Kalamazoo shootings

[Inky_Wretch]

Six dead. Reports are some guy was driving around and randomly shooting people.

UPDATE: 'Strong suspect' in custody in Kalamazoo Co. shootings

 

[BDC99]

WTF?

 

[User 4332]

Death toll up to seven now. Sickening.

 

[Dick Whitman]

45-year-old man in custody.

 

[TigerVols]

45-year-old white man in custody.

Otherwise he'd be dead.

 

[TigerVols]

As a totally inconsequential aside, I found this story-padding graph at the end of the LAT's AP story a bit odd.

Police revise death toll to 6 in Michigan shootings

Kalamazoo, with a population of about 75,000, is about 160 miles west of Detroit. It is home to Western Michigan University and the headquarters of popular craft beer maker Bell's Brewery. The city also is known for the anonymously funded Kalamazoo Promise program, which has paid college tuition of students who graduate from Kalamazoo Public Schools for more than a decade.

 

[SFIND]

 

[Dick Whitman]

So was he shooting his passengers or shooting other people at the sites of his drop-offs?

 

[Dick Whitman]

This is absolutely Uber's worst nightmare come to life.

 

[Vombatus]

I keep thinking this might have been a kazoo-involved shooting.

 

[heyabbott]

45-year-old man in custody.

Middle aged White Christian male Uber Driver. The Trump demographic

 

[exmediahack]

This is absolutely Uber's worst nightmare come to life.

Especially if some taxicab union was behind it. Can't help but wonder.

 

[SnarkShark]

Wait, what?

 

[Songbird]

As a totally inconsequential aside, I found this story-padding graph at the end of the LAT's AP story a bit odd.

Police revise death toll to 6 in Michigan shootings

Kalamazoo, with a population of about 75,000, is about 160 miles west of Detroit. It is home to Western Michigan University and the headquarters of popular craft beer maker Bell's Brewery. The city also is known for the anonymously funded Kalamazoo Promise program, which has paid college tuition of students who graduate from Kalamazoo Public Schools for more than a decade.

Whoever edited it is probably from Kalamazoo and inserted it.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Perhaps it's because it happened on the weekend, or that it occurred in flyover country, but it's interesting that this event doesn't seem to be getting a ton of news buzz here and elsewhere. (It also competed with a presidential primary and caucus.) Maybe news organizations are slightly wising up and not turning mass death into mass entertainment for a change.

I feel compelled to note, as always, that this is the society we've chosen. We have freedoms that most world citizens can barely fathom. The trade off is that you may just get gunned down by a crazed Uber driver while shopping for a car with your son. It's relatively rare and unlikely, but it does happen to people. No need to get too worked up about it any more. This is how we want it, and I suppose that's OK.

 

[cranberry]

Especially if some taxicab union was behind it. Can't help but wonder.

You think a taxicab union may have been involved in a murder spree by an Uber driver? Really?

 

[Vombatus]

You think a taxicab union may have been involved in a murder spree by an Uber driver? Really?

Cran, maybe. For example, this guy is supposedly still alive:

 

[Iron_chet]

Might have got more attention if the driver's name was Mohammed.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Perhaps it's because it happened on the weekend, or that it occurred in flyover country, but it's interesting that this event doesn't seem to be getting a ton of news buzz here and elsewhere. (It also competed with a presidential primary and caucus.) Maybe news organizations are slightly wising up and not turning mass death into mass entertainment for a change.

Or maybe it's just that one of these happens every couple of weeks in this country nowadays and it's no longer shocking.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Or maybe it's just that one of these happens every couple of weeks in this country nowadays and it's no longer shocking.

CNN has a three-hour orgasm every time a shot is fired in public in America in the proximity of white people, hoping for a high body count. They aren't jaded by a long shot.