A man who fired an assault rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in December 2016 while claiming to investigate the "pizzagate" hoax died this week after being fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

When officers recognized Welch and moved to arrest him, he produced a handgun from his jacket and pointed it at one of the officers, police said, and after refusing commands to drop the gun, two officers opened fire on him.

  • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]
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    12 hours ago

    So this violent stupid asshole has just been walking around free the whole time? You can get convinced to shoot up a random restaurant by 4chan and still be considered safe to be in public? But you shoot one health extortionist...

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    He learned absolutely nothing from his past mistakes. Looks like natural selection took this moron out of the gene pool.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
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    16 hours ago

    There's police brutality, but taking out a gun and pointing it at an officer is probably going to get you shot fairly quickly