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Tyre Nichols’ police beating death drew outrage nationwide, fueling protests and calls for reform
Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic videos and descriptions of violence.
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As protesters gathered across US cities over the weekend following the Memphis police beating that led to the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, officials have said the investigation into the incident will continue amid questions over whether there could be additional charges.
The fallout from the January 7 encounter has been relatively swift. The five Memphis officers involved were fired and charged with murder and kidnapping in Nichols’ death and the police unit they were part of was disbanded.
As the investigation continues, Nichols’ family attorney Ben Crump said he thinks there will be additional fallout, but “whether that’s going to lead to criminal charges, we have to see.”
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said he can’t comment on whether there might be additional charges brought, but “nothing we did last Thursday regarding indictments precludes us from bringing other charges later.”
“We are going to need time to allow the investigation to go forward and further consideration of charges,” Mulroy told CNN Sunday.
Mulroy called it “unprecedented” that indictment charges were brought against the officers in just a matter of weeks after the fatal confrontation.
Officials knew releasing the video without charges for the officers could be “incendiary,” Mulroy said. “The best solution was to expedite the investigation and to expedite the consideration of charges so that the charges could come first and then the release of the video,” he added.
Video of the encounter is difficult to watch. It begins with a traffic stop and goes on to show officers repeatedly beating Nichols with batons, punching him and kicking him – including at one point while his hands are restrained behind his back.
He was left slumped to the ground in handcuffs, and 23 minutes passed before a stretcher arrived at the scene. Nichols was eventually hospitalized and died three days later.
“All of these officers failed their oath,” Crump told CNN on Sunday. “They failed their oath to protect and serve. Look at that video: Was anybody trying to protect and serve Tyre Nichols?”
As a makeshift memorial grew on the corner where Nichols was beaten, marching protesters in many cities – from New York City to Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles – carried signs bearing the name of the young Black man, who the country heard calling for his mother as he was kicked, beaten and pepper-sprayed.
Nichols’ family, now at the center of unfamiliar media attention, remembered him as a good son and father who enjoyed skateboarding, photography and sunsets. They recalled his smile and hugs and mourned the moments they’ll never have again.
They also promised to “keep saying his name until justice is served.”
All five officers charged in Nichols’ beating – who are also Black – were members of the now-scrapped SCORPION unit, Memphis police spokesperson Maj. Karen Rudolph told CNN on Saturday. The unit, launched in 2021, put officers into areas where police were tracking upticks in violent crime.
Memphis police announced Saturday that it will permanently deactivate the unit, saying that “while the heinous actions of a few casts a cloud of dishonor on the title SCORPION, it is imperative that we, the Memphis Police Department take proactive steps in the healing process for all impacted.”
“That reprehensible conduct we saw in that video, we think this was part of the culture of the SCORPION unit,” Crump said. “So we demanded that they disbanded immediately before we see anything like this happen again.”
“It was the culture that was just as guilty for killing Terry Nichols as those officers,” Crump said.
Memphis City Councilman Frank Colvett said disbanding the unit was the right move.
“I think the smart move and the mayor is correct in shutting it down. These kinds of actions are not representative of the Memphis Police Department,” Colvett said.
Memphis City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas also commended the move and said the case should give the city a chance to “dig deeper” into community and police relations.
“We saw a very peaceful and direct sense of protest in the city of Memphis, and I think it’s because maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time,” Easter-Thomas said.
The officers charged in the encounter with Nichols – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin and Desmond Mills Jr. – are expected to be arraigned on February 17. They face charges of second-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping, among other counts.
The attorney for one of the officers indicted, Mills Jr., put out a statement Friday night saying that he didn’t cross lines “that others crossed” during the confrontation. The attorney, Blake Ballin, told CNN Mills was a “victim” of the system he worked within.”
Meanwhile, the fallout has also stretched to other agencies.
Two Memphis Fire Department employees who were part of Nichols’ initial care were relieved of duty, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. And two deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office have been put on leave pending an investigation.
Crump called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the Democratic-controlled House in 2021 but not the evenly split Senate.
The Congressional Black Caucus is requesting a meeting with President Joe Biden this week to push for negotiations on police reform, caucus chair Steven Horsford wrote in a news release Sunday.
“The brutal beating of Tyre Nichols was murder and is a grim reminder that we still have a long way to go in solving systemic police violence in America,” he wrote.
Gloria Sweet-Love, the Tennessee State Conference NAACP President applauded Memphis Police Chief Davis for “doing the right thing,” by not waiting six months to a year to fire the officers who beat up Tyre Nichols.
She had no applause for Congress, who she called to action saying, “by failing to craft and pass bills to stop police brutality, you’re writing another Black man’s obituary. The blood of Black America is on your hands. So stand up and do something.”
On the state level, two Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee said Saturday that they intend to file police reform legislation ahead of the Tennessee general assembly’s Tuesday filing deadline. The bills would seek to address mental health care for law enforcement officers, hiring, training, discipline practices and other topics, said Rep. G.A. Hardaway, who represents a portion of Memphis and Shelby County.
While Democrats hold the minority with 24 representatives compared to the Republican majority of 99 representatives, Rep. Joe Towns Jr. said this legislation is not partisan and should pass on both sides of the legislature.
“You would be hard-pressed to look at this footage (of Tyre Nichols) and see what happened to that young man, OK, and not want to do something. If a dog in this county was beaten like that, what the hell would happen?” Towns said.
‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance | Sundance 2023
A secretly made documentary expanding on allegations of sexual assault against supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh has premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival.
Justice, a last-minute addition to the schedule, aims to shine a light not only on the women who have accused Kavanaugh, a Donald Trump nominee, but also the failed FBI investigation into the allegations.
“I do hope this triggers outrage,” said producer Amy Herdy in a Q&A after the premiere in Park City, Utah. “I do hope that this triggers action, I do hope that this triggers additional investigation with real subpoena powers.”
The film provides a timeline of the allegations, initially that Kavanaugh was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault when she was 15 and he 17. She alleged that he held her down on a bed and groped her, and tried to rip her clothes off before she got away. Kavanaugh was also accused of sexual misconduct by Deborah Ramirez, who alleged that he exposed himself and thrust his penis at her face without her consent at a college party.
Kavanaugh denies the allegations. He turned down requests to take part in the documentary.
The first scene features Ford, half off-camera, interviewed by the film’s director Doug Liman, whose credits include Mr and Mrs Smith and The Bourne Identity. Justice features a number of interviews with journalists, lawyers, psychologists and those who knew Ford and Ramirez.
“This was the kind of movie where people are terrified,” Liman said. “The people that chose to participate in the movie are heroes.”
In the film, Ramirez, who previously told her story to Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker, also shares her story on-camera. Ramirez is referred to as someone “they worked hard for people not to know”, her story never given the space it deserved until long after Kavanaugh was confirmed to the court in October 2018.
Ramirez details a Catholic upbringing, before explaining that her high grades got her into Yale when the university was slowly diversifying its student body in the mid-80s. As well as being admitted only 15 years after women were allowed in, Ramirez was also biracial and working class. “My mum was concerned,” she recounts, emotionally, in the documentary.
Friends at the time refer to her as “sweet and Bambi-like” and “innocent to a fault”, but Ramirez tried to fit in by becoming a cheerleader and by drinking with her peers. This, she says, brought her into the orbit of Kavanaugh, who came from a privileged family and was known as a heavy drinker at the time (he is referred to in the film as someone who was usually “more drunk than everyone else”). Ramirez recounts the alleged event, when she was intoxicated and, she says, made, without her consent, to touch Kavanaugh’s penis, which he had placed near her face.
The film then details how the circles around Ramirez and Kavanaugh responded, showing text messages of a discussion when Ramirez’s allegations were about to go public, of a mutual friend being asked by Kavanaugh to go on record to defend him. Another friend refers to it as “a cover-up”.
The New Yorker included a statement from a group of students at the time in support of Kavanaugh. A year later, the film shows that two of them emailed the New Yorker to remove their names from the statement.
Ramirez’s lawyers claim they contacted Republican senator Jeff Flake, who was involved in Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, to explain what happened to her. The next day Flake called to delay the confirmation and insist on a week-long FBI investigation.
But the film details how the FBI failed to call on the many witnesses recommended by Ramirez’s lawyers. Footage is shown of the film-makers meeting with a confidential source who plays tape of Kavanaugh’s classmate Max Stier, now a prominent figure in Washington running a non-profit, who allegedly witnessed Kavanaugh involved in a similar act of alleged drunken exposure with a female student at a dorm party at Yale. The woman has chosen to remain anonymous and this is the first time this recording has been heard.
It was made during the week the FBI investigated Kavanaugh, and despite Stier notifying them, they failed to speak to him. “You don’t talk to that guy, you’re not talking to anybody,” Liman said during the Q&A.
The FBI tip line that was set up is referred to as “a graveyard”, with 4,500 tips sent straight to the White House rather than being investigated. It’s referred to as another “cover-up”.
The film-makers also spoke to other accuser who alleged misconduct but could not be included in the film. “We did speak to people who had other allegations, and we were very careful and thorough, and it’s not for disbelieving them – but the stories you see here are the ones you are able to corroborate,” Herdy said to the audience.
Justice was made in secrecy over the last year, with NDAs signed by everyone involved. The project was self-funded by Liman, making his documentary debut. He told the Hollywood Reporter that the supreme court holds “special meaning” to him, his father having been a lawyer and activist and his brother a federal judge. He was frustrated by the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh that “never happened”, and sought the help of renowned documentary producers Liz Garbus and Herdy, both with specialised experience of films about sexual assault allegations, to do the work that he saw as unfinished, if barely started at all.
At the Q&A, he expressed the importance of secrecy, speaking about “the machinery that’s put into place against anyone who dared to speak up” and an awareness that this machinery would be turned on the film if it was made public.
“There would have been some kind of injunction,” he said. “This film wouldn’t have been showing here.”
It was only screened to Sundance high-ups on Wednesday before being officially announced on Thursday. It premiered to a sold-out cinema on Friday.
In the past few years, the festival has become a regular home to a number of investigative documentaries about alleged sexual predators in the public eye. Figures such as Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Russell Simmons and former Sundance mainstay Harvey Weinstein have all been spotlighted.
Since the announcement of Justice, Herdy confirmed they have been “getting more tips”, which started arriving just 30 minutes after the press release went out. Liman added that the film, which is seeking a distributor, will now possibly need to be extended and re-edited.
Herdy added: “It’s not over.”
Karon Blake’s killing fuels social media sleuthing, and outrage
“It’s right there if you’re really looking,” Green tweeted, noting people could cross-reference homeowners on the block where the shooting occurred against a city employee database.
The ANC representative from Brookland, Colleen Costello, pushed back, warning Green’s posts about the predawn Jan. 7 shooting in her neighborhood “could result in someone getting hurt.”
“Stop jeopardizing my constituents’ safety,” she wrote.
Police have released limited information so far about Blake’s killing, which sparked anger across the city and prompted demands from activists supporting Karon’s family for police to publicly identify the shooter and charge him with a crime. At least two members of the D.C. Council have also questioned the lack of charges.
Police have said the man told them he heard noises shortly before 4 a.m., left the Quincy Street residence with his legally registered handgun and saw someone it appeared was breaking into vehicles. Two people ran, and the man told police he confronted Karon and shot him. The youth died from several bullet wounds.
Police have said there is no indication the youth was armed. Police said the man called 911 after the shooting and was administering CPR when officers arrived. He surrendered his gun, police said, and has cooperated.
The online searches forced D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III to hold a news conference and angrily denounce misinformation he said was “swirling in the community and on social media.” He described the guesswork on the case as reckless and dangerous and said users were posting photos of people who were not involved in the incident.
“I’m asking our D.C. family to uphold our D.C. values,” the chief implored residents on television. “Let police do the police job.”
But the pace of the police probe has frustrated many.
At a community meeting earlier this week, residents yelled in frustration as authorities urged patience and calm as they investigate and present their findings to a grand jury. More than two dozen demonstrators gathered on Quincy Street Friday night, taping up signs with Karon’s picture and demands for justice. They later marched through the neighborhood chanting, “Justice for Karon.”
The same day as the incident, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, a Black-led mutual aid and community defense organization, asked on Twitter: “Will the homeowner be identified and held accountable for his violent actions?”
Police do not typically publicly name people they are investigating before criminal charges are filed. If the shooter is indicted, his name will become public.
Two days later, a coalition of community members and activists, demanded officials release the name and posted on Instagram they were researching property records for Quincy Street.
By the next day, activists and some community members said they believed they had identified the shooter. The DC Safety Squad, the coalition researching to find the shooter’s identity, shifted its tone, directing a message to “Karon Blake’s killer” rather than to police, demanding he remove himself from the community and “take responsibility” for his actions.
Nee Nee Taylor, the DC Safety Squad founder and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams co-conductor, said she and others would not make the name public. They had wanted to know who he is, Taylor said, so they could ask him to leave.
Taylor said she is now focused on supporting Karon’s family. She said that includes seeing the man indicted, and she understands this means police cannot make public much of what they have learned — at least for now.
“Right now, there’s no reason for the community, for the Safety Squad, or Harriet’s Wildest Dreams to protest or march, because the identity of this person is known,” Taylor said.
City lawmakers, too, have pressed for answers. On Friday, D.C. Council Member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), the new chair of the public safety committee that has oversight responsibilities over D.C. police, announced she had requested and received access to body-camera footage from officers who responded to the shooting. Her spokeswoman, Zoe Ades, said the lawmaker is prohibited by law from discussing the video with the public and has not shared her observations with Karon’s family.
Karon’s friends want the name to be released and for “fair justice,” said Jawanna Hardy, a longtime activist and the founder of Guns Down Friday, a nonprofit group that is supporting the friends’ efforts to hold a protest Friday night on Quincy Street.
They’re “lost right now,” Hardy said. The friends, she said, “just want justice, whatever that looks like … It’s his word against Karon’s. We really don’t know what happened.”
Some fear that if the man’s name is released, he might be in danger. D.C. Council member Zachary Parker (D-Ward 5) said he has “deep concerns about neighbors taking justice into their own hands.”
Costello, the Brookland ANC representative, accused Green, her counterpart in Ward 7, of inflaming an already volatile situation by spreading speculative information.
“I haven’t talked to MPD and don’t know who did it, and neither do you, Anthony,” she tweeted. She warned about “witch hunts premised on potentially faulty MPD talking points,” referencing police having initially described the shooter as a homeowner. In another tweet, she said, “Since the facts are unclear, it’s dangerous to encourage speculation. We don’t need vigilantism causing more trauma.”
Costello declined to speak with a reporter, saying her full-time job prevented her from doing so.
Green, in turn, accused Costello of “doing everything possible to protect that adult because of something your cop friends told you in private. Stop protecting Karon Blake’s killer, commissioner.”
In an interview, Green said speculation on the shooter was getting “messy” with false accusations being shared online. But he said that seems to have forced city officials to release “tidbits of information” in an attempt to counter the false narrative. At the news conference, Contee revealed the shooter’s race and said that he was not in law enforcement.
Green asserted that he had shared information that D.C. officials had already publicly revealed. He said the use of the word “homeowner” by police and their description of Karon as someone tampering with a vehicle made it “feel like the mayor and the police department has made the judgment for us.”
By withholding information, Green said, “they painted their own narrative of what they believe happened,” and that only intensified demands for the shooter’s identity. He said he would not personally reveal the name, but will continue to pressure public officials to do so.
Contee, speaking at a news conference Tuesday, said “we recognize the community’s desire to getting details of this incident, but we also must acknowledge that the ongoing nature of the investigation prevents us from sharing specifics that could jeopardize the integrity of this case.”
He added: “We have to make sure that as a community we get this right.”
Clarence Williams contributed to this report.
Trump meeting with Jewish educational group after outrage over dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
Former President Donald Trump will meet on Friday with an Orthodox Jewish educational group following heavy criticism of dinner with Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — and Nick Fuentes and repeated antisemetic remarks.
Mr Trump, who announced another presidential run last month, had dinner with Ye and white supremacist Mr Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago over the week of Thanksgiving.
Mr Trump’s decision to host the two men was swiftly condemned by a range of observers, including longtime allies in the Jewish community. Mr Trump said that he did not know who Mr Fuentes was, but declined to apologise for hosting the pair and instead attacked Jewish leaders for being insufficently loyal to him.
The former president also defended Ye, who praised Adolf Hitler in an appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars show.
“You can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good and I am done with that,” Ye said on the programme. “I am done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
Now, on Friday, Mr Trump will give a speech before the President’s Conference of Torah Umesorah at his golf club in Miami. The speech will be part of a days-long gathering put on by the organisation that promotes religious education and Jewish day schools.
Mr Trump has had close ties to the Orthodox Jewish community, which is significantly more conservative than the left-leaning American Jewish community as a whole. He has also had strong relationships with right-wing politicians in Israel, though incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Mr Trump to apologise for hosting Ye and Fuentes.
“On this matter, on Kanye West and that other unacceptable guest, I think it’s not merely unacceptable it’s just wrong,” Mr Netanyahu said on Meet the Press. “And I hope he sees his way to staying out of it and condemning it.”
But Mr Trump has long trafficked in antisemitic tropes, including accusing American Jews of disloyalty to the United States and complaining that they have not been sufficently grateful to him for his support of Israeli nationalism. Incidences of antisemitism have increased significantly in the US since Mr Trump was elected president in 2016.
His once-close relationship with Mr Netanyahu seems to have deteriorated since Mr Trump left the White House, with Axios reporting that Mr Trump lashed out at the far right Israeli leader after he congratulated President Joe Biden on his election win.
“I haven’t spoken to him since,” Mr Trump reportedly said of Mr Netanyahu. “F*** him.”
Colorado Springs shooting – live: Suspect Anderson Aldrich’s father says ‘we don’t do gay’, triggering outrage
Army veteran gives account of tackling Colorado Springs gunman
The father of Colorado Springs shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich triggered public outcry for his anti-LGBT+ views after he said his first reaction on being informed of the attack at Club Q was to question why his child was at a gay bar.
Aaron Brink, a former porn actor and MMA fighter, told CBS8: “I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I said, ‘God, is he gay?’ I got scared, ‘S***, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, ‘Phhhewww…’”
He added that his family was Mormon and “we don’t do gay”.
Aldrich, 22, who allegedly identifies as nonbinary, is facing preliminary charges including five counts of murder along with five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
At least 18 others sustained injuries when the suspect stormed into the club just before midnight on Saturday and opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle.
The suspect was taken down by an Army veteran named Richard Fierro, and mugshot photos show Aldrich with extensive wounds to the head and neck.
Shooting suspect held sans bail
The suspected gunman facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub has been ordered to be held without bail.
In an initial court appearance yesterday the suspect sat slumped over in a chair with injuries visible on their face and head.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, who identifies as non-binary, appeared to need prompting by defence lawyers during a brief video appearance from jail.
Aldrich offered a slurred response when asked to state their name by El Paso County Court Judge Charlotte Ankeny.
The suspect was beaten into submission by patrons during the shooting at Club Q and released from hospital on Tuesday.
The motive in the shooting was still under investigation, but authorities said Aldrich faces possible murder and hate crime charges.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 08:10
Mothers, friends, performers among dead at Colorado gay club
A loving boyfriend. A 28-year-old bartender who loved to perform. A mother visiting from a small town who enjoyed hunting. These are among the victims of the rampage at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 17 others with gunshot wounds.
Club regulars and newcomers — gay and straight, transgender and cisgender — flocked to Club Q over the weekend to dance, enjoy a comedy show or work behind the bar. What began as a typical Saturday evening of dancing and drinking at the preeminent LGBTQ establishment in the conservative-leaning Colorado city south of Denver ended in tragedy when a gunman entered and began spraying bullets before they were tackled and subdued.
More details in our full story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 07:40
Eleven wounded still at hospital
Of the 17 people injured by gunshots in Saturday’s attack, 11 remained in the hospital as of yesterday night, officials said.
At least five people were killed when 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich stormed inside an LGBT+ nightclub and opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle.
The suspect was taken down by an Army veteran named Richard Fierro with the help of fellow patrons.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 07:10
How did the Colorado Springs gunman get his firearms despite the state’s ‘red flag’ law?
In June 2021, Anderson Lee Aldrich walked out of the front door of a house in Colorado Springs with their hands in the air after a stand-off with police.
Authorities arrested them for felony menacing and first degree kidnapping after their mother alleged that they had threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Seventeen months later, Mr Aldrich, 22, is in police custody on suspicion of killing five people at an LGBT+ nightclub called Club Q.
What’s more, media reports suggest that the weapons wielded during the attack – a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun – were purchased legally.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 06:40
Mugshot shows suspect with face and neck wounds
Police released the booking photos of Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding numerous others in a Colorado Springs LGBT+ nightclub over the weekend.
The photos show Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, with numerous apparent wounds to the face and neck.
According to clubgoers, multiple patrons at Club Q tackled the 22-year-old and managed to wrestle away the AR-style rifle they were carrying.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 06:10
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticised for response to Colorado shooting
Marjorie Taylor Greene was back causing controversy this week after she chose her response to the mass shooting at an LGBT club in Colorado as a means for attacking Joe Biden on unrelated issues.
Ms Greene’s two-tweet thread addressing the attack that saw five killed and more than a dozen wounded surprised few; the tweets did not address the significance of the target nor the wave of hate that right-wing political figures have directed at LGBT people and transgender Americans in particular over the past few years.
“Tragically, 300 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning everyday in America and Biden says and does nothing. Tragically, 5 people were killed in a shooting in Colorado and Biden immediately demands a ban on assault weapons,” she wrote.
She added: “The solutions are this: 1. Secure the border and stop the drugs. 2. Defend our right to keep and bear arms so that people can defend themselves from killers who could care less about laws.“
John Bowden has the story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 05:40
Shooter showed ‘no hesitation’, says witness
Deanne VanScyoc said she dropped to the floor behind a pool table at Club Q and called 911 as the first shots rang out just before midnight, hitting people at the bar who had been drinking and chatting.
Ms VanScyoc was facing the entrance from behind a glass wall when the shooter came in, she said.
The shooter turned right and fired a single shot toward the bar, then three more in rapid succession, then a flurry of shots.“There was no hesitation,” Ms VanScyoc told The Associated Press in an interview.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 05:10
Remembering the victims of the Colorado shooting
Hundreds of people, many holding candles and wiping away tears, gathered Monday night in a Colorado Springs park to honor those killed and wounded when a gunman opened fire on a nightlife venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community.
The vigil came as the 22-year-old suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, remained hospitalized after Saturday night’s attack in which five people were killed and another 17 suffered gunshot wounds before patrons tackled and beat the suspect into submission. Aldrich faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, online court records showed.
More details in our full report.
Rage and sadness as Colorado club shooting victims honored
Hundreds of people, many holding candles and wiping away tears, have gathered in a Colorado Springs park to honor those killed and wounded when a gunman opened fire on a nightlife venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 04:40
Colorado suspect Anderson Aldrich has MAGA ties
Suspected gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, allegedly opened fire inside Club Q in Colorado Springs just before midnight on Saturday night.
Bartenders Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump as well as patron Kelly Loving were among the five victims killed in the attack. Another 25 people were injured, including 19 who suffered gunshot wounds.
The mass shooting came to an end thanks to the bravery of at least one clubgoer, who tackled the gunman to the ground and detained them until law enforcement arrived on the scene.
Rachel Sharp has the story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 03:40
What are survivors of the Club Q shooting saying?
Ed Sanders was just opening up a tab at Club Q’s bar when the shooting started.
The 63-year-old said he had been waiting in line at the bar, and made his way up to the front and gave the bartender his credit card when he was hit in the back — right between the shoulder blades. Surprised and shocked, he turned to look at the gunman, only to be hit again in the thigh as another volley of shots were fired.
“I fell. And everybody fell,” Sanders said in video statements released Tuesday by UCHealth Memorial Hospital Center. “It was very traumatic. I shielded another woman with my coat … there was a lot of chaos.”
Amy Forliti has the full story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 02:40
Colorado Springs shooting – live: Suspect Anderson Aldrich’s father says ‘we don’t do gay’, triggering outrage
Army veteran gives account of tackling Colorado Springs gunman
The father of Colorado Springs shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich triggered public outcry for his anti-LGBT+ views after he said his first reaction on being informed of the attack at Club Q was to question why his child was at a gay bar.
Aaron Brink, a former porn actor and MMA fighter, told CBS8: “I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I said, ‘God, is he gay?’ I got scared, ‘S***, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, ‘Phhhewww…’”
He added that his family was Mormon and “we don’t do gay”.
Aldrich, 22, who allegedly identifies as nonbinary, is facing preliminary charges including five counts of murder along with five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
At least 18 others sustained injuries when the suspect stormed into the club just before midnight on Saturday and opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle.
The suspect was taken down by an Army veteran named Richard Fierro, and mugshot photos show Aldrich with extensive wounds to the head and neck.
How did the Colorado Springs gunman get his firearms despite the state’s ‘red flag’ law?
In June 2021, Anderson Lee Aldrich walked out of the front door of a house in Colorado Springs with their hands in the air after a stand-off with police.
Authorities arrested them for felony menacing and first degree kidnapping after their mother alleged that they had threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Seventeen months later, Mr Aldrich, 22, is in police custody on suspicion of killing five people at an LGBT+ nightclub called Club Q.
What’s more, media reports suggest that the weapons wielded during the attack – a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun – were purchased legally.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 06:40
Mugshot shows suspect with face and neck wounds
Police released the booking photos of Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding numerous others in a Colorado Springs LGBT+ nightclub over the weekend.
The photos show Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, with numerous apparent wounds to the face and neck.
According to clubgoers, multiple patrons at Club Q tackled the 22-year-old and managed to wrestle away the AR-style rifle they were carrying.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 06:10
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticised for response to Colorado shooting
Marjorie Taylor Greene was back causing controversy this week after she chose her response to the mass shooting at an LGBT club in Colorado as a means for attacking Joe Biden on unrelated issues.
Ms Greene’s two-tweet thread addressing the attack that saw five killed and more than a dozen wounded surprised few; the tweets did not address the significance of the target nor the wave of hate that right-wing political figures have directed at LGBT people and transgender Americans in particular over the past few years.
“Tragically, 300 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning everyday in America and Biden says and does nothing. Tragically, 5 people were killed in a shooting in Colorado and Biden immediately demands a ban on assault weapons,” she wrote.
She added: “The solutions are this: 1. Secure the border and stop the drugs. 2. Defend our right to keep and bear arms so that people can defend themselves from killers who could care less about laws.“
John Bowden has the story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 05:40
Shooter showed ‘no hesitation’, says witness
Deanne VanScyoc said she dropped to the floor behind a pool table at Club Q and called 911 as the first shots rang out just before midnight, hitting people at the bar who had been drinking and chatting.
Ms VanScyoc was facing the entrance from behind a glass wall when the shooter came in, she said.
The shooter turned right and fired a single shot toward the bar, then three more in rapid succession, then a flurry of shots.“There was no hesitation,” Ms VanScyoc told The Associated Press in an interview.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar24 November 2022 05:10
Remembering the victims of the Colorado shooting
Hundreds of people, many holding candles and wiping away tears, gathered Monday night in a Colorado Springs park to honor those killed and wounded when a gunman opened fire on a nightlife venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community.
The vigil came as the 22-year-old suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, remained hospitalized after Saturday night’s attack in which five people were killed and another 17 suffered gunshot wounds before patrons tackled and beat the suspect into submission. Aldrich faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, online court records showed.
More details in our full report.
Rage and sadness as Colorado club shooting victims honored
Hundreds of people, many holding candles and wiping away tears, have gathered in a Colorado Springs park to honor those killed and wounded when a gunman opened fire on a nightlife venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 04:40
Colorado suspect Anderson Aldrich has MAGA ties
Suspected gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, allegedly opened fire inside Club Q in Colorado Springs just before midnight on Saturday night.
Bartenders Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump as well as patron Kelly Loving were among the five victims killed in the attack. Another 25 people were injured, including 19 who suffered gunshot wounds.
The mass shooting came to an end thanks to the bravery of at least one clubgoer, who tackled the gunman to the ground and detained them until law enforcement arrived on the scene.
Rachel Sharp has the story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 03:40
What are survivors of the Club Q shooting saying?
Ed Sanders was just opening up a tab at Club Q’s bar when the shooting started.
The 63-year-old said he had been waiting in line at the bar, and made his way up to the front and gave the bartender his credit card when he was hit in the back — right between the shoulder blades. Surprised and shocked, he turned to look at the gunman, only to be hit again in the thigh as another volley of shots were fired.
“I fell. And everybody fell,” Sanders said in video statements released Tuesday by UCHealth Memorial Hospital Center. “It was very traumatic. I shielded another woman with my coat … there was a lot of chaos.”
Amy Forliti has the full story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 02:40
Old arrest records suggest Colorado Springs suspect wanted to ‘go out in a blaze’
Eventually, crisis negotiators were able to bring Aldrich in, and they were booked into El Paso County Jail on on two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping, according to the sheriff’s office.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 02:10
Mugshot shows Colorado Springs suspect Anderson Aldrich with face and neck wounds
The photos show Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, with numerous apparent wounds to the face and neck.
According to clubgoers, multiple patrons at Club Q tackled the 22-year-old and managed to wrestle away the AR-style rifle they were carrying.
More details in our full story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 01:55
Anderson Aldrich defence announces they are nonbinary
The alleged gunman facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is nonbinary, the suspect’s defense team says in court filings.
In several standard motions filed on behalf of Anderson Lee Aldrich on Tuesday, public defenders refer to the suspect as “Mx. Aldrich,” noting in footnotes that Aldrich, 22, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The motions deal with issues like unsealing documents and evidence gathering, not Aldrich’s identity and there was no elaboration about it.
Aldrich, who was beaten into submission by patrons during Saturday night’s shooting at Club Q, appeared in court for the first time Wednesday by video from jail. The motive in the shooting was still under investigation, but authorities said Aldrich faces possible murder and hate crime charges.
Get all the details in our full story.
Josh Marcus24 November 2022 01:43