On yesterday's shooting in westerly

If you have not heard there was a shooter at the babcock village apartment complex in westerly, rhode island yesterday morning, and the news has been doing a half-assed job reporting what happened there, and it is making this shooting stand out.

Basically Joseph Giachello, a 66 year old Latino resident, began shooting.  The property manager, julie cardinal, was killed and a tenant, Donna Thornley, and health care worker, robin moss, were wounded.  The westerly pigs basically panicked and used the shooting to harass the tenants before Federal law enforcement arrived and got everything under control.

This personally effects me as my step father, who along with washington trust, the lenihans, and the banerjees l were responsible for embezzling Peter I, my paternal grandfather’s forrine, lives in that building.  While eligibility for tenancy is based on age, health condition, they know that many tenants come from old money and/or government service backgrounds, and thus have valuable assets, and such an incident may be justified raids for illicit gains.  I had also lived from December 2010 to January 2014 in an apartment building in providence managed by the same company that manages babcock village, pag, and I know firsthand that company is notorious for harassing tenants from well off backgrounds to the point of causing health problems simply for illicit gains.  It would not be a surprise if Joe Giachelo was experiencing similar problems and finally snapped.

It should also be noted that rhode island has insanely strict gun control laws, in this case it they did not make a difference, as that part of rhode island, as well as that neighboring region of Connecticut, has the highest population of government service veterans, including ones who have seen combat, and who have no trouble obtaining and concealing firearms.  Additionally, despite westerly being portrayed as a low crime community, it has the third highest arrest rate in rhode island, high incidents of brutality, and openly hated among the locals, contrasting with neighboring towns like Hopkinton and Stonington where cops are popular.  If Joe Giachello did not do this someone else in Westerly fed up with the harassment and corruption would have done this and something similar may happen.

They are also making a similar mistake as was done with sandy hook, that being to over glorify people in government positions simply because of who they are rather than stand up against the wrongs those same people do using their positions to intimidate.  This has been the case in westerly for almost a decade, and it disgusts me, and if this trends continue more people will act as Joe Giachello did.