Report of a shooting at #occupyVermont is blowing up twitter

A man died today of a gunshot at an Occupy Vermont camp in Burlington's City Hall Park. His death may be a suicide.

Update at 7:49 p.m. ET: Occupy Burlington protesters have clashed with police after the chief said the park needed to close for 24 hours so today's fatal shooting could be investigated, The Burlington Free Press now says. One woman was briefly detained.

The confrontation came after a city officials met with Occupy organizers to discuss the future of the encampment. Police Chief Michael Schirling said tents may be banned.

Across the country, the mayor of Portland, Ore., announced that Occupy camps would be evicted from two downtown parks at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

Update at 5:28 p.m. ET: The unidentified 35-year-old man has died of his wound, authorities say, according to The Burlington Free Press.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/shooting-reported-at-occupyvermont-encampment/1

Favorite

0 members favorited this

Comment

You need to be a member of 12160 Social Network to add comments!

Join 12160 Social Network

Comment by Thomas Gambill on November 11, 2011 at 11:58pm: not sure how to make the links smaller font. It won't fix it from MS word.

THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN OSAMA BIN LADEN REALLY DIED! NOT 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDdN4Gpz8zI&feature=related

Benazir Bhutto: "Bin Laden was Murdered" in a 2007 interview

After the BBC censored this clip and then reinstated it, then some of them now claiming they NEVER censored it, the mystery DEEPENS. With Benazir Bhutto assassinated the motive arises in that she quite clearly leads not only her death to the door of the Pakistanis but also responsibility for the 9/11 attacks are implicated as well. Aired on 2nd November 2007,David Frost the presenter did not challenge her on her assertion (2:14) that Bin Laden was murdered, so maybe he was and the West has not announced it.

It would make sense that the West would cover up such a truth, as Bin Laden is needed as a "bogeyman" to continue the farcical "War on Terror"

BIN LADEN could have been dead early as 2001 yet the USA kept his name there to blame for any attacks to give them the green light in invading other countries

Comment by Anthony Kimbrough on November 11, 2011 at 11:21pm: Strange, the guy who roomed with him. When interviewed he used the word "weapon". Most civilians use the tern "gun". Maybe something. Maybe nothing. I'll also have to say I think Thomas is correct on his statement. I'm not too up on the later, but Osama was dead a long time before they killed him. Renal failure.

Comment by Thomas Gambill on November 11, 2011 at 9:21pm: Gadaffi isn't dead and neither is Saddam

Comment by Karen Quinn-Tostado on November 11, 2011 at 8:28pm: How difficult it must be to live with yourself after going through the atrocities of war, first hand.

What kind of self hatred would you have after being forced to torture or murder someone...

maybe a child in front of a parent the government wanted information from. We don't even fire Hillary for being part of the torture, sodimization and murder of Gadaffi, and we ignore Obama murdering whoever it was he chose to call "Osama". These are not honorable acts of war, these are criminal acts of a corrput mafia.

Until "WE the PEOPLE" STOP JUSTIFYING MURDER AND COMMITTING IT UPON OURSELVES, we'll get more of the same.

Today is 11/11/11. Step into a new alignment with the 21st Century and YOUR Own Uniqueness.

Focus on finding YOUR gifts, instead of looking for faults or saviours in each other. Time to let go of inequality and reclaim Our Power!

Power to the People through Peaceful Unity!

Comment by Thomas Gambill on November 11, 2011 at 5:57pm: They have the troops microchipped and these chips are effecting their PTSD by technology. There is a lawsuit going on now. I have a study about this....the suicides of military are off the scale. The effect is to reduce the effectiveness of our troops to facilitate the set up for the coming invasion that is already in place for over a decade.

Comment by lisa mcconnell on November 11, 2011 at 12:57pm: It's so sad to find out he's a military vet too.

Comment by guest_blog on November 10, 2011 at 10:16pm: A 35-year-old military veteran has died at a hospital after shooting himself Thursday in an Occupy Wall Street encampment in Vermont's largest city, a spokesman said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45246660/ns/us_news-life/t/man-shoots-s...