Posted on 11/08/2023 1:40:18 PM PST by lowbridge
An elderly American has been arrested after a gunman was caught on camera walking up to environmental protesters blocking a Panamanian highway Tuesday and blasting two of them to death.
Disturbing footage showed a man with gray hair and glasses casually approaching the blockade on the Pan-American Highway and waving his finger while arguing with the demonstrators — before pulling out a gun and opening fire.
Other footage showed people standing around bodies in the road in the Chame sector west of Panama City as well as the gunman being cuffed and led to a squad car.
Police later shared a photo of the suspect handcuffed to a pipe as he was identified as Kenneth Darlington, 77, a lawyer and professor who holds dual citizenship in the US and Panama, according to Newsroom Panama and Agence France-Presse.
One of the shot protesters died at the scene while the second was pronounced dead at a local hospital, AFP said.
The violence came during the third week of protests over a large mining contract that allows Canada-based First Quantum Minerals to operate the region’s largest pit copper mine for at least 20 more years.
The roadblocks have caused up to $80 million in daily losses to businesses and have shuttered schools nationwide for more than a week.
Panama President Laurentino Cortizo sent his condolences to the dead protesters’ families, saying that such a crime “has no place” in his nation’s supportive society.
The deadly shooting came after Panamanian media reported that a demonstrator was run over and killed last week by a foreigner attempting to drive past a roadblock.
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Not guilty.
Moral of the story: Don’t block the road!
Biggest threat? Ex-pats with guns in foreign countries. 🤔
🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍
He should get a medal.
In Europe they get pushed out of the road. In South America they get whacked.
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Disturbing? Why? I guess the protesters never heard of FA/FO ...
Sitting on a road is asking for a motorist to not stop in time, and, apparently, stopping in time to shoot you.
We need to mobilize a bunch of octogenarians and terminally ill to start clearing roads. Eventually just stepping out of your car with gray hair will disburse the maggots.
I posted #11 before I saw this. GMTA!
One reaches a certain age where “Life in prison” doesn’t have the sting it used to.
They want everything to run on electricity. That requires millions of tons of copper wire for transmission lines, generator windings, electric motors, etc. Where do the "eco-protestors" think the copper comes from?
What did he do wrong? Do they know the charge?
“An elderly American has been arrested after a gunman was caught on camera...”
I too am wondering why the old guy was arrested. They should have gone after the gunman.
Just like in NYC (post above) government has created this by doing nothing. Then the people that have to get to freaking work “take care of it” and they’re arrested. The blood is on their hands!
En español, se dice "loable hoimicidio."
Not guilty.
As they say in TX, they needed killin’.
5.56mm
Like all radical activists, the ‘cause’ is irrelevant. BLM, Antifa, Trans, Eco protesters are all interchangeable. Paid agitators to sew chaos. Right out of the American Marxist playbook.
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