Good Job Garland PD!

Looks like it could have been another "Charlie Hebdo"

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/05/03/officer-and-two-suspects-down-in-gunfight-at-islamic-cartoon-contest-in-texas-possible-explosives-found/
 

Shots Fired at Mohammed Art Contest: Officer Down, Two Suspects Dead, Reports Claims Explosives in Area
GARLAND, Texas — Shots rang out this evening at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas during the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest. A law enforcement officer was shot and both suspects have been killed. Officers on the scene said that it is possible that explosives are in the area.

Attendees were immediately forced into lockdown by police, including three Breitbart News reporters. Sources say event organizer Pamela Geller and keynote speaker Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, are safe. Breitbart Texas was conducting a live video interview with Geller at the moment of the attack.

LIVE UPDATES FOLLOW:

UPDATE, 10:53 PM: The Associated Press has arrived at the scene. A witness says he heard 20 shots fired.


GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed, authorities in the Dallas suburb of Garland said Sunday night.

The City of Garland said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Sunday night that two men drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center and began shooting at a security officer.

Garland Police Department officers engaged the gunmen, who were both shot and killed, the statement said.

The statement did not say whether the shooting was related to the event. The security officer’s injuries were not life-threatening, the city said.

The gunmen’s vehicle may contain an “incendiary device,” according to the statement. A bomb squad was on the scene, and nearby businesses were evacuated.

The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative had been hosting a contest at the center that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Such drawings are deemed insulting to many followers of Islam and have sparked violence around the world. According to mainstream Islamic tradition, any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad – even a respectful one – is considered blasphemous.

Earlier Sunday, about 75 attendees at the contest were escorted by authorities to another room in the conference center before they were taken to a school bus. Authorities said they would be taken to another location.

Johnny Roby of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was attending the conference. He told The Associated Press he was outside the building when he heard around about 20 shots that appeared to be coming from the direction of a passing car.

Roby said he then heard two single shots. He said he heard officers yell that they had the car before he was sent inside the building.

Pamela Geller, president of the AFDI, told the AP before Sunday’s event that she planned the contest to make a stand for free speech in response to outcries and violence over drawings of Muhammad.

Though it remained unclear several hours after the shooting whether it was related to event, she said Sunday night that the shooting showed how “needed our event really was.”

In January, 12 people were killed by gunmen in an attack against the Paris office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had lampooned Islam and other religions and used depictions of Muhammad.

Geller’s group is known for mounting a campaign against the building of an Islamic center blocks from the World Trade Center site and for buying advertising space in cities across the U.S. criticizing Islam.

 
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UPDATE: Suspects had two AK-47’s according to police on the scene. The officer has been transported to the hospital. The suspects are still on the ground at the scene. They are not moving and are not being touched at this time until a bomb squad checks out their bodies.

It's coming.....

It's coming.....

Yes it is. Arm yourselves.

Oh boy.

 

I'm sure the mainstream media will cover this in a neutral light. As in, they totally won't ignore the Islam-connection and focus entirely on ASSAULT WEAPON FULL AUTO 30 ROUND CLIP AK47S!

 

If you see it at all.

I bet the price of admission will be super cheap to the next contest, to draw the best cartoon depiction of the prophet Muhammed.

 

hope the injured officer recovers quickly.

 

They're still laying dead on the ground while they deal with the possibility of a bomb in the shooter's vehicle.

Another instance of the second amendment defending the first.

 

C

They aren't coming. They are already here!!!

 

According to recent reports they have camps 8 miles from the US border across from El Paso, TX.

 

"During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.

 

Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.

 

According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.

 

Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations. ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, NM; Ft. Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, NM."

Let's see how our POTUS spins this one!

He'll apologize for allowing such an insensitive event

i am certainly glad that all of these illegal laws prevented this guy from getting his hands on any guns......

 

One of two gunmen in a Garland, Texas, attack on a cartoon contest featuring images of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed has been identified as Elton Simpson, a federal law enforcement source told CNN's Susan Candiotti.

The source said Simpson, who along with another gunman was shot dead by police, is thought to have sent a tweet before the attack with the hashtag #texasattack. "May Allah accept us as mujahideen," the tweet read in part.

Simpson was well known to the FBI, the source said. He was convicted in 2011 of making a false statement involving international and domestic terrorism and sentenced to three years of probation, court records show.

Simpson told FBI agents he had not discussed traveling to Somalia to engage in "violent jihad" when he had, according to an indictment reviewed by CNN.

The FBI says that its agents are at an apartment complex in Phoenix where the two gunmen lived.

Maybe these guys just wanted to enter the contest as chalk line models?

 

If so, we should have these contests more often. 

Can we do one of these around here?

 

I call dibs on the maple tree across the street.

Was just listening to Mark Levin on my way back from the library. They were saying the officer who stopped the two terrorists used a revolver!

 

Has anyone else heard this?

Don't mess with Texas

ISIS had to send their two dumbest recruits on this one.  I mean, it's dumb enough for two guys with AKs to try to launch a Charlie Hebdo-style attack on US soil let alone do it in Texas, one of the most heavily armed states in the country.  Whoever came up with this plan must have sent the two guys he hated the most or was after those two guys' goats...

Was just listening to Mark Levin on my way back from the library. They were saying the officer who stopped the two terrorists used a revolver!

 

Has anyone else heard this?

I know it was a motor-cop. I am unsure of the weapon used.

I know it was a motor-cop. I am unsure of the weapon used.

I think perhaps "service pistol" was being confused with "service revolver" on the show.  I don't think many officers carry revolvers.  Unless perhaps it was their back up weapon.

 

Regardless, two terrorist armed with AKs and officer stands ground and negates the threat with their pistol / revolover!  Don't mess with Texas indeed! 

Are you sure this wasn't work place violence? 

When are these goat humpers gonna learn...if you attempt to kill someone in Texas, we'll kill you back.

 

 

This signature is AWESOME!!!

Are you sure this wasn't work place violence?

I like this.

This pic won

 

This pic won

 

What does Wolverine have to do with this?

ISIS had to send their two dumbest recruits on this one. I mean, it's dumb enough for two guys with AKs to try to launch a Charlie Hebdo-style attack on US soil let alone do it in Texas, one of the most heavily armed states in the country. Whoever came up with this plan must have sent the two guys he hated the most or was after those two guys' goats...

if u noticed all of those losers and idiots (NYC, Boston, France, Canada, .... ) were not really bright ppl. I mean really really really not bright. even with the "training" they got.

and thank God for that !!!

What does Wolverine have to do with this?

lol that's funny.

What's that other hand on the left ?

The guy drawing it. It shows his caption

The result here (way to go, Texas!) reminds me of the famous saying from Admiral Yamamoto at the start of WW2: "You can not invade the American homeland.  There would be a gun behind every blade of grass."  At least in Texas, anyway....

The result here (way to go, Texas!) reminds me of the famous saying from Admiral Yamamoto at the start of WW2: "You can not invade the American homeland.  There would be a gun behind every blade of grass."  At least in Texas, anyway....

It could have been a case of, "Let's see what happens when we poke a hard target" to test our response too.

From a trainer I know that is a retired LEO in TX and works with Garland PD:

 

The cop has 38 years on the job and is 60 years old. He used an issued Glock 21 and was backed up by SWAT who got some 5.56 hits in as well.

This event is not over, or does it appear that it is going to be an isolated incident. Death threats are already coming in and it will be important to keep in perspective that Garland and US LE in general are now significant terrorist targets.

 

The terrorists have also been shown that what works in France is not workable in the United States. Wait until they figure out other states don't have the same protection of the full 2A as Texas does and that they lack a "gun culture" across the board.

 

The opening salvo on this went well. Hopefully, people will not sit around back slapping and realize that the bad guys ended up with the wrong cops.....guys who are shooters, take training and mindset seriously and are hard. That is NOT the norm. It needs to be.

 

Finally, remember, that old guys will just kill you!

 

This whole incident reminds me of a saying I've seen John Farnam write before: "When it's least expected, you're elected!"

Another instance of the second amendment defending the first.

 

C

 

I like that.  ^^^^^

 

 

And these guys were Islamist terrorists based on FBI findings.

So...  one might wonder why we wouldn't hold these Draw Mohammed contests (without real contestants) and just wait for the Islamists to show up for target practice?