Posted June 14, 2015 2:52 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

New York Magazine, the Cleveland Sun-Times, U.K. Daily Mail, CNN, and other mainstream media journalists are attempting to push the claim that Dallas Police Headquarters attacker James Boulware used an “automatic weapon” in his assault shortly after midnight, in addition to crudely-manufactured black powder pipe bombs.

.@CNNValencia Utterly false claim. All video/auto supports semi-auto rate of fire ONLY. No automatic weapon fire at all. #DallasPDShooting

— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) June 13, 2015

Some, like CNN reporter Nick Valencia, insisted that police claimed that automatic weapons were used. There seems to be a single point of contact for that claim.

The Dallas Police Major Max Geron and Dallas PD main account never made such a claim on Twitter, nor did they support such a claim at DPD Beat, the Dallas Police Department blog.

The sole source for that claim was alleged eyewitnesses.

Chief David O. Brown merely shared their claims at a time when facts were in short supply and rumors were rampant.

Again at 15:11 of the same press conference, Chief Brown makes very clear that it was witnesses said that the fire was from fully-automatic weapons. Chief …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms

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