Five people shot, including Republican congressman, at charity baseball game

History.Com(This Day in History) ^ | 0614/2021 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

On June 14, 2017, a gunman walked onto a baseball field at Eugene Simpson Park in Alexandria, Virginia, opening fire on politicians and wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and four others.

The representatives had been practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. James Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old man, asked a passing congressman—South Carolina’s Jeff Duncan—whether Republicans or Democrats were on the field practicing. Once he received confirmation that the Republican representatives were the ones playing ball, Hodgkinson fired off 60 rounds into the unsuspecting elected officials.

[Kid Shelleen]

As the deep state plotted to remove Trump violent leftist street thugs also assaulted democracy. Despite all that it still took a "pandemic", a rigged election and 4 years of media propaganda to defeat Trump.

[a fool in paradise]

The FBI claimed that there was no political motive, that this was a poor attempt at suicide by cop.

The same FBI who conspired with the jihadists to attack the Draw Mohammed contest in Irving Texas and did not warn the organizers of the event of the imminent terrorist attack (FBI was stationed outside watching that attack and were surprised when security killed the two jihadists).

[Robert DeLong]

I believe it was actually just a practice session before the game that was to be played on another day wasn’t it? Otherwise, why were only Republicans present?

[Carriage Hill]

I remember the initial news reports, but then it all went dark and down the memory hole, when they found out it was a Bernie Sanders supporter.

[sappy]

Now that’s an insurrection...