Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were hospitalized in critical condition.
The rare shooting of National Guard members comes as the presence of the troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has been a flashpoint issue for months, fueling court fights and a broader public policy debate about the Trump administration’s use of the military to combat what officials cast as an out-of-control crime problem.
Weird how the national guard was the target and not the people doing actual kidnappings. Like if you wanted a false flag the National Guard would be the natural choice.
Awesome
What were they wearing?
The silence on this matter means it’s a Republican that is the suspect.
Immigrant from Afghanistan, unfortunately 😬
MAGAts are gonna have a heyday with that one
Can’t wait to see what vaguely antifascist message is scribbled on the bullet casings.
They initially said the Charlie Kirk shooter was trans because TRN was imprinted on the bullets. Until someone pointed out that TRN was actually the bullet manufacturer … headdesk
Trump Bad Ponies! Thanks Obama
And that the suspect is in custody and not dead.
So white?
Right after Trump got ordered to remove the troops and ostensibly agreed to do so. Seems suspicious.
Last week, a federal judge ordered an end to the deployment but also put her order on hold for 21 days to allow the Trump administration time to either remove the troops or appeal the decision.
Perhaps if these judges would make the intermediary status the historically normal one instead of the fascist dictator one, this kind of thing could be avoided.
Don’t go to McDonald’s!
The sad part of it is that Trump will use this to further clamp down on dissent, regardless of who and why.
He was going to anyways regardless if anyone does anything. It’s why the whole “Peacefully protest so he doesn’t have an excuse” is so misguided. He doesn’t need an excuse.
Trump has the mentality of a rapist: he’s gonna force himself on you regardless of what you think, do or want. The whole “avoid provoking him” thing is victim-blaming.
Of course. He was counting on something like that happening
Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like “Operation Midway Blitz” is to try to instigate things like this to happen.
So lemme guess, it was a weird ass Republican who did this, yet it’s going to cause Preznit Piggy to lash out at democrats for it, forcing more national guards to blue cities (including DC)? They’ll use this to try and further their narrative.
Afghan national
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspect-dc-national-guard-shooting-afghan-national-what-we-know/
“More than 8,000 people from Afghanistan were also granted deportation relief under a separate program called temporary protected status, which Biden extended in 2023 but Mr. Trump chose to end earlier this year.”
I’'d bet an entire stick of RAM on it.
A stick of RAM? I fold.
“God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!”
What a disgusting piece of shit demented rapist.
Weird. This is what he used to say.
Well that’s definitely part of it, but he’s using his office to divide people. People “not associated with the Office of the President” don’t like them at all according to his piggy face.
It’s about twelve different kinds of wrong.
Also: “The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen … is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price”. Lol until they discover he’s a white Republican, then he’ll just mysteriously disappear from public discourse, just like the trump assassin and the Charlie Kirk shooter …
Conservatives before (and after) it’s inevitably revealed that the shooter is a right wing nutjob:
But Hamas… we mean gay liberals /s
Last week, about 160 of them volunteered to extend their deployment until the end of the year while the others returned to West Virginia just over a week ago.
Interesting…
160 soldiers made an excuse to not see family over the holidays, I get that feeling
When the people who signed up to get shot at get shot at
People don’t join the national guard to invade somewhere and get shot at. The national guard is supposed to be protecting people at home.
Whoopsies! We kinda threw that out 20 years ago and never fixed it!
That’s not true. You serve both state and federal. I was in the NG. I did two tours in Iraq and a Bosnia peacekeeping mission. The NG gets deployed federally all the time.
Remind me, who’s homes are these out of state national guardsmen protecting, because it isnt their own
That’s what I’m saying. If you signed up to defend and then got assigned to invade DC, getting shot at in DC isn’t what you signed up for.
Then maybe they shouldn’t have invaded DC
Following orders and dog-like obedience is exactly what they signed up for. Getting shot at for following orders is a risk they proudly take.
Last week, about 160 of them volunteered to extend their deployment until the end of the year while the others returned to West Virginia just over a week ago.
Seems they were volunteers at this point in time.
Well at least we know the Nat.Guard wasn’t following any illegal orders, right?
That’s not the national guard’s charter.
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