From Newsgroup: alt.law-enforcement

The round that struck a U.S. Secret Service officer during Saturday's
shooting outside the ballroom where the White House Correspondents'
Dinner was taking place was not friendly fire, multiple senior law
enforcement officials told CBS News Wednesday.

Justice Department investigators, working with the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have at this point determined that the suspected gunman, 31-year-old Cole Allen, fired his shotgun, the
officials said.

A source familiar with the investigation previously told CBS News that a
total of six shots were fired when the gunman charged a security
checkpoint at the Washington Hilton rCo one by the suspect, and the other
five rounds by the Secret Service officer who was struck in his
bulletproof vest.

Two sources familiar with the investigation said the shot that struck
the agent likely hit the cellphone that was tucked inside a pocket of
his bulletproof vest. The officer was not seriously hurt.

Allen, of Torrance, California, fell to the floor during the incident
and was arrested at the scene, officials said. He was not wounded during
the incident.

He has since been charged with attempting to assassinate the president
of the United States, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence,
violent crime and transporting a firearm in interstate commerce with
intent to commit a felony.

He made his first federal court appearance Monday, but did not enter a
plea.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-officer-shot-white-house-corr espondents-dinner-not-friendly-fire/

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Red states are cheaper to live in than blue states because like hotels, shitholes cost less than habitable ones.



The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has
exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in
every year from 2000 to 2020. Over this 21-year span, this Red State
murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red
state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state
murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020. Altogether, the
per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State
murder rate when all 21 years were combined. If Blue State murder
rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states
would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed,
overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than
Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18
of the 21 years observed.
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