Police stopped a potential mass shooting on Monday when a 49-year-old man was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International after he allegedly threatened to &#8220;shoot up&#8221; the nation&#8217;s busiest airport before he drove there armed with a semiautomatic rifle.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said at a press conference that a major tragedy was &#8220;averted.&#8221; The mayor said the suspect is from Cartersville, Georgia, and is &#8220;mentally challenged.&#8221; Cartersville is located just over 50 miles northwest of the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport International Airport.
The suspect was identified as Billy Joe Cagle, a convicted felon, who said over a livestream video that he planned on shooting people at the airport, according to Atlanta Police Department Chief Darin Schierbaum. After family members saw Cagle&#8217;s video, they notified the Cartersville Police Department, which then notified the Atlanta Police Department. Cagle&#8217;s family also warned police that he was in possession of a firearm.
Just 14 minutes after Atlanta Police were notified of the threat, Cagle was arrested in the airport. Police also found a semiautomatic rifle in his vehicle, which was parked outside.
Airport security footage released by police at the press conference showed Cagle arriving at the airport at 9:29 a.m. and parking his Chevy flatbed pickup truck next to a terminal entrance. The suspect then entered the south domestic terminal, but was not armed when he walked into the airport.
&#8220;From video we will show you, he seemed to be very interested in the TSA check-in area, which you can see was heavily, heavily crowded with travelers,&#8221; Schierbaum said.
The security footage showed Cagle walking around the TSA check-in area with his phone in hand. Bodycam footage also released at the press conference show Atlanta Police Department officers confronting Cagle before taking him down to the ground and placing handcuffs on him. Schierbaum said that officers had to use two handcuffs to detain Cagle because of his size, adding that the suspect is 6&#8217;3 and 320 pounds. Cagle was taken into custody at 9:54 a.m., less than 30 minutes after he arrived at the airport.
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When authorities searched the suspect&#8217;s truck, they found a Springfield 5.56 Saint Victor AR-15 rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition.
&#8220;We did have a tragedy averted today,&#8221; the police chief said, adding that if the police officers had not stopped him at that time, he believes the suspect was planning on retrieving the rifle from his pickup truck and firing upon people in the crowded terminal.
&#8220;We&#8217;re here today briefing you on a success and not a tragedy because a family saw something and said something,&#8221; Schierbaum said.
Cagle faces charges of making terroristic threats, criminal attempt to commit aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The FBI is assisting local authorities as the investigation continues.
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Mass Shooting At America’s Busiest Airport Averted Thanks To Tip From Family, Police Say

Mass Shooting At America's Busiest Airport Averted Thanks To Tip From Family: Police

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A second illegal immigrant detainee died nearly a week after a shooter opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-facility-shooting-dallas-04fb992734fb0cd6760eccba6820665d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, succumbed to his injuries after he was taken off life support, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) <a href="https://lulac.org/news/pr/LULAC_SHARES_A_MESSAGE_FROM_THE_FAMILY_OF_THE_LATEST_VICTIM_IN_THE_ATTACK_AT_THE_DALLAS_ICE_FACILITY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. The illegal immigrant was shot, along with two others, on Wednesday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-we-know-about-ice-shooter-joshua-jahn?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Here%E2%80%99s+What+We+Know+About+ICE+Shooter+Joshua+Jahn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Jahn</a>, 29, who intended to target ICE officers, <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/dallas/news/remarks-delivered-by-special-agent-in-charge-joseph-rothrock-at-a-press-conference-regarding-the-shooting-at-an-ice-facility-in-dallas">according</a> to the FBI.
Jahn, who later turned the gun on himself, left chilling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tragic-irony-federal-officials-say-dallas-shooter-wanted-to-kill-ice-agents-not-detainees?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Tragic+Irony%E2%80%99%3A+Federal+Officials+Say+Dallas+Shooter+Wanted+To+Kill+ICE+Agents%2C+Not+Detainees">notes</a> behind that revealed he hoped to inflict “terror” on the agents and that also read “yes, it was just me,” Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson said during a press conference Thursday.
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The shooter also wrote that he “intended to maximize lethality against” them and “to maximize property damage at the facility,” while hoping “to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people,” Larson said.
“It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. The tragic irony… is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other detainees that were injured when he fired,&#8221; Larson said.
Garcia-Hernández&#8217;s wife, Stephany Gauffeny, called her husband&#8217;s death &#8220;a senseless tragedy.&#8221;
&#8220;My husband Miguel was a good man, a loving father, and the provider for our family,&#8221; Gauffeny said in a statement shared by LULAC. &#8220;We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed. His death is a senseless tragedy that has left our family shattered. I do not know how to explain to our children that their father is gone.&#8221;
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The first victim, later identified by <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/victim-active-shooter-attack-dallas-ice-field-office-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICE</a> as Salvadoran national Norlan Guzmán-Fuentes, 37, died the day of the attack.
Guzmán-Fuentes snuck across the border illegally and later turned up in Palm Beach County, Florida, where he was arrested for battery, improper exhibit of a firearm or dangerous weapon, and criminal mischief, according to ICE. All of the charges were dropped except for the criminal mischief charge.
He was later arrested in 2020 in Arlington, Texas, for a DWI, according to ICE. He later bonded out of custody before ICE could get their hands on him.
His latest arrest was on Aug. 25, when Dallas police arrested him for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and an outstanding DWI warrant, ICE said. The assault charge was dismissed on Sept. 10.
On Sept. 24, ICE arrested him at the local jail and &#8220;upon arrival to the ERO Dallas Field Office, ICE officers encountered an active shooter at the facility, targeting immigration officials,&#8221; the agency said.
&#8220;Regretfully, Guzman was one the victims of this tragic incident which resulted in his death,&#8221; ICE said.
Dramatic surveillance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-ice-agents-shielded-detainees-during-deadly-shooting?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Video+Shows+ICE+Agents+Shielded+Detainees+During+Deadly+Shooting">video</a> taken during the shooting showed ICE officers under fire offloading detainees from a van through a hallway to safety.
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“The evidence is clear that this was an intended assault on ICE personnel who come to work every day to do their job,” Marcos Charles, acting executive associate director for ICE’s enforcement and removal operations, said during Thursday’s presser detailing the officers&#8217; heroic conduct.
“Those ICE officers just showed the world who they really are: law enforcement officers who want the best for our country, that’s ICE integrity, courage, excellence. They were willing to put their lives on the line to pull detainees out of the transport van to get them to safety. They are heroes, and I hope the media has the integrity to shine a light on this story. Enough is enough with the harmful lies and rhetoric, and it has to stop,” he added.
The Dallas shooting was the latest attack against ICE agents and facilities. A group of leftist anarchists threw fireworks at an ICE facility just outside of Dallas in July to lure officers outside before opening fire, and shooting a police officer in the neck. Bratton Dean Wilkinson, a 36-year-old American citizen, showed up at the ICE facility in Dallas last month and announced that he was carrying a bomb in his backpack and flashed a “detonator” on his wrist, the agency said.
Attacks on ICE agents have increased 1,000% as they carry out President Donald Trump&#8217;s mass deportation efforts, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/22/despite-1000-increase-assaults-ice-officers-governor-newsom-signs-unconstitutional">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security.

Multiple People Shot At ICE Facility In Dallas, Shooter Dead From Self Inflicted Wound

Second Illegal Immigrant Detainee Dies After Dallas ICE Shooting

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Three people were killed and eight were injured when an alleged U.S. veteran who claimed he was suffering from PTSD fired into a dockside North Carolina restaurant, killing three people and leaving at least one other person fighting for their life.
The suspect was named by the Southport Police Department as Nigel Max Edge, arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder, and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, with additional charges pending.
“We believe that this was a targeted location,” Southport Police Chief Todd Coring stated at a press conference. “He acted in what we call a ‘lone wolf.’ He acted alone. This is highly premeditated from what we are seeing at this time and we feel that there are no other threats to our community, that we do have someone in custody.&#8221;
He added that an active investigation is underway.
Coring continued that the suspect was identified as a combat veteran injured in the line of duty and said he suffered from PTSD.
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“On Saturday, September 27, 2025 at approximately 9:30 PM, members of the Southport Police Department were dispatched to calls of shots fired with multiple injuries at the American Fish Company, located at 150 Yacht Basin Dr, Southport, NC 28461,” the Southport, North Carolina, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cityofsouthportnc/posts/pfbid0BwvyoikCymScwnc1jgKrx5nqjgqWFd73pBFBvitAH13F9bEijmzKmkDppDmonDfel">Facebook page</a> stated. “Just prior, a boat with a single occupant traveling on the Cape Fear River, paused briefly at the American Fish Company and opened fire, fatally wounding three patrons, and injuring at least eight others. The boat then fled the area, towards the Intracoastal Waterway in the direction of Oak Island. Shortly after 10:00 PM, the U.S. Coast Guard observed a single individual matching the description of the shooter, loading their boat at the public boat ramp at NE 55th Street in Oak Island. The Coast Guard crew detained this suspect.”
The suspect reportedly was formerly known as Sean William DeBevoise, who authored a book titled, “Headshot: Betrayal of a Nation.” In the author’s comments about the book, he stated, “The attacks on 9/11 would decide my future for me. I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed 3 times; first to Haiti&#8217;s political turmoil, then to Iraq twice. Returning from the warzone severely wounded, my life would never be the same as it once was.”

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Suspect Charged In North Carolina Dockside Shooting That Killed 3, Injured 8

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Protesters Denounce ICE Outside Chicago-Area Facility

This Is What Must Be Done To Put An End To The Left-Wing Terrorism Epidemic

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What could have been an unspeakable tragedy unfolded at a youth baseball tournament in Katy, Texas, when gunfire ripped across a field crowded with children. A coach was struck in the shoulder during a pre-game prayer, and three men have since been arrested.
The Waller County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27, were charged with felony deadly conduct with a firearm after being accused of firing multiple rounds from a nearby pasture in the direction of children. A judge set bond at $100,000 for each of them.
The shooting happened at The Rac Katy. According to law enforcement, the three suspects were engaged in so-called “recreational shooting” about 600 to 700 yards away from the ballfield. One of their stray rounds struck a 27-year-old coach as he led a pre-game prayer with the young players.
Witnesses describe chaos as gunshots echoed across the complex. Houston Warriors founder Andy Baize said the coach shielded a child and then immediately helped lead players to safety, even while wounded. “He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left,” Baize <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/3-men-arrested-katy-texas-baseball-coach-shot/285-aabc16d9-6cd5-4482-b35f-7e2a9c213c9e">told</a> KHOU 11, adding, “When he was struck by the bullet, his first reaction was to get down to the ground, cover his kids and get them to a safe space.”
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Emergency responders airlifted the coach to a hospital, where he was treated and later released. A bystander used a belt to stop the bleeding before paramedics arrived.
The incident was so intense that bullets reportedly struck a nearby light pole, and a livestream of the game captured coaches, umpires, and players sprinting for cover. Alex Smith and Corbin Geisendorff, coaches for the Texas Colts 12U team, said they had heard gunfire the previous day but thought it was distant. On Sunday, the shooting was unmistakably close.
“There were bullets flying everywhere … onto the field, off the poles,” Geisendorff <a href="https://abc13.com/amp/post/coach-injured-shooting-during-katy-baseball-game-rac-ems-says/17862158/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>. “We’ll never be back there.”
“It’s terrible. I’m going to try to not get emotional, but I’ll never forget their little faces during that moment. It’s scary to realize how close the kids were,” Smith said. “Our team was about to take the field. Our kids were out, ready to go. And them shots started being let go. They ducked down, got in line, and they trusted us, thankfully, and we got them to their parents. &#8230; I just want to make sure they’re okay and their families are okay and we just stay together. That’s the ultimate goal.”
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Baize said the injured coach’s first words after surgery were: “I need to leave because I have to go coach my kids at 3 p.m.” The coach’s dedication, he added, underscores the gravity of what these children experienced — and how narrowly they escaped tragedy.
The Rac Katy issued a statement expressing sorrow, halting all games pending an internal and police investigation, and promising to do “everything possible” to prevent such an incident from happening again.

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Coach Shot As Gunfire Erupts During Prayer At Texas Youth Baseball Game

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Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old identified as the gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hoped to leave federal immigration agents in &#8220;terror&#8221; and searched online for videos of the Charlie Kirk political assassination ahead of the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Thursday.
Jahn allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-facility-shooter-left-bullet-casings-reading-anti-ice-at-attack-scene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened</a> fire on the ICE detention center from a nearby rooftop Wednesday morning, killing one illegal immigrant detainee and injuring two others before turning the gun on himself.
While an investigation into the incident is still ongoing, the shooter allegedly left bullet casings engraved with the phrase &#8220;ANTI-ICE&#8221; on them that revealed the &#8220;ideological motive&#8221; behind the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed on X.
Patel revealed Thursday that the FBI found additional shreds of evidence upon searching his devices and writings.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDallas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDallas</a> and FBI HQ have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject&#039;s person/residence/bedroom. This <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> is committed to providing timely updates, as promised:
&#8211; The perp downloaded a document titled &quot;Dallas…
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Notably, the FBI found that Jahn &#8220;conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the &#8216;Charlie Kirk Shot Video&#8221; in the days leading up to the shooting. He also left a chilling note that read &#8220;Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, &#8216;is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?&#8221;
The shooter utilized applications used to expose ICE agents&#8217; whereabouts and downloaded a list of Department of Homeland Security facilities before the attack, Patel said.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-facility-shooter-left-bullet-casings-reading-anti-ice-at-attack-scene">ICE Facility Shooter Left Bullet Casings Reading ‘ANTI-ICE’ At Attack Scene</a></h3>
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This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
While the investigation is… <a href="https://t.co/SMOyxiKLqA">pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA</a>
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
The suspect&#8217;s brother, Noah Jahn, told NBC News that he didn&#8217;t think the alleged shooter &#8220;was politically interested&#8221; and described him as &#8220;unique.&#8221;
“He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,” Noah said.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-injured-one-killed-in-shooting-at-dallas-ice-detention-center?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=At+Least+One+Dead%2C+Two+Wounded+In+Targeted+Attack+On+Dallas+ICE+Facility">At Least One Dead, Two Wounded In Targeted Attack On Dallas ICE Facility</a></h3>
“I didn’t think he was politically interested. He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew,&#8221; he added.
Noah said Joshua knew how to use the rifle their parents own, but is no &#8220;marksman, that&#8217;s for sure.&#8221;
“He would not be able to make any shots like that,&#8221; Noah said.
The alleged attacker was unemployed at the time of the shooting and had plans to move into his parents&#8217; home in Oklahoma, Noah told NBC. His previous jobs included installing solar panels and picking marijuana, according to his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-jahn-9b5840135/?trk=public-profile-join-page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>.
Joshua grew up in Allen, Texas, and was a Boy Scout when he was younger, Noah told NBC.
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Joshua&#8217;s mother, Sharon Jahn, previously ranted on social media against Republican lawmakers in Texas for supporting the Second Amendment.
“Governor Abbott, Senator Cornyn and Senator Cruz how does it make you feel that your action to open up gun laws is responsible for the killing of 21 more people?” she wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BSDyjftEG/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on May 25, 2022.
She added: “Do you secretly sit in front of a tv and smile a demented smile? You must be proud of all the money that sits in your bank accounts from the gun lobby support. Was it worth it, Governor Abbott? How about you senators?”
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-needs-to-stop-ted-cruz-slams-leftists-rhetoric-after-texas-ice-facility-shooting?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98This+Needs+To+Stop%E2%80%99%3A+Ted+Cruz+Slams+Leftists%E2%80%99+%E2%80%98Rhetoric%E2%80%99+After+Texas+ICE+Facility+Shooting">‘This Needs To Stop’: Ted Cruz Slams Leftists’ ‘Rhetoric’ After Texas ICE Facility Shooting</a></h3>
“Here is my hope: May you be reminded of the deaths every time you spend that precious blood money you have received from the gun lobby. Hope you think of it 100% when you attend the NRA meeting in a few days.&#8221;
“Senator Cornyn, I realize you suddenly had something in DC come up where you won’t be attending. It’s unfortunate you don’t even have the spine to stand up to the NRA and tell them the real reason you aren’t attending. You are a coward, a spineless coward.”
She also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FwSSa3Sus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> song lyrics two days later that included the phrase &#8220;We can melt all the guns.&#8221;
Wednesday&#8217;s attack comes amid a string of left-wing political violence that includes the assassination of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlie-kirk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlie Kirk</a>.
And just a day before the latest shooting, the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attempted-trump-assassin-tries-to-stab-himself-in-neck-after-guilty-verdict?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Attempted+Trump+Assassin+Tries+To+Stab+Himself+In+Neck+After+Guilty+Verdict" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> in a Florida court.
In recent years, radical left groups such as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-rifle-association-linked-to-numerous-violent-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Socialist Rifle Association</a> have been linked to numerous violent attacks, including a July 4 ambush against the ICE facility in Alvarado, located outside of Dallas.

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The shooter who killed at least two detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Wednesday left shell casings at the scene that read &#8220;ANTI ICE,&#8221; according to a photo FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X.
While an investigation into the attack is &#8220;ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack,&#8221; Patel wrote.
&#8220;These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prairieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers,&#8221; Patel wrote.
&#8220;It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice,&#8221; he added.
The shooter, who took his own life, has yet to be publicly identified. He opened fire from a nearby government building, the Dallas Police Department <a href="https://x.com/DallasPD/status/1970842592418914725" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
All of the victims of Wednesday&#8217;s shooting were ICE detainees, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/dallas-ice-facility-shooting-rcna233385" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC News.
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This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
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— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Wednesday&#8217;s attack is just the latest in an ongoing pattern of incidents against ICE personnel in Texas and across the country.
A group of leftist anarchists clad in military-style gear threw fireworks at an ICE facility in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11-arrested-for-plotting-ambush-to-kill-ice-corrections-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvarado</a>, Texas, located just outside of Dallas, to lure officers outside before they opened fire on July 4, shooting a local police officer in the neck.
The group allegedly possessed fliers reading “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” and a flag stating, “RESIST FASCISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.”
In a separate incident, Bratton Dean Wilkinson, a 36-year-old American citizen, showed up at the ICE facility in <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/26/law-enforcement-arrests-suspect-who-made-bomb-threat-ice-dallas-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas</a> last month and announced that he was carrying a bomb in his backpack and flashed a &#8220;detonator&#8221; on his wrist, the agency said.

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A man has been arrested after firing multiple shots at a window of an ABC News affiliate in Sacramento, California, following the network&#8217;s decision to pull late night host Jimmy Kimmel after he lied about the assassination of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk.
The suspect has been identified as 64-year-old Anibal Hernandez-Santana. He&#8217;s been arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, negligent discharge of a firearm, and shooting into an occupied building.
An investigation into the shooting is still underway, however, a <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/abc-affiliate-sacramento-gunfire-kimmel-protest-1236524751/">report</a> from Variety says the suspect is a former legislative director for the California Federation of Teachers, and his social media is rife with &#8220;anti-Trump commentary.&#8221;
In one post, the suspect allegedly wrote in July, “The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete. CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’. Rules don’t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT!”
&#8220;The man suspected of firing 3 shots into the window of an ABC affiliate in California after the Kimmel decision is a former teacher&#8217;s union legislative director whose X feed is full of far-left rhetoric encouraging escalation,&#8221; conservative account &#8220;AG&#8221; posted to X.
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— AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1969479346801754532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
KCRA showed footage of the damage from the bullets, as shown in the video, below:
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NEW: The man who shot up the ABC affiliate in Sacramento following the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, has been identified as Anibal Hernandez-Santana.
An X account that appears to belong to Hernandez-Santana is full of anti-Trump posts, as reported by Variety.
The man, 64,… <a href="https://t.co/4fZmyLZCkR">pic.twitter.com/4fZmyLZCkR</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1969498664625455276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
On Wednesday, ABC pulled Kimmel’s late night show &#8220;indefinitely&#8221; after criticism erupted over comments the host made about Kirk&#8217;s assassination. Kimmel falsely claimed on air that the gunman who murdered Kirk was a member of the “MAGA gang” and mocked President Donald Trump for his response to Kirk’s death.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel <a href="https://x.com/newsbusters/status/1967982924986487284" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, <a href="https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-affiliates-to-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely-beginning-tonight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement: “Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located.&#8221;
“Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue,” he added.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspicious-armed-man-arrested-outside-stadium-where-charlie-kirk-memorial-to-be-held?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=UPDATED%3A+‘Suspicious’+Armed+Man+Arrested+Outside+Stadium+Where+Charlie+Kirk+Memorial+To+Be+Held">UPDATED: ‘Suspicious’ Armed Man Arrested Outside Stadium Where Charlie Kirk Memorial To Be Held</a>

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Three police officers and the suspect who opened fire on them are dead after a shooting that took place on Wednesday afternoon in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Two other officers remain in critical condition but are considered stable.
According to multiple reports, the suspect was the subject of a stalking and trespass charge that was filed earlier in the day in York County, and police were going to make an arrest when the shooter — who has not yet been identified — instead opened fire.
Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner, Col. Christopher Paris, confirmed during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that three of the Northern York Regional Police Department officers involved had been killed and their attacker had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Paris also announced that an investigation was still ongoing.
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner confirms *THREE* police officers from the Northern York Regional Police Dept are dead after a shooting in Codorus Township, near Spring Grove in York County. Two more injured.
Attacker is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. <a href="https://t.co/IohF3u4fDG">pic.twitter.com/IohF3u4fDG</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968442077198385346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement following the tragic shooting, saying via X, &#8220;The @FBI and @ATFHQ are on the scene supporting local law enforcement following the shooting of multiple police officers in York County, Pennsylvania.
Violence against law enforcement is a scourge on our society and never acceptable. Pray for the officers involved.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ATFHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ATFHQ</a> are on the scene supporting local law enforcement following the shooting of multiple police officers in York County, Pennsylvania.
Violence against law enforcement is a scourge on our society and never acceptable. Pray for the officers involved.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1968430529033773295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) also commented on the shooting, praising law enforcement officers for the work they do every day — and also pointed out that their families serve with them.
&#8220;It’s an extraordinary thing what these law enforcement families do. They support the individual who puts on the uniform and runs toward danger. They’re there for them when they leave in the morning, and they pray throughout the day that they will come home at night,&#8221; he said.

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When people say “political violence is wrong,” does that change the underlying substructure of thought that leads to a massive elevation in violence in the country of the political variety?
I don&#8217;t think it means anything to just say that political violence is wrong, because there are actual substrates of thought that lead to the elevation of the violence that compel fringe actors to go out and do things like murder Charlie Kirk.
Thus, having our politicians simply go out there and say, “We&#8217;ve got to take down the temperature; we all have to use better language,” is absolutely true, but it isn&#8217;t specific enough.
Chuck Schumer said, “The bottom line is this is a time that all Americans should come together and feel and mourn what happened. Violence, which affects so many different people of so many different political persuasions, is an affliction of America, and coming together is what we ought to be doing, not pointing fingers of blame.”
Hakeem Jeffries said, “This moment requires leadership that brings the American people together, as opposed to trying to further divide us. Political violence in any form against any American is unacceptable, and should be denounced by everyone. And moving forward, we have to figure out a better way to come together, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans.”
All of this is correct.
But all of this is incredibly vague.
I want to talk about something that we all know is true, but nobody seems to want to say: Not all ideologies are equally prone to violence.
When there is a shooting, a mass shooting at a synagogue, a mass shooting at a church, when Charlie Kirk is shot, everybody&#8217;s mind immediately goes to this: What are the likeliest probabilities in terms of who did the shooting? 
Everyone does this. We cannot pretend that we are blind to the realities of the world. When there is a shooting at a synagogue, I can tell you my mind goes to two places: radical Muslim or white supremacist. Those are usually the options. If there&#8217;s a shooting at a church, your mind might go to a trans radical or a radical Muslim. 
That&#8217;s where your mind is going to go. And this is leaving aside people who are generally mentally ill or where there&#8217;s no political ideology involved. If there is a political ideology involved, your mind immediately goes to the movements that are likely to drive people toward murder.
Not every ideology is prone to this. No one thought that when Charlie Kirk was shot, it was because of his stance on low taxes. No one thought that. We differ on all sorts of politics in this country. Nobody thought that a debate about marginal tax rates was why Charlie was shot. Nobody believes Charlie Kirk was murdered because of his stance on energy policy. 
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In order for an ideology, for a movement to coalesce in such a way that it allows for violence — the sort of bubbling of violence that lies at the outskirts of a movement — there have to be some preconditions.
I&#8217;ve been talking a lot about lions and scavengers. What we are seeing here is the scavengers at work. 
The basic philosophy of the scavenger is very simple: All models and civilizations are merely guises for power. My failure is a result of one of those corrupt power systems. There&#8217;s a great conspiracy out there. I am the victim. I&#8217;m being targeted. I am the actual victim. 
And thus, if there is a great conspiracy that is targeting me for destruction, I must respond in kind with violence.
This is how you get to the idiotic notion that speech is violence. 
Those are the three elements: “Morals and civilizations that I don&#8217;t like are simply guises for power,” “My failure within that system is a result of that great conspiracy and I am the victim,” and “It is an existential threat to me and therefore I must act out with violence and harm somebody.”
Let me give you three examples, and I&#8217;m going to take them from the top death threats I received. 
I receive an enormous number of death threats. I have 24/7 security on me, on my family. I literally go nowhere without an entire team of security at this point in my life. And that is because of things like what happened to Charlie.
There are three main wings that I get these threats from: Trans ideology/Marxist ideology, white supremacists, and radical Muslims. 
I want to go through each one of those and explain why these particular ideologies, why these particular movements are likely to generate violence. 
A trans ideology says that your argument about biology, that there is simply male and female, is, in fact, a guise for power. You&#8217;re doing it because you hate me; you wish to erase me. I am a victim of your failure to accept my identity, such that you&#8217;re erasing me. You&#8217;re engaging in a “trans genocide,” and therefore, you are threatening me. Your speech is a form of violence. It is wiping away my identity. 
And therefore violence ought to be met with violence.
Marxist ideology, which is derived from the same general area, is the idea that the governmental system, the free market system, is an imposition on me. It is a conspiracy from above to harm me, to destroy me. My failures inside the market are actually not my own. They&#8217;re the fault of the system. And you, as an advocate for the system, are victimizing me. You&#8217;re erasing me. You&#8217;re destroying me. And I must act with violence. There&#8217;s a reason why Marxist movements are so violent. They say that speech, advocacy for the free market, is, in fact, a system of power. It is to be met with violence. 
White supremacy: I know that there&#8217;s an attempt to pretend that this doesn&#8217;t exist, but it absolutely exists in online spaces. Pretending it doesn&#8217;t is bulls*** and everyone knows it. I know it because I&#8217;ve had to have the FBI arrest somebody who was doing this while threatening not just me, by the way, but Donald Trump Jr. 
That ideology says that white people are being put upon in the United States by an entire system. And if you&#8217;re an advocate for that system, you are threatening me with destruction, with erasure, with white genocide, and thus you must be killed. Violence is a proper response to an attempted genocide. That is the argument that is made, at root, by many white supremacists. 
I&#8217;m not talking about what the Left calls white supremacy, which is anything to the right of Hillary Clinton. I&#8217;m talking about actual, honest-to-God white supremacists. I get an awful lot of death threats from them.
Group number three, radical Muslims, who believe that the failures of the Palestinians, for example, are the result of evil Western systems. And thus, if you are an advocate for those systems, it&#8217;s because you want to erase the radical Muslims and you want to kill people and you want to commit genocide, and therefore it is fine to shoot two Israeli embassy staffers dead in Washington, D.C. That is why it is fine to throw a Molotov cocktail at an 80-year-old woman in Colorado who was protesting Israeli hostages being held. 
We all know this is true. Pretending it isn&#8217;t true doesn&#8217;t make it go away. Not all movements are equally likely to bubble up with violence.
And so when we have politicians saying political violence is bad, if you&#8217;re not speaking out against the movements that use this logic, if you&#8217;re not speaking out against the movements that say that speech is in fact a form of violence, that systems are in fact a form of violence, and that violence is the proper response to that, then you are contributing to the environment in which this kind of stuff happens. 
It is not that there are many radical Muslims in the United States, by the numbers, thank God.
It’s not that there are many white supremacists in the United States.
But by the numbers, the increasing radicalism of the Left in the United States is, in fact, a massive issue. 
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently did rankings of campus free speech. And what they found is that college campuses are replete with the failure to speak your mind. 
Why? Because people are afraid of violence.
It goes all the way back to when I was in college. There&#8217;s nothing new here. I wrote my very first book, “Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth,” in 2004 about the kind of discrimination conservatives faced on campus. And yes, there was the possibility of violence, even in 2004, not being shot, but the possibility of being physically assaulted, which is something that came close to happening to me multiple times, even when I was an undergrad. 
That&#8217;s going back 20 years, when I was warning that this was going to metastasize and take over huge swaths of the political Left. People ignored it at the time. But it was true.
I spoke in 2015 at the University of Missouri during the Black Lives Matter upsurge, after Ferguson. And I remember people asking about safety. I said, “I&#8217;m not worried about safety. There are some police there; I&#8217;ve got a security team now. No one’s going to take a shot at me. This is America. You don&#8217;t get shot in America for saying things on a college campus. This is America. I grew up in this country. This is my country. This is a country I love. This is where our fundamental value is the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. No one&#8217;s going to do this kind of stuff. No one.” 
But it&#8217;s becoming more and more common. According to FIRE, a record 1-in-3 students now hold some level of acceptance, even if only rarely, for resorting to violence to stop a campus speech. 
Now, I&#8217;m sure not everybody who believes they&#8217;re using violence thinks in terms of shooting someone to death. But when you are drawing from a pool at this point of legitimately tens of millions of young Americans, who are atomistic and isolated and don&#8217;t touch grass, it is not going to be hard to find some unhinged people who decide to take that to its logical conclusion and fire a bullet through the throat of a man who is simply attempting to speak truth to people in the friendliest possible fashion. 
I don&#8217;t like when people say “They shot Charlie,” because “they” isn&#8217;t a person. A person shot Charlie Kirk, and he shot Charlie Kirk for a deranged reason.
With that said, there are movements in which the substrate of their political thinking leads to an elevation in violence. Period. End of story. That is a reality.
And it is not enough to just say “political violence is bad” if you are not calling out the movements themselves.

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The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis is on lockdown after gunshots were reportedly heard inside Bancroft Hall.
A midshipman who had been kicked out of the school returned to campus armed with a weapon, according to Fox News.
&#8220;The shooter is knocking on doors pretending to be a military policeman,&#8221; one official said.
There are multiple victims being assessed for their injuries, Fox anchor Bret Baier reports. At least one victim is being transported by medevac with serious, life-threatening wounds.
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BREAKING: A gunman has opened fire at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and multiple people have been shot.
Reminder, today is the 24th anniversary of 9/11.
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&#8220;Naval Support Activity Annapolis, in coordination with local law enforcement, is currently responding to reports of threats made to the Naval Academy,&#8221; NSAA PAO, LT Naweed Lemar said in a statement.
&#8220;The base is on lockdown out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is a developing situation and we will provide updates as they become available.&#8221;
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US NAVAL ACADMEY LOCKDOWN: “Naval Support Activity Annapolis, in coordination with local law enforcement, is currently responding to reports of threats made to the Naval Academy. The base is on lockdown out of an abundance of caution. This is a developing situation and we will…
— Allison Papson (@AllisonPapson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AllisonPapson/status/1966265564164194369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump issued an order on Wednesday that all American flags be lowered to half staff until Sunday evening at 6 p.m. in honor of conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Trump shared the news in a post to his Truth Social platform, saying, &#8220;In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M.&#8221;
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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1965885627116966045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Kirk was shot hours earlier while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem, just 20 minutes after he&#8217;d begun to speak. Video quickly circulated of the moment when Kirk was shot by an individual who remains at large as of this writing. Chaos erupted on the scene as students fled in all directions.
Social media was immediately flooded with prayers and well-wishes for Kirk, his wife Erika, and their two young children — but Trump made the heartbreaking announcement a few hours later that his friend had died.
&#8220;The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!&#8221; Trump said in a statement.
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&#8220;The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his… <a href="https://t.co/aM8Pz3TKml">pic.twitter.com/aM8Pz3TKml</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1965880535659470994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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