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Gunman Opens Fire in Pizzeria Over fake News Story
New York Post ^ | December 5, 2016

Posted on 12/05/2016 7:32:58 PM PST by nickcarraway

A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, DC, restaurant on Sunday, injuring no one, police and news reports said.

Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police received a call Sunday afternoon about a male with a weapon on Connecticut Avenue, in an affluent neighborhood of the nation’s capital.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, North Carolina, walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and pointed a firearm in the direction of a restaurant employee, the Washington Post reported.

The employee was able to flee and notify police. Welch then fired the gun into the floor.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; cometpingpong; dc; fakenews; food; notfakenews; pizzagate; shooting
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To: nickcarraway

I’m so glad that our mass media have tracked down all the disturbing images and emails and have nailed them down. I’m so glad that they have done all this research, and have completely exonerated John and Tony Podesta.

Actually what they are doing is ignoring all the hard evidence, simply making up wild accusations, and putting them in the mouths of citizens who are researching the evidence.


21 posted on 12/05/2016 8:18:16 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: gaijin
since before the election the term "fake" was used, and not CNN is using the word "fake" in regards to the pizza gate....

there must be something to it since they are deliberating attacking it as "fake"....how often have they used the word "fake" in any other circumstance...

22 posted on 12/05/2016 8:20:52 PM PST by cherry
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To: gaijin

so we have fake gunman protesting fake news by fake news agencies


23 posted on 12/05/2016 8:22:13 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: All

Heard an eyewitness earlier today... He was blaming the ‘alt-right media’ for endangering himself and his family....

But when pressed, he said that he never saw or heard a shot fired.


24 posted on 12/05/2016 8:22:46 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: nickcarraway

I am skeptical of this-guy could have been hired rather than inspired. I am also remembering how Clinton’s sex capades were used to totally occupy the media while he basically sold us down the river to the Chinese - or I should say, continued to sell us out.

CNN was aghast that Gen. Flynn’s son tweeted that pizzagate would remain a story until proven false. How UnAmerican they said-ignoring how they jump on the bandwagon immediately and often to find people guilty in the court of public opinion.

To me, the observation/tweet was a simple statement of reality. Once a story has this much exposure, it is not going away until an investigation is made, and finding issued that people will accept. Just as people continued to resist the Warren Commission’s report, they will ignore what they perceive to be a white wash of wrongdoing by elites.

At this point, it is not known whether the allegations about Podesta are true or not. Do such things happen?

Well, Dennis Hassert is in jail, Mr. Seville of London got away with it for all of his life, and Sandusky did too for years and years. We simply have no way of knowing for sure, unless and until there is an real investigation.

I’ll be interested to see what else comes from investigations of all the WikiLeaks data.


25 posted on 12/05/2016 8:23:09 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: nickcarraway

Who proved it was fake news? What, nobody?


26 posted on 12/05/2016 8:23:44 PM PST by Crucial
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To: cherry

The media is getting mighty defensive about Pizzagate.


27 posted on 12/05/2016 8:25:55 PM PST by Crucial
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To: nickcarraway; LucyT

Edgar Maddison Welch is known for his work on Mute (2011), The Mill (2008) and A Tale About Bootlegging (2005).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2625901/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrvNiFWPDo

and his father Harry L. Welch, Jr. has written over 30 screenplays.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2124178/

Harry took up Karate in his 30’s and did not spar until he had gotten his 3rd, belt believing he was too old to compete. Harry then went undefeated in 200 matches, winning a gold metal in the NC State Games.
He has taught the Eddie Eagle Gun Safety Course, in numerous elementary schools. This course is considers by most governors to be the best deterrent to firearm accident among children.
Harry has been a NRA firearms instructor for over 35 years. He is rated as a Fire Arm Training Counselor, which enables him to train others trying to get their instructor’s rating. Harry has taught hundreds of civilians, military, and law enforcement officers in the tactical use of firearms and CCW classes. He is recognized as an expert firearms witness by the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Elected President of the North Carolina Crime Stoppers Association (two terms). Served as Executive Director for Protect-A-Child, a national, non-profit organization to prevent abuse and abduction of children. Appointed by Governor Jim Martin to the Governor’s Commission on Child Victimization.
They have also served as a foster family to three different children. His family hosted a Brazilian exchange student for a year.
Harry & his wife Terri have been rescuers for over 30 years. They have rescued Tigers, Jaguars, Leopards and Servals. They operated the largest no-kill shelter for dogs in their county, sometimes housing up to 55 dogs. They have found “furever” homes for over 300 dogs.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan selected Harry to join 15 other broadcasters to visit US Military Instillation in Colorado. They received national clearance from the US Defense Department to visit the Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker the alternate command center for NORAD.
Harry worked on federal , state and local task forces fighting the war on drugs. He served five years with the Rowan County ABC police. Duties included: stakeouts, watching illegal stills, patrolling the county for suspected bootleggers transporting non-tax paid whiskey, working undercover to purchase illegal liquor and participating in raids on stills and gambling houses. Their agency also worked with the U.S. Treasury Department’s local office of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms which increased their coverage area to eight counties.
Harry is a special deputy with the Iredell County Sheriff’s Department.
Harry has held 7 Guinness Book World Records for one-arm, one-finger and finger tip push-ups.


28 posted on 12/05/2016 9:16:34 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: nickcarraway

This looks like the classic “nutjob” smear by the media types. We conveniently have a guy that spontaneously combines gun control with stopping anyone digging into Pizzagate and get the slam dunk of labeling everyone covering Pizzagate as fake news. If any one of these three was part of the story it might have worked, combining all three together seems very false flag and tailored made media manipulation. Can’t wait for any useful information (his background, the gun type, what actually happened) to come out.

And yes, why that does sound like paranoid conspiracy talk, we are talking about extremely powerful people in a open pedophile ring that the NYPD and FBI have the goods on and yet they are not exposing it.


29 posted on 12/05/2016 9:27:00 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Brown Deer; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; ...

Check out # 28.

Thanks, Brown Deer.

30 posted on 12/05/2016 9:39:53 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Grimmy

“You’re assuming that he’ll ever see the inside of a jail, even if he did break the law.”

At this very moment, Welch is staring at a wall inside his jail cell and listening to fellow inmates scream for cigarettes.


31 posted on 12/05/2016 9:45:08 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: greeneyes
Dennis Hastert did not operate in a vacuum. Neither does John Podesta. The reason we are aware is due to massive number of emails, to and from Poesta, all supposedly on the subject pizza, hot dogs, pasta, and walnut sauce.>

Dennis Hastert made Speaker because of his flaws, not in spite of them, which Ariana Huffington noted in 1997, and locals in Kane Count, Illinois before that. The Clintons, plus other members of The Combine (aka the Uniparty, Elite, et al.) have dirt for the purpose of blackmail, for policy and for profit.

Hastert is in jail for lying to the FBI. Since Hilliary talked to the FBI, we know that she lied to the FBI. Usually, it's the blackmailers who go to jail, but when the blackmailers occupy the highest positions in government ...

32 posted on 12/06/2016 1:06:39 AM PST by bIlluminati (Who is Horatio Bunce?)
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To: bIlluminati

My point - such deviant behaviors and rings exist. Dismissing them as fake news without investigation is not acceptable. Podesta’s weird emails should be investigated, but until such investigation, people will continue to discuss and speculate.


33 posted on 12/06/2016 1:17:41 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: Timpanagos1

You know this because...?


34 posted on 12/06/2016 2:05:15 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: stockpirate

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/edgar-maddison-welch-comet-pizza-pizzagate-washington-dc-gunman-suspect-photos-pictures-facebook-conspiracy-north-carolina/ - “Welch, a father of two daughters, has been a registered Republican since 2006, according to voter records.”


35 posted on 12/06/2016 5:33:58 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Gun control, fake news/conspiracy nutters, Pizzagate cya is a trifecta. But the powers that be are terrified they’ll be exposed so went overboard. Add in that he’s a he’s a strange white dude with piercings (can’t wait for the KKK connection in 3,2,...) from a Confederate state, charged with illegal possession of a gun, a registered Republican (supports illegitimate Trump), likes Alex Jones and InfoWars, a Christian, anti-muslim, end of times proponent, and lived in Haiti (Haiti keeps popping up in Pizzagate).

Thing is, he didn’t shoot anyone and is an actor. Odd how there’s always actors in these false flags. Sure, he’ll go to trial and the msm will be all over it. Sure, he’ll get into a LEO marked vehicle to head out to serve a very long time in prison. But, will he actually ever spend a day in prison or will he get a nice big paycheck and go into the witness protection program?

Anyone know the details of him running over a child? Is the child ok or what? Is this some sort of get out of jail free card?

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/edgar-maddison-welch-comet-pizza-pizzagate-washington-dc-gunman-suspect-photos-pictures-facebook-conspiracy-north-carolina/


36 posted on 12/06/2016 6:05:33 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Brown Deer

IOW, he taught is son not to have his finger on the trigger unless you’re going to actually shoot. Of course, we’ll never see a video to verify where his finger was when pointing the gun at customers. Nor will we ever know if he did or didn’t shoot into the floor (conflicting stories) or if it were real ammo or blanks. Or just one blank.

With the family into guns, how is it the guy is being charged with illegal possession of a gun?


37 posted on 12/06/2016 6:14:59 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Bgill, not sure but i think its illegal to have a gun in D.C. period. Unless of course you are the privileged in gubmint or their bodyguards.


38 posted on 12/06/2016 7:24:50 AM PST by Wneighbor (Deplorable. And we win!)
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To: bgill

http://www.wbtv.com/story/33467722/13-year-old-struck-by-vehicle-in-salisbury-airlifted-to-hospital/

From what I understand, hitting the kid was an accident. There are not street lights on this road. It’s in ‘the county’.

His dad was also “Register of Deeds” in Rowan Co. Not that it matters.


39 posted on 12/06/2016 7:58:42 AM PST by lwd
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To: lwd

I was thinking someone gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse so he’d be let off if the kid had permanent injuries.


40 posted on 12/06/2016 8:38:51 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC sit<Pe, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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