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Armed man breaks into Colorado Supreme Court building, causes “significant and extensive” damage (www.denverpost.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A man shot through a window and broke into the Colorado Supreme Court building early Tuesday morning and caused “significant and extensive” damage in several areas of the building before surrendering to police, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

The man was involved in a crash about 1:15 a.m. near 13th Avenue and Lincoln Street a short time before he forced his way into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, which houses the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals and several other state agencies, according to a Colorado State Patrol news release.

This comes two weeks to the day after the state Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump cannot appear on the state’s primary ballot based on his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach and riot by his supporters.

Police were investigating threats made to the Supreme Court justices in the week after the ruling and increased patrols around their Denver homes following at least one “hoax report,” the Associated Press reported.

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Denver police officers and CSP troopers set up a perimeter around the building, and the man fired at police, Denver7 reported. Police did not fire back.

Well now we know he was probably white and Republican. They love to light up minorities, but they'll take their buddies they agree with to Burger King on the way to the jail and high-five them before the mugshot.

Cops are conservative authoritarians, and so they vibe with these fucking freaks.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile if it was a black dude the cops would accidentally shoot each other in their zeal to kill him.

[–] ViscountMochi 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They literally fired into a crowd of people when a black guy pulled out a gun in front of some bars downtown awhile back. Several innocent bystanders were shot by police.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

That's actually what i was referencing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Odd. They usually don't even need to see a gun to start firing.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This guy held up a member of the Colorado State Patrol at gunpoint, stole his keys, then broke into a building and shot at the police. I'm amazed he's still alive!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

White privilege.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 10 months ago

Republican take on this news: “Totally peaceful tourist visit. Also, let’s impeach Biden”

[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Terrorists. The whole MAGA cult is a bunch of terrorists.

[–] vexikron 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Its the majority of the Republican Party.

This is from CPAC 2022, the largest PAC for just generally promoting Republicans, had a bunch of prominent and popular Republican speakers as well as less well known and more insane ones.

Its basically 'Oh my god, he admit it.'

They all kept joking about being Nazis, then got offended when people got offended by that, then doubled down to the point that most of them just became indistinguishable from Nazis, but have propagandized themselves so well that they think anything that is not them is Nazis.

You can try and talk with some of the more moderate ones and they will not explicitly support 100% exactly fascist policies all the time in their little dream world of 'my perfect candidate', but they'll almost always vote for a fascist over anything else.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

The GOP was reduced to a criminal conspiracy when Ford pardoned Nixon.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago

Tell.me again how fascism isn't a real problem?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago

Maga people said they would do this

Maga people called for things like this to happen

Maga people have been making threats that this sort of thing would be done

Maga cops can't figure out why anyone would do this

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's interesting how often in stories like this where someone is doing something extremely violent or antisocial (the clinical definition of the term, not "asocial"), it begins with a car crash.

It paints a picture of someone who's being manic, impulsive, and has shut their mind off to long term consequences.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like that cop that crashed into a gay bar and then immediately arrested the owner? Yeah...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

And the Uvalde shooter crashed his truck on the way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Disassociation is both blinders to their current actions and the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Republicans remove mental health supports across the country because that's how they grow their ~~militia~~ base.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd just like to thank this deranged (and armed) madman for taking himself out of society, without killing random people (and himself) like an absolute coward. It warms my heart to know that another one of those folks is no longer a threat. Happy holidays.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life!

*whistles in tune

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Other reports show this might be a road rage incident with a nut job. Dude got in a crash with someone, pulled out a gun, and ended up breaking into the nearest building to hide.

The guy is bonkers, but it looks attacking the court wasn’t the primary goal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, or that was his plan all along to throw off suspicion once he realizes his targets don't live there :tinfoil:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Don't really know why you're being downvoted. This very well could be the case. I'm a Democrat but some of the stuff I see on here is a bit disturbing with how assumptions immediately come into play with 0 evidence.

People on here that are Democrats scream the right is the reason for all the disinformation and everything they read and do is a lie and yet this entire thread is full of no proof and may be proven to be disinformation. It's gross. Currently there is absolutely no evidence there is a link to the trump situation and yet assertions are being thrown around. Be better people. I fully expect to be downvoted into oblivion for speaking the truth because everyone wants to point at the opposite political party in every damn instance instead of it possibly being some geeked the fuck out person not having a damn clue what's happening

"WeRe ThE pArTy Of EvIdEnCe" obviously not because there's none to back up these claims. If it comes out this is due to the trump ruling then shit on them I don't care but stop doing this shit it's disgusting. You're not being any better than the right

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm a Democrat but some of the stuff I see on here is a bit disturbing with how assumptions immediately come into play with 0 evidence.

Can you really blame people for assuming the usual terrorists are responsible when an act of terrorism occurs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (19 children)

Terrorism is political or ideological. Is there any proof that this is actually terrorism, and not just someone having a mental health or substance crisis, or someone that was just a total piece of shit that was trying to flee an accident / assault with a deadly weapon incident?

The authorities didn’t think it was connected to the threats directed to the court.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The police said they don't think it was connected, but that doesn't mean it wasn't politically motivated, it could be a separate person from other threats. Though after seeing the picture of him and reading about it you're probably right. This article does have more info about the situation, apparently he drove to Colorado to see his kids, and he has drug problems.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this thread feels like a textbook example of internet-age confirmation bias.

Dude totally might be a MAGA nut job who wanted to break into that building that night, but this is a thing that started with a car crash and an argument where one of the parties pulled out a gun, and then fled. That seems like a really weird way to start an act of terrorism. And, the authorities are publicly saying there is no connection to the threats that that the court has received from MAGA nutters.

If I was a betting man, my money would be on someone doing nonsensical shit while being fueled by drugs or alcohol. But I’m someone who lives in a big metro area where tweakers and crackheads do shit like this on the reg. So maybe I have a bias to associate this with crime patterns that I often see around me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yup. It's an incredibly bad look for everyone doing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was suspecting it might not be about the Supreme Court itself, if it was, why would he break in at 1AM, when no one's there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Doing this after the car crash is also really weird. Sure, maybe this was a domestic terrorist attack, but it kind of doesn’t really fit the mold.

Also, the authorities publicly said they don’t think it’s related to the threats on the court.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Wait Denver Police DON'T have to aimlessly shoot at armed or unarmed people? But they said they HAD to when they shot a bunch of innocent people at a food truck a couple months ago!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

"no affiliation" my fat white ass.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Every fucking stupid, terrible, thuggish, violent thing that a MAGAt does in Trump's name should be done to Trump. Live streamed on all known outlets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

AROOOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

this is terrorism. the republican party is a state sponsor of terrorism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

How long until the right wing blames Antifa for this attack?

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