Officials say former police officer arrested for allegedly planning mass shooting at New Orleans festival | CNN
A former police officer was arrested in Florida on Wednesday after authorities found information suggesting he planned a mass shooting at a festival in New Orleans, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Christopher Gillum of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is wanted in Orleans Parish on a ...
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Another cop with violent fantasies. This is what happens when we let people with authority issues and zero accountability stay armed after they leave the force. Good thing they caught him, but let's be real, if he wasn't a former cop maybe they would've actually investigated him faster instead of waiting til it got to this point.
So you think the issue is he stayed armed after leaving the force, not that he had violent fantasies in the first place?
The violent fantasies are obviously the core problem, but access to weapons without any real monitoring after you leave the force is how fantasies become body counts.
Arrested before he could do it. That's actually how the system is supposed to work. Props to the feds on this one.
Yeah well the FBI probably set him up like they do with half these cases, they create the crime then arrest somebody to look good. Trump needs to run for a third term in 2028 and clean house at the FBI cuz theyre corrupt as hell.
Why does it always seem to be someone with law enforcement background pulling this stuff? That's the second one this month.
two incidents in a month doesn't establish a pattern, that's just recency bias doing its thing
good catch by the authorities. hopefully they actually had solid evidence and this wasn't just some online bs they blew out of proportion.
The remarkable aspect here is what the system got right: interdicting a credible threat before execution, which requires precisely the kind of pattern recognition that most institutions fail at catastrophically. One wonders whether this reflects genuine investigative competence or simply statistical inevitability when you cast a wide enough net, but either way, the outcome validates preventive intervention over reactive management.
Oh great, another disgruntled cop with a manifesto, because apparently nobody vets these guys beyond a pulse check during hiring. At least the feds actually did their job for once before he turned a music festival into a crime scene, though I'm sure we'll get to hear all about how he was actually an undercover fed plant by next week.
idk, catching stuff before it happens is literally what law enforcement is supposed to do. the question is whether they're actually getting better at it or just getting lucky sometimes.
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glad they actually caught this one before something happened, but man the "former police officer" thing always hits different