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He was then laid out on a concrete slab in the little laundry behind the hospital, and around 30 press photographers from all over the world were invited in to shoot images of the body as it lay in state, it was important for the government and the military to show Che dead as a lesson to anyone intending to invade or threaten the Bolivian way of life in the future. – General Prado	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
The police security should have been fool proof and fail proof which it was not, the shoot out that happened is unacceptable. – Vikram Singh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We continue to fight to say you can’t profile and shoot our children, just because you have this ‘stand your ground’ law, unacceptable. – Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head. – Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Someone had said something to the effect of ‘Oh you’re insane. You’re crazy. You’re messed up in the head,’ to which he replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head. I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still-beating hearts.’. – Jack Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m f—ed in the head alright. I think I’ma (sic) shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them. – Jack Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s been shoot on sight orders (at the border) that were put in place in August 2020 … a blockade on travel and trade, which has included what very limited official trade (there was before). – Lina Yoon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I didn’t shoot my wife or my son, anytime, ever. – Joshua Boucher/The	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Not to get the pills from him anymore, and instead I asked him to shoot me, i meant for him to shoot me so I would be gone. – Alex Murdaugh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I did n’t shoot my wife or Paul Murdaugh, anytime, ever. – Paul Murdaugh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and easier to transport with you. You can take many arrows with you — not just one or two spears to hold in your hand. You can shoot many of them in a very quick operation. All this and you can be alone hunting by yourself, what is incredible to me is that they (the Neanderthals) didn’t use, they didn’t develop this type of weapon. They continued to use their traditional weapon — spears thrust or thrown by hand. – Laure Metz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The amount of sperm that gets stored (for fertilization) depends on the quality of how well this individual can shoot its dart. – Joris Koene	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We currently don’t have a clear motive for why a 16 year old would want to shoot and kill other kids. – Chicago Police superintendent David Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We were able to get some fighter aircrafts up and around it before the order to shoot it down, and the pilots assessment was this was not manned. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I told them to shoot it down. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This typically very primitive style attack equals millions of dollars in damage, if you were to shoot out some very key components you can quickly create an effect where this large multimillion dollar transformer becomes essentially a paperweight. – Brian Harrell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why not shoot Western Mindanao down ? We have to do the risk-reward here, so the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in United States in the United States homeland ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side ? Our best assessment right now is that it does not. So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it was n’t worth it. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why do we want to see the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed ? Because then Pool Harris have to think twice before Pool Harris beat Tyre Nichols. Pool Harris think twice before Pool Harris shoot at someone unarmed. – Al Sharpton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is no PDF here, or shooting (done by the PDF), (The military) shoot us without any purpose or research. – Daw Aye Mar Swe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve put a lot of work into it and was able to make a few shots tonight to try to help us stay in the game, the Clippers, they are really good – exceptionally good – when they shoot the three ball. – Behind James	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, i have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I really thought I would have to shoot him if he came at me. – Tom Tsay	Found on CNN 1 year ago

He was then laid out on a concrete slab in the little laundry behind the hospital, and around 30 press photographers from all over the world were invited in to shoot images of the body as it lay in state, it was important for the government and the military to show Che dead as a lesson to anyone intending to invade or threaten the Bolivian way of life in the future.

– General Prado

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The police security should have been fool proof and fail proof which it was not, the shoot out that happened is unacceptable.

– Vikram Singh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We continue to fight to say you can’t profile and shoot our children, just because you have this ‘stand your ground’ law, unacceptable.

– Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head.

– Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone had said something to the effect of ‘Oh you’re insane. You’re crazy. You’re messed up in the head,’ to which he replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head. I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still-beating hearts.’.

– Jack Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m f—ed in the head alright. I think I’ma (sic) shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them.

– Jack Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been shoot on sight orders (at the border) that were put in place in August 2020 … a blockade on travel and trade, which has included what very limited official trade (there was before).

– Lina Yoon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn’t shoot my wife or my son, anytime, ever.

– Joshua Boucher/The

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not to get the pills from him anymore, and instead I asked him to shoot me, i meant for him to shoot me so I would be gone.

– Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I did n’t shoot my wife or Paul Murdaugh, anytime, ever.

– Paul Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have a bow and arrow it’s more precise and less effort to use and easier to transport with you. You can take many arrows with you — not just one or two spears to hold in your hand. You can shoot many of them in a very quick operation. All this and you can be alone hunting by yourself, what is incredible to me is that they (the Neanderthals) didn’t use, they didn’t develop this type of weapon. They continued to use their traditional weapon — spears thrust or thrown by hand.

– Laure Metz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The amount of sperm that gets stored (for fertilization) depends on the quality of how well this individual can shoot its dart.

– Joris Koene

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We currently don’t have a clear motive for why a 16 year old would want to shoot and kill other kids.

– Chicago Police superintendent David Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were able to get some fighter aircrafts up and around it before the order to shoot it down, and the pilots assessment was this was not manned.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I told them to shoot it down.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This typically very primitive style attack equals millions of dollars in damage, if you were to shoot out some very key components you can quickly create an effect where this large multimillion dollar transformer becomes essentially a paperweight.

– Brian Harrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why not shoot Western Mindanao down ? We have to do the risk-reward here, so the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in United States in the United States homeland ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side ? Our best assessment right now is that it does not. So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it was n’t worth it.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why do we want to see the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed ? Because then Pool Harris have to think twice before Pool Harris beat Tyre Nichols. Pool Harris think twice before Pool Harris shoot at someone unarmed.

– Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no PDF here, or shooting (done by the PDF), (The military) shoot us without any purpose or research.

– Daw Aye Mar Swe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve put a lot of work into it and was able to make a few shots tonight to try to help us stay in the game, the Clippers, they are really good – exceptionally good – when they shoot the three ball.

– Behind James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, i have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I really thought I would have to shoot him if he came at me.

– Tom Tsay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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