Crime

AZ Sheriff: ‘We’re Not Convinced He Acted Alone’

In a press conference Saturday evening, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik confirmed that law enforcement officials have reason to believe another person may be involved in the shooting spree which killed six Saturday and injured 18 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

“We’re not convinced that he acted alone,” Sheriff Dupnik said, referring to the accused perpetrator, 22-year-old Jared Loughner. Until the other suspect has been found and questioned, police are refusing to identify him.  Authorities are reportedly hunting for a white man in his 50s.

Loughlin’s shooting massacre was brought to a halt when two “brave individuals” tackled him, the Sheriff announced.

Though Dupnik offered no details concerning the shooter’s motives for the crime, the Sheriff blamed unnamed members of the media for inciting the violence.

“When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

“It’s not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. And that‘s the sad thing of what’s going on in America. Pretty soon, we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people who are willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”

Additionally, Dupnik noted that federal judge John Roll was in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to the Wall Street Journal, Roll had showed up at Giffords event Saturday morning to thank her:

The federal judge who was shot dead Saturday at a political event in Tucson, Arizona, was there to thank U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for backing his effort to get more judicial support for the swelling numbers of immigration cases in his district, according to two U.S. federal judges.

In an interview, Michael Hawkins, U.S. Circuit Court Judge of the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, said Judge John Roll had recently asked Ms. Giffords to sign a letter to Alex Kozinsky, the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit, to help convince the court to declare his federal judicial district a judicial emergency due to the high number of immigration and border control cases that were being heard in that district.

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  • obama_binpharteen
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:04pm

    Nuts, I kind of agree with ya about the religious thing, he seems to be bringing it up more and more. Having said that though. What I’ve seen from Glenn in the last 2 years were HIS observations on Obama and all his cronies. Glen has brought to lite Van Jones as an admitted communist in Van Jones own words and video. He has brought to lite many others, using their own words and video. Yes, Glenn believes they are trying to push at the least a socialistic society. BUT!, all Glenn has done is lay out all the information for us to do our own research to reach our own conclusions. I’ve come to the conclusion that he is right.

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:32pm

    To lump a true conservative voice like Rush Limbaugh in with a unstable, fear-mongering hack like Glenneth is way off the mark. I hope Beck loses the last couple sponsors he has, his rating continue to crater and his DJ career ends before more Beckered up lunatics resort to violence.

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    • obama_binpharteen
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:37pm

      Hey nuts, you seam to really hate Glenn Beck, what’s your deal with him? I‘ve been watching Glenn for a few years now and I haven’t seen him once call for violence. You seem to think insinuating he has. Please enlighten us, where you have ever heard him incite this type of violence..

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:54pm

      I’ve listened to Beck for many years and have seen him use fear and paranoia time after time in his quest for ratings. When his Clydie Clyde routine failed, he hit on the gimmick of promoting his image as “patriot” and now he’s gone over the deep end, predicting the end of the world, evil conspiracies, a commie in the White House around every bend etc. The topper is, Glenn tells his audience that God talks to him and guides his actions. A totally unproveable and outrageous claim by any standard. How anyone can trust a guy that’s in a cultish organization like the Mormon Church is beyond me as well. I think Beck is a dangerous fraud as do many, many others who are waking up to this phony’s gimmicks.

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    • Spark
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:14am

      You may have listened to Glenn … but you still haven’t heard.

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  • donh2
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:31pm

    If it was a hit carefully organized by democrat party masters loyal to Russia , why not do it like the Wheeler case where she ends up in a landfill ? . Why take out so many innocent people? Then again if this is the work of Vladimir Putin’s american network, killing a lot of collateral people disguises the agent. He won’t look like a professional assasin . Slaughter by a contrived nut job can be leveraged beyond controll of your own party dissent into an external attack on opposing parties, which we have seen take place today in a highly organised campaign. Clearly the democratic party is marshalling its people to attack conservatives on all levels of media. That does make them look like they wanted this to happen or even knew it was going to happen in advance…a few of them .

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  • pander
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:27pm

    I think this person is just a nut job that hates authority…..look at Timothy McVeigh….a nut job that hated the government…..Sane people don’t kill others

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  • Rights of Man
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:13pm

    “Pretty soon, we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people who are willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”

    There are too many of them “serving” now–THAT is the problem. The majority of them are not reasonable or decent.

    This is a staged event, Americans. Watch the other hand.

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  • TemayElbor
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:10pm

    Lately there were people out in the open calling and waiting for a revolution, like Van Jones and others on the left, could this incident be a prospective outcome? These people also talk about “taking advantage of a crisis” to support their agenda, so we should be watchful as to what they gonna do next.

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  • Rodeoamy
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:07pm

    Please, media, do your job – for once – and call upon the good sheriff to explain his comments.

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    • Spark
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:06am

      Not a chance! The blood‘s already in the water and the progressive medias’ feeding frenzy has just begun.

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  • obama_binpharteen
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:00pm

    I keep hearing it‘s believed the shooter didn’t act alone. It almost sounds like the John F Kennedy assassination where they believe Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone either. Just an interesting correlation…

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  • Brem
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:58pm

    Obama incited this man, calling him an enemy to be punished

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:56pm

    My progressive paranoia has set in.This seems strange to have occurred in AZ. The left has had it in for AZ for a long time. I keep hearing some of their statements in my mind. They have repeatedly called for violence. They have no compassion for either the victim or the weak minded souls that they prey on to carry out their dirty deeds . They will throw them under the bus every time. It is almost like it was set up and things went a little to far and got out of control. To make a statement blaming conservatives immediately following this tragedy convienently stirred up a “crisis”. I could be totally wrong . It is just that we have seen the their faces of evil before and heard the coldness in their insidious words. Nothing would shock me, and I feel nothing will stop them.

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    • pander
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:26pm

      You could be right……but I think this kid was just a nut job like the teenagers at columbine…….Look at Timothy McVeigh….a nut job that hated the government……Sane people don’t kill others…

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  • scguitar
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:55pm

    He is right about the rhetoric about revolution against the government (aka Frances Fox Piven’s comments)

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:52pm

    Yeah… maybe he was working with the Fed. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit; look at what it has become.

    The government has been infiltrated by DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.

    Nancy Pelosi = DOMESTIC TERRORIST
    Barack Obama = DOMESTIC TERRORIST
    Eric Holder = DOMESTIC TERRORIST
    Janet Napolitano = DOMESTIC TERRORIST

    They are actually partially defined as such in the Patriot Act:

    [[A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: intimidate or coerce a civilian population; influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.]]

    THAT’S ALL THEY DO… intimidation and coercion. Against court order in the Gulf, even. Can’t forget about “bankrupting” coal either… or insurance. Or championing abortion, which goes against the supposed right to life.

    These people have twisted the constitution and bill of rights to the point that murdering babies and intimidating industry is “legal”.

    DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. They attack insurance, the military, education, charity, energy, manufacturing, banking, housing, free speech, privacy, even the right for a baby to live… EVERYTHING.

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  • basskids
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:48pm

    As soon as I heard about this story, I told my husband that before the day was out, the liberal media would blame this on the Tea Party and conservative radio and television. I didn’t have to wait long. It had already happened by the time I got home and turned on the t.v.

    This sheriff is the same idiot who opposed the Arizona immigration law and said he would not enforce it. He’s a dyed in the wool lefty. So predictable.

    God bless the victims and their families who were killed or wounded by a Mein Kampf, Communist Manifesto reading, crazy idiot.

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  • Patrick in AZ
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:44pm

    I read on another blog that Loughner was a volunteer on Congresswoman Giffords’ campaign and that he was upset that she voted against Pelosi for speaker

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  • VanGrungy
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:42pm

    The machine knows who it’s unhinged shock troops are…

    Since this is a ‘Regressive Sheriff’, watch for the interrogation records… if this one isn’t video taped, I would seriously doubt any confession that implicates the MSM propaganda perpetrator meme… namely us…

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  • mcpbob
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:39pm

    Frances Fox Piven called for violence just the other day, we might as well blame her….. the left is always calling for violence, never the right…

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  • Beckofile
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:36pm

    Look…this is the sort of public disorder we have been warned about. This is used for outright or subversive political statements from both sides. It will be interesting to see who’s side the shooter is on???? I only know one side that advocates for violence because it would help their cause.

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  • donh2
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:32pm

    I don’t believe he acted alone either, but that the communist underground planned this hit to send a message to the party “don’t you even think of stepping out of line” . I do not trust the FBI Mueller to handle this. If he finds messages from someone like Linda Lopez on the shooter’s blackberry , he will classify them.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:30pm

    The Sheriff is a political hack and not a law enforcement officer. He has let his political views override enforcing the law. He does not have the right to only enforce laws that he agrees with. If there are laws that he does disagree with then he should do the honorable thing and resign his office. Then he can run for office in the State or even Federal Congress and try to make laws that he agrees with.
    To stand up in front of that press conference and spout off with his political garbage is unprofessional and wrong. He is a disgrace.

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  • Rich HOffman
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Progressives don’t have a low place to hold them back. There is no way a sheriff can make a statement like that this early in the case. He is guilty of advancing a position on that backs of everyones pain.

    http://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/

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  • HillBillySam1
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:01pm

    I saw the sheriff’s news conference….his implication was that the shooter was motivated by people who spew “vitriolic” statements….since the sheriff was a spokesperson for the “Progressive Sheriffs” in Arizona who opposed Arizona’s illegal immigration bill, I can only imagine that he meant the hate-mongers on the Conservative side. The shame is that these “politicians” are already using this tragedy to silence opposition to Progressive politics. Pres. Obama and several others on the Left our saying that we should “come together”. Fine. Once they stop trying to push their agenda down our throats, we will stop fighting against it. That is not what they want. Progressives just want us to lay down and shut up. It sickens me that they would shamelessly use this tragedy, 6 people dead, to silence their critics. It just shows how morally and idealogically the Progressives truly are.

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  • secularstupidest
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:00pm

    This is a highly emotional and questionable remark from a man in an upset state. Not a good reason to squelch free speech. Seee the truth: Exclusive: Rep. Giffords Alleged Shooter, Jared Loughner, Motives and Background
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzMDGPgr1Ao

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  • Rebs2Cents
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:58pm

    Oh please Mr Dupnik, become one of those individuals who refuses public service… PLEASE!

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    • WhiteTeaParty
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:30pm

      It’s laughable to see the moronic right wing apologists try and explain this terrorist act as being that of just some “crazy” guy.
      Of course he was crazy, but guess what, the extreme rhetoric being spewed by the mindless hate-peddlers on the right is tailor-made to cause someone with a pre-existing mental imbalance to finally go off.
      That’s exactly what happened here, and animals like Palin, Limbaugh, Savage and Beck all have blood on their hands.

      WhiteTeaParty  
    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:45pm

      whiteteaparty, it’s inaccurate and unfair to lump all conservative voices in with fear mongers like Beck. You obviously don’t agree with the conservative viewpoint, which is your perogative. Beck’s fear mongering, paranoid conspiracy ideas, and talk of armageddon is beyond politics. The man is truly dangerous and deserves our scorn.

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    • VanGrungy
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:04pm

      WhiteTeaParty, Beckisnuts… Sofa king evil…

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    • USAMama
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:45am

      WhiteTeaParty and BeckIsNuts: Show me one, just one video/ audio of Glenn Beck calling for violence. Just one. I will show you dozens of the left, aka Van Jones, Frances Fox Piven, ACORN, SEIU, etc. etc. not only calling for violence, but BEING violent!! The Tea Party has been active for 2 yrs, not a single arrest or violent act at any of their protests. Not even a piece of litter left behind. Compare that to the G20 protesters, the AZ Immigration protests, the anti-war protests etc.

      You people are either seriously delusional or you know exactly what your doing and it is simply part of your strategy. I think both.

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    • bnjamn73
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:09am

      Amen, sister!

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  • ltb
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:57pm

    That sheriff is a moron. If he thinks this was a racially motivated murder perpetrated by someone who listens to “certain” radio talk show hosts, he’s probably not going to be looking in the right places for the accomplice. I don’t know of any Glenn Beck listeners who would hang around someone who’s favorite book is “The Communist Manifesto.”

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:20pm

      should have kept his political views to himself. with respect to the accomplice maybe this poster http://tinyurl.com/36p7toy from Daily Kos which was pulled earlier today (cached here http://tinyurl.com/388hvvt ) is the suspect they are looking for. Researching his other posts indicate he would be around his 50′s now as suggested by the Sheriff.
      by BoyBlue http://boyblue.dailykos.com/
      Fri Jan 07, 2011 at 09:45:58 AM PST
      “….I worked for an idiot Mexican-American rightwinger who ran for Congress in the 1990s.”

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    • Sledgehammer
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:28pm

      I just listened to this horsesass, and where he was aiming is way off the mark, prepare for the coming storm!

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    • cessna152
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Please contact this lefty, liberal sheriff below:

      http://pimasheriff.org/contacts/

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    • AlaskaRick
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:41pm

      Totally agree with all of you. The sheriff is a lefty. Very sad way to act during a press conference.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:53pm

      The sheriff is right on target when it comes to the fear monger “ARM OF GOD” Glenn Beck. This will be haunting Beck. He’ll lose more sponsors I would bet. The sheriff nailed it with this statement:

      “When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

      “It’s not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. And that‘s the sad thing of what’s going on in America. Pretty soon, we’re not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people who are willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.”

       
    • VanGrungy
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:01pm

      Beckisnuts thinks Beck is God…

      weirdo…

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    • shorthanded12
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:07pm

      Sledgehammer
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:28pm
      I just listened to this horsesass, and where he was aiming is way off the mark, prepare for the coming storm
      @sledgehammer yep your right, the coming storm will come from the feds with more TSA tatics geared towards the public as a whole and not just in airport check in lines. Discusting how the left is blaming the right and vise versa. Why would POTUS send the Director of FBI directly to Arizona? This congresslady didnt deserve this in any magnitude and the inocent bystanders god bless them also. And the Sherrif hmm strange at best. When your a public law officer and stand in front of the Nation and injects personal political views and specifically lays the blame on talk radio and certain tv stations then its time to resign. The sad part about all this Government Officials will just distance them selves from the people which means a more disconnect with the public. What a tragic day. God speed to the Congress Lady and all victems today.

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    • ltb
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:11pm

      I just sent the following email to Sheriff Dumbnik:

      Sheriff, I watched your press conference and with all due respect would like to say that you are a moron. I’m aware you have called people who attend Tea Party events “bigots,” so when you stated during your press conference that this murdering spree was motivated by bigotry, I’m assuming your brilliant detective work leads you to think that this nutjob was affiliated with a Tea Party organization. I’m not a detective, but, unlike you, I do have a triple digit IQ and would guess that if one of the murderer’s favorite books was “The Communist Manifesto,” it is more likely that he voted for a Liberal idiot like you than any Tea Party candidate.

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    • Kisha
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:15pm

      It stands to reason that someone else is involved. This guy didn’t just get his information from no where ( that he so believed in enough to do a horrible act like this ) Who was feeding him the commie books? Who was feeding him the white supremacy bull-crap?

      So to me it stands to reason that someone either fed him information that made him do this. Or someone helped him pull it off. I would not stop looking for more information. And I am sure the authorities will get to the bottom of this, one way or another.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:34pm

      Why do you even believe that this has anything to do with Glenn? There are many who spread hatred over the airwaves each and every day. You seem to believe that everyone is going to blame Glenn, “ Me think you do protect too much” http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:18pm

      One thing the Sheriff didn’t clarify, was that a weapon that dropped out of his pants or was he just glad to see the Congresswoman.

      (He referenced the earlier incident where someone dropped a weapon at one of her meetings)

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:55pm

    It will be interesting to find out.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:03am

      Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik needs to be taken off this case. He has shown the capacity to not use his better judgement and use this as a platform. This should be handled exclusively by the FBI from here on out.

      Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is a piece of worthless trash… IMHO of course!

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:58am

      This sheriff is a political hack.

       
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