Oct 26, 2023
Maine Officials Intensify Colossal MANHUNT As Lewiston Mass Shooter On The Run
A manhunt is still underway for the suspected shooter still at large after 18 people were killed and 13 injured during a horrific Maine mass shooting in Lewiston. Rayyvana and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.
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The latest on the situation in Maine.
18 people so
far have been confirmed killed and
at least 13 were injured in mass
shootings at a restaurant and
a bowling alley in Lewiston,
Maine on Wednesday night.
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Now, as of now,
the suspect has not been apprehended.
However, his vehicle has been found.
There is a massive manhunt underway.
So again, we have limited
information coming out at this time.
It's still relatively breaking news and
the manhunt is still underway, so
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not everything has been confirmed yet.
But here is what we can
say we know right now.
From Associated Press the shooting appears
to have unfolded in multiple locations,
including a bowling alley where
a children's league was taking place, and
a local bar official said.
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The death toll may be revised up or
down due to the level of carnage,
a senior federal law
enforcement official said.
Police bulletin identified Robert Card,
40 years old,
as a person of interest in the attack that
sent panicked bowlers scrambling behind
pins when shots rang out around 07:00 P.M.
Wednesday.
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Card was described as a firearms
instructor believed to be in
the Army Reserve and assigned to
a trading facility in Saco, Maine.
Now, usually we would not show you
a picture of a mass shooter, but
because he is a person of interest and
there is a massive manhunt
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underway currently,
we are gonna show his picture here.
It is just for the safety of our audience
to be careful if you see this man and
alert law enforcement if you have any
information on his potential whereabouts.
A little bit more from Associated Press.
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The document circulated to law enforcement
officials said Card had been committed to
a mental health facility for
two weeks in the summer of 2023.
It did not provide details about his
treatment or condition, but said Card had
reported, quote, hearing voices and
threats to shoot up the military base.
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Telephone number listed for Card and
public records was not in service.
So Sharon, I've covered so
many of these stories now,
it's just in the short time I've been
working for TYT because this country
refuses to take any sort of meaningful
action to curtail gun violence.
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And every time one of these
stories breaks, the right
wing reaction always seems to be, now
is not the time to talk about politics.
But we then see the families of these
victims say, no, now is the time.
Because my relative might still be alive
if we actually took meaningful action
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to ensure that guns don't get in
the hands of dangerous people.
And now we know that this is someone who
has made threats in the past to carry out
shootings.
Clearly someone who should not
have had access to a firearm, but
was still able to, in fact, he was
still able to be a firearms instructor.
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>> Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that we
often focus on the morally corrupt side,
the side that lacks integrity.
We all know the right thing to do here,
but you're pretending that you don't.
That side all in on it.
They're not gonna do anything, even
when children lay dying in the street.
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It just is that simple.
So I like to sometimes focus on the other
side, who could do something here, and
that includes the American people who
are being held hostage by these tiny,
tiny groups with some money
checkbooks that they're willing to
just throw it around to get their way.
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And their way is about bloodshed and
carnage.
If we really wanted to do something here,
the White House, the Democrats,
and I'm not saying that they don't, but
they don't have good political gain.
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There's a fiery preacher who just like,
maybe you don't feel like going to church.
I haven't been in years, but anyway, but
they get you going and they energize you.
It's a movement, a political figure,
someone, something that you rally behind
because you just a dance move, something,
but they just stay flat footed.
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I'm tired of the slow singing and
flower bringing.
I saw where Vice President Harris reacted.
She's done nothing wrong, and
I'm not calling her out as someone who did
something wrong and
being human in that moment.
I don't wanna hear about the healer
in chief and his grief and
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how this is what he does best,
it's all true.
But if we wanna end this thing and
make some sense and
not have there be more guns than people so
that our kids can live,
we can live, we can go bowling,
if that's what you're into, or
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go to a nightclub in Orlando,
then we really could do it.
We actually could do it.
It would just take concentration,
a strategy, a will to not drop it.
We're into what the next day, and
it already feels like it's been three.
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You can't drop it.
You have to say,
I can't have another meal,
I can't breathe until this gets done, and
there's a price to pay if it doesn't.
And I just don't see that commitment.
It's like give in to evil because
they're never gonna help us now.
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>> Speaker 1: That is an excellent point
because we have right now information.
We know that gun violence has become
the leading cause of death of
children in this country.
And if that isn't something
that makes the Democrats angry,
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the ones in power angry enough to be
leading the charge against gun violence,
for gun control, for gun reform in
our laws, I don't know what could.
And of course, it's not just children
who are being murdered by guns,
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but the image of a dead child is
something that I think really is
powerful in moving people
towards demanding change.
And we know how many kids in this
country are getting murdered by guns,
and it's still not enough for
them to champion this issue.
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I mean, of course there are Democrats
who have been fighting on this issue,
there's organizations, parents of people
who've lost their children to gun control,
who are fighting for
gun violence, excuse me.
Who are fighting and
championing this issue.
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But it hasn't come top down, right?
This isn't something I've seen Joe Biden
particularly impassioned about.
You're right on the healer
in chief language.
But they can't heal if they know that in a
couple days they're gonna see another news
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story about another mass
shooting that's happening.
That healing can't occur
until we change our laws.
But that's all we have.
Sorry, go ahead.
>> Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and
I think you're right and
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I hate to bring her up again
because can this woman rest?
>> Okay, she refused to give up her
seat on the bus all those years ago and
there were boycotts and it almost
brought an industry in a city too broke.
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Okay, you needed people to ride buses,
okay?
When sanitation workers said I'm done.
But they didn't just do it for
a day or two.
And it was an incredible sacrifice.
How many miles are you
walking to work today, okay?
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And so I don't wanna oversimplify it,
but this is just a feeling I get.
Poles aren't everything, okay?
And when you can look someone in
the eye and they know you mean it and
you're not going away,
sometimes things happen, okay?
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Even the sinister side had resolve and
commitment and
they said, we're doing this, okay?
They wore hats and had that stupid
slogan about making America great.
It's a commitment.
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Whether you're on the side of evil or
semi good, it's a commitment.
And I remember I was on a ladder
decorating a tree in St.
Louis before I went to work when
the news was on, as it always is.
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I heard, I think it was John Miller,
the law enforcement guy on one
of the networks, CBS, I think.
And I'll never forget hearing his
voice and realizing what was coming.
It was like he had to prepare us so
I wouldn't fall off that ladder.
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And he said things like,
now it's just preliminary.
This is what he's a law
enforcement source.
So you knew it was coming when
he said there are children.
And every year around this time and
other times, I think about it,
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like when that big mouth was ordered
to pay a billion and some dollars and
he's still doing this trash.
Do people care when kids are dead?
Do they really care?
It doesn't feel like they do.
I can't imagine what those parents
are still going through if I can't
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forget the horror of hearing those words.
>> Speaker 1: It's a nightmare that they
can't wake up from because they have to
continue to fight to make sure it doesn't
happen to anyone else's children,
and it's sad.
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And I think you're right.
It feels like every time that
there is no action on this,
it feels like nobody cares.
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