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Capitol Shooting - Full Developing Story
The situation in DC is fluid, but here is the most coherent narrative so far from NBC Washington DC:
A woman opened fire near the U.S. Capitol after trying to ram her car into the White House gates Thursday afternoon; she was then shot.
A U.S. Capitol Police officer was injured in the event, though it is not clear that the officer was shot.
The incident began at about 2:30 p.m. at the White House gates at 15th and E streets, NBC News confirmed. The driver tried to ram the gates but failed, and then was pursued by Secret Service.
She bailed out of her car near the Capitol building and began shooting, NBC News' Pete Williams reported.
Some reports said that as many as 10 to 15 rounds were fired. The injured officer was airlifted to an area hospital.
The U.S. Capitol building was on lockdown after the shooting, though that lockdown has now been lifted. Parts of Pennsylvania Avenue are still closed.
The House recessed, and the Senate went into a quorum call. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said she was told to shelter-in-place. Pennsylvania Avenue is closed in the area, and tourists were evacuated.
NBC News correspondent Luke Russert reported hearing three or four booms from his office and seeing 40-50 people hit the ground.
According to Fox reports the woman was 18 years old and there also a child in the car. The child is said to be unhurt.
This is Reuters' take:
The U.S. Capitol was locked down briefly on Thursday after gunshots were fired outside the building following a car chase across central Washington and a number of people including a law enforcement officer were hurt, officials said. A female suspect was killed by police at the scene, a U.S. official said.
The shooting rattled the U.S. capital three weeks after 12 people were killed and three injured in a shooting spree by a government technology contractor at the U.S. Navy Yard, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Capitol.
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were in session when the gunshots were heard. The U.S. government was partially shut down this week when lawmakers failed to agree on a budget.
A source familiar with the situation said the incident started when a vehicle struck a security barrier at 15th and Pennsylvania avenue, near the White House. Police chased the vehicle for about 1 1/2 miles to 2nd Street and Constitution Avenue, near the Capitol, where the shots were fired.
"I was just eating a hot dog over here and I heard about four or five gunshots, and then a swarm of police cars came in wailing their sirens," said Whit Dabney, 13, who was visiting from Louisville, Kentucky, and heard the shots a couple of blocks away.
A policeman was injured in a car crash resulting from the chase and was taken from the shooting scene in a Medevac helicopter, a U.S. official and police said.
The lockdown order at the Capitol was called off and security along Independence Avenue was eased shortly before 3 p.m. (1900 GMT). Tourists were allowed back onto the Capitol grounds.
Just before Capitol Police sealed off the building, the Senate and House were in session. On the Senate floor, Senator John McCain of Arizona was urging that President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators launch negotiations to break the deadlock over government funding and a debt limit increase.
The House had just passed a bill to fund the National Guard and reservists who are not on active duty during the shutdown.
More reports from Reuters:
- Rescue personnel stand around a smashed U.S. Capitol Police car following a shooting near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 3, 2013.
- Reuters Wire: U.S. official says that a female suspect in the U.S. Capitol shooting killed by police. The female suspect first tried to ram through White House security barricades. Police say they believe a child was in the car pursued in the Capitol shooting.
Reuters' Mark Hosenball reports: "Further to this point, a U.S. official said there is at present no indication of any connection to terrorism, though this information is only preliminary." - Reuters' Thomas Ferraro reports a message verbatim from U.S. Capitol Police to Congressional personnel: “The incident involving gunshots fired on the Senate side of the Congressional Complex appears to be an isolated event and there is no current threat to the Senate community. U.S. Capitol Police and the Senate Sergeant at Arms staff are continuing to monitor the situation and will provide further updates as necessary.”
- Reuters' Mark Hosenball reports from a source: The person involved in the incident was a woman. Initial reporting inside the government indicates that she tried to crash through barricades and get into White House complex. She then fled down Pennsylvania Ave in a car. She crashed by the Capitol. She was shot and killed by Capitol Police. One policeman was injured in the car crash, not by shooting. First responders were attending to her when she died.
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Fuck you Bernanke!
Were any crisis actors harmed?
the police captain with the big hat and the goose gossage mustache is on the t.v now telling everyone what happened. That guy is timeless.
What the fuck was she driving that managed to do that to a cop car, a semi?
and she had a kid in the car...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU
Dianne Feinstein is convening an emergency session of Congress to try and pass legislation to ban "evil black assault passenger cars."
Ban women drivers!
How many innocent people have to die?
Think of the children!
She could just walk in and buy a car without a background check!
Especially middle aged & older Asian ones in Camrys FFS!!!
Feel me?!!
and that car was one of Washington's finest...
Must be the last GTA 5 mission.
Say... just a hunch here... but did the kid in the car resemble Obama?
Too bad she's dead now, probably would have got a lot of marriage proposals.
They haven't discussed her race yet? Shocking.
Not shocking. Indicative.
Which dept does she work in, the CIA or the FBI?
Obvious is ACORN employee taking love child to visit Daddy in White House.
She just wanted her free Obohica phone
moved
"PMS- It's a helluva drug"- Rick James.
Maybe she thought there was a drive up window to sign up for Obamacare at the WH?
so...it was a woman driving like a woman......
redpill, it's because she's not white.
Yes, the typical Infiniti driver is a fat black bitch with 14 SNAP cards tucked into her bra. It's well known.
I gonna say black and high on some sort of dope. If she was white we be hearing "White possibley Tear Party affilated extremeist".
I thought carrying a loaded pistol and discharging it in D.C. was illegal? Didn't anyone tell her?
Kudos for trying to "water the tree of liberty"?
So far, I still have seen ZERO credible information from any source that the woman shot dead was bearing ANY firearm of any kind whatsoever.
One would think the LameAssStreamMedia would try to verify such an important issue before engaging in their typical mis/dis/information.
Looks as though the first reports came through Piers Morgan (who just got a pink slip from CNN, thank God). They are saying the shooter had "mental issues". Maybe she didn't get her SSI "crazy" check on the first and came to Washington looking for it?
Yes, yes it did.
"She could have been my daugther!"
You sayin' this might be a jilted lover demanding O meet with her and his daughter, acting out of frustration? That possibility seems waffer thin...
If you know a woman that seems angy and owns a vehicle, then please, do the right thing, and report her to the authorities. The life you save could be your own.
DHS is working to expand “If You See Something, Say Something ™”
throughout the country by partnering with a variety of entities
including: transportation systems, universities, states, cities, sports
leagues and local law enforcement. If you’re interested in getting your
group involved please contact 202-282-8010.
http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something%E2%84%A2-campaign
If you see something... SAY something!
(Not that we don't already know what you were going to tell us anyway... It's just that we like to know who's side you are on...)
Don't use e-mail that is forbiden during 'shutdown'.
Hmmmm, MO of Stasi - report neighbor, friend, family.
(reluctantly) Well, uh, Janet Napolitano did predict there would be a major natural disaster soon. And, you know, how could a mere mortal predict such a thing?
This story is getting stranger by the minute. And that cop car is Mangled! What the hell did that?
What are the odds that she actually did not have a gun, was trying to do something stupid with said car, then got out of said car to explain and had some cop pull out his fire arm up on her? After that it was open season.
When one cop sees another with a raised weapon then any other cop around assumes that the 'suspect' is armed and everyone gets trigger happy. Lots of shouting, yelling with victim waving arms around with dark menacing object in hands (re: a cell phone) and all it takes is one shot to start off the madness. Then one of the cops gets caught in a crossfire of 'friendly' fire.
This happens all the time. Unfortunately.
In the old days a cop would simply dump one of their ankle revolvers down near the victim and viola, case closed.
Yes, a lot of different versions. One says she rammed barricades at the White House; another (CNN) just says she argued with guards. One says she bailed out of the car, gun blazing. Another that cops shot her in the car when they had her surrounded and she tried to escape.
"Multiple sources told CNN that it is not believed at this point any shots were fired from the car and no weapon has been found so far."
When one cop sees another with a raised weapon then any other cop around assumes that the 'suspect' is armed and everyone gets trigger happy. Lots of shouting, yelling with victim waving arms around with dark menacing object in hands (re: a cell phone) and all it takes is one shot to start off the madness. Then one of the cops gets caught in a crossfire of 'friendly' fire.
Yep, fifty firearms pointed at one suspect, in case the other fortynine miss.........
She jumped the curb and they killed her right infront of her baby
If you know a depressed chick who wants to commit suicide by cop with her child in the line of fire, well ... ya maybe call someone.
Why can't I stop laughing at this?
All great humor has an element of truth to it.
Capitol Police found a copy of the Constitution (planted) under the woman's body and a Don't Tread On Me bumper sticker on her car.
We'll see if the color of the driver makes an appearance, to stir the racial distraction pot.
"She was wearing a Ron Paul Revolution" t-shirt"....
No...you are wrong. I have it on good authority (actually from Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz) that George Bush was seen skulking in the area. It's crystal clear. This is Bush's fault.
Fate the Magnificent
"Push the Button, Max"
Everyone will now ask "why" when they should ask "why not".......
Agreed. It damages their ovaries!
Sarc off.
Yes, the Saudi elites are drug-addicted muslim extremists, but they are OUR drug addicted muslim extremists.
True, but for fun let's flip this around: The American elites are oil-addicted extremists, but at least they are Saudi Arabian oil addicted extremistis. for instance, it is very extreme to allow women to drive or show some skin.
Why doesn't this happen every day?
D.C. going around in circles...
What's new..??
I thought Gov't was 'shut down'...
@kaiserhoff. it does!!! in d.c.!!! but nobody seems to care unless its the lives of the d.c overlords that are at stake
this shooting sept 6th. they still cant find the shooter, how odd!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/6/five-injured-three-southeast-dc-shootings/
"A deranged woman opened fire near the U.S. Capitol after trying to ram her car into the White House gates. authorities have identified her only as 'missus pelosi'"
you have *got* to be kidding.
"missus?" that is so old-fashioned.
If Obama had a daughter... errr,, ahhh, fuck it. Let's just wait for her picture to be released.
Probably turn out to be some poor old woman headed to the White House and following her new GPS too literally.
For sure Pairadimes,, And the alleged gun she had really a large black dildo.
Re; GPS too literally.
My GPS never said to "open fire" to clear the way, but I like that feature. What GPS model is she using?
Was her daily bread spiked with LSD?
Research the LSD experiments that the Al_CY_Aydah did in the 1960s. Eg.
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-b...
> http://www.learning-mind.com/cia-secret-experiment-with-lsd-makes-french...
> http://www.alternet.org/drugs/how-cias-lsd-mind-control-experiments-dest...
Autopsy will show more Thorzine in her blood than possible for a conscious determination of criminal intent.
Not guilty.
Too bad the cops killed an innocent again.
ban "evil black assault passenger cars."
LMAO!
All 18 passenger vans will be declared 'high capacity assault vehicles' and banned. No vehicle will be allowed to hold more than 7 passengers. The National Clown Car Actors Union is protesting the ban...
"The National Clown Car Actors Union is protesting the ban..."
I didn't know Congress had a union...
Hells yes they got a union, and a good one at that! Who else do you know that gets pay & benefits like they do?
How much does a totalled police car increase GDP? Paul, Paul...
Crisis midget
Imagine the carnage if she'd been driving a Tesla.
(In best Morbo voice) "There were no survivors."
If it was a Mercedes SL Hastings class the engine block could possibly have been shotputted into the white house upon explosion.
+100 Damn funny
Eureka, I found it! The 1.21 Giga Watts TESLA batteries @ 88 MPH!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/how-do-you-get-1-21-gigawatts-...
Other photos showed a black midsize car, nothing special.
But remember, when trucks are outlawed, only outlaws will drive trucks!
Time is ripe to bring out "Vehicle Control, Inc." and its arch-enemy "The National Vehicle Choice Association."
Wait, I think the latter already exists, as a big-3 front...
Did the cop car roll?
Probably another woman driver.
My money is on one of those automatic barricades that pops up out of the road. Oops.
That's what a bystander said. Cop hit a barricade that popped up while driving.
Sounds like a good reason to waste an erratic woman driver. /sarc/
Didn't look too bad until the fireman attacked with their jaws of life.
Sarah Connor, man. Kid's named John.
more like: Car rammed by capitol police vehicle injuring the driver. Promtly moved to a safer location. Accidental discharge of firearm. Woman, mother of three, killed by stray bullet. now SPIN
Why'd they kill the woman? Car hits a barricade, was she shooting at them?
No. The mother was UNARMED. She jumped the curb...that is all. Cops have killed people for less.
Probably texting while driving. The "heroes" saved the country from the terrorists yet again.
And assassin dressed as Capitol Police conveniently life-flighted away from the scene to CIA safehouse, er, uh, local hospital.
and in Chicago there were 7 shootings in the past 4 hours (an improvement on the rolling 30 day average)
none of which will be reported
track homicides in Chicago with this handy spreadsheet
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ak3IIavLYTovdHYxbDItQ255eWh1NzB...
I track the goings on in Chicago daily, and the propaganda media there is always in full-form. They only "report" shootings unless there is a more compelling/sensational angle. So most of the killings there go "unreported," while anything to do with a gun, unless it is a gun and badge thug gunning down a defiant subject, is highlighted.
Apparently the woman in the car was unarmed. Does that mean we can BAN cars now?
No, but it does mean that the Capitol Police have a huge P.R. shitstorm on their hands.
Hopefully they don't trot out the same coroner. That guy gave us nightmares for a week.
Probabaly was one of Bill Clinton's EX's looking for Child support and got pissed he doesn't live there anymore...
Good thing that Capitol police car wasn't a Tesla...
Looks like the doorman at the Carlyle.
Immune to their own absurdity. LMAO
Listen up Demo-gogues: this is your opportunity to start the car ban.
Feinstein is drafting-up an "Assault Vehicle" ban as we post...
washington where a ford taurus is a tank.
Latest: Child was riding shotgun.
Anyone wanna buy my '95 Bronco? Eddie Bauer, 351 Windsor, leather interior, only driven to Mt Carmel on Saturdays...
Crisis actor is the #1 fastest growing career under the Obamavolution!
Next nominee for Crisis Actor of the Year actually now living in the white house.
Fortunately, we have a mere thirteen quarters more of this to enjoy, should we survive.
Wow!
I'm sure a LOT of Muslims are waiting in great anticipation to find out if the suspect was 'one of theirs' or if she yelled out "Alan's Snack Bar".
Man, they don't half get bad wrap for a few (% wise) angry nut cases eh!
I'm going with an escaped mental patient, a white supremacist angry at the Breaking Bad ending, a Tea Party activist, Zimmermann's wife wanting to kill Treyvon's wanna be dad perhaps?
Well the one driving the car was killed.
The actors(congress) were in duck n cover mode. One woman causes them to hide? Wait til the streets are packed with indignant citizens
Benghazi Redux
Any evidence that anyone fired on the police? If you move your car while they are near you, police will shoot you to death and say you tried to run them over.
Bravo - that is EXACTLY what happened in this case.
Her name was Miriam Carey and she wasn't armed at all except for using the car to attempt to crash into the gate. She seemed to have had mental problems. I've said this before and I'll say it again, many in the US are mentally and emotionally unstable. Our society needs to be fixed and we may be to far gone for that to happen.
I'm with RedPill on this one. Not possible. DC is a gun-free zone. Bears repeating until the message gets through.
So much for the gotta protect the women and children meme.
This is what America has become...This is as tragic as it gets. I can only try to imagine what would cause a mother so much pain and grief as to take her own life and leave her child alone in this world.
Hmmmmmmmmm, the media reports I have seen was the ONLY ones shooting were cops.
This proves women cant drive.
"Her name is Roberta Paulson! Her name is Roberta Paulson! Her name is Roberta Paulson!"
http://www.youtube.com/embed/hCqV0OQKXEM?start=65&end=193
That actually made me LOL. In death, a woman driver has a name. Her name is Roberta Paulson.
Maybe its me, but I dont find anything funny about this story.
uhhh, yeah, it is you.
Why don't you shake your money maker, then you'll feel better.
Its no fun being rich and successfull when everyone around you is poor and depressed.
So now you've reminded me of my crass, untermensch manners as well as informed me that you are also superior in matters financial as well as more firmly established in self-satisfaction.
All this after you've been here a whopping 6 weeks? You must be an idiot savant.
Go play with yourself, youngling. The adults are busy making fun of other's misfortune. Just be glad you're not the focus of it,yet, you pompous weak wristed little fucking killjoy.
Thats right, your the victum here...Instead of you trying to figure out why your where you are, you find it easyer to assume everyone is a Hank Paulson, Angilo Mozilo, Donald Trump or John Corzine.
I have climed from the poorest of the poor ... I am where I am not because I inhereted anything...it was because i'm smarter, harder working, more honest (with myself), frugal and more productive.
I produce alot more than I consume.
advice: Don't up arrow your own comments. It's gauche. I had to correct that "CivisMundi" jagbag for that a while ago.
Yes, I'm the kind of person who posts just to get green arrows from strangers. Like I need some kind of affirmation and approval from you people, lol.
No offence :-)
What do you mean, 'you people?'
rayciss
"You're Australian! Be Australian! Excuse me, Kangaroo Jack."
Well, I can tell you didn't gain your fabulous wealth from being an internationally sought after spelling bee coach...
"your the victum here...Instead of you trying to figure out why your where you are..."
You're is what's called a contraction. It is the combination of the words you and are with the missing letter a in are being replaced by an apostrophe. Your indicates possession.
"I am where I am not because I inhereted anything...it was because i'm smarter..."
Thanks for the laugh, buddy.
So I dont proof read what I write in the language that was my forth language to learn (thats right, I spoke 3 before learning English)...You know whats realy funny? My english is better than most people born in the US.
You know what's also funny? You're still a total fucking dumbass.
Most of this country has gone mad. Gallows humor and alcohol are the only things keeping some of us sane.
ROFL. I'm freakin cryin here, trying to keep it down low at work.
You are all some funny, cruel motherfuckers!
LFM me too!
You go Home Girl
At least not like Bruce Willis.
Quite possibly the funniest comment ever posted in the history of the internet.
Can you drive in a burqa?
BITCH was just trying to get OBAMACARE for the baby - HATERS!
So which particular SSRI drug was she taking?
Ergot poisoning 'drove' her mad, no doubt. From having to eat old, moldy rye bread. Why?
Because she didn't benefit from the Budget in time. /s
Useful links:
> http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/ergot.htm
> http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/LECT12.HTM
A woman WITH a child? Pure Media Gold....If she's white and conservative, they've hit fucking pay dirt. A whole new world of profiling and directed political targeting opens up to them. They are all Sarah Palin now.....
They will toss and Ann Coulter novel in the back seat. Cold as ice, untraceable...
It was Ann Romney. She got a little tipsy at Bridge Club, started crying to her friends about not being in the White House with Mitt, where they belonged, and decided to drive up there and, quote, "give that bitch a piece of my mind."
If Chappelle ever comes back, he can add her to:
When keeping it real goes wrong.
Oh he's back. He's doing a mime routine now.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/30/dave-chapelle-comedy-club-storms-off/
Double pay dirt: Demo-gogue presstitute reports are that the child was armed.
in unison: "her name was ...."
Michelle Paulson?
We all called her Home Girl. Can we have a wake for her at lunchtime?
Ann Barnhardt?
Priceless
Looks like this could be O.B.E.-Overtaken By Events-The news is now reporting she didn't shoot anyone-they shot her.
The shooter was reported to be traveling after the speeding vehicle and then once the vehicle crashed the shooter got out of a marked US Capital Police and was seen running after a woman. The shooter apparently was wearing a uniform of some sort similar to ones worn by police officers in the area. Details are still fluid but some reports state that a large military style weapon was seen taken from the trunk of the marked police vehicle. UPDATE: Reports confirm that it was the police who shot a woman so we will cease all references to a shooting... Stay tuned.
Couldn't have been the police; no bystanders were hit with gunfire.
Only in America, John Corzine steals billions of dollars, doesnt even go to Jail. Woman crash a car into a fence...special agents shoot her in the back.
Hey this isn't NYC.