LAX shut down: Multiple shot

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lol

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well... here it comes... I'll be back in a minute with a post.

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Ok, I would look at the source, watch the video and make your own determination.

Of course, the source is that which will not be named (and can't here, LOL!)

TSA Shooting Narrative Disintegrates

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Over next fews days, sizable amount of media coverage will be dedicated to patriot-terrorist narrative
Kurt Nimmo
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November 3, 2013


The LAX TSA shooting story is beginning to fall apart as the government and its propaganda dispensing media jostle to exploit the incident as a pretext to further militarize TSA procedures and also demonize official enemies, including Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.


Eye witness and official government versions of event do not coincide.



In similar fashion to the government generated narrative on the Boston Bombing and “active shooter” incidents over the last two years, the cover story for the murder of a TSA agent in Los Angeles has a number of glaring incongruities and oddities.


It was initially reported that the shooter was a fellow TSA agent. “Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that the gunman was a Transportation Security Administration employee at LAX,” the media reported shortly before noon on Friday. “The gunman was killed by authorities after he opened fire Friday morning. He allegedly shot and killed a fellow TSA employee.”

BREAKING. Law enforcement source tells @CBSNews the LAX shooter was an off-duty TSA agent.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) November 1, 2013

Less than an hour later, it was reported that a “federal law enforcement official said that the gunman was a ticketed passenger entering the airport. Officials don’t believe the gunman has ever worked for TSA. Law enforcement sources had earlier told The Times the gunman was a TSA employee.”


The New York Post carried a bizarre graphic photo allegedly showing a wounded suspect at the airport. The photo contradicts a news report stating the “triggerman wore dark clothes and a bulletproof vest.” The individual in the photo is wearing a brown shirt and light-colored pants, not dark clothing. He is certainly not wearing a bullet proof vest. If the photo posted on the supposedly reputable New York Post website in fact shows the alleged shooter, then the earlier report is outright propaganda or shoddy journalism.


Then came the expected story turnaround to pave over previous incongruities. Enter Paul Ciancia, a reportedly mentally ill individual who turned out to be a perfect fit for the violent and dangerous antigovernment loner meme pushed by the Department of Homeland Security, the establishment media, and various organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The now common domestic terrorist stereotype exemplified by Ciancia also produces fodder for a number of liberal bloggers and others who amplify a hysterical propaganda message about rightwing terrorists in our midst who must be ultimately dealt with by the government.


By mid-day Friday it was claimed that Ciancia carried a “manifesto” with him and that he “wanted to kill TSA and pigs.” According to the Daily Mail and others, government sources said the note was signed with the letters “NWO,” short for “New World Order.”

Law enforcement: materials found on LAX suspect included rant referencing conspiracy theory, the New World Order http://t.co/gQIUyadanu
— CNN (@CNN) November 2, 2013

“Ciancia’s views appear to be in line with the anti-government Patriot movement, whose members subscribe to the theory that a powerful secret alliance of international elites is plotting to form a one-world government, also known as a New World Order,” the British newspaper reported on Sunday.


“In addition to the note found at the scene, investigators are using some other writings of Ciancia’s to help build a case for what drove him to kill a TSA agent on Friday morning,” the Daily Mail reported.

Southern Poverty Law Center has details on LAX shooter's alleged antigovernment manifesto. Keywords: "Fiat currency" http://t.co/BP60quUCXL
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) November 2, 2013

According to the SPLC, Ciancia’s note characterized former Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano as a “bull dyke” and dismissed her with an obscenity.


These alleged “writings” will undoubtedly be used to expand the rightwing meme and underscore the supposed need to deal with violent antigovernment radicals, i.e., anybody who voices displeasure with big government and the growth of a police state apparatus used against political enemies of the establishment. The murder of a frontline TSA hireling will inject the needed degree of urgency to deal with the problem of Americans growing increasingly angry and restless over TSA molestation and wholesale violations of the Fourth Amendment.


Crucial story flipflops are now fading into the background — as they did when the government shaped up the official meme on the Boston Bombing — and the antigovernment terrorist meme will be allowed to dominate the spotlight.


Over the next fews days, a sizable amount of media coverage will be dedicated to this now well-established patriot-terrorist narrative. MSNBC and other establishment propaganda outlets will dwell on media figures associated with different factions within a large and growing movement — from the more or less mainstream tea parties to originalist Constitution groups like the Oath Keepers — and will insinuate that allowing these individuals and groups to exercise their right to free speech endangers the government.


Case in point for the days ahead: the corporate media’s failed attempt to connect Alex Jones to cop murderer Richard Poplawski in 2009. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the New York Times, Raw Story and dozens of liberal blogs parroted the lie that Poplawski was an Alex Jones follower. In fact, Poplawski disliked Jones, as his posts on ********.com revealed. After the convicted murderer’s messages were re-posted to refute the ludicrous accusation, Raw Story corrected a story linking Jones to Poplawski.


The establishment media and its sycophants will undoubtedly renew the effort to undermine the alternative media and its key figures in the days ahead. They may avoid mentioning Alex Jones and Glenn Beck by name, but the insinuation will be crystal clear.


Anybody who criticizes the government and its Gestapo operations in airports and on the streets of America is a terrorist who will shoot to kill government workers. This is the primary objective of the incident at LAX on Friday. Its end game is to portray activists opposed to the New World order agenda as mentally deranged cop killers.

This article was posted: Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 11:09 am

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Surveillance footage shows the chilling moment LAX gunman Paul Ciancia shoots a TSA agent and then returns to finish him off when he notices the officer's still alive

• Paul Anthony Ciancia, aged 23, from Pennsville, New Jersey named as the gunman
• Shooter was dressed in fatigues and carrying a handwritten note, reading that he 'wanted to kill TSA and pigs'
• Described himself as 'p*****-off patriot' who was upset with former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Neapolitano
• Police say shooter’s brother got a text message from Ciancia on Friday saying he was thinking about taking his life
• TSA agent shot and killed; one other agent was shot and two others were injured but some of those injuries are classified as evasion injuries meaning that they harmed themselves while trying to get out of the terminal
• This is the first time that a TSA agent has ever been killed in the line of duty
• Suspect's former schoolmate said Ciancia may have been bullied

By Louise Boyle, Rachel Quigley, Meghan Keneally and Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 08:23 EST, 3 November 2013 | UPDATED: 09:36 EST, 3 November 2013



Accused: Paul Ciancia faces charges of first degree murder and violence at an international airport


After shooting a TSA agent on Friday, LAX gunman Paul Ciancia started up an elevator to find his next target. But when the 23-year-old turned around, he saw that the agent was moving - so he went back and finished him off, according to footage reviewed by investigators.
The unemployed motorcycle mechanic suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at Los Angeles airport set out to kill multiple employees of the Transportation Security Administration, authorities said yesterday.

As first-degree murder charges were filed against Paul Ciancia, it was revealed that the 23-year-old had hoped the attack would 'instill fear in their traitorous minds'.
In a news conference announcing charges against Ciancia, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr spelled out a chilling chain of events inside LAX that began when Ciancia strode into Terminal 3 on Friday, pulled a Smith & Wesson .223-caliber assault rifle out of his duffel bag and fired repeatedly at point-blank range at a TSA officer before the main screening area.
After killing that officer, Ciancia fired on at least two other uniformed TSA employees and an airline passenger, who were all wounded.

Airport police eventually shot him as panicked passengers cowered in stores and restaurants.
Ciancia's duffel bag contained a handwritten letter signed by the 23-year-old stating he'd 'made the conscious decision to try to kill' multiple TSA employees and that he wanted to stir fear in them, FBI Special Agent in Charge David L. Bowdich, said.
The bag also had five magazines of ammunition.
Federal prosecutors filed charges of first-degree murder and commission of violence at an international airport against Ciancia. The charges could qualify him for the death penalty.
He is still in a serious condition in hospital after being shot in the head and leg by officers.
'He is receiving medical treatment,' Agent Bowdich said. 'I'm not going to talk about his gunshot wounds. At the moment, he is unresponsive and we are unable to talk to him, as of today.'
The widow of the TSA agent he killed paid tribute to her husband yesterday, describing him as a 'great man' who loved his job.

Heartbroken: Ana Hernandez, whose husband Gerado was killed in the attack, said he loved his job with the TSA


Gerardo I. Hernandez, who would have celebrated his 40th birthday next week, is the first TSA agent to be killed in the line of duty.

Victim: Gerardo Hernandez, 39, is the first TSA agent to be killed in the line of duty


Mr Hernandez's widow, Ana, told NBC News the couple, who have two children, met as teenagers and married on Valentine's Day in 1998.

'He was always excited to go to work. He was a joyful person, he took pride in his duty for the American public and for the TSA mission,' Mrs Hernandez said, adding that the family were heartbroken.

The FBI is still looking into the gunman's past, but said they had not found evidence of past crimes or any run-ins with the TSA. They said he had never applied for a job with the TSA.
Authorities believe someone dropped Ciancia off at the airport. Agents are reviewing surveillance tapes to piece together the exact sequence of events, he said.
'We are really going to draw a picture of who this person was, his background, his history. That will help us explain why he chose to do what he did,' Agent Bowdich said. 'At this point, I don't have the answer on that.'
The note found in the duffel bag suggested Ciancia was willing to kill almost any TSA officer.
'Black, white, yellow, brown, I don't discriminate,' the note read, according to a paraphrase by a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
Inquiry: FBI special agent David Bowdich, left, TSA administrator John Pistole, center, and attorney Andre Birotte discuss the shooting today


Terror: Horrified passengers flee as shots are heard in Terminal 3 of Los Angeles International Airport shortly before 10am on Friday


Arrest: Paul Ciancia was handcuffed to a gurney after being shot by officers


Terminal 3, the area where the shooting happened, reopened Saturday. Passengers who had abandoned luggage to escape Friday's gunfire were allowed to return to collect their bags.
The TSA planned to review its security policies in the wake of the attack. Administrator John Pistole did not say if that would mean arming officers.
As airport operations returned to normal, a few more details trickled out about Ciancia, who by all accounts was reserved and solitary.
Former classmates barely remember him and even a recent roommate could say little about the young man who moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles less than two years ago. A former classmate at Salesianum School in Wilmington, Delaware, said Ciancia was incredibly quiet.
History: Ciancia is a New Jersey native but recently moved to Los Angeles before the shooting


Investigation: Police are looking into the 23-year-old's past but say they don't yet have a clear picture of who he is


'He kept to himself and ate lunch alone a lot,' David Hamilton told the Los Angeles Times. 'I really don't remember any one person who was close to him .... In four years, I never heard a word out of his mouth.'
The suspected gunman allegedly had a grudge against former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Grudge: The gunman allegedly had a dislike of Janet Napolitano


He was carrying a one-page handwritten manifesto in which he called Napolitano a 'bull d***' and said 'FU Janet Napolitano,' according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Napolitano, a Democrat, resigned from DHS in August after four years and was named president of University of California last month.

The note found in Ciancia's bag after the shooting spree also contained references to the Federal Reserve, the New World Order conspiracy theory and 'fiat currency' - any money declared by a government to be legal tender.
Ciancia's views appear to be in line with the anti-government Patriot movement, whose members subscribe to the theory that a powerful secret alliance of international elites is plotting to form a one-world government, also known as a New World Order.
According to the SPLC’s sources, the 'Patriots' consider the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA, a participant of the global conspiracy.

In Ciancia's note, the 23-year-old suspect allegedly referred to himself as a 'p****d-off patriot' and stated that he wanted to kill 'TSA and pigs.'
So far, however, police and FBI working on the case have been unable to pinpoint Ciancia's exact motive for the deadly attack.
The investigation has been hindered by the fact that Ciancia remained in critical condition Saturday after being shot in the mouth and leg, making it impossible for officers to question him.

Kill zone: Terminal 3 remained closed Saturday as the forensics investigation continued. Only the ticket counter and parking structure were open


Back to work: TSA employees classify the luggage abandoned in the melee to return to passengers at LAX's Terminal 3 on Saturday

According to the account of a person who saw officers taking down Ciancia, they had to shoot him several time before he crumpled to the ground.
The witness told the Los Angeles Times that the 23-year-old was wearing a bulletproof vest over his fatigues.
LAX's Terminal 3, where the shooting occurred, fully reopened late Saturday afternoon. Most airlines issued waivers for people traveling through Los Angeles, allowing them to change flights without paying a fee.
LAX officials were working to get airport operations back to normal after the shooting that affected abut 1,550 flights and 167,000 passengers.
Ciancia, a native of Pennsville, New Jersey, who has lived in Los Angeles for more than a year, was carrying a high-powered AR-15 assault rifle as he stalked through Terminal 3, terrifying passengers and causing the surrounding buildings to be evacuated Friday morning.

Pictured: Paul Anthony Ciancia is the 23-year-old man who opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning, killing one TSA agent and injuring five others


A TSA officer (pictured in the center) gets medical attention after several people were wounded by gunfire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday by a lone gunman armed with an assault rifle


Back to work: Transportation Security Administration employees wear black ribbons over their badges today as LAX re-opens








When the shooting stopped, officer Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, was dead, becoming the first TSA employee in the agency's 12-year history to be killed in the line of duty.
During a press conference Saturday evening, airport police chief Patrick Gannon said that Hernandez's TSA colleagues immediately rushed to his side and administered first aid, trying to revive him, but to no avail.

Two other TSA agents were hospitalized, along with a person who suffered a broken ankle in the melee. A sixth person was treated at the scene for ringing in the ears from gunfire.

'I really thought I saw death,' said Anne Rainer, who witnessed the gunfire with her 26-year-old son Ben. The pair were about to leave for New York so her son could see a specialist for a rare genetic condition he has.
They took refuge behind a ticket counter where she said people prayed, cried and held hands. She watched as one person jumped from a second-floor balcony to get away from the gunman.
'Adrenaline went through my head, my body went numb, and I said, "If I have to go, it's OK because I'm not going to feel it, but I have to save him,"' Rainer said
More than a dozen passengers who were evacuated from the airport were treated for minor injuries such as twisted ankles.
A law enforcement official said the gunman was dressed in fatigues and carried at least five full 30-round magazines of ammunition. In his bag he had a one-page, handwritten note that said he wanted to kill TSA employees and ‘pigs.’
The official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly, said the note referred to how the gunman believed his constitutional rights were being violated by TSA searches and that he was a ‘p*****-off patriot’ upset at former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.


WATCH: Moment terrified LAX passengers run for their lives




The gunman was believed to be acting alone. One witness said that the shooter walked up to him and simply asked: 'TSA?'

Airport police chief Patrick Gannon said the shooter came into Terminal 3 around 9.20am, pulled an assault rifle from a bag and opened fire in the LA terminal. He proceeded up to the screening area, shot his way past screeners and into the airport, making it as far as a Burger King restaurant, where he was gunned down by police.

The one fatality has been identified as Gerardo I. Hernandez, a 39-year-old father-of-two who had been working at Los Angeles airport for the past three years.

Victim: Gerardo Hernandez, 39, was killed in the attack on Friday



Friends and family have begun paying their respects to the slain public servant, saying that he was a loving husband and caring father who enjoyed spending his free time with his children.

The shooting makes Hernandez the first TSA agent shot and killed in the line of duty. One of his colleagues- whose name has not been released- was also shot in the Friday rampage but that individual is expected to make a full recovery.

City officials have ordered several tributes be paid to Hernandez across Los Angeles, as the flags at all government-owned buildings in the area will be flown at half mast.

The LAPD chief has also mandated that all police officers wear black bands on their police badges in his honor.

One of the people injured in the shooting spree was Brian Ludmer, a 29-year-old high school teacher from Calabasas, California.
Ludmer was waiting to catch a plane to attend a friend’s wedding when he came face to face with the gunman. He turned to run, but was struck in the leg by a bullet.

The teacher was able to drag himself into a closet, where he spent a few minutes hiding until he heard police officers outside.

According to Las Virgenes School Superintendent Dan Stepenosky, the wounded teacher thought he was not going to make it out of LAX alive.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the 29-year-old victim underwent surgery, but is expected to recover.

A federal official said that it was clear from a note that they found in Ciancia's bag at the airport that he expected to die in the standoff.

'This was clearly a suicide mission... he did not expect to walk away from this,' the official told USA Today.
Victim: One of the people injured in the shooting spree was Brian Ludmer, a 29-year-old high school teacher from Calabasas, California, who was struck in the leg



The TSA agent was reportedly killed when the gunman opened fire at the desk where he was checking passengers’ passports and boarding cards.
The Los Angeles Times reported that in a note found in his bag, he wrote about his 'disappointment with government' and how he did not intend to injure any civilians, only federal employees.

Witness Stephanie Rosemeyer told the paper that she was waiting to board a flight and was walking near the food court in Terminal 3 when she saw a man carrying a gun walking around while wearing a bulletproof vest.

She said that she locked eyes with the man, who did not appear to be a police officer.

'He looked back at me and said "I don't like this." I took a step toward him,' she told The LA Times.

The man, who is presumably Ciancia, then shouted an expletive about the TSA.

'I decided to walk away, and then I heard gun shots and so I walked faster,' Ms Rosemeyer said.

Waiting for action: At first officers told the people in the terminal to 'get down' and take cover but that quickly progressed into a state of evacuation


Police officers on the scene at LAX next to a gun. One person has been confirmed dead in the shooting


A similar story was told my traveler Leon Saryan who spoke to CNN's Anderson Cooper.

'I was just getting ready to pick up my shoes and belt and pick up my other stuff... (when) people hit the ground and then started to run,' Mr Saryan told CNN.

He said that while he was going to get his shoes taht were waiting on the conveyer belt, a uniformed TSA agent 'grabbed the shoes and the two of us started running down the corridor towards the gate. This agent got hit it seemed to be a grazing wound.'
WHAT DOES NWO MEAN?

The motive for the Friday morning shooting has not been confirmed, but a note thought to be written by the gunman is shedding some light on his thought process.

Shooter Paul Anthony Ciancia had 'anti-government' leanings and was reportedly carrying a note which said that he 'wanted to kill TSA and pigs'.

The Los Angeles Times reported that in a note found in his bag, he wrote about his 'disappointment with government' and how he did not intend to injure any civilians, only federal employees.

Sources also added that the note was signed with the letters 'NWO' which stands for 'New World Order'.

The conspiracy theory of a 'new world order' asserts that there is a secret group of powerful individuals who used their money and global influence to eventually gain control of the world.

The concept of the New World Order has many different strains that have evolved over time, and has come to include mysterious elite groups such as the Illuminati and Freemasons.

Some of the more radical conspiracy theorists believe that the secret members of the New World Order will order a coordinated coup d'etat in the United States and other powerful countries using black helicopters and implement a totalitarian regime to control the world.



At that point the agent kept running and seemed fine because the bullet hit him in the shoulder as Mr Saryan huddled in the corner- right when the gunman came up to him.

'(Suspect Paul Ciancia) looked at me and said "TSA?" I just shook my head and he kept going,' Mr Saryan told Anderson Cooper.
'It was kind of hard to see his expression. I was more focused on the weapon.

'If I had a TSA uniform I wouldn't be here talking to you.'

Initial reports said that seven people were injured in the terminal with six transferred to hospital but an afternoon press conference reaffirmed that only three people were injured aside from the male TSA agent who was killed. Three victims were being treated at UCLA Medical Center, where one is listed in critical condition and two others were in fair condition.

Police say the shooter’s brother got a text message from Ciancia on Friday saying he was thinking about taking his own life.
According to ABC, Ciancia's brother received a 'worrying' text from him before the shooting, and after that message was relayed to his father, the father called the local police station to warn them of the possible threat to his own life. His father Paul to reached out to local Pennsville police in New Jersey who in turn contacted LA authorities.

Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings said he called Los Angeles police, who sent a patrol car to Ciancia's apartment. There, two roommates said that they had seen him a day earlier and he had appeared to be fine.
Cummings said that the Ciancias - owners of an auto body shop - are a ‘good family’ and that his department had had no dealings with the son.

People who knew Ciancia said they were shocked that he was the alleged gunman.

Ciancia's former roommate in Los Angeles, James Mincey, said he appeared to be unemployed but never showed any disturbing qualities, such as a fascination with guns.

He spoke to Ciancia last week.

‘He said he was going back to Jersey, going to work for his dad, and making amends with family problems ... and spending holidays with his family,’ Mincey told KABC-TV.

Ciancia had been into a next-door restaurant called The Morrison several times, owner Marc Kreiner said.

‘He was kind of a quiet guy, came in mostly by himself,’ Kreiner told the Los Angeles Times.

CNN reports that his text to his brother was not the first one that he had sent in recent days that scared family members. In others, which were sent to his brother and father, Ciancia was said to have rambled about his negative outlook on life, his disgust with the government and his disappointment with his life in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles police officers went to Ciancia's apartment in California for a welfare check, and spoke to the 23-year-old's roommate before reporting back to headquarters that there was nothing to be worried about.

LAPD officials called Pennsville police Chief Allen Cummings after making the welfare check and said that everything okay- not knowing that as that phone call was being made, Ciancia had begun opening fire at LAX.

At a lunchtime news conference, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti described it as a 'static' situation with no other threats at the airport. Mayor Garcetti thanked the first responders from multiple law enforcement agencies for their courage. The mayor gave limited information due to the large scale of the ongoing investigation.

During the investigation, being led by the FBI, a large box of ammunition was found on airport grounds.
SWAT teams, bomb disposal and emergency responders rushed to the scene although many vehicles were slowed down by the clogged LA traffic. Dozens of ambulances and fire engines formed lines in front of the terminal building.
Terminal 3 is still on lockdown with the rest of LAX operating at around 50 per cent. Flights continued to take off through terminals 4-8 on the south side of the airport on Friday.
Armed response: The LA Police Department is taking the lead on the investigation but SWAT teams were a major presence in the area as the terminal was being searched after the shooting

Police briefing from the scene at LAX where one is dead




Airport authorities encouraged passengers to stay away from LAX this afternoon not because there was any danger but because the ongoing investigation meant that the airport was working at half capacity.

Brian Adamick, 43, who was boarding a Spirit Airlines flight to Chicago told the LA Times said people ran screaming through emergency exits on the tarmac away from an area where shots were being fired.

Mr Adamick said buses showed up to evacuate those in the airport - including a TSA agent who had been shot but was reassuring everyone that he was fine.

TV personality Tory Bellecci, who presents Mythbusters, tweeted: ‘Heard gun shots then everyone starting running for the door. Not sure if anyone was hurt. #LAX.’


Getting them out: Those injured in the airport attack are escorted to safety





John Forstrom, who was in the terminal at the time, tweeted: '#lax passenger just told us he saw person casually walk into terminal with rifle. Just started shooting.'

Witness Nick Pugh told NBC Los Angeles: ‘We were just standing there and someone started shooting. I heard a total of maybe eight or 10 shots fired.’
Fox Sports reporter Bill Reiter who was at terminal tweeted: 'First came the gunfire. Then people including me hiding our seats. It felt very Columbine. A new kind of fear, at least for me.'
Virgin passengers were locked inside the airline’s lounge. Mythbusters co-star Grant Imahar tweeted: ‘Virgin promptly locked the lounge doors. About ten minutes later, LAPD armed with automatic weapons arrived to secure the area.’





One passenger Billy Bey told CBS2: 'I was waiting for my flight and heard a rumble of people, which I thought was an earthquake, but then I saw people running and heard gun shots, immediately dove under the benches at my gate, and then gunshots stopped and I got up and called my wife.
'Then I saw a man walking towards the gate, when I saw him I thought he was just a passenger looking for his gate, but when he kept walking, I saw he had something looked like an assault rifle, a huge gun strapped over his shoulder, hanging down on the right side of his waist.'
Terrified passengers were escorted to safety after the area was secured, where empty gun cartridges littered the ground. One passenger told NBC he saw a stain on the ground that he thought might be blood.
Map of Los Angeles International Airport where a man opened fire at a TSA checkpoint in Terminal 3



Terminal 3 has a mix of domestic and international flight departures. Los Angeles International is the U.S's third largest airport. AirTran, Alaska, Horizon, JetBlue, V Australia and Virgin America all operate from the terminal.

Last month, an airport employee was arrested in connection with dry ice explosions at LAX. One dry ice bomb exploded and two soda bottles containing the dangerous material were found at Terminal 3 in a restricted area.
More is beginning to emerge about the shooter, painting a picture of the young man who killed the first TSA agent in U.S. history.

Neighbor Whitney Hankins, 18, who went to Pennsville Memorial High School with Ciancia, said the family were very quiet and kept to themselves, especially after the 2009 death of mother Susan, who suffered from MS for years.
‘I didn’t know him personally as he was a few years older than me,’ she told MailOnline. ‘But I would see him around school and the neighbourhood. He was kinda strange, very quiet and shy. Wouldn’t really make eye contact or talk much.
Passengers wait for Los Angeles International Airport to reopen at Terminal 1 on Friday following a gunman going on a shooting spree at terminal 3


Emergency responders load someone who appears to be injured into an ambulance at LAX International on Friday morning


'Though I would never have expected him to do anything like this. Some of the girls on the street called him ''the creepy guy.'''
Whitney said in the tight-knit, middle-class neighborhood, the Ciancia’s house was set back into the woods and was ‘humungous’ compared to others on the street. A police presence was in front of the New Jersey family home this evening.

Miss Hankins added: ‘We just assumed they were really wealthy because they have a really big house compared to the others and his dad owns an auto shop up the street. It’s a really small town and everyone knows everyone else’s business. But everyone just kind of left them alone after the mom died.’

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LAX Shooting to Unleash TSA VIPR “Stop and Frisk” Teams

By Robert Farago on November 4, 2013



After last Friday’s shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, Senator Diane Feinstein renewed her call for an assault weapons ban. And the sun came up in the East. More worrying: Texas Congressman Michael McCaul called for a greater role for the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA). On CNN’s State of the Union the Chairman of Homeland Security Committee danced around the idea of arming TSA Agents. And while you’re thinking “what could possibly go wrong?” think about this: McCaul pimped for a greater role of the TSA’s VIPR teams (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) ”to make sure American people are safe and the traveling public are safe when they go to our airports.” Uh-oh . . .

Wikipedia reminds us that the TSA’s fully-armed SWAT-style VIPR teams were born in 2005 to “detain and search travelers at railroad stations, bus stations, ferries, car tunnels, ports, subways, truck weigh stations, rest areas, and special events.” By 2009, Uncle Sam had 10 VIPR detection teams up and running at an annual cost of $30m. The next year that swelled to 15 teams at a cost of $50m. Last year, taxpayers forked-over $109m for 37 teams. All sitting around singing “I want to be where the people are.”


Only it’s not so funny for Americans who value their liberty. In 2007, VIPR teams stopped and randomly searched travelers at an Indianapolis bus station. In early 2011, a TSA VIPR team swooped on an Amtrak train in Savannah Georgia, detaining and searching passengers as they got off the train. The ensuing blowback and ongoing public antipathy may account for the fact that the VIPR teams wear DHS-branded clothing rather than TSA blue when out and about. Especially at train stations, now that the temporary ban on their presence has been lifted.

And highways. Did I mention highways? I digress. Sunday’s chat show appearance signals Rep. McCaul’s desire to green light VIPR teams at airports, giving them the go-ahead to randomly stop and search airline passengers. And anyone else in the airport environs. At any airport in the United States the TSA chooses. Based on . . . ?

In 2009, “TSA officials told [DHS Office of Inspector General] auditors that VIPR deployments were not always based on credible intelligence.” Click here to read the report, which says “Additional Surface Inspectors Are Needed to Perform Future Tasks and Enhance Understaffed Field Offices.” Are you thinking what I’m thinking? The LAX incident will unleash the TSA’s goons as a preventative measure, rather than responding to intelligence, credible or not.

Do we want another SWAT team roaming The Land of the Free at enormous expense, increasing inter-agency conflict, complete with Behavior Detection Officers? While this site holds Democrats’ feet to the fire on their civilian disarmament agenda, it behooves The People of the Gun to remember that the Republicans’ love of law enforcement poses as great a threat to gun owners’ liberty as the gun control folk. If not more. If they continue working together in the great bi-partisan spirit of anti-terrorism we could be well and truly f*cked. Just sayin’ . . .

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Sen. Feinstein Calls for an Assault Weapon Ban After LAX Shooting

By Robert Farago on November 3, 2013



I wonder if the Senator has a post-shooting pro-assault weapons ban script pre-loaded on her Google glasses. “The weapon [used in Friday's LAX shooting] is clearly designed not for general consumption,” California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

“Would I do a bill? Sure, I would do a bill. I mean, I believe this down deep in my soul.” Soul food for thought: Senator Feinstein doesn’t think an assault weapon ban would pass. On the opposing side, I think, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee told CNN’s State of the Union “TSA officers are not armed. It’s the local police that provide perimeter security, and there’s little more of a soft target outside the checkpoint,” Texas Republican Rep. Mike McCaul pronounced.

”I want to work with the director of TSA . . . to see if there’s something we can do better or differently.” No mention of allowing open carry in airports and on planes.

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13 Wednesday Nov 2013
Posted by Mary W. in False Flag Operations, Government, Staged Events, TSA, US News
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The medical condition of a man who was shot by police after allegedly opening fire at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month has improved, and he is no longer in a critical condition, the Los Angeles Times reported.


Asked to comment on the report, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center said the one remaining male patient out of three it treated after the rampage “has been upgraded from critical to fair condition.” A spokeswoman would not confirm the patient’s identity.


Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, was arrested following the November 1 shooting and has been charged with murder of a federal officer and committing violence at an international airport, offenses for which he could face the death penalty if convicted.


Authorities charge that Ciancia walked into the airport’s Terminal 3, took out an assault rifle from his bag and opened fire, shooting dead Gerardo Hernandez, a 39-year-old Transportation Security Administration officer at a document checkpoint, and wounding several other people.


Read more at Reuters

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He's improving but he'll be spending the rest of his life drinking out of a straw...too bad his life isn't the next 15 minutes.

[American Patriot]

I want to know more about this assclown before he's dead. Why he did this exactly. Who he was after. Why he was after them.

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TSA Officer Shot At LAX May Have Been Wrongly Declared Dead And Left Untreated

November 15, 2013 4:24 PM

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — An Associated Press report published Friday says help was delayed for more than 30 minutes for the Transportation Security Administration agent who was fatally shot at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month.
Gerardo Hernandez, 39, was working at a lower-level passenger check-in station on the morning of Nov. 1 when a gunman pulled a semi-automatic weapon out of a duffel bag and opened fire.
Two law enforcement officials cited in the AP reports said paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter.
It would be 33 minutes before airport police would put Hernandez, who was about 20 feet from an exit, in a wheelchair and take him to an ambulance, said the officials, who were briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still ongoing.
For all but five of those minutes, there was no threat from the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia; he had been shot and was in custody, officials said.
Marshall McClain, president of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Assn., also raised the possibility Friday that medical attention was delayed because Los Angeles Police Department Officer John Long told other responders Hernandez was dead.
Police broadcast over their radios that a suspect was in custody at 9:25 a.m., five minutes after Hernandez was shot in the chest. That’s when Long checked on Hernandez several times, repeatedly telling officers who came by from various agencies that he was dead, according to one of the law enforcement officials.
Officers from multiple agencies bent down to check on Hernandez before moving on; no officers rendered first aid on scene, according to surveillance video reviewed by the officials.

Airport police who came to check on Hernandez after attending to other victims were told by Long, “He’s dead,” McClain said.
“‘What do you mean he’s dead?’” an airport officer replied, according to McClain. “‘If he’s dead, whatever, we can’t make that determination.’”
After the airport officer found what he thought was a faint pulse, he took Hernandez in a wheelchair to an ambulance, said McClain, who gathered his account by talking to the airport officers involved.
Trauma surgeon David Plurad said Hernandez had no signs of life when he arrived at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Doctors worked for about an hour to revive him despite significant blood loss.
It’s not known when Hernandez died or if immediate medical attention could have saved his life, but McClain said unless a person is decapitated, it must be up to a doctor to declare someone dead.
It’s also unclear how the officer determined Hernandez was dead or if he was qualified to do so. Long refused to comment.
The LAPD said it would investigate whether the officer hindered efforts to rescue Hernandez.
“Anytime anybody makes an allegation against one of our officers we have to investigate it, so of course we’ll look into it,” said LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith, the department spokesman.
American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. issued the following statement in response to the report:
“I am appalled that Officer Hernandez was left unattended for 33 minutes after the brutal attack he suffered. In the heat of the moment there will always be an element of confusion, but 33 minutes is absolutely unacceptable. If someone had gotten to him earlier, this could have been a survival story. Instead a wife is left without a husband, children without a father, and co-workers without one of their beloved comrades.
“We need a serious re-examination of TSA’s screening area security policies to stop the next tragedy before it happens. The inconsistent patchwork of local law enforcement and security protocols simply won’t get the job done. We need a dedicated TSA law enforcement unit tasked with protecting transportation security officers and the flying public around our vulnerable screening areas. An immediate threat requires an immediate response, and we can’t afford to be taken off-guard again.”
Representatives of the LAPD, Los Angeles Fire Department and airport police said they couldn’t comment on the investigation into the delay in the declaring the airport safe for rescuers until extensive reports are finished.

[American Patriot]

Well...... well.....

January 22, 2014

Revealed: Two armed officers took unannounced breaks just MINUTES before a shooter opened fire in LAX in November ¹

Hmmm? • Tags: Associated Press, Break, Cuban Five, Los Angeles International Airport, Police, Terminal 3, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

• Two armed officers didn’t tell their dispatcher that they were going on breaks, new details from the investigation reveal
• Paul Ciana walked into LAX’s Terminal 3 minutes later and took an assault rifle out of his bag and started firing, targeting TSA agents
• TSA agents fled the scene without hitting the panic button which would have alerted police
• Dispatcher learned about the shooting a minute and a half later after an airline contractor called it in, and then it was radioed over to nearby police
• One TSA agent died- the first ever in the line of duty- and three others were injured, as well as the shooter who was hit twice by police and survived

By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press


UPDATED: 08:51 EST, 22 January 2014


It has been revealed that two armed officers left the area where a shooter opened fire at a Los Angeles airport last fall just minutes before he started his spree and killed one security screener and injured three others.


The new details also note that the armed officers did not tell a dispatcher about their impromptu break as they are required to do.


The Los Angeles Airport Police Department officers were outside Terminal 3 when authorities say Paul Ciancia opened fire with an assault rifle in an attack targeting Transportation Security Administration officers.



On the scene: Police were able to shoot, injure, and take hold of shooter Paul Ciana after he opened fire inside Terminal 3 of Los Angeles International Airport on November 1 (pictured)


As terrified travelers dived for cover, TSA officers — who are unarmed — fled the screening area without hitting a panic button or using a landline to call for help.


It took a call from an airline contractor to a police dispatcher, who then alerted officers over the radio — a lag of nearly a minute and a half, the officials said.


The officials who revealed the damning details to the Associated Press requested anonymity, saying they were briefed on the shooting but were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.


Before officers could get to the scene, Ciancia fatally wounded TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and then headed to the screening area where he shot two more agents and a traveler, authorities said.


Ciancia was subdued after being wounded by officers in the gate area of the terminal.


When the shooting started, the two officials say one of the armed officers assigned to the terminal was at or just outside an adjacent terminal.


One of the officials said the officer was on a bathroom break and the other foot-beat officer was in a vehicle on the tarmac outside Terminal 3, headed for a meal break.


The new details about the whereabouts of the two officers come as authorities review the overall response, including whether emergency medical personnel were forced to wait longer than necessary to remove Hernandez so he could be taken to a hospital.


The AP earlier reported that Hernandez did not receive medical care until 33 minutes after he was shot. A coroner’s release said he was likely dead within two to five minutes.



Crowd control: It has now been revealed that two armed airport police officers were meant to be in the area at the time of the shooting but had taken unannounced breaks, leaving the unarmed TSA agents in the area alone


Departmental procedures require that officers notify a dispatcher before going on break and leaving their patrol area in order to ensure supervisors are aware of their absence and, if necessary, a relief unit can be brought in to cover their area.


Airport police union chief Marshall McClain said the two officers assigned to Terminal 3 still were in position to quickly respond to the shooting.


He said he’d spoken with both and confirmed one was ‘going to the restroom or coming back from the restroom’ and the other was headed out on a meal break but still within his patrol area.


‘He hadn’t gone on break yet. He was going to go on break,’ McClain said.


What typically happens is, ‘if you’re going to go on a lunch break, you get to your location and you tell them that you’re there.’ Officers often do this in order to maximize their lunch break so they don’t lose time while traveling.


Within a minute of the dispatcher’s call, that officer had stopped someone who ran out of the terminal and the other officer was heading toward the shooting, McClain said.


Mayor Eric Garcetti told the AP in an interview that he’s watched surveillance video and received briefings on the investigation.


While officers were able to take Ciancia into custody within five minutes of the shooting, he said, ‘It could have been a lot worse.’



Response: The dispatcher’s alert over police radio brought an officer on a Segway, another on a bike, one on a motorcycle, two in a patrol car and one on foot, said one of the law enforcement officials (pictured on November 2)


Whatever the investigation’s conclusions, Garcetti said, ‘I want to make sure that in any terminal, there’s always somebody there, that a bathroom break doesn’t result in somebody, even for a few minutes, being out of the action.’


According to investigators, Ciancia, originally from Pennsville, New Jersey, arrived at the airport on November. 1 with the intention of killing TSA workers. Authorities have said Ciancia had a grudge against the agency, but they have not indicated what prompted it.


After entering the terminal, police say Ciancia pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a duffel bag and began spraying the area with gunfire.


Hernandez was mortally wounded and became the first TSA agent to die in the line of duty.


The dispatcher’s alert over police radio brought an officer on a Segway, another on a bike, one on a motorcycle, two in a patrol car and one on foot, said one of the law enforcement officials.


Two of the first responding officers shot Ciancia, who survived and now faces murder and other charges.


Airport Police Chief Pat Gannon lauded his officers for what he called a swift and brave response to a gunman.


He said he was ‘comfortable with what the officers were doing at the time that the shooting occurred and their ability to respond to the incident.’


‘It’s not about who was or was not there and how that all occurred,’ Gannon said.


‘Those officers responsible for that terminal were there as quick as anybody else was to deal with those particular issues. They were not goofing off.’


Airports are allowed to make their own security plans for armed officers, as long as they follow basic guidelines and get their plans approved by the TSA. An updated policy at LAX was outlined last April in an internal memo that was obtained by AP and verified by one of the officials.


Officers assigned to the terminals must inform supervisors when they want to take a break.


‘Absent exigent circumstances, (the units) shall not leave the assigned terminal area without prior authorization and a relief unit,’ the memo stated.


In an important change, officers no longer were required to remain at a podium by the screening area: in an effort to make security plans less predictable, they are allowed to roam the terminal provided they can respond to an emergency at the screening station within three minutes.


TSA Officer Victor Payes, who works at the airport and is president of the local union, said removing the officers from the podiums at the screening stations has been unnerving for screeners.


‘They’re not there, and you’re saying to yourself, ‘Oh, hopefully nothing happens right now,’ Payes said.


Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent who was chief of homeland security and intelligence at LAX from 2007 to 2010, said the combination of the officers being away and the policy change gave Ciancia the soft target he wanted.


Had officers still been stationed at the screening area, ‘that arguably would have put them in a position to know about the incident and respond to it in a much more reduced time span,’ he said.
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