You might call “Plastic Jesus” a guerrilla artist — his style is often unconventional and unauthorized. Some of his work has shock value, a form of commentary on social and political issues.

His latest target? Gun violence, as well as the retail chain Target.

At the West Hollywood Target on Thursday, the artist and activist, who is named Nick and who hails from London, put on display a child’s bulletproof desk, which was for sale for nearly $200.

Featuring “bulletproof panels” around the leg area, which create a “safe space” for a child to take cover during a mass shooting, the art piece drew interest from shoppers. One boy jumped right onto the chair.

A sign read “No more need for thoughts and prayers, don’t let your child be the next victim and only available in the USA,” though there were some gasps among those who read the line “Money back if your child gets shot.”

Target wasn’t involved, but Plastic Jesus said he wanted to send a bold message about gun violence and reform following the recent string of mass shootings, so he and his team dressed up as Target employees and set up the desk in the children’s furniture section.

“With multiple school shootings, we keep skitting around the real subject, coming up with door locks and arming teachers, everything but the real issue, which is reducing access to guns,” he said.

You’ve probably seen this artist’s work before; he was behind the “wall” surrounding Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“I did a similar project here in Target a while back with child bulletproof vests in the back-to-school section,” he said. “And I just think it’s quite horrifying that people believe these things are real.”

The display was in Target for at least half an hour before Plastic Jesus and his team left the store.

It was gone when KTLA went there Thursday evening, and store management had no comment.

A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, killing two people and injuring seven others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city’s police commissioner said.

No motive for the gun violence was immediately apparent, but Police Commissioner Mike Sack told an early evening news conference the assailant may have suffered from mental illness.

Students fleeing from the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School as police arrived on the scene told officers the shooter was armed with a rifle, Sack said.

Police exchanged gunfire with the suspect after storming the school, and he was shot dead, ending the rampage about 15 minutes after the first calls for help came in at about 9:10 a.m., the commissioner said.

The suspect was identified as Orlando Harris, 19, who graduated from high school last year and had no previous criminal history, Sack told reporters.

“There are suspicions that there may have been some mental illness that he was experiencing. We’re working on developing that information right now,” he said.

A bishop who was in the middle of delivering his sermon and his wife were robbed at gunpoint of more than $1 million worth of jewelry at a Brooklyn church on Sunday, the police said. The heist was caught on a livestream video of the service.

Lamor M. Whitehead, 44, a bishop at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in the southeastern Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie, spoke about the armed robbery in an Instagram post, calling it an example of “how the devil moves.”

“The devil don’t care; he sent them,” Mr. Whitehead said. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Just before the robbery began, footage of the sermon posted on YouTube showed Mr. Whitehead posing a question to his congregation: “How many of you have lost your faith because you saw somebody else die?” Almost immediately after, a trio of armed and masked individuals in black clothing entered the church, according to Mr. Whitehead, the police and the footage.

Seconds after his question, Mr. Whitehead appeared to spot the intruders as they entered the church and he laid down on the raised stage while raising his arms. “I didn’t know if they wanted to shoot the church up, or if they were just coming for a robbery,” he said in the Instagram post. Shrieks could be heard from the parishioners. It was unclear how many people were in attendance.

He described lying on the ground with a gun pointed at him and subsequently being stripped of belongings, including his watch, multiple chains, wedding band and bishop’s cross. He said the assailants wrenched off his clergy collar to reach his necklaces. Mr. Whitehead said he believed the intruders did not know that they were being filmed.

Jewelry was also taken from Mr. Whitehead’s 38-year-old wife, the police said, adding that neither of the victims was injured. After the theft, which took place shortly after 11 a.m., the three individuals fled on foot and entered a white Mercedes-Benz vehicle. They were last seen driving away, the police said, and no arrests had been made. An investigation was ongoing, the New York Police Department said.

In the Instagram post on Sunday, Mr. Whitehead addressed the thieves and asked them to turn themselves in. He told them that their actions had traumatized parishioners including young children, who he said were still crying. He said a gun had been in his 8-month-old daughter’s face.

“You did this to the church, the church where I’m sure your grandmother praises God and Jesus,” he said. “There’s no reason for you to come inside a church and violate it.”

Mr. Whitehead also responded to criticism calling him “flashy” for his accessories and his luxury car.

“It’s about me purchasing what I want to purchase,” Mr. Whitehead said. “It’s my prerogative to purchase what I want to purchase if I worked hard for it.”

He also expressed gratitude to God that his church had avoided a mass shooting, a fatal scenario that he noted other congregations had experienced. He promised he would be back on the pulpit to preach this Sunday.

Mr. Whitehead said in a Facebook livestream on Monday that he was offering a $50,000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the armed robbers.

Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/nyregion/brooklyn-bishop-jewelry-robbery.html

Police were searching for suspects aftet two people were killed and five wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon at a crowded San Pedro oark

Police said there were approximately 500 people at Peck Park just before 4 p.m., when they received reports of a shooting. A softball game was underway and a car show had drawn crowds, but it was not immediately clear if either event was connected to the shooting.

Initial reports indicated that the shooting took place at the park’s baseball diamond, according to officials.

“We don’t know how many shooters we have at this point,” Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Kelly Muniz said.

Muniz said the shooting was a dispute between two parties. Weapons were recovered at the scene, police said. As of 7 p.m., police did not have anyone in custody and had no description of suspects.

Seven people suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to hospitals, including a man and a woman who died, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Brian Humphrey.

Lola Warrant said she was watching a softball game when the shooting began. She said she ran and fell and saw people struck by gunfire, including a woman who was bleeding from the elbow and a man shot in the calf.

“They were carrying him,” Warrant said in an interview outside the park. “I get up to my car, and the guy’s laid out in front of my car.

“Somebody threw something on his face, and the police officers came, they took it off of his face, check his vitals and start pumping his chest,” she said.

Warrant said she was stranded at the scene because her car was parked near the site where someone died.

“It’s sad and heartbreaking that people still won’t talk,” said Skipp Townsend, a gang interventionist who visits the park regularly, standing outside the police tape with other onlookers. “You know, instead they pick up guns. So that’s heartbreaking, that we can have peaceful events in this area for, you know, two, three years straight with no incidents, and then one incident like this happens.”

The LAPD declared a citywide tactical alert because of the large number of officers sent to the scene. LAPD Officer Luis Garcia said the park had been closed, and police had directed people to head back to their vehicles and clear the area.

Around 8 p.m., people were still making their way out of the park

Source : https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-24/multiple-people-shot-in-san-pedros-peck-park-authorities-say

Authorities revealed new details Monday on the weekend mall shooting in Greenwood, Indiana, including the identities of the gunman, three victims and the legally armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman.

The shooting rampage took place at the Greenwood Park Mall around 6 p.m. Sunday. Multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter. Three people died and two were injured as a result of the shooting. Greenwood is 15 miles south of Indianapolis.

The gunman was identified as Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, who police said prepared for the shooting for a little over an hour in a bathroom before he emerged with a rifle, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said.

The victims were identified as Indianapolis couple Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, and Victor Gomez, 30, who is also from Indianapolis.

The legally armed bystander who ended up shooting the gunman was identified as Elisjsha Dicken, 22, of Seymour, Indiana. Dicken was able to neutralize the gunman within two minutes after the gunman had already fired 24 rounds from his rifle. Dicken fired 10 shots from his Glock handgun.

“He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun — was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him,” Ison said. “Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting.”

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb tweeted Monday that the state is grateful for the “quick, heroic actions taken by an individual citizen and first responders on Sunday evening in Greenwood, surely preventing further loss of life and injuries.”

“I stand with the community in grieving the loss of lives, and my thoughts are also with the many people impacted by this traumatic incident, including innocent bystanders whose lives are forever changed,” Holcomb tweeted.

There have been more than 350 mass shootings this year, according to Gun Violence Archive. Like CNN, the archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.

Greenwood now joins a slew of others also grappling with the aftermath of mass shootings, including communities reeling from recent massacres at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

Police are still investigating the shooter’s motive and questioning people who were inside the mall at the time. Police are asking all witnesses to contact authorities.Multiple agencies responded to the scene to assist, including the FBI, ATF, Johnson County Sheriff’s Department and Department of Homeland Security, Ison said.

“This tragedy hits at the core of our community,” Greenwood Mayor Mark Meyers said in a Facebook post Sunday. “Please offer your prayers to the victims and our first responders.”

The suspect had several minor juvenile offenses, like a fight at school and that he was a juvenile runaway, but no adult record, Ison said.

Sapirman’s family told police that he had recently resigned from a position he held at a warehouse in May, Ison said.

A SWAT team clearing Sapirman’s apartment found a laptop and a can of butane in a “high temperature” oven, Ison said Monday. The laptop was damaged.

“I don’t want to speculate what his intentions were, whether it could have been to cause a fire or to damage the laptop, but we did retrieve the laptop and that is going to go to Quantico to be analyzed,” Ison said.

Herbert Stapleton, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office, said investigators need to consult with technical experts to see what’s possible.

The FBI will also be analyzing the suspect’s cell phone, which was found in a toilet in the bathroom near the mall’s food court, officials announced Monday.

“We’re working as fast as we can to try to get the phone to a point where it can be exploited, there’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to recover any data, we’re just working as fast as we can to try to get that done,” Stapleton said Monday.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/17/us/indiana-greenwood-park-mall-shooting/index.html

4 July, 2022 – Today’s Independence Day Parade Mass shooting has shocked the Nation. The mass shooting occurred on this Monday morning at 10:14 AM from a rooftop near Central Avenue at 2^nd Street in a Chicago suburb, Highland Park during the city’s Fourth of July parade celebration. Authorities informed that this has caused people to flee in fear due to the grave incident. The Active Shooting has left six people dead and twenty four severely injured. Officials at the Highland Park’s Independence parade, confirmed the incident and urged the residents to continue to remain sheltered in a safe haven while the gunman was still at large.

The gunman who was responsible for the active shooting, has now been identified as Robert Crimo III who has been aprehended and arrested for comitting this horrendously evil crime on a day of celebration. The Highland Park police, Cmdr. Chirs O’Nell, first identified the suspect as a white man aged between 18 to 22 years, small build along with black hair that’s somewhat long. The suspect is also said to have had worn a white or a blue T-shirt. In a Social Media video that was posted by parade attendees, has shown that the moment of the shooting, 11 shots were heard, followed by a pause, thereafter 23 more shots were fired. We can provide Parade liability coverage as well as Active Shooter Insurance for exactly such an event.

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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/police-respond-to-incident-in-downtown-highland-park-urge-public-to-avoid-area/2872781/

Gun Violence Awareness Day assumed on 3^rd June

Assumed on the 3^rd of June, Gun Violence Awareness Day is all about how an assault with a gun could distraught a family, a town and a whole country. It states facts and statistics that are sure to fuel the mind. One of the facts states that Americans are 25 times more likely to die as a result of gun homicide. The color Orange is a tribe color to give tribute to all those victims of Gun Violence. It is a day to not only remember the deceased, who died as a result of the gun violence; but also to teach people that a gun is for defense not offence.

Ironically, a Stabbing Incident was inevitable

Ironically, a Stabbing Incident occurred at the southern California emergency ward. A man walked into the Encino Hospital Medical Centre at around 4 pm. He stabbed and injured a doctor as well as two of the nurses. The suspect presented himself as a disguised patient who had hid himself inside a room in the hospital. The suspect was identified as Ashkhan Amirsoleymani. He is being charged on three counts of attempted murder.

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https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/proclamations/2022/06/03/june-3-2022-gun-violence-awareness-day

A shooting at an Oklahoma Hospital has left people shocked and devastated. The Incident has taken the lives of four, whilst leaving many injured. Police Officers have stated that the suspected shooter had walked in at St Francis Hospital, armed with a rifle and a handgun. The Deputy Police Chief Eric Dalgleish stated that four of the civilians along with the suspected shooter, were shot dead during the grim shooting incident. The Chief Police also had received a call regarding the Active Shooting at around 20:52 GMT, which is why he said that they arrived at the scene within 3 minutes, in order to reduce the chance of casualties.

The Officers who arrived first at the catastrophic scene were able to hear shots in the Hospital Building, which was also the reason that they reached to the second floor, where the alleged incident had taken place just a few moments back. Witnesses throughout the building have been interviewed. It was also reported by ABC news, that by the time police arrived at the Medical Premises, they found a few people injured due to the shooting, whilst some of them had already died as a result of it.

The current US President Joe Biden has addressed the gruesome incident which took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also has urged the Americans to raise their voices against Gun Violence. In these grim times it is wise to opt for the top rated Active Shooter Insurance by the top Insurance Providers like Laurence Taylor!

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61669873

A heinous mass shooting incident took lives of 14 students and one teacher at at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as confirmed by Gov. Greg Abott

Mr. Abbott said the gunman was an 18 year old man from Uvalde.He was former student at Uvalde High School.He reportedly shot his grandmother before going to the Elementary School. The shooter abandoned his vehicle outside the elementary school, located around 80 miles west of San Antonio, and entered the school, carrying a handgun. The shooter is also dead.

Pete Arredondo, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s chief of police, confirmed that the suspect was dead and said they believe he acted alone.  He said there were some deaths and several injuries, including adults and children.

Uvalde Memorial Hospital said 13 children arrived by ambulance or buses for treatment and two people arrived deceased. University Health, in San Antonio, said it had received two patients from the shooting, a child and an adult. The hospital said the adult was a 66-year-old woman in critical condition. The child, identified as a 10-year-old girl, was also in critical condition.

Two responding law officers were also shot but are expected to survive.

The Buffalo massacre has left people baffled. The Gunman and the perpetrator of the Buffalo Active Shooting, is said to be an 18 year old, named Payton S. Gendron form Conklin, New York. After the search, it was found that for this preplanned Active Shooting, he had studied previous violent mass shootings for months, in order to carry out the monstrous crime.

His planned mass shooting took place at Tops Supermarket at around 2:30 PM. There were 10 who were killed, whilst 3 others were injured. According to the officials, this gruesome crime is said to be a Racist Hate Crime by a White Supremacist.  The White Supremacist, Payton had allegedly wrote an online manifesto, who travelled about 200 miles to the store in order to carry the attack! He had also livestreamed the attack which makes it all the more horrific and disgraceful.

These types of Mass Shootings have been seen throughout the recent years with atleast 198 shootings in the 2022 year itself. The Gun Violence has been increasing by the years in the USA. This has led to more and more people believing that a gun for a gun can save their lives. But this has only escalated the mass shootings in the USA. With the constant fear of an Active Shooting people are opting for the Top Active Shooting Insurances that gives themselves as well as their families a sense of security from such misfortunate happenings.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-sunday/index.html