Officials: Man criticized group before DC shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Officials: Man criticized group before DC shooting
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press, PETE YOST, Associated Press, By ERIC TUCKER and PETE YOST,
Updated 9:54 p.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man suspected of shooting and wounding a security guard at the Washington headquarters of a social conservative lobbying group on Wednesday made a negative reference about the organization's work before opening fire, a law enforcement official said.

Police said the man, identified as Floyd Lee Corkins II, entered the front lobby of the Family Research Council in downtown Washington around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, began arguing with a security guard and then shot him in the arm. Corkins, 28, was restrained by the wounded guard and others and was being held Wednesday night on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, the FBI said.

Authorities were interviewing Corkins to determine a reason for the shooting and were canvassing his neighborhood in Herndon, Va., outside Washington. TV news footage showed the suspect, a large man with a shaved head in an unbuttoned striped shirt, being led to a car in hand restraints.

Though authorities did not publicly reveal a motive, advocacy groups across the ideological spectrum condemned the violence, with some casting it as a hate crime. President Barack Obama was concerned about the wellbeing of the guard, a White House spokesman said, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also said he was appalled.


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[Dkc05]

1. another Teabagger. need to take guns away

Time to ban all guns take them away and this shit will stop

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Huh?

NO indication this person was affiliated with ANY group. Get a grip...

[Dkc05]

3. had a gun must be a teabagger

[davidthegnome]

4. I'm going to have to repeat Cooley's question...

Huh? And also... what?

[Cooley Hurd]

9. I'm going out on a limb here...

My guess is the poster is being ironic? For the sake of fomenting... perhaps an absurd meme that is being generated from a Democratic website?

[Dkc05]

13. huh what?

It was a bad person

[slackmaster]

19. Bad person. Wish him into the corn field with the others.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. MOOO-MEEE!

Awesomest child-actor EVER!

[slackmaster]

21. I feel a special bond with him and with Butch Patrick

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. You are completely out of ideas and facts when you equate "bad person" = tea party guy

You are completely out of ideas and facts when you equate "bad person" = tea party guy

That is the kind of blind logic (lack of logic) that prevails on sites like Free Republic. Please do not indulge in it here.

[heaven05]

36. what?

The Tea Party is the 21st century Nazi Party. Get real, apologist.

[Rebubula]

44. No....

....no it is not.

To compare some assholes with more inches on their waist than IQ points to a regime that murdered more than 8 million people (and another 20 million or so due to the war) is ridiculous stretch.


It is not apologizing to point out truth - you are being hyperbolic.

[heaven05]

56. Aynrand and mittflip

scare me. I feel they are dangerous racists with a hidden agenda for poor and minority peoples. They are fascist with money as their god and no conscience. You can say and feel what you please. They, if elected will turn out enough people into the streets, elderly and others who depend on safety nets to end up killing more than the nazis could have dreamed of. I will always feel this way about two individuals who want to turn the clock back to the 50's and I know what that meant for a lot of people of my generation. I DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH MY WELL-BEING OR WITH THE WELL BEING OF PEOPLE WITH LESS MONEY THAN THE class they belong to. Hyperbolic? Fine. You're entitled to throw around words you don't understand. I won't back off anything I have said.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Tea Party = Nazi Party? And you are the one saying "get real"? You need to do some studying

You never learned a thing about the Nazis. For one thing, they were socialists. They are big on the government running everything. The exact opposite of the Tea Party.

You've just heard a slogan and you run with it with no understanding like a schoolyard kid.

There is enough wrong with the Tea Party and the Republicans and the neocons and the con-cons that you don't have to make stuff up.

[maxsolomon]

50. they had Socialist in their party name

but they were most definitely NOT socialists.

[PavePusher]

51. There are many flavors of socialism.

The NAZI party was what happens when you cross socialism with rabid racism. The asshole cousin no-one likes to talk about....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

52. They certainly were socialists. Government ownership and direction of industry, ...

They certainly were socialists. Government ownership and direction of industry, ...

... lots of social programs (think Hitler youth) which of course had a double purpose of pushing the government agenda.

Once they had power they shifted to a pure power fascist totalitarian mode.

Rightwing / leftwing is an artificial dichotomy that makes little sense when all the dimensions are analyzed.

And equating the tea party with Nazism makes even less sense. Sure, they have fascistic and authoritarian tendencies, but they would have been squashed by the Nazis. They better watch out because their own platforms would squeeze them out of existence. They don't understand which side of their bread is buttered.

Ultimately the Nazis were self-organized and purposeful. The tea party are creations of the Kochs and other puppeteers and fight all the time between themselves between the social conservatives and the fiscal conservatives and the anti-mormon bigots, etc.

[heaven05]

57. yeah

yeah,yeah,yeah, they're still a very dangerous fringe group, which is where the Nazi Party started, as a fringe group. get a clue

[Bernardo de La Paz]

61. The clue we have and you need is that bogus over-the top claims fail when there is so much else.

Get a clue about Godwin's law. You just wanted to sabotage the discussion here by tossing in a Nazi.

When people run about throwing around the Nazi word because it is so emotive, they undermine the people who are trying to deal with reality.

There is more than enough to criticize about Republicans and tea parties (there's at least three) without polluting the water with unfounded charges. Yes, some tea baggers are racist. That doesn't make them or their party Nazi. Yes, some tea baggers are right wing authoritarians. That doesn't make them Nazi.

Read up on Godwin's law and you can kill discussions even better than you are now.

[heaven05]

63. not unfounded

you CANNOT face facts about your party. Learn real history, not that revised selective garbage you learned, I'd say take a few college courses, then get back to me in a few years. Have a nice election season protecting and apologizing for the teabaggers cum nazis, same thing.. Should be a very interesting season for you. buh bye. last word to you from me

[Bernardo de La Paz]

68. Yawn. It's not my party and I'm not apologizing for them. Run along now. Bye bye

[heaven05]

55. ohh

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I've studied THE NAZI PARTY all my life. The tea party is racist, homophobic, exclusive to white males and I am very sorry if I offended you and your party affiliations. Please forgive me I am sorry you can't see the forest for the trees and the tea party idiots for who they are. You go study your history and try to show some restraint. Of course the nazis were socialist , so! They were also, racist, anti-jewish and white male exclusive. I'VE been around long enough to smell a racist, dangerous group of people(teabaggers) when I smell them. Get a clue.

[bitchkitty]

58. Bullshit they were socialist.

The hell they were. I can call myself a fucking ballerina but I'll never be able to stand en pointe.

That "Nazis are socialist" meme is something I thought I would only hear while arguing with a dumb-ass conservative or tea partier, not here.

[cali]

59. oh for fuck's sake

and as for the tired and lame "apologist" dog shit: Codswallop, dear.

[cali]

65. I like to curse. It's actually that simple.

and your opinion hardly constitutes as some holy grail of truth.

Oh, not to mention that I didn't defend nazis. that is an offensive, totally inaccurate and completely over the line accusation.

[safeinOhio]

8. Rachel Maddow has a gun.

That doesn't make her a tea bragger any more than posting on DU makes you a Democrat.

[Dkc05]

10. but Rachel is not crazy...

She has one to protect herself from Teabaggers.

[snooper2]

39. LOL

It's easy to go through life when you keep things real simple isn't it LOL

[heaven05]

35. starting

starting with Giffords, Martin, the rest up to the PEACEFUL Sikhs, the shooter has been right wing reactionaries ridding the world of liberals and people with pigment in their skin. I think it's not a stretch to put this guy in the same group. Mittflip, Aynryan and Annie have contributed to this violence by painting our President black and liberal. Although I think the place he shot up has conservative leanings, so what's up with that So I'm gripping...

[Green_Lantern]

66. this guy is sounding more liberal...

He worked for an lgbt group in DC.

Liberals can get enraged and shoot people too.

It may be the culture or the divisiveness of American politics making someone turn to violence so quickly.

[DainBramaged]

11. NO everyone should have one of THESE

Then you could have contests to see who could even shoot the damn thing. Giant guns for everyone.



You see a guy walking down the street with a gun that big, you gonna take the day off.

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Ooh! My favorite weapon in the game "Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway"!

MG42: Mows the Nazis down! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap!

It's the weapon of choice when creeping up on the barn outside of Eindoven.

[Ash_F]

27. Not an mg42

Don't know what it is but it is literally twice the size of an mg42. Twice the manliness?

[Cooley Hurd]

30. Since I've only held a virtual MG42....

I will defer to your call on this.

[Marengo]

31. Lahti L-39 20mm Anti-Tank Rifle

[awoke_in_2003]

38. That photo...

is full of photoshop. It is so bad even I can tell.

[Ash_F]

48. No, Marengo was right

I googled it. That's a real thing. Was used in WWII

PS - That guy looks like he should have something like that.

[awoke_in_2003]

53. Ok...

The head on the body looks PSed, though.

[MicaelS]

54. No, it is real...

http://www.gunsandammo.com/2011/09/05/lahti-l-39-anti-tank-rifle/

[tjl148]

24. To early to tell

The article said the organization was conservative and the shooter was a volunteer for LGBT. That doesn't sound like a teabagger to me. I think we need to wait for more info on this one.

[maxsolomon]

49. Your concern is noted

[niyad]

5. sadly, it would not surprise me to learn that this whole thing was a set-up so that the fundies

and reichwingers would have something to whine about with those violent, angry, crazy liberals.

[Dkc05]

7. liberals don't shoot people. rednecks do

Sorry

[Cooley Hurd]

12. That can be true, but in THIS instance...

...there's no evidence to support your assertion.

[Dkc05]

16. the media will prove it out

[FreeState]

25. Seeing that the shooter was a volunteer for the Gay Center in DC

I doubt he was a tea bagger. He's most likely a deranged individual who snapped - like most of these shooting events.

[zeemike]

32. Or could be a teabagger undercover to create an incident.

But that would make it a CT and could only be discussed in the dungeon.
But on the other hand in the right wing boards the idea that he was an Obama Manchurian candidate will be openly accepted.

God did Puck know us well when he said "lord what fools these morals be"

[bushisanidiot]

37. My guess is that the Floyd Corkins who is a volunteer at the Gay Center in DC is this guy

http://www.apsva.us/domain/1408 a school teacher

and NOT the one they have in custody. The only witnesses to what this thug supposedly said were frc idiots with a political agenda.

[FreeState]

47. The center has verified they are the same people to the police n/t

[niyad]

14. you really missed the point, didn't you?

[PavePusher]

42. To repeat above: Huh?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army

Who's sock puppet are you?

[Llewlladdwr]

15. Yes, that's much more plausible than the shooter simply having mental health issues.

Being a liberal does not guarantee one's mental health.

[alfredo]

22. It was all over Faux News.

[niyad]

23. a station I NEVER watch

[alfredo]

43. I was watching an MSNBC feed when the breaking news on Faux broke in.

[niyad]

46. understandable then

[bushisanidiot]

33. I agree

the pic i saw of the guy didn't look to me like someone who would be a lgbt volunteer. he looks like a common thug, probably paid to pretend to cause a ruckus and get this story in the news. it's idiotic that he would take a chick fil a bag into the place. if he was pro lgbt, he wouldn't buy something there to show anyone. some moron came up with the whole set up. very very sloppy!

[Green_Lantern]

67. you don't like Occam?

The most plausible explanation is not a set up that also involves police who are investigating it.

[cali]

60. yawn. and that's what the wingnuts say when it's someone on

their side of the political spectrum. Face it: There are nuts who attach themselves to a certain political pov on both sides- though there are many more of them on the right.

[darkangel218]

6. I feel bad for the security guy :( hope he's ok

[Cooley Hurd]

18. Me too.

Poor dude went to work this morning probably NOT thinking he would end his day in the hospital w/ a gunshot wound.

[iamthebandfanman]

26. I dunno why ud shoot a security guard..

when its the group you hated...

i mean, the security guard was just there for a paycheck...


those crazy 2nd amendment liberals eh ?

[Kalidurga]

28. We have a lot of people growing up believing violence is the answer...

It happens in families of all political and apolitical stripes. It isn't really all that surprising we have a problem with gun violence. What shocks me is how easy it is for even mentally unstable people to get guns. I don't think the victims of gun violence care if the shooter is liberal or conservative it's probably the farthest question in their mind. That being said we can do a lot better ie mental health services and keeping guns out of the hands of unstable people.

[bushisanidiot]

34. Could they be mistaking the Floyed Corkins who they apprehended with this Floyd Corkins?

http://www.apsva.us/domain/1408

There is a Floyd Corkins who is a school teacher in Arlington. It is more likely that THIS Floyd Corkins is the volunteer at the LGBT center and not the thug Floyd Corkins that was apprehended at the scene.

[Brother Buzz]

40. The suspect is 28 years old

That PE teacher appears to be a bit older.

[bushisanidiot]

41. Exactly my point.

two different guys. the 55 year old looks to be the type of guy that would volunteer at an lgbt center, not the 28 year old thug.

[Marrah_G]

62. Even the left has unstable people

I hope the guard recovers quickly and the young man who did this pays the price for his actions.