The story is that there were two pistol armed peacekeepers in reflective vests standing by. They saw the suspect go behind a wall to retrieve a rifle. They confronted him, then he pointed his rifle and started to run towards the crowd. One peacekeeper opened fire on him. He shot 3 rounds. One struck the suspect, one struck and killed the protester.

The suspect fled and attempted to hide amongst protesters sheltering in place by a building, but one of the protesters recalled seeing a rifle stock in the suspect’s backpack during an earlier interaction with him. This protester snatched the backpack and called the police over, where he was arrested.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

https://imgur.com/a/z3J25EB

Gamboa is just walking and the peacekeeper just starts taking shots at him.

Totally bullshit story and reckless behavior caught on video.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should make that a top level comment. The MSM has been shit so it's nice if Hexbears can see a well-done vid.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Added it to my other top level comment

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

still definitely reckless behavior to bring a rifle to a protest, especially while dressed in what appears to be an all-black hoodie. Like c'mon man do you not think that looks extremely sus? Also doesn't fit the vibe of the protest. Also there has been propaganda recently about people targeting the protests (after those politicians were murdered). Gotta be some weird gun nut kinda fetish or something. The vest person was clearly trigger-happy though. Did they even say anything to the guy or just decided to start blasting?

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[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

From footage and other reports I've seen this is like a police shooting and the first reports seem to be designed to absolve blame of the security at the event. He didn't run until after the "peacekeepers" shot him, he didn't appear to raise his rifle. People are saying "he's obviously the guilty one because he was trying to hide!" It was immediately afterwards, of course he would hide with the protesters, he was one of them and they thought they were being shot by a chud or cop probably.

I bet we'll see some more footage come out soon, there must have been security cameras or something else that caught it besides the one super brief clip I've seen.

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