The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people:

A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died.

A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

Unless I'm not reading this correctly. There was no "frothing chud" who "tried to do a mass shooting". There was an open carry protester, who the "peacekeepers" believed to be a gunman. They engaged him, he fled, they shot at him, hitting him and killing another.

Utah is a permitless carry state. SLC has an open carry ordinance, and protests frequently see AR-15s being carried openly.

This environment makes threat assessment more challenging, which is why having armed "security" volunteers who lack extensive training is an incredibly reckless idea.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

ooooh the way it was worded lead me to believe someone was trying to do a mass shooting, wow what a bunch of buffoons.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the same thing. Now I'm confused and have no idea who's in the wrong lol.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

The volunteer "peacekeepers" with clearly no training for this situation hold the most blame from what I've seen. According to what I could surmise from reports and photos, they shot at a leftist who was non-threateningly carrying a rifle, in an open carry state where protesters have been openly armed a number of times, before even saying anything to him or warning anyone. He was in all black with a balaclava so I understand why they were afraid, really the blame more falls on whoever let them be "security" for such an event that definitely would have had threats against it from chuds.

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