Man who fired AK-47 at cops was "not handling the pandemic well", says lawyer

First thought on reading this was, “Wait, I thought he died?” Then I realized I was thinking of a completely different person who attacked people after being told to wear a mask and got into a shootout with the cops. Only in America could this happen so often that the reports begin to blend together.

(Fun fact, I was originally going to say “could this happen twice in less than a month” but I double-checked to make sure I wasn’t remembering the timing wrong- only to discover that it’s happened much more than twice. But hey, a rash of right-wing nutcases shooting and stabbing and punching people when asked to wear a mask, then getting into shootouts with cops is totally reasonable. ANTIFA is the real menace, amirite?)

2 Likes