More than 12 hours ago a madman completely naked – except for a jacket – walked into a Tennessee Waffle House and shot four people to death with an AR-15. He also wounded at lest four others. An unarmed 29-year old leapt into action as the suspect went to reload, wrestled the gun away from him, threw it behind the counter and managed to push the suspect out the door.
The suspect is Travis Reinking, 29, of Morton, Illinois. The hero who saved lives, and was himself wounded by a bullet, is Nashville’s born and raised James Shaw Jr., also 29. He’s being hailed as a hero, but says he doesn’t feel like one.
Meanwhile, President Trump has spent the day at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, before flying via Air Force One back to the White House. He has done nothing to acknowledge the tragic loss of life, the fact that yet another mass shooting has taken place under his watch. And he hasn’t even acknowledged the selfless unarmed hero who risked his life to save others.
It must be said: The suspect is white. The hero is Black.
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