On Monday, Knoxville Police Department shot and killed 17 Anthony Thompson Jr. News of this shooting hit national media and was presented as if Ant was a school shooter who shot a cop before another officer bravely returned fire. National media then stopped talking about it. pic.twitter.com/h9X09XqLsR— Opossum Press (@OpossumPress) April 15, 2021
it was a lie, fucking shocker. The cop shot himself trying to pull a gun, turd DA refuses to release bodycam footage.
Reading the tweets so far- No the kid didn't have a gun. After the 1st cop shot himself in the foot (quite literally), there was a 2nd one who then clapped the kid. In a school's loo of all the places.
I’ve read a bunch of other stories and other twitter threads and it does seem like he may have had a gun. The long story was that his girlfriends stepdad had badly beat him recently and said he was going to do it again outside of school. So Ant brought a firearm for protection and the stepdad then called the cops and said he was going to start a school shooting. Which also yeah he may not have and the stepdad lied. Really no good info out there.
But yeah there’s really no clear story from the media except they say he had a gun that may or may not have discharged but that it didn’t hit anyone regardless. So fuck them.
Reading the tweets so far- No the kid didn't have a gun. After the 1st cop shot himself in the foot (quite literally), there was a 2nd one who then clapped the kid. In a school's loo of all the places.
Jesus Christ why the fuck.
I’ve read a bunch of other stories and other twitter threads and it does seem like he may have had a gun. The long story was that his girlfriends stepdad had badly beat him recently and said he was going to do it again outside of school. So Ant brought a firearm for protection and the stepdad then called the cops and said he was going to start a school shooting. Which also yeah he may not have and the stepdad lied. Really no good info out there.
But yeah there’s really no clear story from the media except they say he had a gun that may or may not have discharged but that it didn’t hit anyone regardless. So fuck them.