Trump was so quick to dismiss this, the worst shooting mass murder in American history, as a product of mental illness, because otherwise it would be linked to the extreme ideology of the most extreme of Trump's right wing base. Like Trump's Nazi supporters in Charlottesville.
This information on Paddock's motive was suppressed. News organizations sued LVPD to get the investigative reports and they were released pursuant to court order Wednesday.
...Paddock had also been angry about the standoffs and deaths at Ruby Ridge in Idaho and the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas.
The man, whose name was not released by Las Vegas Police, quoted Paddock as saying:"somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves."
"Sometimes," Paddock added, "sacrifices have to be made."
The witness account is part of a plethora of statements released by the Las Vegas Police Department Wednesday.
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The witness said Paddock "kept carrying on about, um, just, uh, anti-government stuff, uh, FEMA camps."
"He said, 'That was just a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin' down doors and, um uh, confiscating guns,'" the man told detectives, adding later that Paddock "was kind of fanatical about this stuff and I just figured he's another internet nut."
The second witness, a woman who was not identified, told police she overheard Paddock talking to another man about being “angry” over the Ruby Ridge and Waco standoffs and having issues with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the federal government generally.
"They kept mentioning the 25th anniversary of 'Ruby Ridge,'
The 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho began when Randy Weaver, who had associated with Aryan Nations and other white nationalists, refused to report for a court date on weapons charges and resisted arrest.
...the comments in the newly released documents are the first reported link between Paddock and the anti-government far right.
In the hours and days after the shooting, far right extremist took to the internet to cast the blame for the massacre on a host of usual boogeymen — antifa, crazed liberals, Democrats, and even the Islamic State.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/18/las-vegas-shooter-went-antigovernment-rant-massacre-sometimes-sacrifices-have-be-made
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/19/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooter-conspiracy-theories-documents-explained
This information on Paddock's motive was suppressed. News organizations sued LVPD to get the investigative reports and they were released pursuant to court order Wednesday.
...Paddock had also been angry about the standoffs and deaths at Ruby Ridge in Idaho and the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas.
The man, whose name was not released by Las Vegas Police, quoted Paddock as saying:"somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves."
"Sometimes," Paddock added, "sacrifices have to be made."
The witness account is part of a plethora of statements released by the Las Vegas Police Department Wednesday.
...
The witness said Paddock "kept carrying on about, um, just, uh, anti-government stuff, uh, FEMA camps."
"He said, 'That was just a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin' down doors and, um uh, confiscating guns,'" the man told detectives, adding later that Paddock "was kind of fanatical about this stuff and I just figured he's another internet nut."
The second witness, a woman who was not identified, told police she overheard Paddock talking to another man about being “angry” over the Ruby Ridge and Waco standoffs and having issues with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the federal government generally.
"They kept mentioning the 25th anniversary of 'Ruby Ridge,'
The 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho began when Randy Weaver, who had associated with Aryan Nations and other white nationalists, refused to report for a court date on weapons charges and resisted arrest.
...the comments in the newly released documents are the first reported link between Paddock and the anti-government far right.
In the hours and days after the shooting, far right extremist took to the internet to cast the blame for the massacre on a host of usual boogeymen — antifa, crazed liberals, Democrats, and even the Islamic State.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/18/las-vegas-shooter-went-antigovernment-rant-massacre-sometimes-sacrifices-have-be-made
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/19/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooter-conspiracy-theories-documents-explained
