Pizzagate/Comet Ping Pong Gunman Shot & Killed During NC Traffic Stop

Interesting development. The guy who “de-bunked” pizzagate on behalf of the media and DNC was found guilty of child molestation. The guy who believed it was shot and killed by the police.

Let's follow the link in the tweet reply and see how long it takes to abandon real journalism, shall we?

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A man notorious for shooting up a pizzeria in the US capital where he wrongly believed Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were running a child sex ring has been killed in a traffic stop police shooting, local media reported Thursday.

The North Carolina man who died Monday, two days after the incident with police, has now been identified as Edgar Maddison Welch, who was at the center of the bizarre story that came to be known as “Pizzagate,” news outlets said.

It involved the bogus conspiracy theory that Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant, was a hub for a child sex trafficking ring involving Clinton — who ran for US president in 2016 — and other prominent Democrats.

In December of that year, Welch was arrested after he fired his assault rifle inside the eatery. He told police that he drove up from North Carolina to personally investigate stories that Comet was a center for child abduction.

The false claim was an early taste of the conspiracy theories that would later abound among far-right conservatives in the Donald Trump era.

Welch, then 29, was sentenced in 2017 to four years in prison after being convicted of a federal charge of interstate transport of firearms and a Washington DC charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. He was released from prison in March 2020.

When Welch was sentenced, the US attorney’s office said the judge in the case declared “the extent of the recklessness in this case is breathtaking” and it was only through “sheer luck” that no one was wounded.

On Saturday, police in the North Carolina town of Kannapolis stopped a car they believed to be driven by someone with an outstanding warrant. The driver was Welch.

When police tried to open the car and arrest him, Welch pulled a gun and refused orders to drop it.

Two officers then shot him, the Charlotte Observer newspaper reported.

Welch died two days later in the hospital.

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Let's follow the link in the tweet reply and see how long it takes to abandon real journalism, shall we?

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That's gotta be AP, right?

Thanks for the nb4 since SlowFloPro and Powerman will be along soon to support and defend John Podesta and his band of perverts

They finally got him 4 years after he got out of prison?

I have zero doubt there are VIPs in DC who would have a person killed to cover their arse, similar to the thugs on the bottom of the economic DC ladder, but it's got to make sense. They couldn't just arrange a mugging like they did for Seth Rich? It's easier to find several dirty cops in NC?

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It's easier to find several dirty cops in NC?

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It's worth reminding folks, the MS-13 gang members who were said to have "mugged" Seth Rich (even though his phone, wallet and anything of perceived value were still on his person when he was taken to the hospital, where he died), were also from NC.

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They finally got him 4 years after he got out of prison?

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After everyone has forgotten the Pizzagate silliness

Using a podunk PD in NC to do it, too.

We'd be here all day if we reposted the CPP weirdness. Too bad there isn't a single thread where it could all have gone, that way folks could revisit the discussion as it happened in real time.

Here's Patton Oswalt being "goofy":