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Washington's Union Station Evacuated After Shots Fired

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With America still reeling from a series of shootings over the past several months, Washington DC's Union Station has now been evacuated after shots rang out early Friday afternoon. Here are the "preliminary details" from WaPo:

A security guard at Union Station shot a person Friday afternoon, according to D.C. police.

 

Details were preliminary, said Lt. Sean Conboy, a police spokesman. The condition of the victim was not immediately available. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m.

Some images from the scene are below.

 

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Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:11 | 6536592 RopeADope
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A Gartman subscriber thought he saw Gartman.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:28 | 6536680 negative rates
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You can't talk or turn your head anymore without shots being fired, makes you wonder why we still need ammunition.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:34 | 6536705 0b1knob
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Friday afternoon is a time when all good muslims should be at prayer in a mosque.    Friday afternoon will always be the preferred time for both real and false flag attacks since any muslim kill at that time is by definition a bad muslim. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:39 | 6536725 TruxtonSpangler
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Can we permanently evacuate congress?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:48 | 6536760 TSA Thug
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Little Travons ghost caught on CCTV.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:58 | 6536817 Pure Evil
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Depends on the meaning of evacuate..........

 

.......as in evacuate the bowels?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:12 | 6536597 NoDebt
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Shots fired on 9-11?  I don't care if this is a kid setting off fire crackers, it will be labeled terrorism by the MSM (though not by the White House).

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:12 | 6536600 Jason T
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Unreal?  

It's becoming par for the course

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:18 | 6536624 L Bean
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Jack's Complete Lack Of Surprise. 

I think there's a pill for that though.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:21 | 6536644 junction
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If it was a real shooting, you wouldn't see all those cops patroling the area, they would be hiding out somewhere.  But if some black guy was selling bootleg CDs or jaywalking, the entire precinct would be out in force to get credit for the arrest.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:26 | 6536672 Oh regional Indian
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Such an indictment of the system and the people who people it...

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:13 | 6536602 antonina2
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Is that why NO ONE is trading today?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:13 | 6536605 NoDebt
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"near McDonalds"

$15/hour not enough?

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:18 | 6536622 roadhazard
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Not enough to live on in America.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:39 | 6536722 Bunghole
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McDonalds is a job.

Not a career.

Think about that for a second you mouthbreathing sack of jiz.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:05 | 6536840 Pure Evil
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When someone graduates from today's public school system with barely a third grade education then the only career they have to look forward to is at McDonald's.

Of course, until they can associate the pictures on the buttons of the cash register with the product being sold they won't be able to advance to the highly esteemed position of counter cashier.

And, if you want to move up to working the drive thru window you have to have a rudimentary understanding of something other than Ebonics or Spanglish.

For now its swabbin floors, cleaning toilets and taking out the trash.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 16:10 | 6537390 roadhazard
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Back in the day 40 years ago new hires at Dupont swept floors for $16 an hr. until they found a spot for them. It does not make any difference what the job is you can't live on $15 and hr. in America in 2015 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 15:52 | 6537370 roadhazard
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oh looky, I have a groupie. Rave on, son.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 16:16 | 6537470 goldpercent
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15 an hour for 40 a week 52 weeks a year is more than 30k a year.  Assuming you don't need to live alone, and you buy everything from second hand stores and cook your own food, you can easily live on 30k a year.  I lived in NYC from 1994 to 1996 on 6k a year.  I ate beans and tortillas and slept in a tent in an unheated warehouse with as many as 8 other people.  I didn't get a dime of public assistance.  The problem is that people think they deserve something for nothing just for showing up.  How in the world does punching icons on a register at a McDonalds equate to a roof over your head, medical treatment, entertainment, every modern convenience, children and food?   Not only should they not get 15 dollars an hour, they should be replaced with vending machines.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:16 | 6536616 khnum
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Was near a BART station in San Francisco when an old volkswagon backfired a few times,cleared the street in seconds,the USA lives on a nervous edge in many places,hopefully they resolve this quickly

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:20 | 6536631 centerline
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I'm surprised the VW didn't get a few hundred rounds of ammo pumped through it right there on the spot.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:24 | 6536659 redc1c4
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not in Frisco: the only people there with guns are cops, criminals & illegal aliens...

but i repeat myself.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:29 | 6536669 Pure Evil
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Couldn't they at least have done this at the WH?

Later, Obama could claim he took the perp out by drone from the back 9 and is now the hero of the hour, surpassing even Caitlyn The Great Transsexual.

My question, why bother with the hermaphrodite Hillary, just vote Caitlyn POTUS and get it over with.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:32 | 6536977 Bay Area Guy
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Caitlyn would be in 2024.  Have to give the first black eight years, the first woman eight years and the first car killing transgender (who appears to really just be a transvestite) her eight years.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:28 | 6536682 NoDebt
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"an old volkswagon backfired a few times,cleared the street in seconds"

We should petition government to outlaw backfiring cars.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:30 | 6536688 Pure Evil
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And, backfiring old geyesers.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:18 | 6536623 stant
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The news is trying to suppress evidense that the az hwy shootings are probably a pellet gun.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:23 | 6536629 L Bean
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Well they better quit running pics of the teeny bullet holes if they want to keep the "sniper" narrative going.

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:21 | 6536639 TrumpXVI
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Another "Gun Free Zone"; Ha, ha, ha!!

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:24 | 6536658 Pure Evil
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Hopfully its not another disgruntled oppressed minority LBGT left-leaning FULL LIBTARD upset over white supremicist microaggressions, real or imagined.

Of course if they're white then its obviously Domestic Terrorism and every effort, no costs spared, must start QE4 to pay for it, its for the children mantra, take all the guns away from the racist, zenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, constitutionalists, bitter clingers, christian right wing conspirators, from those that also believe Obama is a marxist, homosexual, closet Muslim out to destroy White America.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:56 | 6536808 cougar_w
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No sarc tag

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:08 | 6536868 Pure Evil
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I being serious here. Honest Injun!

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 16:18 | 6537480 Government need...
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Perhaps someone acting out against rank 'man-privilege'.  Remember to tuck your business, gentlemen.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 23:53 | 6538744 WOAR
Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:25 | 6536663 redc1c4
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this story is unpossible: Washingotn has strict gun control that prevents this sort of thing.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:49 | 6536765 RopeADope
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How did those gun control laws work out for Miriam Carey?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:57 | 6536809 lincolnsteffens
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How come with the thousands of incidents  a year involving law abiding citizens successfully fending off  assailants with  firearms the MSM remains silent? Huh?? Huh???  Go ahead, make my day.

Never mind. I just answered my own question.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:26 | 6536673 MasterControl
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Has to be the Joooooooooooos.

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:26 | 6536675 Youri Carma
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911-Psychological Warfare!

United Airlines Flight UA902 Makes Emergency Landing, Evacuated In Frankfurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZj1VMOtqqE

More than 100 left stranded after NYC subway train derails, three injured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cBKVAtFro

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:30 | 6536689 Bunga Bunga
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Did he use Yavex USA ammo? Also used by muslim extremists.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/greek-coastguards-se...

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:32 | 6536700 Government need...
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Just another fatigued cop, looking for some extended paid time off.  Thanks thugpig union!

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:33 | 6536702 Pasadena Phil
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Let me guess: a gang of Eskimo extremists.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:35 | 6536707 cheech_wizard
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Meanwhile,

Over 60 dead after crane collapses on world’s holiest mosque in Mecca

http://www.rt.com/news/315082-crane-collapses-mecca-mosque/

 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:37 | 6536713 Barnaby
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Some American witnessed it and said "Oh wow, it was just like a scene from a movie!"

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:36 | 6536712 Barnaby
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"This is unreal. Shots fired." ~ Fred Velez III

No, shots were fired. That's a part of reality, you douchebag.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:38 | 6536717 CosmicDebris
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Slow news day.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 13:55 | 6536800 cougar_w
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Wake me up when they've begun to storm the Bastille. 

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:15 | 6536894 Pure Evil
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If you can get the lardo's out of the Walmart isles and off their rascal scooters long enough, but not too long we don't want them running out of breath, or having heart attacks, then maybe we'll see some serious Bastille storming.

Oh, never mind, just have them batter the Bastille gates with the Hoverrounds until the batteries run dead.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:02 | 6536833 slammin_dude
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i'm supposed to give a shit why?

How's the gun-control workin out for ya?

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:28 | 6536961 Berspankme
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My first thought was "getting closer to the root of all evil"

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 14:59 | 6537129 AlfredNeumann
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I want to read ''Stray round takes off McCains head''

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 15:21 | 6537222 RopeADope
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Cheney and Rumsfeld already removed McCain's head and replaced it with a Gartman clone head after the 2000 Primary.

McCain's head is still silently screaming in a pickle jar in those evil duo's fortress of ineptitude.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 15:13 | 6537188 XitSam
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CNN saying guy stabbed his girlfriend, then was shot by security guard. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/11/politics/union-station-evacuation/index.html

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 15:34 | 6537286 Ms No
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And the great terror wave of mass shooting perpatrated on the American public continues and it will continue until they can get gun legislation passed.  I had the unfortunate occasion to see some CNN recently, they had a panel of "gun crime survivors" (mostly relatives of the dead) crying, carrying on and pounding the position that we must give up our guns now.  Then there is our  freeway shooter in the Phoenix area who bares quite a resemblence to that 9-11 time frame highway shooter and oh they are pumping the hysteria for everything it is worth.  

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 16:16 | 6537473 Government need...
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I wonder if the freeway shooter is collecting a .gov pension. . .

There are still a few Armenians who can speak to the horrors of what happens once they grab all the guns.  The world cannot be safeguarded against violence.  A well-armed citizenry does represent a check and balance on .gov-sponsored tyranny.

Fri, 09/11/2015 - 15:57 | 6537394 Jersey_Mountaineer
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Is this one the fault of racism or not enough gun control in DC?

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