Trump supporter with gun, knife detained in front of migrant community center

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Armed man driving 'Trump' truck detained outside El Paso migrant shelter

EL PASO, Texas - An armed man, described by staff at a local migrant shelter as "a white supremacist Trump supporter," was detained by police when he was found lurking outside the shelter shortly after President Trump concluded a visit to El Paso.

Police confirmed an incident occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Stanton near the Casa Carmelita shelter.


Casa Carmelita said the man "was sitting in his truck wearing blue latex gloves, and brandishing a knife." The shelter also said "police recovered a loaded gun, ammo, and a bag of white powder from his person."

Images posted to social media showed the man with a pickup truck emblazoned with Trump's name and a likeness of the president as 'Rambo' on it, as well as the name of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Jesus Christ. I don't want to think about what could have happened.

[Indy Texas]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

[T'Chenka]

Welcome to the new normal.

[PSOL]

I wonder if Sanchez knows the perpetrator. It would be really ready for some pondering if he knew both the news bomber and this dude.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Great Job by the Cops

[Cokeland Saxton]

Great Job by the Cops

[Ye We Can]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

I mean bro are you really expecting us to endorse mass casualty events in this thread?

Obviously great that this guy got arrested.

[DINGO Joe]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

I mean bro are you really expecting us to endorse mass casualty events in this thread?

Obviously great that this guy got arrested.

He wasn't arrested.  He was detained, questioned and released after it was decided he hadn't committed a crime.  In many states you can carry plenty of sh**t and not break the law until the bullets start flying.  No matter how creepy and inappropriate you are.

[T'Chenka]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

It's a white supremacist. White supremacist bad.

Tf do you want us to say, we don't feel any different about this then you do.

You might feel bad about it too, but you don't feel the SAME about it. You would be too disgusted with the GOP to call yourselves Republicans if you felt the same about it as us.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Economic anxiety.

[Person Man]

Economic anxiety.

It must be getting brutal out there.

[Inmate Trump]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

It's a white supremacist. White supremacist bad.

Tf do you want us to say, we don't feel any different about this then you do.

The only way to feel is to dismiss Trump and vote against him.

Support for Trump, at this point, is to support white supremacy.  Anything short of a vote against him in 2020 is endorsing racism.

He encourages this violent behavior.  He has praised it and told his supporters to act in such ways.  You can’t vote for him anymore and not also be a racist yourself.

[Suburbia]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

It's a white supremacist. White supremacist bad.

Tf do you want us to say, we don't feel any different about this then you do.

The only way to feel is to dismiss Trump and vote against him.

Support for Trump, at this point, is to support white supremacy.  Anything short of a vote against him in 2020 is endorsing racism.

He encourages this violent behavior.  He has praised it and told his supporters to act in such ways.  You can’t vote for him anymore and not also be a racist yourself.

Are you willing to say that to the Italian-American car dealer with a black daughter-in-law in his family that?

[ProudModerate2]

It says he was wearing "blue latex gloves." He was up to some "no good."
How could they just let him go? Strange.

[Inmate Trump]

Blue avatars, come out, come out wherever you are.

We're waiting for your latest explanation.

It's a white supremacist. White supremacist bad.

Tf do you want us to say, we don't feel any different about this then you do.

The only way to feel is to dismiss Trump and vote against him.

Support for Trump, at this point, is to support white supremacy.  Anything short of a vote against him in 2020 is endorsing racism.

He encourages this violent behavior.  He has praised it and told his supporters to act in such ways.  You can’t vote for him anymore and not also be a racist yourself.

Are you willing to say that to the Italian-American car dealer with a black daughter-in-law in his family that?

Do what now?

[OSR stands with Israel]

https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/crime/armed-trump-supporter-detained-and-released-at-el-paso-immigrant-center-headed-to-portland-rally/283-e1135f19-547a-41ba-8096-3e384d5c6b1c


Looks like I’m not going to go to downtown Portland that day

[DINGO Joe]

https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/crime/armed-trump-supporter-detained-and-released-at-el-paso-immigrant-center-headed-to-portland-rally/283-e1135f19-547a-41ba-8096-3e384d5c6b1c


Looks like I’m not going to go to downtown Portland that day

Yeah, he's exactly the kind of guy you should go all deep surveillance on.  Access his phone, trackers, mini-cameras.  Everything you'd do to a suspected Al-Queda terrorist.

[ProudModerate2]

https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/crime/armed-trump-supporter-detained-and-released-at-el-paso-immigrant-center-headed-to-portland-rally/283-e1135f19-547a-41ba-8096-3e384d5c6b1c

Looks like I’m not going to go to downtown Portland that day

Our laws are sad. I just don't get it.
This guy is a fire-cracker that is going to explode, and we "cant do anything about it" until he kills 15 people +.

[GP270watch]

Bartram acknowledged he was legally carrying a pistol but denied waving it around, and said the gloves and knife could be explained. “I was eating prickly pears,” he said. The white powder was a protein supplement Bartram said he takes along with other Alex Jones’ branded nutritional supplements.

That pretty much tells me everything I need to know about this individual.

[Fuzzy Bear]

He's in jail?  Good!

[OSR stands with Israel]

He's in jail?  Good!

Nope he got released and now is going to a protest in downtown Portland next week

[Fuzzy Bear]

He's in jail?  Good!

Nope he got released and now is going to a protest in downtown Portland next week

Not so good.

It does seem that he's committed at least the offense of Carrying a Concealed Firearm.  

I am curious as to what basis there was for him not being arrested.  He'd be in jail in FL unless he had a Concealed Weapons Permit.

[pbrower2a]

Good work by the shelter and by law enforcement.

Law and order is the most basic of civil rights because without it the others are void.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Trump needs to be charged with inciting violence and terrorism.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Republicans have gotten a lot of whistling practice, with their hands firmly in their pockets, in these past few weeks.