attorney, declined to comment on whether charges would be brought against anyone in the case, merely saying investigators were talking to several other people in connection with the attack that killed 49 people. ‘‘We need your help in developing the most complete picture of what he did and why he did it,’’ FBI agent Ron Hopper said at a news conference. The FBI sought the public’s help Wednesday to construct what led Omar Mateen to select the Pulse nightclub as the target of his attack on Sunday. All updates are in Eastern Standard Time. President Obama said at present investigators “ do not have any information to indicate that a foreign terrorist group directed the attack in Orlando.” But, he added, it’s clear Mateen was radicalized over the Internet. attorney declined to say if anyone would be charged in the attack. She told federal agents she tried to talk him out of Sunday’s attack. News reports say Mateen’s wife might have been aware of the plot to attack Pulse. He also said the attacker drove around several locations in the city before killing 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub. However, according to The News and Observer, the force policy states that “no weapon, either deadly or less-than-lethal, will be used against any subject that is offering only passive or verbal resistance.-Orlando’s mayor says Omar Mateen threatened to strap explosives onto his hostages at the Pulse nightclub. Once deputies urge the crowd to disperse several times and there is non-compliance, the next step is to disperse the crowd,” Curry explained. “We will say only that the strategy to use ‘less-lethal force’ was appropriate, for the safety of subjects. No thought what-so-ever what put into the decision to come at us guns blazing.”Įrica Curry, a spokesperson for the Wake County sheriff’s office, said in a statement that the officers used the unspecified weapons for “riot-related crime control.” This basically sums up the reason folks are mad. The deputy sheriffs could have, at any point, come over to see what we were doing or voiced their concern. I was on my lot and kept my friends contained within the lot. “I was there during normal operating hours. Might I also add that these were queer folks, a marginalized group that already has to actively avoid being attacked just living their day to day lives.” Not all volunteer medics are ready for that sort of thing, can we agree? Shouldn’t really need to be ready for the cops to shoot at you. Whatever trust they had remaining for local law enforcement was lost during this incident. My companions ran for their lives, screaming,” he wrote. “I walked away slowly because I am an air assault artillery vet of 8 years and I had my NBC mask on me. Lemuel posted about the incident on Facebook on Tuesday (June 4). There was nothing that we were doing to instigate a response like that.” “I could how, with everything that was going on, how things could be heightened and their goal to disperse crowds that are being destructive or being harmful, would be necessary,” Varani said. Jen Varani, one of Lemuel’s staffers helping out, told The News and Observerthat the police’s reaction wasn’t instigated in any way. RALEIGH POLICE JUST FIRED FLASH BANGS AND LESS LETHAL ROUNDS AT MEDICS, INCLUDING THE OWNER OF RUBY’S DELUXE, A QUEER BAR WHERE THE MEDICS WERE STATIONED. I don’t care where you go you gotta go!” Two shots were then fired, and an officer yells, “Move! The game is over. The armed officers continued to approach when they yell, “You’ve been told. In a video posted to Twitter, an officer can be heard yelling, “Move!” to Lemuel, to which he replies, “This is my business. The bar staff continued this aid for about seven hours before six police officers approached them. They also set up a first aid station in their parking lot to treat injured protestors and hand out water and snacks. The next day, Lemuel and his staff showed up to protect the building from more damage as protests surrounding police brutality continued in the city. On Sunday evening (May 31), Lemuel discovered that the bar had been vandalized the glass doors had been broken, and a white supremacist symbol was spray painted on a window. Tim Lemuel, the owner of Ruby Deluxe in Raleigh, North Carolina, was shot at by police while defending his bar and helping out protestors. The owner of a queer bar in North Carolina was shot at by police for providing first aid to peaceful protestors, reported The News and Observer.