Let's see if anyone has a picture of the perp involved in this high-profile shootout yesterday.
CNN?
ABC?
CBS?
Local news from the Twin Cities?
What about video from the Associated Press?
I'm confused.
See, I took the name of the arrested perp, went to Facebook, and spent all of 30 seconds finding the man's profile.
Apparently, journalists never learned how to do basic internet searches.
Why don't they want the public to know who is accused of murdering two cops and a firefighter? Why would they withhold the face of such a person from you?
After all, it's standard in reporting to include mugshots or social media pictures of those arrested for various crimes.
Here are the details from Pioneer Press in Minnesota:
The man who fatally shot two Burnsville police officers and a firefighter was a 38-year-old who pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon from a 2007 case. He petitioned the court in 2020 to have his gun rights restored, which a judge denied.
This is a full writeup on the accused perp with no photo. Why?
After all, there's even video of Gooden shooting guns on social media while imagining that he's shooting white people:
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Minnesota court records show his last criminal conviction was in 2013 for a misdemeanor.
We have a convicted felon who reportedly killed multiple first responders, leaving kids fatherless and wives widowed. The story is national. What does America benefit from giving us no picture of the shooter?
Law enforcement said Sunday that 'several guns and large amounts of ammunition' were found in the home, which Burnsville police were dispatched to about 1:50 a.m. Sunday. Someone in the house in the 12600 block of 33rd Avenue South called 911, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said during a Sunday news conference.
When officers arrived, the armed suspect was barricaded inside the home with family members, including seven children between the ages of 2 and 15, Evans said.
After talking with police negotiators for "quite a bit of time," the suspect opened fire on officers who were inside the home, and multiple officers returned fire, according to Evans. During the shootout, the gunman fired from several locations inside the house, fatally striking Burnsville officers Paul Elmstrand, 27, and Matthew Ruge, also 27, and firefighter/paramedic, Adam Finseth, 40. Sgt. Adam Medlicott was also injured.
So we have a man who reportedly used his own family as shields while he killed multiple authorities on the scene.
Again, how is it beneficial to not show the public who did this? Why only show the victims and footage of police responders? Why not dive more into this man's life and tell us some of his beliefs and background? We have the who, what, when, and how, but what about the why?
Police received a report about 8 a.m. Sunday that the suspect was dead inside the house. A person with knowledge of the matter said the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The suspect will be officially identified by the medical examiner, but law enforcement sources confirmed to the Pioneer Press Monday that he was Gooden. A court filing in a civil matter showed Gooden was served at the 33rd Avenue address in December.
Withholding information from the public due to internal pressures about racial narrative is an injustice to the families of the dead. If it were policy across the board to never show the face of alleged murderers, I would understand. But that is not how the policy works. It only ever cuts one way.
We don't need media that's constantly trying to paint narratives. What we need is the truth.
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