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POLICE IN THE town of Antioch, Tennessee have shot dead a man who attacked cinema-goers with a hatchet and pepper spray during a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road, this afternoon.
Local media has reported that the suspect entered the Carmike Hickory 8 cinema, in the suburb of Nashville, at around 1.40 pm local time (7.40 pm Irish time), wielding a gun, hatchet and pepper spray.
A spokesperson for the Nashville Fire Department said the man left three people wounded: a 58-year-old man with “superficial cuts” to his shoulder, and two women aged 53 and 17. All three were suffering the effects of pepper spray.
Don Aaron, a spokesperson for Nashville police, said an officer came into the cinema and was fired upon by the suspect.
The officer shot back, then backed off. After that, a SWAT team came in, and there was another exchange of gunfire. The suspect was then found dead.
He had two backpacks, one of which was detonated by the Nashville bomb squad.
According to Aaron, the deceased was a 51-year-old local white man wearing a surgical mask.
The entire event transpired over less than an hour’s time. Aaron said the first call came in about 1.13 pm, and that two officers outside in the midst of a traffic stop responded within two minutes just as witnesses ran toward them.
Erick Vale, 32, an Uber driver, told The Tennessean newspaper that he was dropping off passengers in the cinema’s car park when he heard gunshots.
He described it as “utter chaos.”
I just couldn’t believe this was happening again.
Mattie Sanchez works at a phone shop near the cinema. She told the Associated Press that a man who had two backpacks and fit the description of the attacker had tried to enter a back door of the shop about 11 am.
One of our techs went to see what was going on and he was walking down the back of our store.
She said the man, who had dark hair and was wearing a yellow shirt, also walked in front of the store.
Sanchez said she later heard what sounded like “rapid fire” and saw the large police presence.
The latest shooting comes about two weeks after a gunman opened fire inside a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, during a screening of the film “Trainwreck.”
Police said John Russell Houser killed two people and wounded nine others before fatally shooting himself.
Contains reporting by the Associated Press.
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Let them eat cake.
@Bingobango: will the EU take pitta on the them
@Bingobango: Would that be the same cake Boris Johnson said they could have and eat?
On reading the headline I thought this must be Waterford Whispers. There really is a British Sandwich Association!
@James Darby: they seem to understand how to run a country better than May!
@Chucky Arlaw: and they know what side their bread is buttered on
@Tony Gordon: and its not mayo
Tip of the iceberg
@Dec Moran: there is other lettuce you know
@FlopFlipU: yeah called Teresa May!
@Dec Moran: overrated lettuce
@FlopFlipU: Just cos you know them, doesn’t mean he does
Recent polls from yesterday show nearly 70% of british want another referendum and would now vote to stay in the EU,what a cluster f##k
@dick dastardly: rightly so, it’s turned into a partisan calamity. 52% to 48% was too close to fully implement Brexit
@dick dastardly: Any Link to that poll ? Would be good if true but unfortunately not what I’m seeing.
@dick dastardly: According to the Sky Data poll it is 78% disapproval with the current handling of Brexit by May but it’s still 50/50 on another referendum, which poll are you referring to?
‘And there won’t be snow in Anglia this Christmastime
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is life’
Wait…they’ve a sandwich association????
@Graham: the shops on Dorset street should join the sandwich association because they haven’t a clue
Lettuce pray this doesn’t happen
British Sandwich Association… seriously? Hahaha
@David Burns: better than the Irish Onion Growers Association.
@David Burns:Yeah, but its very upper crust.
The UK are a Sandwich short of a Picnic for voting out
The scaremongers are scraping the salad bowl here….next up.
I was watching this. That MP, Fysh is some dope. Typical Tory brexiteer!
@Reg: seems fine to me, not the worst
Oh Dear ,
The Remoaners and the EU Lackey’s are really scraping the barrel with this one . Next they’ll be saying the Germans wont sell them Cars perish the thought
@John Porridge: Of course they’ll continue to sell cars in the UK. They’ll just be way more expensive in the UK, due to tariffs imposed for not being in the free market, if there’s a no deal Brexit. It’s really not that difficult to understand. Unless your a Brexiteer apparently.
@Mark Wallace: Im sure the German car manufacturers will be delighted putting tarrifs on their biggest export Market Mark duh ……..Hyundi anyone ??? Lol
@John Porridge: It won’t be the German car manufacturers imposing tariffs it will be the WTO. If the UK crash out without a deal the will fall under WTO rules.
@John Porridge: Hyundai…..which are also manufactured in the EU. That Hyundai?
@Francis Devenney: thanks for that Francis but the point im making is if tarriffs go on German Car sales into the UK which is their biggest export market then that means job losses in mighty Deutchsland , hence the Germans wont allow that. The Brits just need to use the strong hand they have which is the trade deficit over the EU.
@Reg: thanks Reg , the point is with tarriffs on car exports to the UK it means job losses for the Germans . Hence thats not going to happen so there will be a deal , the brits just need to hold their nerve
@John Porridge: No the Brits will still buy cars they will just pay more for them. Where else are they going to get them tariff free?
@John Porridge: you’re making a lot of assumptions there John, how do you know the EU will just give the UK a deal when the UK can’t work out what they actually want? Just assuming the EU will cave because of German cars is taking a big leap. The EU cannot afford to allow the UK with participation in the single market without following the rules.
@John Porridge: 1 in 7 German cars produced in Germany are sold in the UK. They’ll be grand.
@Francis Devenney: in this day and age possibly 10-12 % extra on a BMW . I doubt it Francis , well i drive a 5 Series and i wouldnt pay the extra 4-5k if it was to go up here as there expensive enough even though they are the best cars
@Dave Harris: hi Dave , my assumption is common sense will prevail and the germans are quite logical so there should be a deal . The UK voted to leave Dave , that means no single market or customs union , if they stay in either of those then their not leaving . Also the EU is controlled by Germany , they dictate the terms hence my point about the cars . Also , if the Brits do leave without a deal its ourselves who will suffer the most so i think the Brit bashing should be put away for a while dont ya think
@Mark Wallace: its actually 20% Reg of all German car exports , thats 1 in 5 so as i said before it would be within the germans interest and ours that a deal is done with the Brits .
Are they based in Sandwich?
@Michael Kavanagh: I doubt it. The term Sandwich comes from when the Earl of Sandwich used to order his meat between two slices of bread in his favourite club, of which I cant remember the name. Its a very English thing. Anyway the UK grows plenty of things to put between slices as they have a more diverse agricultural industry than ours. They have bumper crops of salad produce this year, as well as the grapes and apricots looking good. The wine industry is booming due to the amount of vineyards expanding at a massive rate and they are producing bubbly that knocks spots off champagne. If they get a tough Brexit they will be fine for sandwiches and bubbly.
lettuce brack in!
What a pickle
Fysh sounded like some brainwashed clown
@Seamus G: He seemed to equate import difficulties with a blockade, fysh is the one trying to create project fear.
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No meal brexit?
Greencore us the worlds (and the UK’s) biggest sandwich maker. They’ll just grow these ingredients in NI or mainland UK. Either way cant see trucks to the UK from Ireland being that distrupted.
wow the scaremongers are everywhere…they really scraping the bottom of the pit with this new tactic.can the eu not just let democracy run and let the uk leave for the love of everything that is holy….
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