Month: May 2018

3 Months After Parkland Shooting, Survivors Shaken By Chilling New Video

source: https://goo.gl/GjLMMt
It has now been more than three months since the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left seventeen innocent students and staff members dead. As the entire nation continues to mourn with the families affected by this senseless tragedy, a chilling new video has surfaced, leaving survivors of the shooting shaken.

Prosecutors on Wednesday released never-before-seen cell phone videos of Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz planning the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead, WPLG-TV reports. “You’re all going to die. Pew pew pew. I can’t wait,” Cruz says to the camera in one chilling video.

The 19-year-old introduces himself as “Nick, the next school shooter of 2018,” in the footage, then names the type of gun he will use to carry out the February 14 shooting — an AR-15 rifle. He says that the shooting “will be a big event,” and that everyone will know him. Cruz also lays out part of his plan — to take an Uber to the school.

Cruz was able to obtain the gun he used to kill 17 people at MSD because he was part of a controversial program rolled out by the Obama administration which prevented him from being arrested for crimes he committed as a teenager. Without an arrest record, he was easily able to pass a background check, bypassing gun control laws instituted to prevent this kind of massacre.

Broward school district officials admitted Sunday that the confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman was assigned to a controversial disciplinary program, after the superintendent repeatedly claimed Nikolas Cruz had “no connection” to the alternative punishment designed to limit on-campus arrests.

Two sources with knowledge of Cruz’s discipline records told WLRN he was referred to the so-called PROMISE Program for a three-day stint after committing vandalism at Westglades Middle School in 2013. [Source: WLRN]

In other clips, Cruz talks about his state of mind, saying, “I am nothing,” and, “My life is meaningless,” and, “I hate everyone and everything.” He ends the footage by professing his love for a girl named Angie. It’s unclear who she is, but Cruz says he looks forward to meeting her in the afterlife.
As the newly released videos of Cruz show that he had meticulously planned the shooting at MSD, prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty in his case, according to News4JAX. Meanwhile, Cruz’s legal team has advocated for a deal in which the teen would plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison.

As expected, the videos have been excruciatingly difficult to watch for survivors of the shooting and the parents of victims. Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting, told CNN that he felt conflicted by the release of the videos. He doesn’t want the shooter to get more publicity, but he also believes the recordings are important evidence.

Pollack said Cruz, who has a history of treatment for mental illness, won’t be able to claim at trial that he was insane or that he didn’t know what he was doing. “He knew what he was doing,” said the grieving father. “It’s all premeditated murder.”
Please continue to keep those affected by this tragedy in your prayers. While time eases all pain, it will be quite awhile before the friends and families of the Parkland victims find peace.

Facebook has greatly reduced the distribution of our stories in our readers’ newsfeeds and is instead promoting mainstream media sources. When you share on social media, however, you greatly help distribute our content. Please take a moment and consider sharing this article with your friends and family. Thank you.

Woman Speechless After What She Just Caught Trump’s Navy SEAL Interior Sec Doing On Side Of Road

source: https://goo.gl/DHgFNK
A Tennessee woman was experiencing major car trouble when a good Samaritan at a gas station stepped in to help her with a jump-start. Belinda Drew was driving her daughter’s Buick to work on Sunday morning at the Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort in Gatlinburg when she decided to stop for gas. The station was near the Smoky Mountains. She turned off the car and got her gas, but when she tried to start it up again, the car would not oblige. Drew saw two men standing outside the gas station and asked them for help and some jumper cables. That’s scary all by itself these days, but this time it had a happy ending.

What Belinda didn’t know was that she was asking U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander for help. Two really terrific guys. They just happened to be in the area to promote The National Park Restoration Act.

The two men pulled their SUV up next to her broken down Buick and got under the hood to hook up the cables. Drew told the local paper, “The car started right up.” I’m sure they let it run for a few minutes to charge before removing the cables as well. “I’m taking pictures of the hood of my car up because my boss won’t believe me saying my car is broken down because I already have a car in the shop … I want to show him I’m getting work done on my car,” she said.
According to Knox News:

“The gas tank on her daughter’s Buick is on the opposite side of the car she’s used to driving, but by the time she realized it, the Buick was off, keys out of the ignition. When she got back in the car to turn it around, it wouldn’t start.

“I said, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.’ It was just d**d,” she recounted Monday.

It was then that Drew noticed two men standing outside of a Chevrolet Suburban parked with the rear facing the Pilot store. It had a U.S. government license plate, but Drew didn’t think twice of it. She asked the men if they had jumper cables.

What she didn’t know but would soon find out was the car belonged to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke who had joined U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Saturday to promote The National Park Restoration Act.

“I didn’t pay that much attention to it. It could have be (government) roadwork or something, I didn’t know,” she said laughing.

As she tells it, the men pulled the Suburban next to hers and a different, older man got out and connected the cables all while Drew was taking photos to document the event.

“I’m taking pictures of the hood of my car up because my boss won’t believe me saying my car is broken down because I already have a car in the shop … I want to show him I’m getting work done on my car,” she said.

The car started right up. Drew and the man exchanged pleasantries, the two shook hands and the man handed her what Drew said felt like a silver dollar.

Once she was in her car she looked over the medallion and realized who had helped her out.

Zinke’s name is on one side of the coin, the department’s logo on the other. Later that night, when talking to her son, it began to sink in. Her son told her the man was in line to become president.

“I wouldn’t expect someone like that to help me out … leave it to me, if it was President Trump I probably would have asked him too,” she said laughing.

When asked about the event, Zinke’s press secretary, Heather Swift, said the secretary did in fact give Drew a jump. He said she was a nice lady and it was the right thing to do.”

This isn’t the only time that Zinke has done something above and beyond. Every week in DC through the Park Service, veterans get together to clean the Vietnam Vets Memorial Wall. The labor is intensive, but in the end, every inch of the 247-foot wall gets sprayed down, scrubbed by hand and polished. On Sunday, April 9, the Virginia and Maryland chapters of Rolling Thunder rode up to the memorial before sunrise. Clad in leather motorcycle gear with a colorful array of patriotic patches sewn in, a dozen members of the iconic biker club, most of them veterans, ready for an hour of washing and scrubbing the black wall.

They had the special company that morning. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stood