A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife....We know who the assailant was.
Video shows the driver of the crashed car emerging with a knife in his hand and starting to run at the pair of officers, Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman told reporters. Authorities shot the suspect, who died at a hospital.
Two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that the suspect stabbed one of the officers....
Police identified the slain officer as William “Billy” Evans, an 18-year veteran who was a member of the department’s first responders unit.
NBC's Pete Williams reports on @MSNBC: The suspect in Capitol Police incident is a 25 year old Indiana man named Noah Green. May have lived in Virginia. On his Facebook page, he notes that he is a follower of the Nation of Islam. Suspect is now dead.
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) April 2, 2021
Heavy.com has a report on Green with quite a bit of information from Green's Facebook page, as well as screenshots. But you can't see the page now -- it's deleted.
Which some of our wingnut friends find very suspicious. Or at least they're pretending to be suspicious.
NBC News is reporting that the cop-killer who murdered Officer William F. Evans at the Capitol checkpoint today was Noah Green, whose Facebook page was pro the Anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 2, 2021
You could read it yourself. But Mark Zuckerberg has already deleted the page.
Why? pic.twitter.com/ULXK2oRyF6
EXCLUSIVE: The man who rammed a car into Capitol Police, killing one, has been identified as Noah Green. Green was armed w/a large blade when he was shot dead. He identified as a follower of the black nationalist Nation of Islam movement.
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 2, 2021
FB has immediately deleted his profile. pic.twitter.com/erLNdob8ld
Of course Facebook deleted his page. The social media pages of mass shooters and similarly newsworthy criminals are invariably deleted shortly after their identies become public. Trust me, I know -- over the years, I've often tried to write posts based on the information in these social media feeds, and they invariably disappear too fast for me to find them. Heavy.com is my go-to site for such information, because Heavy always gets to the pages and feeds before they're taken down. But they're always taken down.
Gorka and Ngo know that. They also know that their fan base doesn't know that. They're concocting a conspiracy in which Facebook wants to suppress information about Green because ... well, you explain it, Ted.
Suddenly, like the recent shooter in Colorado, this lunatic is going to magically disappear from the news.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 2, 2021
If a depraved murderer doesn’t fit the woke narrative, he doesn’t exist. https://t.co/fBetdwl6gc
Actrually, Ted, they disappear from the news because we have so many berserkers in America we've become numb. It's true that we lingered on the Atlanta shooter because we saw his crime as part of a wave of anti-Asian violence -- but then we forgot about him, because there was another mass shooting. And now this.
Will someone at Fox pick up on this "woke Facebook wants to suppress the news" nonsense? I assume Tucker Carlson will. But even if it stops here, it's bad. When you tell people this sort of thing, you make them less well informed. It's anti-news rather than news.
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