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Couple charged with assault in shooting, melee during UW speech by Milo Yiannopoulos

Couple charged with assault in shooting, melee during UW speech by Milo Yiannopoulos

Marc and Elizabeth Hokoana had armed themselves — him with pepper-spray and her with a Glock semi-automatic handgun in a holster under her coat — and went to the protest intending to goad demonstrators they knew would be there, King County prosecutors allege. Some witnesses said Marc Hokoana appeared to be intoxicated.

According to the charges, the day before Yiannopoulos was scheduled to talk at Kane Hall, Marc Hokoana had messaged a friend on Facebook, stating, “I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m going to the milo event and if the snowflakes get out off hand I’m going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls.”

Right wing defenders of free speech in action.

The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal – The New Yorker

It is now clear that the scandal was not Rice’s normal review of the intelligence reports but the coördinated effort between the Trump Administration and Nunes to sift through classified information and computer logs that recorded Rice’s unmasking requests, and then leak a highly misleading characterization of those documents, all in an apparent effort to… Continue reading The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal – The New Yorker