Yesterday news came out of Texas that someone had gone into Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church with an AR-15. Here's the rundown that we had as of yesterday on what exactly happened, from Houston Police Department Chief Troy Finner:
HPD Chief Troy Finner breaks down the shooting that occurred at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Texas.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 11, 2024
He says the female shooter is deceased. A 5-year-old child is in critical condition, and a 57-year-old man was shot in the leg. pic.twitter.com/ILRsjDmb0p
So we were told that a woman entered the church with a 4-to-5-year-old child and began to fire her gun before she was taken down by off-duty police officers who seemed to have been making extra money working security. Thankfully due to the quick actions of these men, the casualties seem to have (thus far) been contained to the shooter, which we can all be thankful for.
Now, a day later, we're getting more information on just who exactly this shooter was and we're not betting on the Democrats trying to use this case as a rallying cry any time soon because if reports that are coming out are accurate this shooter is one they're really gonna want people to forget about.
🚨 BREAKING: Lakewood Church shooter identified as a transgender, legal name Genesse Moreno but went by the name “Jeffrey.” 🚨 pic.twitter.com/0gmgybgOLC
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) February 12, 2024
We're sure they're going to be just as interested in discussing the actions of this transgendered shooter as they have been in people talking about the trans shooter in Nashville and her manifesto. Is there anything else that might have motivated this attack, though?
CNN reporting that the shooter at the Osteen Houston church had “free Palestine” written on her gun.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 12, 2024
She was luckily stopped by two off-duty police officers.
(H/t @DeadStateTweets) https://t.co/fgVKHt5qYI pic.twitter.com/sGMvgKFnEs
UPDATE--
We have since learned there was a sticker that read, 'Palestine' on the gun.
From Townhall.com:
According to Commander Christopher Hassig of HPD's homicide division during Monday's press conference, the sticker simply stated "Palestine" on the long gun's buttstock. In addition to the Anderson-manufacturing AR-15, which she used to carry out the church shooting, Moreno possessed a .22 caliber rifle by Blue Line Solutions on her person, but it was not fired at the time.
Investigators are of course being super cautious on this one since it looks really bad for a lot of sacred cows on the left. 'The shooter had 'Free Palestine' carved into her gun, what could have been the motive?!'
> “Free Palestine” carved in the gun
— Ahmed Al Asliken 🕋☪️✈️ (@assliken) February 12, 2024
> motive unknown
The new “he shouted allahuakbar, but we don’t know the motive” https://t.co/m1lcshBxZU
And despite the shooter having been born in El Salvadore and having the last name Escalante-Moreno, it's a 'white non-Hispanic who was doing the shooting.'
Lmao https://t.co/vZ3bVcy68r pic.twitter.com/0Iu9BrBq9Y
— June (@junebotprolly) February 12, 2024
And, again, the fact that the shooter was transgender seems like it's an important element of the story.
BREAKING: The Lakewood Church shooter was transgender. He went by the name “Genesse” and previously “Jeffrey.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 12, 2024
Another act of trans terrorism. We need to have a national conversation about the LGBTQ movement turning youth into violent extremists. pic.twitter.com/CqrbbMKEw2
BREAKING: Joel Osteen church shooter identified as Genesse Moreno, also went by Jeffrey: local mediahttps://t.co/NiCBAgnCmIhttps://t.co/NiCBAgnCmI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 12, 2024
Yeah, this story might as well have been created in a lab to contain every element of modern leftist-inspired culture in one shooter.
So it *is* possible to transition to another race after all.
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) February 12, 2024
Insane! They actually labeled her “White”…DEI strikes again. This was purposely done to skew the data—💯 pic.twitter.com/xerTOh2qEG
— Liberacrat Media™️ (@Liberacrat_) February 12, 2024
Yes, the story may fade from the headlines but the shooter's inclusion in the 'white' statistics on gun crime will be folded into the greater narrative by the left and no one will know about it.
I don't see NBC News writing an article about THIS.
— U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) February 12, 2024
Unless they can find a way to somehow make this all Joel Osteen's fault, then they'll be blaring it from the rooftops... or at least select elements of it.
Born in El Salvador with a Hispanic name and appearance but identified as non-Hispanic white?
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) February 12, 2024
She's trans everything!
Another Joe Biden supporter shot up a bunch of innocent people
— Philip Anderson (@VoteBidenOut) February 12, 2024
If there’s a manifesto for this one, it won’t be released because it will contain everything you expect it to. Just like in Nashville.
— Dave Benner, Nemesis of Neocons (@dbenner83) February 12, 2024
It's somehow always too dangerous for us to hear what these sorts of shooters who are on the left have to say, while the entire social media history of anyone who's even vaguely right of center who commits violence is always guaranteed to be dumped out by every news service within minutes of it being known about. Isn't that weird?
So this sounds like an attempted mass shooting, stopped by people carrying guns in church, by a transgender pro-Hamass lunatic.
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) February 12, 2024
Wow, that checks a lot of boxes https://t.co/CIqrnJUOhl
It sure does.
Terrorist supporter, trans and an illegal immigrant. The Democrat trifecta. https://t.co/Eq6PQ16RIQ
— StartYourOwnLeague (@whisty111) February 12, 2024
Memoryholed in 3… 2… 1… https://t.co/BR7pLkcioV
— Two Words: Made in America (@MMMM_mmmm__MMMM) February 12, 2024
Is the lame stream media talking about the patterns? https://t.co/m9fvi8YXaJ
— salty Susan (@Susan77237285) February 12, 2024
When people on the left commit crimes they do it acting as lone nuts, it's only people who the media thinks might have been on the right that act in anything like a 'pattern'. Because liberals are the Good Guys, of course!
The gun probably came like that. No way this could be politically motivated.
— PhotographicFloridian (@JackLinFLL) February 12, 2024
"whether she was politically motivated or a disturbed individual"
— K M (@BayesianNuance) February 12, 2024
...as though these are somehow mutually exclusive?
so here they can't find the motivation here with the free palestine written on the gun?
— sh0nuff (@sh0nuff85) February 12, 2024
It's such a mystery!
Every time something like this happens and the media tries to memory-hole the whole incident it's a grim reminder of just how useless the vast majority of American (and global) media is. We'd love to be proven wrong that this will drop out of the news fast, but we won't hold our breath on it, this whole incident is way too problematic for a lot of narratives that our media doesn't want to see impeached.
There were signs that this person had serious mental illnesses, and those signs were presumably ignored because to call them signs of a mental problem is enough to get you canceled in many areas of life. It's also becoming more and more apparent that liberal talking points are radicalizing some people... this wasn't an isolated incident, this is part of a much greater trend that we've been seeing for some time. The ideas espoused by Liberals are encouraging people to go insane and act insanely, and until they realize this these kinds of things will only get worse. Don't let them ever tell you these are lone-wolf nuts acting for reasons of their own, they're just listening to what the Democratic Party is selling them and they're believing it.
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