent white St. Joseph and poor urban Benton Harbor (largely black) have been AWFUL for decades. I'm bracing for what comes next.

It's awful to even hope that it's not another black suspect vs white cop incident, because that doesn't change the tragedy of this event (or Dallas, or the shooting that 27 and I are fighting about).
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I wouldn't call this shooting "police violence." Looks to me like the bad guy stole a gun off a Baliff and started lighting people up. I think it's more of a "For you gun fans out there" sort of thing, but that's just my IMO.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
I wouldn't call this shooting "police violence." Looks to me like the bad guy stole a gun off a Baliff and started lighting people up. I think it's more of a "For you gun fans out there" sort of thing, but that's just my IMO.
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Agreed. Moved the posts over here after your initial questioning (and now yours too).


to clarify, the earlier mistake was a police violence one, not a BLM one, so it definitely fits better here. I've amended the title :(
 
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