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Report: FBI Deemed 2017 Targeted Shooting Of Republicans At Baseball Field A Suicide Attempt, Not Domestic Terrorism. Scalise Responds. 

"Director, you want suicide by cop, you just pull a gun on a cop. It doesn't take 136 rounds."

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Report: FBI Deemed 2017 Targeted Shooting Of Republicans At Baseball Field A Suicide Attempt, Not Domestic Terrorism. Scalise Responds. 
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The FBI determined the targeted shooting of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in 2017 was not domestic terrorism, but rather an attempt by the shooter to commit “suicide by cop,” which typically concerns a person pulling a gun on an officer so they will be killed in response.

“NEWS: The FBI labeled the 2017 baseball field shooting that nearly killed Steve Scalise a ‘suicide by cop,’ a key GOP lawmaker revealed in a little-noticed, pointed exchange with Director WRAY last week,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported this week.

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