The terrorist next door
I’m in Cincinnati for a funeral. That was Wednesday. We’re helping my mother in law with some stuff. We’re staying in the Hampton Inn Kenwood, on the right in the photo.
The building on the left is the Cincinnati FBI office.
Yesterday morning we left for my mother in law’s and noticed TV crews setting up in front of the FBI office for some sort of interview. We were supposed to take Interstate 71 north for an appointment but we’d rescheduled that, which is good because 71 was badly tied up from a police chase.
Some guy who’d been at the Capitol Jan. 6 decided to attack the FBI office because of the search at Mar A Lago. He showed up with body armor and armed and tried to break into the FBI office but security there is really good. He didn’t make it, set off an alarm, and fled when agents started coming out. He jumped into his white Crown Vic and fled, police in pursuit. He went up the interstate, took an exit, ended up n a cornfield and instead of surrendering raised a firearm at the police – and I think got off a shot – who promptly shot him to death.
At about 5:00 we were preparing to go to my mother in law’s for dinner. I was pulling out of the parking lot when a news vehicle sped in, followed by a sheriff’s vehicle. They went near the fence dividing the hotel’s grounds from that of the FBI office, jumped out and set up a shot.
I picked up my wife from the front entrance and as we drove off a bunch of people were setting up news broadcasts in front of the FBI office. I guess these people needed to go live for the 5:00 news.
I didn’t hear anything in the morning when it happened. I was downstairs getting breakfast. I don’t think any shots were fired at the FBI building. I don’t know if we would have heard shots or not. Wrong side of the building, though we were certainly close.
It’s still weird to be that close, though.
Ron Powell
08/13/2022 @ 8:11 am
Great feature photo…
Do you believe that there’s a difference between terrorists who have dangerous fantasies based on delusional political agendas and nitwits who have dangerous fantasies based on lies and conspiracy theories?
koshersalaami
08/13/2022 @ 9:14 am
I’d say that violence is a pretty significant difference.
Ron Powell
08/13/2022 @ 1:03 pm
I would like to submit that every knuckle dragging nitwit who commits an act of violence with, or without, a gun should not be characterized as a ‘terrorist’.
Ron Powell
08/13/2022 @ 1:32 pm
Make that; “every delusional knuckle-dragging nitwit…”
Bitey
08/14/2022 @ 8:28 am
I’m glad that you and yours are safe. I am 100 miles away, and that feels disturbingly too close.
The last 5 or 6 years of what this country has been going through just seems to erode my understanding of what I thought my country was. Each big story makes so little sense. I have only gotten dribs and drabs of information about this incident. Like so many of the recent crazy incidents, this one has so many surprising elements.
Two things perplex me about this. First, generally, how is it that anyone is willing to lay down his life for Donald Trump? Secondly, this shooter was in the submarine corps of the US Navy previously. Those individuals are usually so low key. They screen those guys to be able to be enclosed in small spaces for months on end. This crime was so action based, and individualistic. I just don’t get it. Trump seems to be capable of transforming individuals right out of type.
koshersalaami
08/14/2022 @ 12:53 pm
Post written. “Why Trump”
koshersalaami
08/14/2022 @ 10:45 am
I may need a post to answer this