Justin Glawe: You cannot trust the federal government

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/dallas-shooting-charlie-kirk-fbi-patel

After a gunman opened fire at a ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to X to decry the shooting as yet another attack on federal law enforcement — one made possible by “far-left” rhetoric.

“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop,” Noem said of ICE agents and other federal law enforcement. “We are praying for the victims and their families.”

But the victims in the attack weren’t ICE agents; they were immigrants. Three migrant detainees were shot by the shooter. One is dead while the other two were seriously injured. No members of law enforcement were harmed.

Still, the narrative had been set: the shooter in Dallas was a far-left radical intent on killing cops.

On Wednesday, FBI Director Patel said the shooter had left handwritten notes containing the line, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’” (“AP” may be an abbreviation for “armor-piercing.”) Some of the shooter’s friends say he leaned libertarian but was mostly apolitical. His attack may have been a result of his nihilistic, edgelord behavior online, Ken Klippenstein reports.

At a Thursday afternoon press conference, local FBI officials said the shooter “wanted to cause terror; he wanted to harm ICE personnel.” But officials did not allude to a left-wing ideological motive and said the shooter appears to have acted alone.

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