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groundloop

(13,217 posts) Fri Aug 8, 2025, 06:39 PM Aug 8

Active shooter reported on Emory University's Atlanta campus

Source: ABC News

Emory University reported an active shooter on its Atlanta, Georgia, campus on Friday.

The school's official website said the incident was occurring near the Emory Point CVS.

A shelter-in-place order has been put in place. "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. Avoid the area," the university said.

Sources told ABC News that local police encountered a suspect and attempted to engage the person when gunfire was exchanged.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/active-shooter-reported-emory-universitys-atlanta-campus/story?id=124495968

As per standard GQP protocol, Gov. Brian Kemp is offering thoughts and prayers for the victims.

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Active shooter reported on Emory University's Atlanta campus (Original Post) groundloop Aug 8 OP

UPDATE: Officer injured, suspect dead in shooting at Emory University's Atlanta campus. generalbetrayus Aug 8 #1

TY! That's what I needed to Cha Aug 8 #4

I will only go back as ashes. Tom Dyer Aug 8 #2

Another UPDATED: The Police Officer has died. groundloop Aug 8 #3

Ohh.. Sorry the Officer died.. Cha Aug 8 #5

yep CatWoman Aug 9 #6

I knew it... only Obvious what's Cha Aug 9 #7

anytime, Cha CatWoman Aug 9 #8

Aloha, Cat! Cha Aug 9 #9

That's where Jimmy Carter taught and spoke after his presidency Rhiannon12866 Aug 9 #10

"either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine" muriel_volestrangler Aug 9 #11

generalbetrayus

(1,156 posts)

1. UPDATE: Officer injured, suspect dead in shooting at Emory University's Atlanta campus.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:01 PM

Aug 8

A shelter-in-place order has been lifted.

Cha

(313,790 posts)

4. TY! That's what I needed to

Reply to generalbetrayus (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 09:54 PM

Aug 8

know.

Tom Dyer

(231 posts)

2. I will only go back as ashes.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 08:19 PM

Aug 8

It has finally dawned on me that living I’m living in a safe country and guns/this doesn’t happen.
We walk before it’s light out - alone.
It took so long to exhale.

It is glory.

No guns. Glory.

groundloop

(13,217 posts)

3. Another UPDATED: The Police Officer has died.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 09:12 PM

Aug 8

Also, it's come out that the gunman started this off by shooting at the CDC building.

And as can be expected all the repub politicians in Georgia are offering more thoughts and prayers instead of working to solve our gun problem.

Cha

(313,790 posts)

5. Ohh.. Sorry the Officer died..

Reply to groundloop (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 10:01 PM

Aug 8

I wonder if we'll learn the Shooter was a avid listener of hate radio and or faux and got mad and vengeful enough to start Shooting at the CBD building?

CatWoman

(80,089 posts)

6. yep

Reply to Cha (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 01:34 AM

Aug 9

The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T04:40:12.905Z

Cha

(313,790 posts)

7. I knew it... only Obvious what's

Reply to CatWoman (Reply #6)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 03:03 AM

Aug 9

going on here.

I would think the Police would be bloody sick and Tired of this Propaganda that gets their Officers Killed.

Mahalo for the confirmation, Cat.

CatWoman

(80,089 posts)

8. anytime, Cha

Reply to Cha (Reply #7)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:31 AM

Aug 9

Cha

(313,790 posts)

9. Aloha, Cat!

Reply to CatWoman (Reply #8)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 05:05 AM

Aug 9

Rhiannon12866

(241,234 posts)

10. That's where Jimmy Carter taught and spoke after his presidency

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 05:56 AM

Aug 9

muriel_volestrangler

(104,413 posts)

11. "either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine"

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 06:49 AM

Aug 9

After speaking with the suspected shooter’s family members, police are operating under the theory that he was either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN.

Multiple rounds were fired “we believe at law enforcement and potentially the CDC,” Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference, but he added they are still investigating the situation.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/active-shooter-emory-university#cme3fi8nm000i3b6nr354j9i0

No word from RFK Jr. yet. I guess it's 50-50 between "thoughts and prayers" and "well, he had a point, I blame Fauci!". He is literally not commenting:

Susan Monarez, the agency’s director who was sworn in just last week, said in a post on X that the agency was working with federal, state, and local law enforcement to investigate the shooting.

“Our top priority is the safety and well-being of everyone at CDC,” Monarez wrote.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared Monarez’s post on X but did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/cdc-campus-attacked-kennedy-crisis/

2 months ago:

RFK Jr to remove all members of CDC panel advising on US vaccines

The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting on a key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.

Kennedy is retiring and replacing all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee for immunization practices, he wrote in piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote.

Kennedy, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, said the committee members had too many conflicts of interest. Committee members routinely disclose any possible conflicts at the start of public meetings.
...
Kennedy recently took the unusual step of changing Covid-19 recommendations without first consulting the panel.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/rfk-cdc-panel-vaccines-removed

That sure is the way to build up confidence in the CDC, isn't it?

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