Indy FedEx Shooter Identified As 19-Year-Old Known to Locals and Previously Interviewed by FBI — Looks Like Chris Wray Dropped the Ball Once Again!

The gunman then took his own life.

This afternoon Brandon Scott Hole was identified as the shooter and a former employee at the FedEx facility.

Via The AP:

FBI agents last year interviewed the gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the bureau said Friday, as investigators searched the home of the 19-year-old former FedEx employee…

…The shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole of Indianapolis, Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt told a news conference. Investigators searched a home in Indianapolis associated with Hole and seized evidence, including desktop computers and other electronic media, McCartt said.

Paul Keenan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis field office, said Friday that agents questioned Hole last year after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop.” He said the FBI was called after items were found in Hole’s bedroom but he did not elaborate on what they were. He said agents found no evidence of a crime and that they did not identify Hole as espousing a racially motivated ideology.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/indy-fedex-shooter-identified-19-year-old-known-locals-previously-interviewed-fbi-looks-like-chris-wray-dropped-ball/

Two People Dead, Officer Wounded in San Antonio, Texas Police Traffic Stop: Officials

Two people were fatally shot and a San Antonio police officer was wounded in what officials said started as a routine traffic stop on Friday morning.

The gunfire erupted shortly after police pulled over a car and an officer engaged the driver in what appeared to be casual conversation for a few minutes, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.

“At some point, I’m not sure why, but the driver pulled a gun and started firing and the officer was hit in the hand,” McManus told reporters near the scene after reviewing video from the policeman’s body-worn camera.

“He retreated backward, returning fire inside the vehicle,” he added.

The driver and a passenger, both of whom were men estimated to be in their 20s, were killed, McManus said. Another passenger was wounded and was rushed to a hospital.

The police chief, stressing that his information was preliminary, said he did not know what prompted the traffic stop.

https://www.ntd.com/two-people-dead-officer-wounded-in-san-antonio-texas-police-traffic-stop-officials_598624.html

Lawmakers Ask For Details From American Scientists Who Studied Bat Coronaviruses In Wuhan Before The Pandemic

A U.S.-based group that conducts bat coronavirus research in China was asked Friday to provide a House committee with information on virus samples and safety protocols at a Wuhan lab.

The group, the EcoHealth Alliance, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is central in speculation that COVID-19 may have leaked accidentally from a lab.

EcoHealth Alliance “has an extensive history with research into bat coronaviruses in China, some of which are presumed progenitors of SARS CoV-2,” according to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce letter.

The letter is signed by ranking member Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state and the Republican leaders of two subcommittees.

The committee requested information EcoHealth Alliance has on WIV’s virus samples and sequences, including any from a related database that was taken offline in 2019.

“The database is administered by the WIV’s researcher Dr. Shi Zhengli, with whom you and your team have had professional and financial ties since at least 2003,” the letter said. “The database is estimated to contain 500 coronaviruses identified by EcoHealth Alliance, and at least 100 unpublished sequences of bat beta coronaviruses that are relevant to the investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 origin.”

A World Health Organization-led team released a report in March on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, but the team was denied access to important data.

As a condition of its NIH funding, EcoHealth Alliance is responsible for ensuring the WIV met the agency’s grant requirements, according to the House Republicans’ letter. EcoHealth is asked for any “direct or indirect knowledge when safety protocols were not followed” at the lab.

The letter also asks what EcoHealth Alliance knows about “a Chinese national security review team finding in 2019 that the WIV did not meet national standards in five categories and when or if those standards were met before 2020.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/16/house-committee-ecohealth-alliance-bat-coronaviruses-lab-wuhan-institute-of-virology/

Labor leader: Union workers buying new cars, 'remodeling their homes' after Biden pension bailout

The $86 billion bailout for failing union-managed, multiemployer pensions was part of Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill

A labor leader said he is "amazed at how much money" union workers are spending on new cars and remodeling their homes after President Joe Biden’s $86 billion bailout for failing union-managed multi-employer pensions.

The bailout funds for the pensions was part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill Biden signed on March 11. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, leaders in the labor movement, and some Ohio Democratic lawmakers held a virtual event to celebrate the bill's support for the struggling pensions.

Mike Walden, a former member of Teamsters who has long been advocating for taxpayer assistance for the union pensions, joined Walsh during the discussion. According to a February 2020 Roll Call article, Walden's current organization is a "Teamsters-created group whose members in their black T-shirts with yellow lettering frequent the halls of House and Senate office buildings."

“We were better off when the mob was running things,” said Walden, president of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions, according to the report about his labor-related advocacy.

Walden was referring to the Teamsters' history involving past president Jimmy Hoffa's connections to the mob. According to the New York Times, Hoffa and six others were accused of "fraudulently arranging $25 million in loans" from the Teamstes' pension fund in 1964. Hoffa was found guilty of "mail and wire fraud and conspiracy," according to the report.

On Thursday, Walden applauded Biden and the Democrat-led Congress for passing the rescue funding for the struggling union pensions. Walden said union members were making new purchases as soon as they heard that their pensions were saved.

"Treasury's going to get taxes out of that right off the top, you know, back into the IRS, and then we're going to continue spending our money," Walden said. "We're too old to save, and we don't make enough to save so we put it back in. I can tell you just the start of this how many of my friends went out and bought new cars as soon as they heard that their pensions are going to be saved. And not only new cars, they've stepped up, they've picked up remodeling their homes, some of them are looking at homes rather than looking to sell their homes.

"We have some people that have been foreclosed on because they couldn't make the payment or didn't reduce. We're talking ironworkers in Cleveland, everywhere. But I'm just amazed at how much money just in the last few weeks that my friends are spending, including myself."

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters estimated that the bailout money would help over 50 of their pension funds.

"While multiemployer pension plans have been buffeted by economic turbulence over the decades, the situation has been seriously exacerbated by the current pandemic," said Teamsters' current general president, Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

Walsh said Biden thought the $86 billion pension bailout was a "good fit" for the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill "because it was about relief for families and people who were hurting through no fault of their own."

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 14.3 million members of public and private unions in the U.S. Walsh estimated that the $86 billion pension bailout would help 10.8 million retired and active union workers.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley joined Walsh and Walden during the event.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/labor-leader-union-workers-buying-new-cars-remodeling-their-homes-after-bidens