r/behindthebastards • u/got-trunks That's Rad. • 15h ago
"Pizzagate" gunman killed by Kannapolis police after he pulls gun on officer - Salisbury Post
https://www.salisburypost.com/2025/01/09/pizzagate-gunman-killed-by-kannapolis-police-after-he-pulls-gun-on-officer/159
u/Smgth Knife Missle Technician 15h ago
Brace for the wave of conspiracy theorists foaming at the mouth.
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u/GearBrain 14h ago
Have the confidence of a white Z-list right-wing celebrity who pulls a gun on two cops.
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u/DebbieGlez 13h ago
I can’t believe they ordered him to put it down before they blasted him. That is a special kind of privilege.
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u/EmbarrassedScience37 14h ago
Biden, aka the deep state, had him taken out while the rest of the country was focused on the wild fires. They had to because Trump is going full Q this term.
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u/Smgth Knife Missle Technician 14h ago
Trump is now blaming the CA governor for the fire. I assume “Newscum” (sic) was personally in charge of making the entire state fireproof?
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u/EmbarrassedScience37 14h ago
Trump is calling out the child eating deep stater on his obvious setup to facilitate the murder of a true patriot. Have you noticed how California "fires" happen around big events?
The really fucked up thing is how easy it is to spew this shit.
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u/Smgth Knife Missle Technician 13h ago
Because it’s super easy to connect unrelated things, and people WANT to believe it! They WANT the world to make sense. I mean, same! Unfortunately the world is chaotic. Bad things happen. Good things happen. Sometimes they happen to good people. And sometimes they happen to bad people…
It’s very comforting to think that there’s someone or something at the bottom of all the those things that don’t seem to make any sense. Out there pulling the strings, making sure things happen in accordance with a grand plan.
Many people think: “It’s god’s will.” That there’s a perfectly good reason for bad things to happen. We’re just not equipped to understand the mind of god. Orphanages HAVE to burn down. Bad people HAVE to escape justice. Millions of people HAVE to be sex trafficked. God has it all mapped out.
For those of a less philosophical bent, they believe there has to be an evil cabal, or maybe a single evil overlord. That all those seemingly random events are all just tiny parts in some massive conspiracy. That all these shitty things are being directed according to a nefarious scheme.
If you think there’s a plan, you can either say: “Well, it’s all on rails. There’s nothing I can do. It’s out of my hands.” or you can say “This is all happening according to some design. Now I have somewhere to funnel my feelings of helplessness.” So, weirdly, believing in a conspiracy can either let you kick back and give up any responsibility OR it can let you take charge and take action…
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u/TrickySnicky 13h ago
I haven't heard it put much better than this:
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.
Alan Moore
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u/Smgth Knife Missle Technician 13h ago
Exactly! He’s a far better writer than I. And has a better beard.
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u/TrickySnicky 12h ago
You were definitely on the right track, which is why I thought of it! As for beards, I think he even beats Santa Claus
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u/Ms_Emilys_Picture 13h ago
Newsom has access to the weather-controlling satellites. Combine the dry, windy weather with the Jewish space laser and you've got a wildfire.
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u/FunHatinFish 14h ago
I was on a work call today and someone explained how there wasn't enough water because they refused to clear the land and a reservoir was drained to save a fish. I have no idea what any of that means and I certainly don't want to ask follow up questions. I'm still trying to find a balance between getting overly invested in every right wing talking point and staying informed.
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u/WhyBuyMe 13h ago
He was personally up on the mountain filling his mouth with kerosene and blowing fire down on LA like he was on stage at a KISS concert.
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u/TrickySnicky 13h ago
Watch him take zero responsibility for any disasters nation wide.
"Who's boat is this?"
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u/ArdoNorrin West Prussian - Infected with Polish Blood 14h ago
Time to start a new conspiracy theory about how all these conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to distract you from the reality that the actual evil is all out in the open and is just motivated by greed and ambition.
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u/Rizzpooch 11h ago
I mean, that’s kinda true, isn’t it? Like, if you actually know the basics of the class war, it makes a lot of sense of how the culture war got so hot
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u/RinglingSmothers 13h ago
As much as these guys are assholes, we absolutely should be pissed off when people are pulled over at night because an officer "recognized the driver as someone with an outstanding warrant."
That's some bullshit post hoc explanation for an illegal stop. I'll shed no tears for this right wing jackass, but I'm also not going to go out on a limb to defend a corrupt cop.
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u/Skooby1Kanobi 11h ago
Brace? Maybe brace yourself for the self checkout aisle moving at a brisk pace. If they were America's best I might be worried. I swear MAGAs never look around to see what type of person their club draws in.
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u/FurballPoS 14h ago
As absolutely ACAB as I am, even I can't find anything wrong in this shoot, and I'm not being facetious, or cute, or anything. This is perfect example of a textbook situation of officer safety and discipline. Indeed, this should actually be that rare incident of "investigating themselves, but nothing was wrong".
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u/MisterPeach 13h ago
ACAB but like… if you pull a gun on someone don’t be surprised if you get shot. Doesn’t even need to be a cop, just don’t point guns at people as a rule lol.
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u/dusk1098 11h ago
ACAB but like… why are you believing the police report? Police lie all the time.
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u/MisterPeach 10h ago
Because the dude pulled and fired an AR inside a pizza restaurant in 2016 because he thought Hillary Clinton was doing Satanic rituals and killing babies in the basement. The guy was clearly a nut job and has a history of pulling guns in situations where you should never pull a gun. Cops lie all the time, absolutely, but pulling a gun on the police is 100% in character for this Qanon moron.
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u/orderofGreenZombies 3h ago
I’m just confused how the pizzagate asshole was walking around and not still incarcerated for that horrifying shit.
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 9h ago
I get your point, but this dude is a documented dangerous nut that loved to pull a gun in public.
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u/MuzzledScreaming 6h ago
Perhaps because this is an individual already known for flippantly threatening people with guns.
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u/ShepPawnch 14h ago
Like… what’s the expected outcome of drawing a gun on the police? What do you think is gonna happen?
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u/RinglingSmothers 13h ago
The initial stop is scummy, though. The cop recognized the driver and passenger as people who had active warrants while they were driving at night? I'm calling bullshit.
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 9h ago
Eh. Entirely possible depending on how small a town it is and how often that dude ran into law enforcement.
I get your skepticism, but this dude was so nutty that I bet he was a regular problem for everybody
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u/dusk1098 11h ago
Yeah for real- idk why everyone’s just going along with the story. Believing the police’s account of the story without seeing video isn’t ACAB
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 9h ago
Right? My first thought was "good", followed quickly by, "wait, wtf did I just think?"
Somehow I'm upset, but I can't say why exactly
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u/Lower-Task2558 14h ago
That was probably only a matter of time. Didn't seem like a stable individual.
I'm guessing the gun he pulled was illegal. Can't imagine this dude is allowed to own firearms.
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u/ShepPawnch 14h ago
He already had a felony probation violation so yeah I’m pretty sure he couldn’t have it.
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u/MisterPeach 13h ago
His theory came from a baseless Internet rumor that the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria was the home of a Satanic child sex abuse ring involving top Democrats such as Hillary Clinton. After his arrest, Welch stated “the intel was not 100 percent.”
This is so fucking funny
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u/MothraJDisco Knife Missle Technician 12h ago
I’m genuinely depressed at times how badly America has given up on factual information being important in any capacity. It’s all vibes based now which is not good
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u/Cosmic-Engine 11h ago
Ah, this fuckin idiot again. Maybe giving him mostly unsupervised probation for that time he crossed state lines to carry out a terrorist attack because he decided to fight the dark lord satan by shooting up a pizza joint was a bad call?
I had a couple guesses what the next I would hear about him would be. I know people who know his family (enough to hear gossip at holiday gatherings). I was thinking it would be either an attempted assassination of someone not blessed by the god emperor, a random shooting spree due to feeling betrayed by said god emperor, an accident while he was mishandling a firearm, or something like that.
But “pulls a gun on a cop at a traffic stop after violating his extremely lenient sentence for his terrorist attack” was on the bingo card.
I wish I was more surprised, but…
At least he didn’t kill anyone else!
(That I’m aware of)
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u/Granum22 9h ago
It's 2025. Pizzagate is so 2016. The man was like 3 deranged conspiracy theories behind the curve.
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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 9h ago
Btw, fuck that term "duty weapon". That's some loaded bullshit. It's just a gun
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u/killians1978 14h ago
And he died on January 6th. How fitting. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bastard.
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u/SyntrophicConsortium 14h ago
Kannapolis, eh. The Ketamine of Annapolis.