The westerly shooting, the facts

 

While small in terms of casualties the Westerly shooting of December 19, 2019 had an impact bigger than people realize.

            What happened was a man of mixed Latin heritage began shooting wildly at the manager of Babcock Village apartments in a crowd, killing the manager and wounding two others before running off.  What happened next was a bunch of obvious government fuckups.  First the local police repeatedly kicked in the wrong apartment doors, in some cases throwing disabled people  onto the floor, before the RI State police took charge, ordering the apartment raids to stop as a video of the shooter was obtained, and the perimeter was secured.  The ATF soon took over and sent in their robot to take out the shooter.  The question remains did the shooter kill himself or did the robot.  Once the shooter was neutralized no effort was made to get medical treatment for those wrongly raided, and no attempt was made to let the families of those tenants know if their family members were safe.

            I was one person warning that such a shooting could happen for a decade as one of those tenants was my stepdad, who was responsible for scamming my father’s family out of our fortune between the 1970’s and 1990’s.  He did this with the help of lenihan law, who’s office had moved close to babcock village weeks before the shooting happened, and the shooter may have acted out of a paranoid ideation.  Additionally, the local police force, which had been acting like an out of control goon squad in the years leading up to the shooting, may have raided those apartments thinking that those tenants were sitting on a hoard of money and valuables and used the shooting to loot those tenants.  Overall the police did not do a spectacular job.

            Even more telling was the timing of the shooting.  The date of the shooting was on the anniversary of the Great Swamp Massacre of 1675, an important date to the indigenous peoples, and the date may have been chosen to send a message. Additionally, it occurred during the 350^th anniversary of the town’s founding, which few took note of.  Overall, a shooting which was mishandled, setting a bad tone for america and the World.