Law enforcement officials released a ‘preliminary’ description of the still at large suspect of a mass shooting at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna also said there was possibly a related incident in a neighboring town soon after the shooting and described the conditions of injured victims.
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#California #Shooting #LunarNewYear
Gun law will never work. The bad guy will always have weapons
Liberals still waiting for the way to blame White men
And conservatives looking for a way to blame black men
They were mentioning a hate crime earlier. All that talk has gone away… I wonder why ?
The Coulter Effect rarely misses.
@Entire GLXY Who commits 80% of Asian hate crime? Please post a link to the official government data on that statistic. Thank you.
@James Peter Here’s another one so used to being spoonfed information that they can’t do 2 mins research.
Go check the stats yourself and then check the population that are white and and those that are black and you’ll have your answer as to why that narrative was dropped the other year so quick.
Just like the people that like to deny around 7-8% of Black people commit nearly 50% of the murders alone but of course theirs no problem within the communities it’s all down to systemic racism and the evil white privilege that’s everywhere 😅
@Presid3nt Evil I did some research, but couldnt find any statistics showing who commits 80% of Asian hate crime. If you have the answer, it should be very easy for you to just post the link to the official data, instead of ranting on Youtube. If you think that Black people commit nearly 50% of murders, you are dumber than a rock. I cant do the research for you. Prove your claims, or shut up.
@Entire GLXY Actually official hate crime statistics were released recently (FBI) the majority of hate crimes against Asian people are still committed by white people.
@Entire GLXY Well this is not true.
The CCP is here in the US.
ppl like this shouldnt get a trial…ppl like Dahmer shouldnt have a tv show…ppl like Ezra Miller gets a whole movie….u cant defend yourself or u go to jail..This whole world both idolizes and protects evil all thru a guise of “we treat criminals better than they treated their victims” WHAT A JOKE. After slavery, why is this country trying to prove it is self righteous. Double standard.
The Spanish Conquistadors brought African slaves to the New World in 1502. They bought them from Muslim slavers. The Spanish Conquistadors enslaved Native people in a system called encomienda. They depleted the Native populations and brought African slaves to continue working the plantations and mines. All those Spanish ships that sank in hurricanes were loaded with precious stones, gold, and silver produced by slave labor. They were taking the wealth to the King and Queen of Spain. The genocide of Native people was started on the island of Hispaniola by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Slavery has existed for thousands of years. The Ottoman Turks enslaved Slavic people. They also captured and enslaved other White Europeans and Americans. Muslims still practice slavery in 2023. Let’s stop the Democrat prosecutors and judges from letting criminals out on bond to commit more serious crimes. In the US we use the English Common Law system that guarantees the right to trial by jury and to face your accusers. It’s all in the US Constitution. They used to just string up people back in the old days. People get their day in court now. It’s the Media that milks the sensational aspects of crime. They’re still trying to solve the Jack the Ripper case that’s been well over a hundred years ago. People are fascinated by crime and repulsed at the same time.
Either white or Asian I bet
Too early to assume it was a triads or yakuza?
“A federal appellate judge recently ordered that Flynn must provide testimony to an Atlanta-area district attorney who called Flynn a ‘necessary and material witness’ to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Justice Department prosecutors investigating the events of Jan. 6 are reportedly examining Stone’s alleged ties to violent extremists who attacked the Capitol.”
I’m glad they took time to release information. People were saying it was a hate crime but technically it still was. This is horrible and on their new year
Thank god it wasn’t a hate crime eh . I bet the family is relieved it wasn’t a hate crime
Can you imagine the police saying your child has just been shot dead by a maniac ……. And their first concern is …. Please don’t let it be a hate crime …… officer says it wasn’t a hate crime and they say …. Thank god it was not a hate crime
You really are the lowest type of person aren’t you
@DarkStar2077 White males everywhere breathed a collective sigh of relief upon hearing that the suspect was Asian. I know I did.
@Mathew
Why ?
Do you assume all blacks are robbers just because one robs someone
You have some real issues
It’s a majority white country
13% Black – 86% crimes committed by blax
It’s not hate crime.
@DarkStar2077 … They just stated it was ‘probably’ a hate crime… Never confirmed it and left it open for question. The comment was meant to be a condolence to the family, not a drama shrama reddit battle.
Btw, if the Vietnamese man targets a group of Chinese during a Lunar New Years event… that would be a hate crime. Asia isn’t a country. It’s a continent.
BUT idc about the label.
All I care about is sharing grievances with my community, but I stumble upon trolls like u in here, and it’s starting to disgust me. (Literally, I’ve seen ur other comments, and it’s all immature bs.)
Cut to description.
Asian male
@devout misanthrope
Thank you.
How much you wanna bet it was a Hmong?
Keep making guns laws and keep making yourself a target. There’s only one way to stop something like this, get a gun a training for yourself and for your family.
Pull out the city cameras, call in fbi, he must be on film somewhere… 🤔
At this point I have zero sympathy for America if someone constantly jumped of a roof breaking there legs been told by everyone not to do it. Yet they kept doing it how can you feel any sympathy. As long as you sell guns you will have these shootings it’s going to take a few children of a president to get caught up in this before they try change. You need a license to drive a car why don’t you at least have to pass a test and have to renew every 5 years.
Apart from california has some if the strictest gun laws in the USA, there is a right to bear arms, meaning you don’t need a license, but you do need to pass background checks.
The UK also has very strict gun laws, doesn’t stop regular shootings in big cities. Like Elle Edwards, killed in a drive by on a pup on Christmas eve 2022 in Liverpool.
Turns out criminals don’t follow the law.
@Quillo correct we have isolated gun shootings usually criminals against criminals but I. America you have mass shootings weekly school shootings monthly and it won’t change until the law does. We had a school shooting once then pretty much banned handguns and made it very hard to own a rifle or shotgun. The right to bare arms was to stop government takeover however if that actually happened you’d be crushed in under a week 90% of people wouldn’t fight the military they’d just rollover especially the soy boys there breeding over there now. But keep that right to bare arms at the cost of thousands of kids who will die so you can have the right to put down your gun and surrender if the government decide to turn on there own. WHICH WOULDNT HAPPEN BECAUSE THE ARMY IS MADE OUT OF AMERICA CIVILIANS. I’m pretty sure they’d all just disagree with the orders.
Lol Adam schiff I thought it was a white supremacist
It’s California so I knew It wasn’t a white or black person. I was betting on a Mexican honestly.
Stop hatred towards Chinese people, please!
Stop hate towards all people, please
@Susan Tierney you are right, but now I feel my people are being targeted. I feel scared.
🧐🤨
Its so sad hat the biggest threat to americans safety are not the terrorists or immigrants but just the americans itself.
Pathetic
The guy wasn’t white. Quick, report on something else
Black woman got nothing on Asian on Asian crime…
Okay, I definitely didn’t think it was another Asian person. I don’t understand what is making men of all races increasingly commit these mass shootings, whether they are random or at a place of employment. It’s truly scary and we really need to work on how we’re socializing our boys and who is radicalizing our young men.
@Quillo in a first world country as the US likes to claim itself violence has been increasing since post pandemic. You shouldn’t dismiss violence just because it is something that will always occur. This is a specific form of violence too. It’s ok to call such behavior toxic masculinity. Calling something for what it is, even beyond toxic masculinity, is not the solution but it’s good to be aware of what it is as well as the contributing factors like poverty etc. Also sending men off to war either during WWII and or in Iraq etc. has been a big detriment to men lol especially how this country treats veterans and the psychological and physical harm they go through post war. You’re statements are way too generalized to a specific phenomenon like target mass shootings.
@Pilpul Dabadoo I didn’t answer with “why not”. I think you have the responses mixed up.
@JessieBanana yes, you did lol and now you’re obfuscating…again
There’s no reason to suspect this was a hate crime. Zero. Be better.
@Pilpul Dabadoo You aren’t saying anything. You’re not responding to anything I have said, and you’re clearly not interested in any sort of clarification or dialogue. I don’t know what you’re prerogative or goal is here, so I’ll move on from this rapport.
@Funny Shorts yeah I’m the one not making sense😂
Amazing the number of commenters who have the answers.
To all you people who just assumed the shooter was black, it was fuc*ing Monterey Park! WE don’t live there . I knew by the location WE not involved. Now days with mass shootings, it’s usually a while guys. Look at the news stupid.
If he was at large where I live… we the people would be hunting him! Sorry Cali that you have such horrible gun laws wish you could arm and protect yourselves and your family like we can where my family is.
This Luna guy sounds stupid
This only happens here at this scale. Its on the voters to decide if they want this to continue…. and remember, when this happens to you, cause at this point its not if it will happen, but when… remember, who’s really on your side. Who is being payed by the NRA.
NRA is the weakest lobby in America.
You know who’s the most powerful lobby group? The legal lobby. You know what they love? More and more laws. Pages of them. The bigger the better. All encompassing.
You think about that the next time you go blaming the boogeyman for your perceived troubles.
You’ve never been through this and you never will. Stop standing over warm dead bodies and proselytizing.
Repent. Repair. Reparations.
No #stopaznhate since the shooter is AzN himself.
Probably got tired of seeing AzN women with huwhyte dudes.
. 10 people murdered
. 10 other people shot
How are the police keeping us safe?
What are the combined salaries of everyone on stage?.. how much money is standing up there?
I wonder if that woman is doing sign language or nonsense like the other..
How long before the FBI says “he was on our radar” ?
Maybe if democrats didn’t do everything in their power to crush the economy we would be seeing less of this kind of stuff.
Human agression threatens to destroy us all.
Stephen Hawking
Feb. 2015
London Science Museum
In the summarised words of Dylan Moran: violent lunatics will be violent with weapon, a kite, or a rubber duck—because they’re violent lunatics.
Nowhere else in the world you can find these mass shooting at school or parks.
It seems government keeps everyone in check
The left and media’s heads exploding, again, that the shooter wasn’t a white male. Can’t stick to their usual script now.
This is happening because young men are increasingly being left behind in our society. There is no rite of passage, no entry into manhood, and a reason to find a wife and start a family. Our young men are broken. It’s why they flock to guys like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate. You can blame those two all you want, but the fact they have such a large following is more evident of how our society treats its young men. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s chemicals in the food. Maybe it’s overpopulation. Maybe we are like the mice in the Mouse Utopia Experiment, headed to extinction. Either ways, we will need a fundamental cultural shift to undo all this damage. Peace to you all, and have a good day!
Because the initial description of the shooter is not that of a white male, this story will be pushed to the back pages of news stories.
It was not a “dance hall.” It was a ballroom dance studio.
How come they can identify the suspect as an Asian male but they aren’t allowed to announce black male suspects?
Cuz ….BLM
What? They always do that with the blacks…
First of all black people literally have nothing to do with this. Secondly, that’s a lie, the always include race in their descriptions. Thirdly, black people don’t commit mass shootings compared to (ehem) others. Also, if the shooter was black there wouldn’t be as many comments talking about “mental illness “. So just stop ✋
How come you like to lie and show your colours
How scary for a man who commits mass murder is just out and about with nothing to loose
@Rumpelstiltskin – Calm down please. The correction I provided was to the original statement. The original statement said (and still does say) “…..with nothing to loose….”. That is wrong. The word that the writer intended to write was “lose”, it should have had only one O in it. I was correct. But, thanks for checking.
@Julia Okay. I thought you were correcting the words of @Visayas Rider. My bad.
Not a man…..grown boy at best
.men don’t act like that
@Julia I think your right with the spelling
@Eric Mykietyn – I think we’ll all always remember that word! Lol
We need a public system to treat those with mental health problems. We need to foster communities which are inclusive of people so we can recognize when they are unwell and treat them before they go and hurt people.
Mentally healthy people do not go on random killing sprees.
Most shootings are not from mentally ill people, that is a myth.
@ucouco78 Are the people who are indiscriminately killing others mentally healthy?
@Alexander Marohnic yeah, what makes you think no? Most shooters have planned the shooting way in advance. Very few shooters act on the impulse of a mania or mental illness.
Judy chu, needs to talk to her community…
Isn’t it “racist” to name the ethnicity of the suspect in woke Mexifornia…unless they’re White of course 🤔
This is my home town. What a shock!
The gunmen killed himself in a white van surrounded by police.
“At least they were Californians” -Abraham Lincoln 1976
The new Asian face of White Supremacy.
I’m guessing it most of been a handgun since they weren’t screaming assault rifle.
In 2019, all rifles including assault rifles, hunting, sniping…etc killed 364 ppl, and made up 17% of ask mass shootings.
In that same year, hammers killed 394 ppl.
Personal weapons (hands, fists, and feet) killed 694 ppl
Knifes killed 1476 ppl.
The CDC/FBI reported that guns stopped crimes and saved lives between 500,000 to 2,000,000 times in 2019. …
500,000 lives saved and crimes stopped ‘s 364 assault rifle deaths, and everyone wants them banned
🥺🤢
2nd right fundamentalist: he had the right…
Update – he is black
Wrong he is Asian
@Marticus
Black –
@DarkStar2077 Asian… Vietnamese specifically-
@nbcnews What I find strange is that they wrestled the gun away from this person of interest here that committed a mass shooting with possible murder, but one of ours robbed a place and was shot to death and then overkilled down in Houston Texas. There’s a serious disconnect here. And the Prosecutir wants to let the murderer go on the count of him claiming self defense. The black assailant was murdered in cold blood. This Asian assailant was wrestled with and allowed to escape with his or her life. That is why I said the Governor of Texas should reconsider the employment of his Prosecutor issuing statements the way he did. And these two incidents are only days apart though separate parts of the country.
CCP shooter attacking most like Christian Asian again or those who support Taiwan. Soooooo surprising if it wasn’t.
I used to live in Los Angeles and oh man I know almost every street near where I lived
All the streets are known to me and wow the area is very nice and peaceful
I think San Gabriel was ranked #2 city in the US before or it was Monterey Park or Alhambra
Sounds like they found his van, he was inside it, and he shot himself.
Asian on Asian crime has got to stop!!!
“Arrest the person who did this” rather than arrest the suspected person, yet they also said earlier that the suspect fled rather than the perpetrator fled. Learn the difference between a perpetrator and a suspect!
He’s a Sheriff, not a pointy head, pedant like yourself.
Explain.
condolences to the victims families, that being said, the FBI is now a laughing joke of its former self. They are fixated in going after political opponents instead of protecting Americans. Far too often these attackers turn out to have been already known to the FBI with long histories of violence yet they were never properly investigated.
Where is the preliminary photo of the shooter????
Some of these Koreans are crazy and have unchecked hatred of Chinese people. Glad the killer is dead but I’m sure there may be some copy cats as many Koreans are jealous of living in the shadows of Chinese people.
Just pass laws to fight guns
The unfortunate truth is that gaining access to guns is TOO easy in the US. At the current time, the US doesn’t seem to have the skillset to manage access.
Background checks aren’t enough?
@Joey Bydin Clearly not, or else we wouldn’t be leading the world in the number of murders by guns.
@JuliaI believe we have the most guns per citizen in the world, or close to it at least.
@Joey Bydin Unfortunately, that includes in the hands of criminals and people with serious issues.
@Julia criminals aren’t allowed to have guns.
This sheriff chief sounds so incompetent.
Why are some people in these comments scapegoating this as “mental health “? Some people are just plain evil. Point blank period.
It’s evil working through humanity.
Watch these h onky asians gonna find a way to blame black women for this watch it never fails with these h onkys blame us for everything.
Don’t need my AR to hunt.
Was it a weapon of war ?
Sometimes america is funny its hard for them to catch the suspect but they know whats putin next move..😂😂😂
What race was the SUS!!! I bet he wasn’t blk!!!
Someone needs to shoot that criminal..an he basicly just disappeared..everyone should be on alert..lets get this soulless creature
It is a crazy world. It has been crazy throughout history. There are rare times in my life that I was smiling. With all the social media bringing you every horrible thing that happens in the world it’s hard to smile. I noticed in my experience for a while that when I was smiling the whole world smiled with me. Thank you Louis Armstrong.
Or at least the world you experience around you. Maybe not the whole world.
@Johnski Philosophy You nailed it. This is by design.
Then get off the social media, live in the moment, love everyone around you. It’s starts with YOU not with the world.
So another mass shooting in a state with some of strictest gun laws in the country and the suspect is still at large? Hmmm sounds like this was set up by its own local government so they can push stricter gun laws and get it to where no one can own firearms. Go figure it would be a Democrat run state where it would all happen.
Stay away from gun free zones. Stay strapped don’t get clapped
Very Murica
He was asian
Wow thank goodness for these effective California gun laws. This could have been a tragedy
Well republicans, flood more guns – the world
Celebrate new lunar years at home not in public
Everyday in America, how many more should perish before there are gun ban?
Here we are yet again people, another mass shooting in America. To shoot at a Chinese lunar new year festival is just plain evil! It also shows just how much hate a person has inside of them. They need to do something! If not, I say we put the governors who are not doing their job out of office!
What’s happening to Merica?
…the people on the TV told me he was a white supremacists…I always listen to the people on TV like MSNBC and CNN because they never lie…😉
If there is no way to detain the mentally ill for more than just a few days, then we’re all screwed.
I really can’t take it seriously with the clown on the left doing the jazz hands or WTF ever he is doing…?!
Sollll
“Preliminary” is doing some very heavy lifting. Let’s just say I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t turn out to be and Asian male, unrelated to 3 letter agency.
You reaching ain’t you ? Speaks to your prejudice and racism
If he was Black, this comment section would be a Klan swap meet
What happen to US
Every year there has incident of Mass Shooting
Asian hate crime on Asians? I didn’t have that on my card. It seems DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is impervious to RACE. But KALIFORNIA? Not possible.
Random question to anyone that knows is the sign language individual actually transposing the message the individual is mouthing
There are so many different news stations doing coverage of the story and within hours ago they said there was no suspect caught now they’re saying it was the dude in the truck like something is really really fishy
I forgot asianisis could do that.
Seriously crime is so bad right now that you can’t even have any normal public event without death and shooting wtf is going on?! This is going to make people not even join events anymore
The Democrats will just let him go without bail
He’s dead now right? Was he the guy that killed himself in the white van? I can look it up, but I’m to tired… 🥱
America really needs to toughen up there gun laws.🤦♂️