High school shooting in Parkland Florida

hlat said:
[...] Once the shooting finally stopped, news helicopters captured footage of Cruz being handcuffed and led into a police patrol car.

Maybe, I'm not getting the details right but my impression is much in line with the above statement, "that Cruz was arrested right after the shooting" at the school? Yet, this report has him going to "a Walmart, a Subway and then McDonald's" before being taken into custody?

The confessed shooter who killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School stopped by Subway sandwich shop and a McDonald’s after committing the mass murder, authorities said Thursday.

Suspected Florida gunman went to Subway, McDonald’s after massacre
https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/suspected-florida-gunman-went-to-subway-mcdonalds-after-massacre/

Nikolas Cruz, 19, fled the school by dropping his weapon and blending in with other students before ducking into a Walmart and then heading to a Subway to purchase a drink, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference.

Cruz then entered the McDonald’s at 3:01 p.m. and sat in the fast food restaurant for a period of time before taking off on foot, Israel said.

At 3:41 p.m. Cruz was taken into custody by a local police officer without incident.

The information was revealed by authorities along with a timeline of what happened inside the school during the mayhem.


The deranged gunman who allegedly mowed down 17 people at his former high school confessed to the mass shooting — and told cops he took an Uber to the scene, it was revealed Thursday.

Suspected gunman confesses to Florida school massacre: cops
https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/suspected-gunman-confesses-to-florida-school-massacre-cops/

Nikolas Cruz, who was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, told officers that he used an AR-15 to perpetrate the massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to The Washington Post.

After killing the 14 students and 3 school staffers, Cruz dropped his weapon and ammunition vest “so he could blend in with the crowd” before trying to escape, the paper said.

The confessed killer took an Uber to the school and then fled on foot after his rampage, according to the Washington Post.

The revelations came as officials tried to piece together Cruz’s past to further explain his motivations.


Mass shooting in Florida school leaves 17 dead
https://www.rt.com/usa/418825-florida-shooting-high-school/

Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz arrives at Broward County jail (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/usa/418887-florida-school-shooting-suspect-jail/


A gunman opened fire at a South Florida high school today, killing 17 people and sending students running for their lives, according to law enforcement officers on the scene.

At least 17 dead in 'horrific' Florida school shooting, suspect had 'countless magazines'
http://abcnews.go.com/US/17-dead-horrific-florida-school-shooting-suspect-custody/story?id=53087462

-- 17 victims were transported to Broward Health Coral Springs, Broward Health North, Broward Health Medical Center and Boca West Medical Center. Two of the 17 victims who were transported died at the hospital; 15 victims died at the scene. Victims include students and adults, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

-- The suspect, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was taken into custody off campus. He slipped out of the school after the shooting by blending in with other students who were trying to escape, according to two law enforcement sources and an eyewitness.

-- Cruz had "countless magazines" and was believed to have an AR-15 rifle, the sheriff said.

-- The sheriff said Cruz had attended the school but was expelled for disciplinary reasons.

-- Students were seen sprinting out of the school with their hands up as authorities with guns drawn swarmed the area. Other students were seen lined up one by one, leaving the area in an orderly fashion. Some students were hysterical, reported ABC affiliate WPLG.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel called it a "horrific homicidal act."

Investigators are probing Cruz's social media accounts for clues, the sheriff said, calling some of the things posted "very disturbing."

"If you see something, say something," Israel said at a news conference earlier today. "If anybody has any indicator that someone's going through a behavioral change, on social media if there are disturbing photos, perhaps bombs or firearms or just videos or pictures that are just not right, please make sure law enforcement knows about it."

On Wednesday evening, a large law enforcement presence consisting of both the Broward County Sheriff's Office and Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was spotted at the Lantana Cascade Mobile Home Park in Lake Worth. WPBF reported it may be related to the school shooting.

Israel said this evening officials were still working to identify the victims. He said a football coach was among the dead.

Pierre Jospitre said he was pulling into his driveway from work when he saw the suspect on the ground with an official on top of him.

Within seconds, several law enforcement officers swarmed the area, Jospitre said, adding that when the suspect was picked up off the ground, he was vomiting and was not walking right.

The school will be closed for the rest of the week, Broward County Public Schools announced Wednesday night. There are over 3,000 students at the school, according to its website. Broward County Public Schools superintendent said grief counselors would be available.

President Donald Trump tweeted, "My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school."


VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE: Here’s why the Florida high school mass shooting was a false flag black operation.

Immediate Demands for Gun Control February 14, 2018
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=94416

All the usual Democrats, who have attempted to gut the Second Amendment over many years, were tweeting the urgency to strip Americans of their right to bear arms while the crime scene was in the early stages of investigation.

FALSE FLAG PROOF: The following MSM video indicates the accused shooter — Nikolas Cruz — was talking to a female student in the hallway soon after shots rang out. Right after they parted ways, she heard more shots. Was he hiding his AR-15 in his back pocket?

VIDEO: Second Shooter Confirmed at Florida High School

Update: EYEWITNESS: At Least 3 Shooters at Florida High School Massacre, Army on Site During Shooting (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRG-fVi1iE

Question: Why did the Palm Beach Post remove the reference to the Code Red active shooter drills performed last week?
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=94553

Really, how suspicious is that?! Calls for draconian G U N C O N T R O L measures before all the shots are fired?

The Democrats are always looking to distract from their naked criminality associated with Russiagate, FISAgate, Dossiergate, Intelgate, Emailgate, Weinergate, etc. The list of their treasonous scandals really does go on and on…and they know it.

What better way to divert the attention of the American people than to shoot up yet another high school…deep in dark blue country.

The Deep State criminal cabal responsible for all of these school shootings knows just when and where to carry them out to quickly change the national conversation. And especially to change the subject from their most explosive and unparalleled crime spree known as FISAgate.[1]

Of course, the whole fake Russiagate conspiracy will eventually be pinned on the entire Democratic leadership. Bad actors (read: traitors to the American Republic) like Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters et al. all colluded in order to remove Trump from office based on an outrageous series of malicious lies. Each of them knew that it was the Democratic Party that committed crimes of treason, not Trump. And that it was not Russia, but the United Kingdom that fabricated the fake intel and false dossier. See: It wasn’t Russia that tried to fix the 2016 U.S. presidential election; it was the British.

Location, Location, Location (Map)

KEY POINT: That a high school was selected in President Trump’s own back yard in South Florida makes it very difficult for him to avoid the highly politicized parental backlash that is sure to manifest. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is less than 40 miles south of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago luxury resort that functions as Trump’s Camp David. How convenient for the perps to have shot up a school located in Broward County, perhaps the most ultra-liberal county south of the border. Clearly, every single detail of this [SHOCKING] mass shooting was well thought out in advance in order to have maximum impact. And so it has! But not without serious blowback on the Deep State decision-makers.

Timing

The timing of the Florida high school shooting is too perfect not to be a false flag operation executed to deflect attention away from the Democrat’s unprecedented spate of serious scandals. It was also designed to take away the guns — THIS YEAR — which the DEMs cannot do fast enough. They know that at least half of the U.S. citizenry is onto their stealthy and surreptitious Purple Revolution. And they can see the “torches and pitchforks” (and guns) slowly approaching their sanctuary cities.

As long as the patriots and conservative side of the body politic (i.e. the Right) are fully armed as many are, the Democrats really do have a LOT to worry about. Hence, their concerns are not unfounded. The serial lawbreakers — from the Obamas and Clintons on down — really do face existential threats. The truth movement not only wants to “lock her up”, they want gallows for the whole lot of them.

Gun Control via Shock and Awe

Ever since Obama first took office there has been a steady stream of mass shootings right up to this very day. In this manner, the behind-the-scenes perpetrators are constantly applying the “Chinese water torture” to the American consciousness. With each successive school shooting, more parents are fearful about the plight of their children. After all, you never know when and where the government’s next mind-controlled terrorist(s) will strike.

The globalists believe that it’s only a matter of WHEN a critical mass of citizens will rise up and demand the outlawing, and subsequent confiscation, of guns. Any populace, no matter how aware they are of the true back story, would likely give into this tactic. However, with the Internet running at full tilt 24/7, the ruling elites greatly underestimate the resolve of the patriot movement.

Yes, it’s quite evident that the liberal side of the political equation can be quite easily manipulated by this incessant fear-mongering. As a matter of historical fact, the liberal, progressive, and left-wing members of the Democratic Party have been [FASTIDIOUSLY] socially engineered to give up their guns and take them away from everyone else. These hard-core Cultural Marxists will not rest until this objective is accomplished for their Bolshevik masters.

However, the faithful Christians and conservatives, freedom-loving Libertarians and Tea partiers, no-nonsense Republicans and constitutionalists, etc. are an altogether different matter. The NRA members, veterans, hunters, militiamen, police and other gun owners are particularly determined not to be disarmed. And their numbers are growing by the day. Therefore, the more TPTB resort to “shock and awe” via domestic terrorism, the more these horrific shootings will come back to bite the CIA-directed and FBI-protected co-conspirators. See: FBI WAS WARNED, FAILED TO ACT

KEY POINT: Everything Point To Nikolas Cruz Being Painstakingly Set Up By The Government…And Especially By The FBI
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=94526

Screaming for gun control while the crime scene was still hot

How obvious was this false flag operation that so many Democrats all tweeted in unison the need for immediate gun control?

The following link contains a partial list of those Democratic politicians who were on Twitter while shots were practically still being fired.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=94430

KEY POINT: That’s not to say that no one was shot and/or killed during this mass shooting. Because of how scripted these false flag operations can be, it’s almost impossible to discern between what is real and what is hoax. Because whether any part of this shooting was staged drama or as real as can be, it still serves to traumatize those involved…as well as the entire nation. In this fashion the perps are creating a national epidemic of PTSD which can be triggered at will by the power elite.

Assault Weapons

That the alleged gunman opted to use an “AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle and had multiple magazines” is a dead giveaway, as it is in virtually all of these school shootings.

If the Left, but especially the Washington establishment and international banking cartel, are afraid of any type of weapon on the street, it’s this type of assault rifle. The NWO globalist cabal knows that any country, whose citizens are so armed, can never be effectively ruled by the dictatorship they strive to impose on the American Republic.

*NWO = New World Order

It’s of paramount importance for every U.S. citizen to understand that it was Obama who signed the latest version of the NDAA. That unconstitutional and wholly illegitimate legislation conferred the illicit power upon the Executive Branch to stage false flag operations against We the People in order to address matters of heightened national security. ‘Legalizing’ black ops like yesterday’s Parkland, FL massacre permits them to be utilized as psyops, which are key to the globalist’s fear-mongering NWO agenda.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

Conclusion

The U.S. Federal Government does not possess the lawful authority to arrogate power unto itself to indiscriminately injure, wound, maim, paralyze, incapacitate or kill American citizens. Case closed!

Ergo, the government has irreparably broken the social contract and violated the public trust that once existed. Likewise, the sacred covenant between the governed and the government — unequivocally established by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights — has been irreversibly voided. What, then, will the American people do about it?

Donald Trump sailed into office on the aspirations of the patriot movement. The patriots demanded that he take back the country from those who stole it. The US government has been held hostage since 1913, but now the hostages are being killed Right and Left.

There is now ONE response, above all others, that is necessary to short-circuit this rapidly deteriorating state of affairs.
 
Nicholas Cruz did not do the shooting and a bumbling media blew the whole psy op clean open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt1Kw4rjes (2:39 min.)

Published on Feb 15, 2018

TOTALLY CONFIRMED: FLORIDA SHOOTING WAS A SHADOW STATE OP, AND NICHOLAS CRUZ WAS NOT INVOLVED.

After this little tidbit of info, I need not say more. Florida was done by Soros/CIA/whoever, to put a shooting on Valentines day, to embed it in the public conscience like 911.

PROBLEM: IN THE FOLLOWING NEWSCAST, A WITNESS REPORTED WALKING DOWN THE SCHOOL HALLWAY WITH NICHOLAS CRUZ, GUNSHOTS CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE WHILE SHE WAS WITH CRUZ, AND SHE TOLD HIM GEE, I THOUGHT THAT WHEN THIS HAPPENED IT WOULD BE YOU DOING IT. HA HA HA HA HA, OFFICIAL STORY DESTROYED IN ONE LITTLE NEWSCAST,

Supposedly Cruz did this with an assault rifle. Howd he hide that from her when she was walking beside him? That kills the second shooter angle of this!!! This was so damning I knew it would be deleted, so I am going to serve it from here and deal with whatever bandwidth issues happen.

The following video comes in as a highly compressed but perfectly usable 3gp. This will play on phones and usually on windows and always on Knoppix. Right click it to save, double click it to play.

Nicholas Cruz did not do the shooting and a bumbling media blew the whole psy op clean open.


In the wake of the horrific school shooting on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, various news outlets, seemingly trying to convince the public that an astronomical number of school shootings have occurred in 2018, promulgated the claim that the Wednesday shooting was the 18th school shooting since January 1, 2018, by running with that narrative at the top of their articles.

Media Push The Claim There Have Been 18 School Shootings In 2018. Here Are The Facts. February 14, 2018
https://www.dailywire.com/node/27165

Here are some examples:

ABC News: “There have been 18 school shootings in the first 45 days of 2018, according to a nonprofit group.”

New York Daily News: “There have been 18 school shootings so far this year, including one that claimed 17 lives at a Florida public school Wednesday.”

WUSA9: “Within the first couple months of 2018, there have now been 18 school shootings across the United States.”

But that narrative was gleaned from the anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety. Here are some facts, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the facts:

Twice, someone shot themselves on school grounds; one incident, on January 3, featured a man shooting himself in a former school’s parking lot; on January 10 a teen killed himself in an Arizona elementary school bathroom.

Four times, a bullet was fired through a school or dorm’s window: on January 4, a gunshot was fired at a high school in Seattle through an office window; no one was hurt. On January 10, a shot was fired shattering a California State University classroom window. No injuries were reported. The same day, in Texas, a bullet was accidentally fired through a classroom wall at the Grayson College Criminal Justice Center. No one was injured. On January 15, a bullet traveled through a residential hall’s dorm room. No injuries were reported.

On January 25, a Mobile, Alabama, high school student fired a gun on campus. No one was injured. On January 26, in Dearborn, Michigan, shots were fired from a car in a parking lot; no injuries were reported.

On February 5, in Maplewood, Minnesota, a third-grader pulled the trigger on a cop's gun. No one was injured. On February 8, in New York, a shot was fired inside Metropolitan High School. No one was injured.

Here are the cases where someone was injured other than the shooter:

January 22, Italy, Texas: a teenage girl was wounded by shots from a semi-automatic handgun. The same day, in Gentilly, Louisiana, a 14-year-old boy was injured in a shooting. February 1, Los Angeles, California: five children were injured in an accidental shooting. February 5, Maryland: a teenager was shot and injured outside of a high school.

The fatalities:

January 20, Winston-Salem, North Carolina: A football player was shot and killed. January 23, Benton, Kentucky: Two people were killed and another 15 were shot at Marshall County High School. January 31, a fight broke out at a Pennsylvania high school; a 32-year-old man was shot and later died.

So of the 17 “school shootings” before Wednesday’s shooting; three students died; roughly 30-35 were injured.

Those numbers are still more than zero, which is what we would all hope for, but the efforts to paint the latest shooting, which was truly horrible, as a another in a series of mass shootings compressed so closely in time is simply not an accurate reflection of reality.


In the wake of the heinous attack on Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, pro-gun control liberals spread the misleading claim that there have already been 18 school shootings in 2018.

Fact Check: Pro-Gun Control Liberals Spread Misleading Claim of 18 School Shootings so Far in 2018 February 15, 2018
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/14/fact-check-pro-gun-control-liberals-spread-misleading-claim-18-school-shootings-far-2018/

The claims were led by Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety, which tweeted:

Everytown
✔ @Everytown

Our hearts are with all those impacted by the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida today.

This is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018. https://apnews.com/a075d7b45ee9403b97579a8c7afd844a …4:22 PM - Feb 14, 2018

The figure of 18 school shootings was repeated by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who tweeted:

Kamala Harris
✔ @KamalaHarris

Just awful, gut-wrenching news. My heart breaks for the victims and families of the horrific shooting in Parkland, FL. This is the 18th school shooting in the first 43 days of 2018. ​We cannot accept this as normal. We must address gun violence. https://twitter.com/AP/status/963891068520583168 …
5:12 PM - Feb 14, 2018

A fact check immediately shows that a claim of 18 school shootings is not supported by facts.

For example, in Everytown for Gun Safety’s breakdown of the alleged shootings, it is evident that eight of the 18 incidents did not result in any injuries or fatalities. Of the remaining 10 alleged shootings, Everytown lists two as an “attempted or completed suicide, with no intent to injure other person.” One of the suicides occurred in the bathroom of an Arizona school and the second in the parking lot of a Michigan school. No one else was injured in either incident.

Of the remaining eight incidents, Everytown lists one as a “gun fired unintentionally.” Of the remaining seven, where a gun was fired to harm others, at least one of the incidents was a single shot fired following an early morning fight at Wake Forest University. One shooting happened outside a Louisiana high school resulting in a 14-year-old receiving an “superficial” wound, and another resulted in a 15-year-old girl being wounded by a 16-year-old boy.

When suicides, accidental discharges, purposeful shootings without injuries, and purposeful shootings with only “superficial” wounds are counted as school shootings on par with the attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School or Columbine, then we have reached a point when the phrase “school shootings” can connote anything.


Twin brothers in New York City were charged on Thursday after law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at their apartment and found dozens of pounds of bomb-making materials and disturbing notes.

BREAKING: Terrorist Plot Involving Bomb Making Teacher Foiled In New York City February 15, 2018
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27219/breaking-terrorist-plot-foiled-new-york-city-ryan-saavedra

Christian Toro, who was a teacher up until December, and his brother, Tyler Toro, both face federal bomb-making counts; Christian Toro also faces a charge of distributing explosive materials to a minor, NBC New York reported.

Christian Toro was arrested in January on rape charges stemming from an alleged inappropriate relationship he was having with a female student where he taught in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. Christian Toro resigned his job from the school in December after the student called in a threat. NBC New York notes:

After he (Christian Toro) resigned, Tyler Toro returned Christian Toro's school-issued laptop to the school. A technical specialist there found a found copy of a book providing instructions on how to assemble bombs.

The school alerted law enforcement, and FBI agents and other authorities went to the brothers' Bronx apartment on Feb. 8. The two and a female relative told agents he hasn't meant to download the explosives manual and that he had been researching the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, according to the complaint.

FBI agents spoke with students at the school on Wednesday and learned that a couple of them had visited Christian Toro's apartment and were paid $50 an hour to disassemble fireworks for the purpose of extracting the gunpowder to make bombs. NBC New York adds:

A search warrant was executed at the apartment Thursday, and authorities allegedly found a dozens of pounds of household materials and other chemicals used to build improvised explosives in a bedroom.

Among the items, authorities found 20 pounds of iron oxide and five pounds of aluminum powder, which form thermite when combined; five pounds of potassium nitrate; two pounds of confectioner's sugar, which can be used as fuel for making explosive devices; a glass jar of black explosive powder; a cardboard box of firecrackers; a plastic container of apparent thermite; a small container of potassium nitrate; and a bag of metal spheres, which can be used as shrapnel.

Federal law enforcement officials also discovered handwritten notes at the apartment which supposedly belonged to Tyler Toro. According to NBC New York, some of the notes found in the diary said:

•"If you're registered as a sex offender, things will be difficult. But I am here 100% living, buying weapons. Whatever we need."

•"When you find out I threw away all evidence [of operation code name 'Flash'] I could find in your room, I hope this doesn't turn into a scene from 'Goodfellas'"

•"We are twin Toros strike us now, we will return with nano thermite"

Authorities also found a backpack, which supposedly belongs to Christian Toro, that contained a note, which said: "Under the full moon the small ones will know terror."
 
Peam said:
Assuming Alexa Miednik is telling the truth, it looks like Cruz wasn't the shooter, so why was he at the school if he'd been expelled?

A little late looking at this horrible event, yet Alexa sounds credible, IMO.

It's later in the narrative now and I read above that he has confessed, however, this is never a sure thing and he sounds, as it is inferred, to be lacking some faculties.

Noticed looking around that they now have a 'portrait' on him - don't know if its Facebook or his web searches (they usually roll these things out fast when and if they want to) - far-right is suggested.

So, maybe he did, maybe he didn't, yet Alexa's two shooter statement should not be dismissed out of hand.

I can't remember the shooting event (it was a bar/disco and the comment was made in a post here) when CBC news from Canada was at the there at the ready just after the event, and it was said they were in the area on another story, basically. Curiously, though, one of CBC's main reporter was again in the area (at the school) having tweeted at 5.02 and to quote "We happened to be in South Florida on another story."

Well, that's twice they just "happened to be" and they are from Canada after all. Bad Trump, bad guns was the message. Not saying anything beyond that.
 
The following is the stupidest article I've read in a while. Basically, the reason the Florida shooting is trending on Twitter is not the Florida shooting, but Russian bots, says Wired. :rolleyes:

_https://www.wired.com/story/pro-gun-russian-bots-flood-twitter-after-parkland-shooting/
Erin Griffith
security
02.15.18
02:00 pm

Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting

Each new breaking news situation is an opportunity for trolls to grab attention, provoke emotions, and spread propaganda. The Russian government knows this. Fake-news manufacturing teenagers in Macedonia know this. Twitter bot creators know this. And thanks to data-gathering operations from groups like the Alliance for Securing Democracy and RoBhat Labs, the world knows this.

In the wake of Wednesday’s Parkland, Florida school shooting, which resulted in 17 deaths, troll and bot-tracking sites reported an immediate uptick in related tweets from political propaganda bots and Russia-linked Twitter accounts. Hamilton 68, a website created by Alliance for Securing Democracy, tracks Twitter activity from accounts it has identified as linked to Russian influence campaigns. As of morning, shooting-related terms dominated the site’s trending hashtags and topics, including Parkland, guncontrolnow, Florida, guncontrol, and Nikolas Cruz, the name of the alleged shooter. Popular trending topics among the bot network include shooter, NRA, shooting, Nikolas, Florida, and teacher.

On RoBhat Labs' Botcheck.me, a website created by two Berkeley students to track 1500 political propaganda bots, all of the top two-word phrases used in the last 24 hours—excluding President Trump's name—are related to the tragedy: School shooting, gun control, high school, Florida school. The top hashtags from the last 24 hours include Parkland, guncontrol, and guncontrolnow.

Ash Bhat, one of the project’s creators, says the bots are able to respond quickly to breaking news because they’re ultimately controlled by humans. In contrast to the Russia-affiliated Hamilton 68 bots, Bhat would not speculate on who is behind the bots that RoBhat Labs tracks. In some cases, the bot creators come up with hashtags, and use their bots to amplify them until they’re adopted by human users. “Over time the hashtag moves out of the bot network to the general public,” he says. Once a hashtag is widely adopted by real users, it’s difficult for Twitter to police, Bhat says. RoBhat Labs’ data shows this happened with the hashtag MemoDay, which bubbled up when House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’ controversial memo was released.

In other cases, the bots jump on existing hashtags to take control of the conversation and amplify a message. That’s likely what is happening with the Parkland shooting and the hashtag guncontrolnow, Bhat says.

'Over time the hashtag moves out of the bot network to the general public.'

Ash Bhat, RoBhat Labs

While RoBhat Labs tracks general political bots, Hamilton 68 focuses specifically on those linked to the Russian government. According to the group's data, the top link shared by Russia-linked accounts in the last 48 hours is a 2014 Politifact article that looks critically at a statistic cited by pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. Twitter accounts tracked by the group have used the old link to try to debunk today’s stats about the frequency of school shootings.

Another top link shared by the network covers the “deranged” Instagram account of the shooter, showing images of him holding guns and knives, wearing army hats, and a screenshot of a Google search of the phrase “Allahu Akbar.” Characterizing shooters as deranged lone wolves with potential terrorist connections is a popular strategy of pro-gun groups because of the implication that new gun laws could not have prevented their actions. On Thursday President Trump tweeted as much: “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior.”

Meanwhile, some accounts with large bot followings are already spreading misinformation about the shooter's ties to far-left group Antifa, even though the Associated Press reported that he was a member of a local white nationalist group. The Twitter account Education4Libs, which RoBhat Labs shows is one among the top accounts tweeted at by bots, is among the prominent disseminators of that idea:

https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/963983055156256768

Bret Schafer, a research analyst with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, says the spike in shooting-related posts from Russia-linked bots is in line with what his group observed after last year's shootings in Las Vegas and Texas. The Russia-linked bots weigh in on any attention-grabbing news event, but seize on shootings particularly. "Because of the politicized nature of them, they are perfect fodder to take an extreme position and start spreading memes that have a very distinct political position on gun control," he says.

'I don’t think the Kremlin cares one way or another whether we enact stricter gun control laws.'

Bret Schafer, Alliance for Securing Democracy

The use of pro-gun control hashtags like #guncontrolnow, along with the spread of anti-gun control links like the Politifact article, appear at first to show the Russian strategy of promoting discord on both sides of a debate. Russian-linked Twitter accounts have attempted to spread confusion and angst on topics ranging from police violence against black people, to NFL player protests, to Al Franken’s sexual misconduct accusations. (On other topics, like special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election, the bots have worked in concert to further the Kremlin's agenda.)

But in this case, Schafer suspects the use of pro-gun control hashtags like #guncontrolnow are being used sarcastically, particularly since they're often paired with the anti-gun control links. Since the Twitter accounts Hamilton 68 tracks often target right-wing audiences, Schafer believes the trolls are using the message to attract more eyeballs. "That allows them to then push content that is more directly related to the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda," such as the Nunes memo, he says. "I don’t think the Kremlin cares one way or another whether we enact stricter gun control laws," he adds. "It's just being used as bait, basically."

Public awareness that antagonistic bots flood the Twitter debate hasn’t stopped them from achieving their goals of ratcheting up the vitriol—even amid a live tragedy like the Parkland shooting. The goal, after all, isn't to help one side or the other of the gun control debate win. It's to amplify the loudest voices in that fight, deepening the divisions between us.
Troll Takeover

Recently, the Hamilton 68 network also surged to push for Robert Mueller's ouster
And they helped amplify the Devin Nunes #ReleaseTheMemo campaign to the point that the memo was released
Here's a deeper look at Ash Bhat's efforts to identify bots on Twitter—and the harm they can do
 
Windmill knight said:
The following is the stupidest article I've read in a while. Basically, the reason the Florida shooting is trending on Twitter is not the Florida shooting, but Russian bots, says Wired. :rolleyes:

The fake news is all over this one - using every possible angle to bolster their crumbling 'Conservatives are Nazis and Russia is attacking us' narrative. It seems the ADL were quick to tie this shooting to 'white supremacy in America' according to the Daily Mail:
The Anti-Defamation League was the first to report on Cruz's involvement with the organization, reaching out to the ROF to see if they could confirm he shooter was a member.

It was Jereb who fielded that call and told the ADL about Cruz's involvement.

However Jereb, the leader of the local 'white supremacy' group, later back-tracked on his statements, claiming there was a misunderstanding due to a number of Nicholas's in their group. Local police confirm that they have extensive knowledge of the organization and Cruz was not part of it:

Local law enforcement sources have not found a connection between accused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz and a Tallahassee-based paramilitary group.

Leon County law enforcement sources told the Tallahassee Democrat that they could not find information linking Cruz, 19, to the Republic of Florida Militia, as claimed by the group's self-proclaimed leader Jordan Jereb.

The ADL have since issued an update on their original article, claiming that they were victims of '4Chan trolling'. Of course the MSM is still reporting it as though it's fact. Another horrible tragedy turned into a farce for the MSM.
 
angelburst29 said:
Nicholas Cruz did not do the shooting and a bumbling media blew the whole psy op clean open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt1Kw4rjes (2:39 min.) Published on Feb 15, 2018

TOTALLY CONFIRMED: FLORIDA SHOOTING WAS A SHADOW STATE OP, AND NICHOLAS CRUZ WAS NOT INVOLVED.

After reviewing countless articles and scanning the Comments section, I'm leaning to the strong possibility that Nicholas Cruz had "no part in the shooting"
and was selected as a convenient patsy. A high percentage of the comments are centered on a concern for Alexa Miednik's well being and safety. I share their concern.

I also agree with Hesper's comments:
The fake news is all over this one - using every possible angle to bolster their crumbling 'Conservatives are Nazis and Russia is attacking us' narrative. It seems the ADL were quick to tie this shooting to 'white supremacy in America' according to the Daily Mail:

However Jereb, the leader of the local 'white supremacy' group, later back-tracked on his statements, claiming there was a misunderstanding due to a number of Nicholas's in their group. Local police confirm that they have extensive knowledge of the organization and Cruz was not part of it:

My deepest condolences goes to those who lost their life - over a senseless and premeditated horrific death! It also seems like they are trying to get - as much mileage and hype out of this tragedy, by amplifying and saturating the news airways with additional copycat scenarios?

New York City Mayor Says FBI, Police Foiled Terror Attack at School
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802161061717460-new-york-terror-plot-school/

Police Responding to 'Reports of Gunfire on Campus' in Seattle (VIDEO)
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802161061740913-police-washington-seattle-shooting-campus/

Alleged VIDEO Shows Students Barricade Room Amid Reports of Seattle Shooting
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802161061742232-seatle-washington-shooting-students/

Florida Governor Calls for FBI Director's Resignation Over Missed Shooter Tip
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802161061744475-florida-governor-calls-for-fbi-director-resignation/

I sense this tragedy was orchestrated to drown out information being reported now in our press, on an incident that happened in Syria, a full week prior to
the shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

On the night of February 7th (Wed.) and into Thursday, the US-led coalition attacked Syrian troops in the province of Deir Ezzor with airstrikes in response to what it claims was a threatening assault by pro-government forces aimed at taking territory from Kurdish and Arab partner militias.

Al-Masdar News – having contacted sources in the Syrian Army – can now confirm that some 25 pro-government troops belonging to the National Defense Forces (Syrian national paramilitary) were killed as a result of the airstrikes conducted by US-led coalition warplanes.

On February 14th, the day of the Douglas High School shooting, Reuters came out with this headline: Russian toll in Syria battle was 300 killed and wounded: sources I usually take Reuters articles with a grain of salt but I feel there might be a high percentage of "truth" in this one? Russia is claiming only 5 Russian citizens "might have been killed." In a sense, down playing the incident, so it doesn't turn into a major regional and international confrontation. Maybe, that is what the U.S. and the Pentagon were hoping for - that Russia would strike back?

A Russian military doctor said around 100 had been killed, and a source who knows several of the fighters said the death toll was in excess of 80 men.

The timing of the casualties coincided with a battle on Feb. 7 near the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor where, according to U.S. officials and associates of the fighters involved, U.S.-led coalition forces attacked forces aligned with Moscow’s ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Russian officials said five citizens may have been killed but they had no relation to Russia’s armed forces.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,39681.3195.html
 
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania visited a Florida hospital that treated the victims of the horrific Wednesday school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The president and first lady "paid their respects" to the medical personnel, according to a White House report.

Trump Visits Florida Hospital That Treated Victims of Parkland School Shooting (Video)
https://sputniknews.com/us/201802171061749445-parkland-hospital-trump-visit-school-shooting/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfnq-BsLcmg (1:52 min.)

Trump said that he spoke to victims of the attack, and praised the performance of the doctors, claiming that they did "an incredible job."

Trump is expected to also visit the Broward County Sheriff's Office to meet with the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting which left 17 dead and 14 injured.

The shooting was allegedly perpetrated by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former student who had been expelled for "disciplinary reasons."

Shortly after news of the shooting broke, Trump offered his condolences to the affected families and said he was coordinating with the Florida governor's office and law enforcement to resolve the situation.
 
Here,s a new one.

The problems reportedly started over a girl. Nikolas Cruz's mother in 2016 told investigators that his girlfriend had cheated on him and that she and the girl's mother had encouraged the teens to "end the relationship because it was unhealthy for everyone." Why Lynda Cruz told investigators this in the first place: Sheriff’s deputies and Department of Children & Family Services investigators looked into the teen after he posted images of himself cutting his arms on Snapchat in September 2016 and said he wanted to buy a gun. Lynda Cruz said her son began cutting himself after the relationship's demise. She told them her son did not have a gun but did have an air gun, though she had taken it from him because he broke her rules regarding where he could shoot it.

http://www.newser.com/story/255513/nikolas-cruz-first-a-breakup-then-the-cutting.html
 
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited a Florida hospital Friday to offer their respects to the victims of a mass shooting that claimed 17 lives at a nearby high school.

Trump visits Florida hospital to pay respects after shooting
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1248211/world

The first couple visited Broward Health North Hospital, where a White House official said they would thank medical staff “for their life-saving assistance.”
The pair are also expected to visit the Broward County sheriff’s office “to meet with the law enforcement officials whose bravery helped save lives.”

Trump’s visit to the hospital had not been announced in advance.

The US leader is spending the long President’s Day holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, which is only about a 45-minute drive from Parkland, where the Valentine’s Day shooting rampage took place.

A troubled former student, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, has confessed to gunning down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School north on

Wednesday, in the country’s worst school massacre since the horror at Sandy Hook six years ago.

In the wake of the attack, Trump has vowed to tackle mental health and school safety, but has yet to make any mention of gun control.

While the latest atrocity has reignited questions about US gun laws, Trump — the first president to have addressed the powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby — staunchly opposes any additional controls.

In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, Trump suggested the root cause of the mass shootings that regularly stun the United States was a crisis of mental health — an argument regularly made by opponents of gun curbs.

Since January 2013, there have been at least 291 school shootings across the country — an average of one a week, according to the non-profit group Everytown for Gun Safety

Since the shooting, Trump has faced teary pleas from some relatives of the dead including Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed.

“We need action! Action! Action!” Alhadeff urged in an interview with CNN, addressing Trump as the father of an 11-year-old son of his own.

“Let’s protect Barron, and let’s also protect all these other kids here in Parkland, in Florida, and everyone everywhere else,” she said.


PARKLAND, Florida: As families begin burying their dead, authorities are questioning whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic director, a coach and a geography teacher.

Anger bubbles over at funerals for Florida shooting victims Saturday 17 February 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1248236/world

At funerals and in the streets of Parkland, anger bubbled over at the senselessness of the shooting and at the widespread availability of guns.

A rally to support gun-safety legislation was scheduled for Saturday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.

During the funeral for 18-year-old Meadow Pollack, her father looked down at his daughter’s plain pine coffin and screamed in anguish as Gov. Rick Scott and 1,000 other mourners looked on.

The suspect, Nikolas Cruz, has been jailed on 17 counts of murder.


PARKLAND: The massacre at a Florida high school is again raising concerns about whether the FBI missed signs that might have stopped a mass shooting.

Did FBI miss a warning before the Florida school shooting?
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1247941/world

Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and video blogger noticed a comment on one of his YouTube videos that said, “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” He immediately reported it to YouTube and the FBI and the next day two agents came to his office to take a printout of the comment and ask him whether he knew anything about the person who posted it.

Although the commenter’s username was “Nikolas Cruz,” — the same name as the 19-year-old man who authorities say killed 17 people at his former high school on Wednesday — the FBI could not identify the poster, Robert Lasky, the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Miami, said Thursday.

Federal agents interviewed the man who reported the comment and searched public records databases, actions in line with those done during an FBI assessment — the lowest level, least intrusive and most elementary stage of an FBI inquiry — but came up short. The FBI says they still have not conclusively linked the account to the shooter.

A day earlier, Cruz walked into his former high school in Florida with an AR-15 rifle and opened fire, shooting at students and teachers in hallways and on school grounds.

It is the latest attack to raise questions about whether people who once caught the attention of law enforcement should have remained on the FBI’s radar. In the last two years, a man who massacred 49 people at an Orlando nightclub, another who set off bombs in the streets of New York City and a third who gunned down travelers at a Florida airport, had each been looked at by federal agents but later determined not to warrant continued law enforcement scrutiny.

FBI assessments are routinely opened after agents receive a tip, which could be sparked by something as simple as noticing odd activity in a neighbor’s garage or a classmate’s comments. Agents routinely face a challenge of sifting through which of the tens of thousands of tips received every year — and more than 10,000 assessments that are opened — could yield a viable threat.

Had agents been able to confirm Cruz was the same person as the YouTube poster, they would have found dozens of photos of rifles, ammunition, targets filled with bullet holes, which likely would have led to a face-to-face interview. The FBI did not notify police in Florida about the post before the mass shooting.

“They owe us some more detail on what they did,” retired FBI assistant director Ron Hosko said.

The questions come as the FBI is already under intense scrutiny and facing unprecedented attack from President Donald Trump and some congressional Republicans, who have seized on what they say are signs of anti-Trump bias, particularly as it relates to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

But it is not clear the agency dropped the ball in this case, Hosko said.

“With anything that the FBI receives they are constrained to act based on what they have in front of them,” said Hosko. “You have a random Internet posting that suggests the person wants to do something, not that they are planning on doing something.”

FBI guidelines meant to balance national security with civil liberties protections impose restrictions on the steps agents may take during the assessment phase.

Agents, for instance, may analyze information from government databases and open-source Internet searches, and can conduct interviews during an assessment. But they cannot turn to more intrusive techniques, such as requesting a wiretap or Internet communications, without higher levels of approval and a more solid basis to suspect a crime.

“It’s a tricky situation because sometimes you get information regarding individuals and they may be just showing off, blustering,” said Herbert Cousins Jr., a retired FBI special agent in charge.

A vague, uncorroborated threat alone may not be enough to proceed to the next level of investigation, according to Jeffrey Ringel, a former FBI agent and Joint Terrorism Task force supervisor who now works for the Soufan Group, a private security firm.

Many assessments are closed within days or weeks when the FBI concludes there is no criminal or national security threat, or basis for continued scrutiny. The system is meant to ensure that a person who has not broken the law does not remain under perpetual scrutiny on a mere hunch — and that the FBI can reserve its scarce resources for true threats.

Had he had pledged his allegiance to Daesh, for example, investigators might have had enough evidence to proceed with a more intrusive probe.

Tips like the one that came in about the Florida gunman are among countless complaints that come into the FBI daily with varying degrees of specificity.

“How many of these do you expect the FBI to handle before it becomes the Federal Bureau of Complaints,” said retired FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko. “They could spend their entire workforce tracking down Internet exchanges that never going to go anywhere.”
 
This student says 'Secret Service' came to the school 4 weeks to prior to 'train teachers and staff on new safety protocols':


https://youtu.be/UtE-pb6hVwg

They were most certainly not Secret Service, but could well have had the means and contacts to acquire credentials in order to pass themselves off as such.

Note that this school is but 40 miles from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort...
 
Everything that was supposed to prevent this tragedy from happening was in place and unfolded as it was designed to do. Nikolas Cruz was reported to the FBI by citizens for publicly declaring that he wanted to become a “Professional School Shooter.” However, the FBI apparently chose not to act on that information.

An Armed Cop Was on Campus When The Florida Shooting Began—Never Encountered Suspect
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/armed-cop-campus-florida-shooting-began-never-encountered-suspect/

What’s more, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, to ‘protect’ the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, an armed officer was on campus as the shooting began. However, according to Israel, the officer never encountered the suspect. Exactly how a police officer, who was already on the scene and whose job was to protect the students, was unable to even encounter the shooter remains a mystery.

Maybe, the armed officer never encountered the suspect ... because the officer was one of the shooters gunning down the kids?


Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High may not have to return to the three-story building that was the site of the deadliest school shooting in Florida history.

District proposes tearing down Stoneman Douglas High building where attack took place
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-shooting-back-to-school-20180216-story.html

The school district has proposed tearing down the building on campus that housed freshmen, Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said Friday. It was the spot where many of the 17 students and faculty were murdered Wednesday by a gunman with an AR-15-style weapon. Former student Nikolas Cruz has been charged with the killings.

“We’ve received numerous requests from parents, students, community members and local elected officials that they would like the building demolished and some memorial resurrected on the site,” Runcie said.

He said the building will be inaccessible for a while anyway because law enforcement officials are using it for evidence.

The proposal would need School Board and state approval, as well as funding, Runcie said. He said he plans to talk with legislative leaders about possible funding for a replacement building. The building was constructed in 2009, and a state waiver would be needed to demolish a facility that new.
 
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's younger brother is 'committed to psychiatric facility against his will' following massacre.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/florida-school-shooter-nikolas-cruzs-12043183

Nikolas Cruz’s younger brother, who turns 18 next week, was removed from his home on Friday and committed to a mental health facility for observation according to reports. The younger brother of the Florida school shooting has been involuntarily sectioned, according to reports.

Nikolas Cruz’s younger brother, who turns 18 next week, was removed from his home on Friday and committed to a mental health facility for observation, according to the Palm Beach Post.

The teen was taken by authorities under what is commonly known as the Baker Act - which allows a minor to be held and examined for up to 12 hours.
 
I'm not sure what to make of this student journalist, David Hogg, who has given several interviews in recent days? It's being reported that his dad works as an FBI agent at the Miami field office. This claim comes on the heels of Trump stating that the FBI missed warning signs about the Florida gunman because of its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether his campaign colluded with Moscow.

Some on the far right are going after a survivor of last week's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, who has recently made multiple appearances on TV-news outlets.
•The student, David Hogg, whose father is a retired FBI agent, has been critical of President Donald Trump and other politicians for their response to the shooting.
•Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., liked a pair of tweets questioning the student's motive for speaking out about the shooting.

Some of Trump's most fervent supporters have started to criticize a school-shooting survivor who has made a flurry of media appearances
http://www.businessinsider.com/parkland-florida-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-fbi-2018-2

Some of President Donald Trump's most fervent supporters have started going after a survivor of last week's shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, who has since made a series of appearances on TV-news outlets.

That student, David Hogg, has been featured on CNN and CBS following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen others injured.

Hogg, a student journalist who says he interviewed classmates during the shooting, has since become one of the most prominent student voices, calling for stricter gun-control measures and characterizing the response of politicians — and specifically Trump — as "disgusting."

Some far-right outlets have pointed to Hogg's father's being a retired FBI agent to suggest something nefarious in the student's frequent media appearances.

"Why would the child of an FBI agent be used as a pawn for anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation?" Lucian Wintrich wrote on The Gateway Pundit. "Because the FBI is only looking to curb YOUR Constitutional rights and INCREASE their power. We've seen similar moves by them many times over. This is just another disgusting example of it."

On True Pundit, a story linking Hogg and the FBI ran under the headline "Outspoken Trump-Hating School Shooting Survivor is Son of FBI Agent; MSM Helps Prop Up Incompetent Bureau."

"The kid who has been running his mouth about how Donald Trump and the GOP are teaming to help murder high school kids by upholding the Second Amendment is the son of an FBI agent," an unnamed author wrote. "David Hogg is a school shooting survivor in Florida. At least that is what the mainstream media has told us. We wouldn't be surprised by anything involving the FBI at this point."

Pro-Trump accounts have shared the stories on Twitter and in some cases have thousands of retweets. The conservative One America News Network promoted a tweet suggesting Hogg may be "running cover for his dad who works as an FBI agent at the Miami field office."

The stories gained even more attention when Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., liked that tweet and another post sharing the True Pundit story.

Echoing a prominent conspiracy theory swirling in some right-wing circles on the internet, Trump claimed over the weekend that the FBI missed warning signs about the Florida gunman because of its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether his campaign colluded with Moscow.

"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter," he wrote Saturday just before midnight. "This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!"

The FBI has more than 35,000 employees and runs hundreds of investigations simultaneously, and a special counsel outside of the Justice Department is leading the Russia investigation. The bureau, however, acknowledged last week that it failed to follow protocol in following up on a tip last month about the suspect in the Florida school shooting.

Trump has repeatedly accused leaders within the Justice Department and the FBI of being biased against him.


Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, 18, blasted Donald Trump Jr. as "immature, rude, and inhumane" after the president's eldest son "liked" conspiracy theories on Twitter that allege Hogg had been fed talking points by his father, who is a former FBI agent. Hogg movingly called for Congress to act to stop gun violence last week, looking into CNN's cameras directly and insisting: "Without action, ideas stay ideas and children die."

Hogg swats down Donald Trump Jr. as 'immature, rude, and inhumane'
http://theweek.com/speedreads/756460/parkland-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-swats-down-donald-trump-jr-immature-rude-inhumane

A number of pro-Trump websites, including One America News and Gateway Pundit, pushed the theory that Hogg "is running cover for his dad." Speaking to BuzzFeed News, Hogg said it was "immature, rude, and inhumane for these people to destroy the people trying to prevent the death of the future of America because they won't."

"I just think it's a testament to the sick immaturity and broken state of our government when these people feel the need to peddle conspiracy theories about people that were in a school shooting where 17 people died," Hogg said. "It just makes me sick." —Jeva Lange


A twitter Posting that David Hogg is a crisis actor.
https://twitter.com/PaulLee85/status/965978330343211008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZD7UkJd24&feature=youtu.be (!:51 min.)
Published on Aug 7, 2017 - It started when the teen put his body board on a trash can. Andrew Fujii talked to the witness who recorded the heated exchange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr1oyK5lvqQ (7:33 min.)
Published on Feb 19, 2018 - After a school shooting left 17 people dead in Parkland, Florida, survivors Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg are demanding action from officials in Washington on gun control.


A seventh-grade student in Ohio shot himself in a school bathroom with a rifle early Tuesday, authorities say

Middle school student shoots himself with rifle in school bathroom, authorities find 'distractionary type devices' in backpack February 20, 2018
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/middle-school-student-shoots-school-bathroom-article-1.3831067

The student shot himself at approximately 7:50 a.m. at Jackson Memorial Middle School in the men's restroom. The student's condition was not immediately known, but he has been transferred from Mercy Medical Center to Akron Children's Hospital, according to the Massillon Independent.

Police searched the backpack of the student and found "distractionary type devices" that Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink said would not have done harm to others.

"Something that you could distract people with for whatever reason," he said during a press conference. "To me, a distraction device is something that’s going to smoke, make a bang and, you know, take your attentions somewhere else."

Brink said that the student used a .22-caliber rifle to shoot himself. He had arrived at the school on a bus, according to the Independent.

The middle school and high school in Jackson Township were locked down as a precaution, according to the school district. Extracurricular activities have been canceled for the day.

"A Jackson Memorial Middle School student suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound this morning," the school district said. "Safety Services are on the scene at this time. The Middle School and High School are on lockdown at this time. Students will be released to their parents in the near future. All four elementary schools will remain closed for today."


Classes were set to resume on schedule Wednesday; police presence at home on Daytona Street in Jackson Township

THE LATEST: Seventh-grader clinging to life from self-inflicted gunshot (Video - photos)
http://www.indeonline.com/news/20180220/latest-seventh-grader-clinging-to-life-from-self-inflicted-gunshot

A Jackson Middle School seventh-grade student was clinging to life Tuesday at Akron Children’s Hospital for a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The student, whose name hasn’t been released by police, was taken by helicopter to Akron after being treated at Mercy Medical Center.

Authorities said they did not know the condition of the student who shot himself in a boy’s restroom at the school about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday, 10 minutes before school was scheduled to begin.

The incident led to a shut down of all Jackson Local Schools on Tuesday. Classes were set to resume on schedule Wednesday.

The teen arrived by bus at the middle school Tuesday morning, Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink said. He managed to get a .22-caliber rifle into the school building. The student also had what Brink described as “distractionary devices” in his book bag. He declined to elaborate on what exactly they found.
 
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