Texas DA was shot 20 times, wife once, federal source says

[SpartanDem]

Source: NBC

A Texas district attorney was shot 20 times and his wife Cynthia was shot once when they were gunned down in their home on Saturday, a federal source with knowledge of the investigation told NBC News.

Earlier, an affidavit in the case said each of the victims sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The reason for the discrepancy was unclear.
The slayings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia have rocked the semi-rural town on the eastern outskirts of Dallas and beyond.

The brazen direct attack on the justice official comes weeks after Colorado's prison director Tom Clements was shot to death at his home, with a paroled white supremacist ex-con killed in a Texas shootout the main suspect.

Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/02/17571459-texas-da-was-shot-20-times-wife-once-federal-source-says

[iandhr]

1. Aryan Brotherhood or drug cartels....

... its possible the two aren't mutually exclusive.

There were reports a few years ago on white supremacists were in cahoots with the mexican cartels.


No stone unturned I think is a good policy here.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. It is amusing that all the left boards are convinced it was ABT, while all the right boards are

similarly convinced it was "the cartels."

[Cali_Democrat]

7. The assistant DA that was killed said himself he was going after the Aryan Brotherhood

That's why state a federal officials are probing white supremacist organizations. We already know the Colorado prison chief was killed by a white supremacist.

Now the Kaufman County DA himself was killed.

Only an idiot would think this is "the cartels".

Right wingers are idiots. According to them, white people never commit crimes so it has to be "the cartels."

[iandhr]

8. I agree with you 100%

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Me too

[Blue_Tires]

9. And when it's proven to be the ABT, all the RW boards

will shift the storyline to "The DA was a corrupt, power-mad, bible-burning, gun-grabbing, freedom-hating FASCIST!"

[Downtown Hound]

13. From a historical perpective, which one of those two sides has been right more often than not?

Right wing boards believe evolution is a lie, global warming is a lie, guns make people safer, there were WMD in Iraq, the United States doesn't torture, Obama is a socialist Muslim, Nazi, Kenyan-born dictator, corporations and banks will police themselves, and God hates gays. So if you want to be continually "amused" at the incessant stupidity of the right, go ahead. Personally I wouldn't even give them the slightest bit of credence at all.

[Moostache]

27. Agreed...right wing boards and the right wing media bubble are a strange place.

You left off just a couple other doozies:

- cigarettes don't cause cancer
- CO2 is not really harmful, in fact its food for trees!!!
- deficits don't matter, until the other guys are in charge, and then they are essential
- Africa is a country
- Putin raises up his head to start mischief in Alaska all the time.
- There is such a place as "Real" America
- war is peace
- hate is love
- division is the best way to unity
- 2+ 2 = 5
- Romney is STILL ahead in the polls
- Glenn Beck is wise
- Rush Limbaugh is sane
- Mike Huckabee has a chance to be President
- Obamacare is driving the deficit
- America's schools were better with prayer

Other than those, and many more that I missed, and the ones you already listed, the voices on the right are correct a lot.

[azureblue]

19. you are sick in the head

You find the deaths of these two people "Amusing"?

[rexcat]

21. That is not what the poster said...

Try re-reading the post. Your cognitive abilities seem to be lacking.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Wow, dude

Just wow.

[sendero]

30. You are sick in the head...

... in a different way, you cannot read and parse simple English.

[quakerboy]

24. Cant see as it matters much, either way, republican policies are at the root of it.

The background cause is either stupid drug laws compounded by social iniquity compounded by stupid immigration policy, or direct Rightist Hate and violence. Either way, Right wing policies are the basic cause of the events.

Unless he just pissed off a neighbor or his wife or something.

[Llewlladdwr]

26. Stupid drug laws are Democratic policy. nt

[quakerboy]

28. I would place them as primarily Republican

Democrats have their say in creating and maintaining stupid drug laws, but at this point, the Republicans are more the driving force in keeping them in full force.

[sendero]

31. I really doubt..

.. that you can prove that. I've watched closely for a long time and as far as I can tell Dems are elbow deep in this bullshit just like Republicans.

[quakerboy]

32. How many Democratic run states have

decriminalized or allowed Medical marijuana vs how many republican dominated states?

Im not saying that Democrats are blameless. But I do believe that you will find Democratic voters, at the very least, to be much less inclined to support stupid drug law when alternatives are available.

[Leslie Valley]

4. Race Riot In Arizona Prison

It might seem an unlikely alliance to some but it's not out of the realm of possibility where these gangs formed in prison are concerned.

It happened Sunday at the Whetstone Unit of Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson.
The riot involved 300 white and Mexican inmates fighting against 100 Africa-American prisoners and started around 9.45 a.m. in the unit which houses 1,250.
At least 17 inmates were injured during the free-for-all and two prison staffers suffered minor injuries – The extent of the inmates’ injuries wasn’t immediately available…

http://www.alan.com/2013/03/04/race-riot-in-arizona-prison/

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. Whats the Difference?

I thought the AB was a Drug Cartel. Don't they control much of the Prison Drug flow?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. 20 times???

Someone is sending a message.

[otohara]

6. Nah, It's Just So Easy to Pump 20 Rounds

of bullets into a body.

it's like a video game.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. In video games the machine gun is usually the weakest weapon.

[warrior1]

5. weren't they shot with a 223 round?

Over kill

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Looks like a pistol, but overkill in either case.

Clearly a 'message' as well as a murder.

[warrior1]

18. This article says it was AR15 223 rounds

http://www.ktrh.com/articles/houston-news-121300/texas-da-shot-and-killed-11130923/

[valerief]

10. If only there were more gun trees on his property, this never would have happened.

Gungeoneer logic

[Historic NY]

14. 20 times isn't a killing its a message.

[Blandocyte]

15. If it was ABT, remember the shitstorm the right caused when Napolitano cited right wing extremists

as a domestic terror threat? I'll be interested to find out who's claimed to be responsible.

[SCVDem]

17. If only they had weapons to fight back with.

[Redford]

22. They did have weapons to fight back with.

However, they were ambushed so by what they were saying on the Dallas News could have been as many as 4 men. They should of been better protected by the county and the Feds.

[DirtyDawg]

23. And you ask...

...under just what circumstances would our government consider using drones on U.S. citizens within our borders? In an effin minute...and all I'd need is proof that they had threatened to kill, were armed to the teeth and we knew where they were.

[Hekate]

29. More political assassination

The country is racking up quite a record.

[Locrian]

33. TYT did a good piece on this...

Tying it to Aryan Brotherhood etc and also discussing how this 'rot' has been brewing in out 'for profit' prison systems.