"a theater patron"

[kpete]

“Theater Patron” is how CNN would like you to remember a monster. The media truly is complicit

11:16 p.m. : The weapon used in the shooting was a handgun, said police Sgt. Brooks David.

10:52 p.m.: Authorities said they know the identity of the shooter but are withholding it so as not to "affect the integrity" of the investigation.

10:45 p.m.: He is a 58-year-old white male who was a theater patron fired multiple shots, said Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police. The shooter was acting alone and is deceased, he said. There were about 100 people inside at the time.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/louisiana-theater-shooting/index.html?sr=tw072315louisianashooting1130pVODtopPhoto
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/624421594987921409/photo/1

[jberryhill]

1. Ah, yes, a "theater patron"

No doubt he was a substantial contributor to the production of As You Like It, which was the debut performance of Phoenix Alabama's Shakespeare In The Park summer series.

[n2doc]

2. Yeah, he was legit. He paid his way in.

A real "Patron of the Arts"

[MisterP]

13. I'm seein' opera glasses, crinolines, maybe even a mass of egret feathers

[ann---]

3. Well, how else would

you describe him? He went in there under the guise
of being a "theater patron" and probably had to pay
to get in. The description distinguishes him from a "theater
employee," e.g. Why be so petty?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. And as opposed to someone who busted in, guns blazing.

[ann---]

6. Except, that's not

what he did. It was reported that he was seated in a
row and got up after about 20 minutes and started
shooting. He did leave the theater to reload and
ran back in when he saw the police, and then killed
he himself.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. I was agreeing with you.

[ann---]

8. oops

sorry

[DetlefK]

4. What if the shooter was "arrogant" or "had smoked marijuana"?

You know, like the rumors that are now spread to make Sandra Bland's death seem like her fault.

(I guess that's why they want to re-do the autopsy: Because they didn't find marijuana the first time.)

[Igel]

14. Give it a chance.

Bland was arrested on Friday. The pot allegations surfaced days later.

If you want to compare, compare when you can. Keep a list, don't rely on memory. Otherwise, you're remembering what sticks out and is important for Bland versus stuff that you really don't care about for what's-his-face.

BTW, the county had one autopsy. One. Only one. Perhaps they redid the autopsy to come up with the only autopsy results, perhaps they relied on the first autopsy result and not the second to come up with the only autopsy results. Either way, that sentence is utter semantic hash.

[LiberalAndProud]

16. You do understand that they asked for her body back for a redo.

Of course, this was after an independent autopsy had already been performed. So that's not suspicious. And the mj allegations are unmitigated bullshit. This is a coverup of murder, and I suspect the murderers will get off scot fucking free.

[Nye Bevan]

9. When OJ Simpson was referred to as a "Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL player"

during his murder trial, I gave up on the media and have never returned.

[B_Mann]

10. Yea, we should call him something more hateful

to make us all feel better about it.

[arcane1]

12. Isn't it accurate?

If he were referred to as a "murderous lunatic" then it would be editorializing.

[Igel]

15. Yes, but we can read the CNN editor's mind and know

that (a) he's a he, (b) he's white, (c) how he wants us to remember this particular killer, (d) at all future references he'll always be the "theater patron."