ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

[HairOfTheDog]

Brown skinned people need to fear white Americans, not the other way around.

The shooting triggered outrage on Indian social media, where people voiced concern that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” position on immigration and jobs has fueled a climate of intolerance.

However, a White House spokesman disagreed on Friday and said that any loss of life was tragic, but it would be absurd to link the killing to Trump’s rhetoric.


^ Ian Grillot, 24, is the local bar patron who intervened and tried to help the two immigrant engineers that Purinton was targeting.

Grillot was struck in the hand and chest.The hospital said Grillot was continuing to improve “I did get my chest tube out and that feels much better, but it is hard to describe how sore I feel,” Grillot told reporters.

Grillot, a construction worker, said that he had to step in when the shooting started in the bar crowded with fans watching a University of Kansas basketball game.

“I was more than happy to risk my life to save the lives of others. There was families, there was kids inside,” he said in a video released by the University of Kansas Health System, where he is recovering from his wounds.

“I couldn’t stand there, I had to do something. That’s why I acted the way I did.”

Grillot sounds like a good upstanding guy, a brave one too. I'm glad to see he's on the mend.

Alok Madasani, best friend of Kuchibhotla who was murdered by Purinton at the bar, has been released from the hospital. Good news.

The FBI is investigating possible hate crime charges based on the anti-immigrant rhetoric witnesses reported Purinton yelling before he started shooting at the two men.

Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ian-...480e0a4c1e?