Highland park IL shooting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Father in the home?

According to Fox News:

Crimo is the son of Bob Crimo, president at Bob's Pantry & Deli in Highland Park. According to his Facebook account, the father ran for Highland Park mayor in 2020.

Well I know he has a father; I am curious if he had a father in the home. Time will tell.

Yes, " the father was in the home" PP.

In fact, the HP have released that they have been called to " the home" about 24 times - mostly domestic disturbances

The so called " father's " reaction to his son's 17 knives being taken away after threatening to kill his whole family was to go to the Police station that very night, claim the knives were all his ( the Dad's ) and get them back for him.

This occured while the Dad was running for Mayor on a Pro-gun / MAGA platform

3 months later this same " Dad in the Home" signed a auth for this Psychopath to get a firearm- and he now has the gall to go on record saying, " no, I don't feel responsible for what my son did "

[Anonymous]

Father and mother will be prosecuted too.
Their kid should have been institutionalized after any of the face tattoos, suicide threats, knife collection kill the family threats, sex doll stuff, drug fort in the front yard, etc.

wTf father signs off on a firearm purchase for that kind of kid??

[Anonymous]

Idiot father covered for him. And is also responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Father and mother will be prosecuted too.
Their kid should have been institutionalized after any of the face tattoos, suicide threats, knife collection kill the family threats, sex doll stuff, drug fort in the front yard, etc.

wTf father signs off on a firearm purchase for that kind of kid??

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will we forget about this shooting too or finally ban all assault firearms and extended magazines?

A man killed 60 and wounded 400 in Las Vegas 5 years ago and it’s essentially gone from our collective memory. How many died in this one? 8? It’s a nothingburger, as they say.

We could continue to bring down the mass media definition of Mass Murder from 20 to 10 to 4, and then out then all in the national news. But only if with assault weapons by whites in historically safer office districts or neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The media has really downplayed the online radicalization angle of all these shooters. These young men are being recruited, radicalized, and fed racist/misogynistic/anti-Semitic content online. Just like the young Islamic men who were radicalized by Al Qaeda. It’s the same process of hate and resulting violence.

Probably. These findings need to be more public than just in FBI circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from a Highland Park woman. She posted it on Facebook but I left her name off for privacy.

Here's a post from a Highland Park woman:
Bobby Crimo is NOT a Lone Wolf

On July 4th 2022 I was heading to breakfast at the Walker Brothers restaurant downtown Highland Park with my mother and 17 year old high school student. The rest of my family was on their way back from a weekend trip. I told my husband and my youngest not to hurry back for the parade but instead to be home by 2:00 pm for a backyard party with friends. At 10:00 am, my mother picked us up. We drove the couple of blocks and parked in front of a bagel shop. There was a series of loud pops when we exited the car. My brain processed them as fireworks. As we turned onto Central Avenue, people ran, leaving wagons abandoned in the street. In my head, I thought that they were going home since the parade had just passed.

My 17-year old kept saying that something isn’t right, people were fleeing, not just going home. It didn’t register until I heard the wails of people calling for their family members. We stood there for a moment and then it hit me… there was a shooting. We left the scene and began hearing from friends. They described the bodies in the street, the wounded bleeding out, the confusion and mass hysteria that swept over the crowd as they realized what was happening.

A friend of mine with military training ran to the dead, dying, and injured and helped as best they could to keep these people from bleeding out until the ambulances arrived. The shooter was perched on Uncle Dan’s rooftop. He climbed up a ladder in the alleyway and lay in wait. 6 are confirmed dead so far with nearly 30 wounded.

The shooter wasn’t caught immediately. The police seemed just as stunned and unprepared as the rest of us. The town went on lockdown as the police and FBI worked to uncover his identity and find him. When it was announced around 6 pm that the suspect was caught, his face and identity were known to me. In fact, had I been asked for a short list of people in the area who I thought had the potential and motivation to cause such harm and destruction in our community, his name would have likely been on the list. What I know for certain is that the shooter knew my name, address, and make and model of my car. He and his associates had doxxed me, creating a flyer calling me a dangerous Communist with my picture, name, address, and a call to action that I must be stopped. Why was I on the radar of a 20 year old kid and his band of hoodlum friends? Because I dared to counter-protest their Stop the Steal events in 2020.

I’ve heard on CNN and other news sources that there are only a few photos of the shooter with Trump Flags and that his major motivator was a love of death and destruction. This is blatantly false. There are multiple news articles from the Patch and Chicago Tribune featuring photos of the shooter at these MAGA events. I recognized him right away as part of the group of local angry white young men who had previously waited for me after protests, to threaten and harassed me, and came to a Protect the Results vigil on December 12, 2020 in Highland Park’s Sunset Park where they did the nazi salute multiple times and screamed the following at our small group through a bullhorn…
“We refuse to accept a socialist, communist and anarchist America. We pledge to stop a Biden led communist regime that will kill the American Dream and the traditional way of American life. We demand Biden Harris never. We will not stop until the Antifa scum and Black Lives Matter monkeys get put in their place. Enough of this Left-wing violence.”

The police were there. They did nothing other than tell us to leave the park at dusk when we were already heading to our cars.
In Northbrook, the Stop the Steal rallies were violent. People who I was counter-protesting with were hit in the head with thick flag poles by the future shooter and his associates. The police did little when their side crossed the street to confront us repeatedly.

I did reach out to the police and so have others. We’ve been speaking out about the harassment and behavior of local MAGA fanatics but have been ignored, brushed aside, or even made to feel as if we provoked them.

The shooter joined a group of pro-Trump and militia supporters in the summer of 2020 to intimidate residents with their aggressive “Trump Train” through the heart of the old downtown, the location of his future mass shooting.

The shooter is not a surprise. Don’t believe the news reports. Bobby Crimo was a known agitator and there could have been interventions before my neighbors' bodies lay strewn across the parade route. This is a fact.

He is a homegrown terrorist who flew under the radar because no one was willing to see the signs. There are others like him that are Highlander more likely in my opinion to cause harm and devastation in Highland Park and surrounding communities. We know their names. We know their history of extremism. They walk amongst us waiting for the next opportunity to unleash their fascist desires of control and death on our communities. I have called the police. I have called the FBI. I have spoken out publicly and I continue to do so despite making myself a target.

The truth is slowly leaking out as some media outlets do the investigative work that should be done. You will see that Robert Crimo wasn’t just a crazy person with violent tendencies, he was part of an organized movement to instill fear in anyone brave enough to oppose the fascist threat to our country.

He’s no lone wolf. There are a hundred “Bobby Crimos” waiting in the wings for the chance to punish liberal America and anyone who they see as not embodying “traditional American family values”.
I encourage anyone who reads this to do a little research on Bobby Crimo and his associates. It’s all there in news articles, photos, and videos. Yesterday was a MAGA-inspired crime against the community of Highland Park and humanity at large. I have put so much energy into trying to bring attention to this issue with little impact. Hopefully, some of you will help me keep the pressure on our law enforcement and community leaders to do something before the next attack.

This is why it is extremely important to talk about how Crimo is a MAGA Trumpist. I realize that the Trump supporters are desperate to hide this truth. But it is critically important that this attack be known as the political terrorism it is.

+1
Right wing domestic terrorism isn’t going to go away as long as it goes unaddressed.

I’ve been very frustrated about how the mainstream media has been unwilling to label this as the domestic terrorism from a MAGA supporter that it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from a Highland Park woman. She posted it on Facebook but I left her name off for privacy.

Here's a post from a Highland Park woman:
Bobby Crimo is NOT a Lone Wolf

On July 4th 2022 I was heading to breakfast at the Walker Brothers restaurant downtown Highland Park with my mother and 17 year old high school student. The rest of my family was on their way back from a weekend trip. I told my husband and my youngest not to hurry back for the parade but instead to be home by 2:00 pm for a backyard party with friends. At 10:00 am, my mother picked us up. We drove the couple of blocks and parked in front of a bagel shop. There was a series of loud pops when we exited the car. My brain processed them as fireworks. As we turned onto Central Avenue, people ran, leaving wagons abandoned in the street. In my head, I thought that they were going home since the parade had just passed.

My 17-year old kept saying that something isn’t right, people were fleeing, not just going home. It didn’t register until I heard the wails of people calling for their family members. We stood there for a moment and then it hit me… there was a shooting. We left the scene and began hearing from friends. They described the bodies in the street, the wounded bleeding out, the confusion and mass hysteria that swept over the crowd as they realized what was happening.

A friend of mine with military training ran to the dead, dying, and injured and helped as best they could to keep these people from bleeding out until the ambulances arrived. The shooter was perched on Uncle Dan’s rooftop. He climbed up a ladder in the alleyway and lay in wait. 6 are confirmed dead so far with nearly 30 wounded.

The shooter wasn’t caught immediately. The police seemed just as stunned and unprepared as the rest of us. The town went on lockdown as the police and FBI worked to uncover his identity and find him. When it was announced around 6 pm that the suspect was caught, his face and identity were known to me. In fact, had I been asked for a short list of people in the area who I thought had the potential and motivation to cause such harm and destruction in our community, his name would have likely been on the list. What I know for certain is that the shooter knew my name, address, and make and model of my car. He and his associates had doxxed me, creating a flyer calling me a dangerous Communist with my picture, name, address, and a call to action that I must be stopped. Why was I on the radar of a 20 year old kid and his band of hoodlum friends? Because I dared to counter-protest their Stop the Steal events in 2020.

I’ve heard on CNN and other news sources that there are only a few photos of the shooter with Trump Flags and that his major motivator was a love of death and destruction. This is blatantly false. There are multiple news articles from the Patch and Chicago Tribune featuring photos of the shooter at these MAGA events. I recognized him right away as part of the group of local angry white young men who had previously waited for me after protests, to threaten and harassed me, and came to a Protect the Results vigil on December 12, 2020 in Highland Park’s Sunset Park where they did the nazi salute multiple times and screamed the following at our small group through a bullhorn…
“We refuse to accept a socialist, communist and anarchist America. We pledge to stop a Biden led communist regime that will kill the American Dream and the traditional way of American life. We demand Biden Harris never. We will not stop until the Antifa scum and Black Lives Matter monkeys get put in their place. Enough of this Left-wing violence.”

The police were there. They did nothing other than tell us to leave the park at dusk when we were already heading to our cars.
In Northbrook, the Stop the Steal rallies were violent. People who I was counter-protesting with were hit in the head with thick flag poles by the future shooter and his associates. The police did little when their side crossed the street to confront us repeatedly.

I did reach out to the police and so have others. We’ve been speaking out about the harassment and behavior of local MAGA fanatics but have been ignored, brushed aside, or even made to feel as if we provoked them.

The shooter joined a group of pro-Trump and militia supporters in the summer of 2020 to intimidate residents with their aggressive “Trump Train” through the heart of the old downtown, the location of his future mass shooting.

The shooter is not a surprise. Don’t believe the news reports. Bobby Crimo was a known agitator and there could have been interventions before my neighbors' bodies lay strewn across the parade route. This is a fact.

He is a homegrown terrorist who flew under the radar because no one was willing to see the signs. There are others like him that are Highlander more likely in my opinion to cause harm and devastation in Highland Park and surrounding communities. We know their names. We know their history of extremism. They walk amongst us waiting for the next opportunity to unleash their fascist desires of control and death on our communities. I have called the police. I have called the FBI. I have spoken out publicly and I continue to do so despite making myself a target.

The truth is slowly leaking out as some media outlets do the investigative work that should be done. You will see that Robert Crimo wasn’t just a crazy person with violent tendencies, he was part of an organized movement to instill fear in anyone brave enough to oppose the fascist threat to our country.

He’s no lone wolf. There are a hundred “Bobby Crimos” waiting in the wings for the chance to punish liberal America and anyone who they see as not embodying “traditional American family values”.
I encourage anyone who reads this to do a little research on Bobby Crimo and his associates. It’s all there in news articles, photos, and videos. Yesterday was a MAGA-inspired crime against the community of Highland Park and humanity at large. I have put so much energy into trying to bring attention to this issue with little impact. Hopefully, some of you will help me keep the pressure on our law enforcement and community leaders to do something before the next attack.

This is why it is extremely important to talk about how Crimo is a MAGA Trumpist. I realize that the Trump supporters are desperate to hide this truth. But it is critically important that this attack be known as the political terrorism it is.

+1
Right wing domestic terrorism isn’t going to go away as long as it goes unaddressed.

I’ve been very frustrated about how the mainstream media has been unwilling to label this as the domestic terrorism from a MAGA supporter that it is.

This seems to spell it out pretty clearly (and this reporter is specifically a domestic extremism correspondent):

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/06/1110013040/the-highland-park-suspect-breaks-the-mold-on-violent-extremists

That doesn’t strike me as downplaying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from a Highland Park woman. She posted it on Facebook but I left her name off for privacy.

Here's a post from a Highland Park woman:
Bobby Crimo is NOT a Lone Wolf

On July 4th 2022 I was heading to breakfast at the Walker Brothers restaurant downtown Highland Park with my mother and 17 year old high school student. The rest of my family was on their way back from a weekend trip. I told my husband and my youngest not to hurry back for the parade but instead to be home by 2:00 pm for a backyard party with friends. At 10:00 am, my mother picked us up. We drove the couple of blocks and parked in front of a bagel shop. There was a series of loud pops when we exited the car. My brain processed them as fireworks. As we turned onto Central Avenue, people ran, leaving wagons abandoned in the street. In my head, I thought that they were going home since the parade had just passed.

My 17-year old kept saying that something isn’t right, people were fleeing, not just going home. It didn’t register until I heard the wails of people calling for their family members. We stood there for a moment and then it hit me… there was a shooting. We left the scene and began hearing from friends. They described the bodies in the street, the wounded bleeding out, the confusion and mass hysteria that swept over the crowd as they realized what was happening.

A friend of mine with military training ran to the dead, dying, and injured and helped as best they could to keep these people from bleeding out until the ambulances arrived. The shooter was perched on Uncle Dan’s rooftop. He climbed up a ladder in the alleyway and lay in wait. 6 are confirmed dead so far with nearly 30 wounded.

The shooter wasn’t caught immediately. The police seemed just as stunned and unprepared as the rest of us. The town went on lockdown as the police and FBI worked to uncover his identity and find him. When it was announced around 6 pm that the suspect was caught, his face and identity were known to me. In fact, had I been asked for a short list of people in the area who I thought had the potential and motivation to cause such harm and destruction in our community, his name would have likely been on the list. What I know for certain is that the shooter knew my name, address, and make and model of my car. He and his associates had doxxed me, creating a flyer calling me a dangerous Communist with my picture, name, address, and a call to action that I must be stopped. Why was I on the radar of a 20 year old kid and his band of hoodlum friends? Because I dared to counter-protest their Stop the Steal events in 2020.

I’ve heard on CNN and other news sources that there are only a few photos of the shooter with Trump Flags and that his major motivator was a love of death and destruction. This is blatantly false. There are multiple news articles from the Patch and Chicago Tribune featuring photos of the shooter at these MAGA events. I recognized him right away as part of the group of local angry white young men who had previously waited for me after protests, to threaten and harassed me, and came to a Protect the Results vigil on December 12, 2020 in Highland Park’s Sunset Park where they did the nazi salute multiple times and screamed the following at our small group through a bullhorn…
“We refuse to accept a socialist, communist and anarchist America. We pledge to stop a Biden led communist regime that will kill the American Dream and the traditional way of American life. We demand Biden Harris never. We will not stop until the Antifa scum and Black Lives Matter monkeys get put in their place. Enough of this Left-wing violence.”

The police were there. They did nothing other than tell us to leave the park at dusk when we were already heading to our cars.
In Northbrook, the Stop the Steal rallies were violent. People who I was counter-protesting with were hit in the head with thick flag poles by the future shooter and his associates. The police did little when their side crossed the street to confront us repeatedly.

I did reach out to the police and so have others. We’ve been speaking out about the harassment and behavior of local MAGA fanatics but have been ignored, brushed aside, or even made to feel as if we provoked them.

The shooter joined a group of pro-Trump and militia supporters in the summer of 2020 to intimidate residents with their aggressive “Trump Train” through the heart of the old downtown, the location of his future mass shooting.

The shooter is not a surprise. Don’t believe the news reports. Bobby Crimo was a known agitator and there could have been interventions before my neighbors' bodies lay strewn across the parade route. This is a fact.

He is a homegrown terrorist who flew under the radar because no one was willing to see the signs. There are others like him that are Highlander more likely in my opinion to cause harm and devastation in Highland Park and surrounding communities. We know their names. We know their history of extremism. They walk amongst us waiting for the next opportunity to unleash their fascist desires of control and death on our communities. I have called the police. I have called the FBI. I have spoken out publicly and I continue to do so despite making myself a target.

The truth is slowly leaking out as some media outlets do the investigative work that should be done. You will see that Robert Crimo wasn’t just a crazy person with violent tendencies, he was part of an organized movement to instill fear in anyone brave enough to oppose the fascist threat to our country.

He’s no lone wolf. There are a hundred “Bobby Crimos” waiting in the wings for the chance to punish liberal America and anyone who they see as not embodying “traditional American family values”.
I encourage anyone who reads this to do a little research on Bobby Crimo and his associates. It’s all there in news articles, photos, and videos. Yesterday was a MAGA-inspired crime against the community of Highland Park and humanity at large. I have put so much energy into trying to bring attention to this issue with little impact. Hopefully, some of you will help me keep the pressure on our law enforcement and community leaders to do something before the next attack.

This is why it is extremely important to talk about how Crimo is a MAGA Trumpist. I realize that the Trump supporters are desperate to hide this truth. But it is critically important that this attack be known as the political terrorism it is.

+1
Right wing domestic terrorism isn’t going to go away as long as it goes unaddressed.

I’ve been very frustrated about how the mainstream media has been unwilling to label this as the domestic terrorism from a MAGA supporter that it is.

This seems to spell it out pretty clearly (and this reporter is specifically a domestic extremism correspondent):

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/06/1110013040/the-highland-park-suspect-breaks-the-mold-on-violent-extremists

That doesn’t strike me as downplaying.

Yes, there are some exceptions. But for the most part, mainstream media is avoiding reporting on how Crimo was a Trump MAGA domestic terrorist.

[Anonymous]

We have to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. We know there’s going to be another horrific shooting with someone using these firearms. Why can’t we do something to live free?!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will we forget about this shooting too or finally ban all assault firearms and extended magazines?

A man killed 60 and wounded 400 in Las Vegas 5 years ago and it’s essentially gone from our collective memory. How many died in this one? 8? It’s a nothingburger, as they say.

We could continue to bring down the mass media definition of Mass Murder from 20 to 10 to 4, and then out then all in the national news. But only if with assault weapons by whites in historically safer office districts or neighborhoods.

Could you translate your unintelligible blithering into standard English please?

[Anonymous]

It is truly sickening hearing the father tell his side of the story.

[Anonymous]

Republicans – They Really Are the Best People!

“The uncle of Highland Park mass shooter Robert Crimo III said his brother “did the right thing” when he helped his son buy assault rifle."

https://www.rawstory.com/2657637647/


Meanwhile:

'An 8-year-old boy is paralyzed from the waist down after getting shot in the chest in Highland Park parade attack'

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/us/highland-park-sh...-year-old-paralyzed/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Idiot father covered for him. And is also responsible.

In my opinion, the kid is more the expression/ puppet of the Father.

After All, the Father insisted he get his knives back then - just 3 months after he said he would kill his whole family- signed his permission for him to get a gun

The Father ran for Mayor on a MAGA / pro Gun agenda in a town that had passed an assault Weapons Ban

His son was the physical and ideological manifestation of his Father

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Father and mother will be prosecuted too.
Their kid should have been institutionalized after any of the face tattoos, suicide threats, knife collection kill the family threats, sex doll stuff, drug fort in the front yard, etc.

wTf father signs off on a firearm purchase for that kind of kid??

The same type of father that didn’t lift a finger to actually raise the boy properly this whole time.

Parents need to start being prosecuted for the exact crime that their sons are committing - whether that’s mass shootings or gang related crimes. Parents need to take responsibility for the kids they are raising (or refusing to raise).

We need to break the cycle of kids not being raised properly.