Comment: See also:

• Head of Russia Today on why Julian Assange is the greatest journalist of our time
• UN Special Rapporteur on Torture exposes anti-Assange smear campaign waged by Ecuador, Sweden, the UK and the US
• Julian Assange's mother condemns UK government for 'unlawfully slowly killing my son'
• Persecution: Julian Assange lawyers say he is too ill to appear in court even by video link
• Wikileaks issues statement of 'grave concern' for Julian Assange's health: Can barely talk, moved to prison hospital
• Glenn Greenwald: US war on Assange a 'blueprint' for criminalizing journalism
• Glaring legal anomalies prove Assange case was never about law
• Hero, journalist and human rights advocate: Facts about Assange you might not know

Comment: Must have been a slow news day. We guess the headline "Blind Vegan Activist Falls Over During Otherwise Tame Protest" wouldn't have attracted many clicks.

Here's more on the protest group Direct Action Everywhere:

• The cult of veganism is riddled with inconsistencies
• Vegan activist manifesto: extreme group's 40-year 'roadmap to animal liberation'
• Activist fail: Meat lovers at steakhouse drown out vegan protesters chanting and playing recording of cow slaughter (Update)
• Meat the deluded halfway: California butcher shop hangs 'animal rights' sign to stop vegan protesters
• Mob of angry vegans protest Toronto steakhouse

Comment: See also:

• The green spiel: Why renewable energy technology cannot save the planet
• Climate Science and the Myths of Renewable Energy - FOS Steve Goreham
• Renewable energy plan: Russia starts exports of locally-produced solar panels to Europe
• Reality bites: Freezing New England changes its stance on all-renewable energy
• Renewables can't power modern civilization - they were never meant to
• French farmers sue state over mysterious deaths of hundreds of cows linked to EMFs and wind farms
• Wind turbines: Neither clean nor green, they provide ZERO global energy
• $13 million solar plant shut down in Medicine Hat after it couldn't meet energy demands

Comment: So, which was it: Was he taken into custody, or killed on scene?

He may have died after being taken into custody.

UPDATE 14:00 UTC

Authorities have named the gunman as DeWayne Craddock, who worked as an engineer for Virginia Beach in its Public Utilities Department.

Bizarrely, or not, the VB PD planned to hold 'active shooter training' nearby, the next day:

The Virginia Beach Police Department had planned to hold an active shooter training on Saturday, City Councilman Michael Berlucchi confirmed to CNN's Don Lemon.

The Police Department had announced the "Active Threat Citizens Defense" event on Facebook. It aimed to "enhance preparedness for citizens to 'rise to the occasion' instead of 'settle to the level of their training,'" according to the Facebook page.

In the 'about', it says:

"You can't stop evil, you can only respond to it."

Update 22:00 UTC

They're now saying he also had a rifle on him, and that more guns were found at his home.

There's also this description of his behavior just before the shooting:

Joseph Scott, who said he worked with Craddock for several years, saw him in a bathroom at work Friday.

"He was at the sink, brushing his teeth like he always did," Scott told CNN. "I used the bathroom and walked up and was washing my hands, and I said, 'How are you doing?' He said he was doing OK. "I asked, 'Any plans for the weekend?' And he said, 'No.' And I said, 'Well, have a good day,' and he said the same to me. And it was no more than that."

Scott said Craddock was "what I thought was a good person," and described him as generally quiet.

"When we were together, we would talk about family, friends, things that we were going to do, trips we were going to take and things like that," Scott said.

Craddock's parents, reached Friday night, told CNN they weren't aware of any trouble that he was having with his employer

Another eyewitness reported:

Edward Weeden, who works in the building, told CNN affiliate WAVY that people heard someone falling in a stairwell and went to investigate. He and his coworkers saw a woman who was down, blood all over her face.

This suggests they did not hear any gunfire inside the building, indicating that the gunman used the suppressor the police found on a .45.

But then, how did the police locate him by following the sound of gunfire?

The local police chief Cervera has in fact "confirmed the suspect used a .45-caliber handgun with a sound suppressor..."

Here's another eyewitness report, in yesterday's NYT:

Zand Bakhtiari, 28, who works on the first floor of the city building where the shooting happened, looked out his window about 4 p.m. and saw people screaming and running. "I thought they were running to the scene of a bad car accident," he said in a telephone interview late Friday.

At that point, he had not heard any gunfire. But right after that, his boss, who had just left, called in an order to shelter in place: There was an active shooter. Mr. Bakhtiari and others in his office shut the door and got down.

He then heard 50 to 60 gunshots. "It was a lot of shots," he said. Five or 10 minutes later, a police SWAT team came and led them out. [emphasis Sott.net]

So yes, there was audible gunfire during the shoot-out - subsequent to the slaying of city employees, presumably - between the gunman and police. But until then, people inside the building had apparently not heard gunfire.

Comment: Maybe this backlash will cause Streep to rethink her allegiance to the Left...or maybe not. She'll probably just tuck her tail between her legs and apologize.

• Hypocrisy: Meryl Streep, Hollywood, feminists silent on rapper tweet advocating 'pimping out' first lady Melania Trump
• Liberal Hollywood hypocrite: Where was Meryl Streep when Obama was prosecuting whistleblowers & bombing weddings?
• Hypocrisy: Meryl Streep, Hollywood, feminists silent on rapper tweet advocating 'pimping out' first lady Melania Trump