CO Police Release Booking Photo Of Club Q Shooter

The Colorado Springs Gazette reports:

The official booking photo of Anderson Lee Aldrich was released by the Colorado Springs Police Department on Wednesday afternoon. The newly released photo shows Aldrich with multiple marks from the beating he took after being subdued by two patrons of the club.

Richard Fierro, 45, has been hailed as a hero after he says he reacted on instinct to help subdue the suspect.

Fierro said he smelled the acrid tang in the air, saw the muzzle flash of a firearm being discharged, and dove for cover, taking his closest buddy with him. When he saw his chance to tackle the shooter, he took it. Bystander Thomas James also helped subdue the shooter.

Read the full article.

Shooter’s Friend: He Never Claimed To Be Nonbinary – JMG

I recommend reading the linked article.   I did and it has some good information.   But the idea of the shooter being non-binary is nonsense.   I normally allow people to state their gender and their sexuality, but in this case all evidence of this person’s past including all their writings and social media shows he hated LGBTQI+.   His family was maga, his grandfather ultra maga.  Sorry this is another case of trolling.   The defence wants to mute the hate claim so they claim he was a member of the community so how could it be a hate crime.   But he really never was part of the community was he.   Did he march in support, write in support of the community on social media, did he fly pride or trans flags?   No he instead spewed hate and vitriol on the community.   I read a story once where a person killed their parents, and then asked the court for mercy because they were an orphan.    It really doesn’t matter if he was non-binary.   He killed 5 people who shouldn’t have died that he had no right to pronounce death to, he injured so many more that now have high medical bills they are struggling to pay that he is not paying for.   It doesn’t matter if he is non-binary what matters is what he did and what it cost others.   That said a lot of complaints and issue in the LGBTQI+ community is that the media is agreeing to use the lawyers claim of they / them pronouns.  Stop it now, the complainers are wrong.  Yes it is a scam, an attempt to avoid the hate charges that increase the penalties.  It doesn’t matter that the media honors how he wants to be identified.    It is important that the media and the authorities honor those requests, those different gender identifications.   How often do we as the LGBTQI+ community get rightfully angry over police not honoring the gender identity of suspects or prisoners?    We legitimately do.   We can point out it is a dodge and an attempt to avoid punishment for what he did, but we can still honor the request.   it doesn’t change what he did.     Hugs

NBC News reports:

A recent neighbor of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich said he spent hours talking to the FBI on Tuesday morning. He told investigators the suspect made several hateful comments toward the LGBTQ community. “Just expressed he didn’t like the LGBTQ community,” said Xavier Kraus, who lived across the hallway from Aldrich. “And pretty sure at one point he expressed he hated the LGBTQ community, he hated gays.”

“This is not the type of person I would take around my gay friends,” he said. Kraus said he and Aldrich became close friends last year. They bonded over tech and video games. According to Kraus, Aldrich and their mom moved into the apartment building in August 2021, which was shortly after deputies in El Paso County arrested Aldrich on multiple felonies.

Read the full article.

According to a just-aired report on CNN, Kraus says Aldrich never mentioned being nonbinary in their times together.

In the video below, Aldrich’s biological father, a former porn actor, claims that Aldrich’s mother told him in 2016 that Aldrich had committed suicide. As CNN has extensively documented, Aldrich’s mother has had a hosts of arrests related to arson and substance abuse.

Elagabalus • 2 hours ago

The cynicism of Anderson Aldrich’s legal team to toss the “non-binary” label out there for sympathy is, legally-speaking, every bit as ugly as the crime itself because it mocks the dead and everything they stood for.

Judas Peckerwood Elagabalus • 2 hours ago

“I, too, am a Jew,” said the death camp commandant at Nuremberg.

another_steve band💋 • 2 hours ago

Most of society, I’m guessing 95%, have no idea whatsoever regarding what nonbinary is or means. They think it means “fucked up” or “mentally ill.”

Wouldn’t surprise me if this is part of his legal team’s defense strategy.

He’s mentally ill. Not competent.

JoeMyGodMod • 2 hours ago

Speaking of substance abuse, forward to a closeup of the father speaking and tell us he wasn’t higher than fuck right then.

StuckNtexas JoeMyGod • 2 hours ago

ME THinks he is tweaking hard. Also, the reporter said they had to edit much of his anti-LGBTQ rant.

Randy Left Brooklyn JoeMyGod • 2 hours ago

The father has a history of drug abuse including methamphetamine. His porn name is Dick Delaware. He isn’t bad looking for a straight dude in porn, he has a big cock. You can see him on Pornhub.com.

Hate Group To Spend $1 Million On Lying Anti-Marriage Bill Ads During This Weekend’s Football Games [VIDEO] – JMG

These religious groups are terrified that same sex marriage will be codified into law as they see their goal of getting it overturned at the supreme court.   We have had legal same sex marriage / marriage equality in the US since 2015 which is by my math today been 7 years without any of the horrors they promised happening.   But more than that same sex marriage has been legal in other countries for over 20 years now.   I think the real reason they are desperate to stop the legal same sex marriage / marriage equality is it gives a lie to their view of their holy book and the power of their god.    If it was truly such an abomination and so hated by the supreme most powerful being in the universe and yet he doesn’t do anything to stop it or prevent it, it makes their god look very weak.   I really do not understand why this issue matters so much to them and why they try so hard to stop it.   I don’t care about straight couples and their marriages because it doesn’t affect me at all.   Why would my marriage, which is in reality a civil legal contract between adults be of any interest to these straight guys?  Maybe other people can figure it out.   But as Ali said to me on another post, think of how many people could be housed or fed with that money.    Hugs

Glenn Beck’s right wing The Blaze reports:

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is spending more than $1 million to run advertisements during the Thanksgiving weekend NFL and college football games to warn Americans that the new Respect for Marriage Act will “expose religious schools and nonprofits to lawsuits,” Fox News Digital reported. It is the biggest campaign the Heritage Foundation has ever launched.

The Respect for Marriage Act’s final vote in the Senate is scheduled for Monday, which, if passed, will codify the right to same-sex marriage. “America’s religious liberty is under attack with this impending vote in the Senate,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said. “This legislation does not add one additional benefit to same-sex couples in the United States; it’s an attack that sets the stage to take rights away from people of faith.”

See the ad below.

What, me worry? • 11 minutes ago

I’ll bet that these same people think that black athletes and allies should just shut the fuck up about civil rights because sports shouldn’t be used for political reasons.

dempseyzdad • 40 minutes ago

It is just so exhausting to ride this fucking rollercoaster. We have marriage equality, then we don’t. Then we do in some states, then we don’t. Then because of ONE swing vote on SCOTUS we got it. Now Congress votes on it, we think we have it for good, now possibly we don’t again. What the FUCK is wrong with this fucking country?

JWC • 43 minutes ago

Horrors They are trying to take away our right to Hate and Lie. This is America !! We we will not tolerate it. its an infringement on out God given rights

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️ • 2 hours ago

Remember: FIVE people lost their lives last Saturday evening due to anxiety driven propaganda against already marginalized people…

The Radical Right just can’t resist seeing more blood.

kaydenpat • 2 hours ago

What harm has marriage equality caused to opposite sex marriages? This just feeds the violence that we saw at ClubQ

Judas Peckerwood bambinoitaliano • 2 hours ago • edited

The country is inching towards Iran of 40 years ago today.

weshlovrcm • 2 hours ago • edited

Radical anti-gay pressure group “Heritage Foundation” wears a 3-piece suit rather than a brown shirt, but it’s still a bunch of thugs doing all they can to smear, revile and cancel gay Americans.

THIS IS AMERICA. Company BUSTED for Employing Children in Slaughterhouses

A U.S. company is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing children in slaughterhouses. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.commondreams.org/news/202… “A federal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of “oppressive child labor” after an investigation found it was employing dozens of children as young as 13—some of whom were injured while working in meatpacking facilities. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requested the injunction in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska after completing an investigation of Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) that began in late August. The federal government had received a tip alleging that PSSI was illegally employing children and that they were working in hazardous conditions.”

Christian Parents MELTDOWN After Getting Trolled by “Santanic” After School Club

The After School Satan Club has nothing to do with religion but the program that promotes secularism and scientific rationalism is causing outrage among Christian parents. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE: https://www.sfgate.com/california-new…

“A new after-school club at Golden Hills Elementary School in Kern County’s Tehachapi, called the “After School Satan Club,” is drawing community outrage.

That’s largely the point.

For years, the Satanic Temple, a group the Washington Post described as a “nontheistic religious organization advocating for secularism and scientific rationalism,” has been launching these clubs in public schools where evangelical Christian groups — namely, the Good News Club — have their own meetings.”

TYT Reacts To Tim Pool’s APPALLING Take On The Colorado Springs LGBTQ Club Shooting

Libs Of Tiktok’s Chaya Raichik Promotes Right-Wing Terrorism

Libs Of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik posted a tweet scrutinizing an organization in Colorado that, in Raichik’s words, “teaches kids how to become drag queens and helps kids ‘safely experience the art of drag on stage.'” Raichik also tagged two specific Colorado state lawmakers who have supported the organization in the past. This tweet came the morning after the shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Tucker Carlson Tells Fans To Arm Themselves Against Drag Queens

Tucker Carlson claims to be frustrated with the media and liberals for pointing he is culpable for violence that what happened in Colorado Springs because his past calls for Fox News viewers to arm themselves against Drag Queen Story Hours.

Let’s talk about the house, Hunter, and buyer’s remorse….

“He ran right up to the line but did not cross”

Alabama woman jailed for ‘endangering’ her fetus with drugs wasn’t even pregnant at the time: lawsuit

https://www.rawstory.com/alabama-arrest-woman-fetus/

The war on women!   This is the republican white male religious thugs on their glorious war path for their lord!  What else is the legal system / law enforcement for except to enforce males’ supremacy over women and to use the power of the state to enforce control over a womans sex organs.    Hugs

Alabama woman jailed for 'endangering' her fetus with drugs wasn't even pregnant at the time: lawsuit

An Alabama woman who was jailed for allegedly using drugs during pregnancy has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office saying she wasn’t pregnant, AL.com reports.

 

According to her lawsuit, an investigation was launched against Stacey Freeman by the Department of Human Resources for substance use when one of her children told a social worker her mom was pregnant. Freeman offered to take a pregnancy test and Etowah County Department of Human Resources employees ordered one for her, but she never ended up taking the test and Etowah County Sheriff Investigator Brandi Fuller issued a warrant for her arrest.

She was arrested and charged with chemical endangerment of a child. She was released a little over a day after her arrest and the charges were dropped.

“It’s just shameful you can go off somebody’s word that somebody’s pregnant,” her attorney Martin Weinberg said. “It’s easy to verify through a pregnancy test.”

Fuller has been involved in “an obscene number of arrests for pregnant and postpartum women,” according to the lawsuit.

“The Sheriff’s department and its employees have been reckless in investigating in making arrests of women for chemical endangerment and then encouraging their prosecution,” the lawsuit said.

While her charges have been dropped, they haven’t been expunged, making the case still available as a public record. The warrant incorrectly states that Freeman tested positive for marijuana, amphetamines and alcohol while pregnant.