Comment: It seems like Twitter is showing us where its true loyalties lie, and it sure ain't its users.

Comment: This is no doubt only one of many things that desperately needs to be corrected about police training in the US:

• New plan to build trust: Chicago police to undergo de-escalation training, expand bodycam use
• Atlanta mayor imports Palestinian repression to blacks: Rejects demand to end Israeli police training
• 'Poor training' cited as an excuse for nearly 400 shootings by Philadelphia police
• Police state formed through militarized stress training, inculcation of pathological thinking and selection for stupidity
• Blowback: Are police being victimized by their training?
• Shadow network: Leaked data reveals U.S. is training foreign soldiers and police with little oversight, safeguards, or accountability
• Police pseudo science: Training officers to shoot first

Comment: See also: Shooting at Texas church leaves at least 27 people dead, 20 wounded

Officials say Kelley was in a domestic dispute with his mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, who attended First Baptist Church and is friends with the pastor's wife. He had sent her "threatening texts". Officials now believe he killed himself, and have revealed that he called his father, saying he didn't think he was going to make it:

A Good Samaritan [Stephen Willeford, 55] intervened, shooting Kelley as he left the church. Kelley then got into his car and fled, as the hero bystander and another man chased him in another car. Police say Kelley called his father (Michael Kelley, a computer programmer and accountant) as he was driving away from the church, telling him he was shot and didn't think he was going to make it.

The two men who pursued Kelley say he lost control of his car and crashed into a ditch. By the time police showed up on the scene, he was dead. The official cause of death is pending an autopsy, but officials believe Kelley may have committed suicide through a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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Johnnie Langendorff says he was driving to Sutherland Springs to pick up his girlfriend when Willeford ran over and jumped in his truck. Langendorff said: 'He jumped in my truck and said, "He just shot up the church, we need to go get him." And I said "Let's go." The two tailed Kelley going 95 mph way from the church, with Lagendorff on the phone the whole time updating officers about their location. As they approached a sharp curve in the road, near the 307 and 539, in Guadalupe County, he said Kelley appeared to lose control and his car swerved off the road.

'It's like he just gave up. He just kind of went off in the ditch, hit a hay bale from what I could see and then he just never moved after that. He didn't get out. He didn't try anything. Nothing. When he hit the ditch the gentleman that was with me got out, rested his rifle on my hood and kept it aimed at him - telling him to 'Get out, get out'. There was no movement there was none that. They guy didn't put up a fight or anything like that.

'Once police showed up they moved me and the gentleman back and then everybody showed up and they took action,' Lagendorff said.

Officials now say that Kelley committed suicide while fleeing in the car, which caused him to lose control of the vehicle. They found him dead inside, along with multiple weapons and possible explosives.

Willeford is a plumber with no military background, but he managed to shoot Kelley through a gap in his body armor. He's being regarded as a hero for stopping Kelley's rampage. Here's an interview with Langendorff on ABC:


And another, from CNN:


Kelley had recently shared a photo of an AR-15 style gun on Facebook with the caption: 'She's a bad b***h.' In 2014, he was arrested for misdemeanor animal cruelty. He seems to have had a history of being fired from jobs, lasting just over 5 weeks as a security guard; his former boss said "he was not a good git." Someone was granted a protection order against him in El Paso County on Jan. 15, 2015.

Former classmates described him as 'creepy', 'crazy', 'weird', 'fairly normal', 'kinda quiet', 'super negative', 'an outcast but not a loner': 'He was always talking about how people who believe in God we're stupid and trying to preach his atheism'

Comment: A large number of other independent financial analysts have been saying pretty much the same thing in assessing the Federal Reserve's policies in recent months and years...

• How the Federal Reserve is setting up Trump for a housing crisis, recession, and a stock market crash
• The Federal Reserve: Private institution installed to control and destroy the wealth of the American public
• The US Federal Reserve: "All that's left is a reset, shutdown of the system"
• Inflation caused by Federal Reserve policies another reason food prices are skyrocketing
• Federal Reserve raises key interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade
• Federal Reserve bankers mocked unemployed Americans behind closed doors
• Paul Craig Roberts: The Federal Reserve's lack of integrity speaks volumes about corrupt U.S. government
• 10 things that everyone should know about The Federal Reserve

Comment: This guy's a total idiot. To say that women need to wear the hijab so that men can control their sexual urges makes no sense. It really just amounts to blaming the victim and in fact there is no real evidence that a hijab will do anything to prevent indecent acts or thoughts against a woman.

From this article:

Many preferred to speak anonymously, like the Londoner who told this story: "I started to wear the hijab when I was 17 and there have been different incidences [sic] of varying degrees. From constantly being 'banged into' on a crowded tube train to when I was working in a clothing store in central London. The white male builders apparently had a vote and decided I was the best looking member of staff - a colleague told me about it. It made me feel cheap and I guess it was because they would often look at me in the way that only men with one thing on their mind can. The clothes I was wearing didn't matter as they all seemed to undress me in their minds."

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The Muslim Women's Network UK runs a helpline for Muslim women. Shaista Gohir, the chair, told me: "We receive calls on the helpline from Muslim women who disclose sexual assault and rape. They have been fully dressed. Some have been wearing the headscarf, jilbab (full robe) and even the face veil. The offenders have included family friends, family members, and also respected religious leaders in the community.

Another one:

The myth that there's a correlation between the hijab and a low incidence of sexual harassment and violence against women actually systematically victimizes them. Men are doing women a disservice in that they are placing blame on women who don't cover themselves, as well as insinuating that a woman who is attacked while wearing a headscarf somehow did something to deserve it. As with all victim-blaming, this prevents women from speaking up about sexual assault. Many mainstream conservative Muslim clerics and pseudo-social scientists-like Zakir Naik, in this video, which is a must-see for anyone wanting to learn about this issue-openly imply or proclaim that women who don't wear the hijab are calling for sexual harassment and sexual violence. They go so far as correlating a woman's right to wear what she wants in the West with a high incidence of sexualized violence against women there.

They conveniently ignore all of the reports on how sexualized violence is underreported in many conservative Islamic societies because of its taboo nature and the stigma associated with it; they ignore the fact that sexualized violence leads to the honor killings of many of the women victims each year.

Perverts are perverts. They will sexually harass and commit sexual violence against women who wear the hijab or a miniskirt because they are perverts-not because women have exercised their right to wear what they want.

Comment: Does this parental abuse actually warrant the governmental taking into custody of children - or is this a harbinger of a much larger "crackdown" on Muslims in the UK and elsewhere? Any time a "counter-terrorism" authority comes up with one of these policies - ostensibly to protect people - it would be wise to question why, and look at the larger trend of demonizing Muslims in Western countries.

Comment: Atheists are just as religious in their fervor to force others to conform to their perspective: Bad news, atheism is a religion, too