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A lawyer for the family of suspected San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook floated skepticism about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in his efforts to cast doubt on early police findings about the massacre at a county holiday party that left 14 dead this week.
Appearing alongside attorney Mohammad Abuershaid, David Chesley said there were a lot of questions in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, where 20 children and 6 adults were killed. Abuershaid and Chesley have been identified as attorneys representing the Farook family.
There was a lot of questions drawn with regards to Sandy Hook and whether or not that was a real incident or not. We just don't know, Chesley said, in video published Friday by British tabloid The Daily Mail.
The Mail reported that Chesley, asked directly if he questioned the attack at Sandy Hook, said: There has been a lot [sic] speculation about it is all I would say.
Regarding the weapons cache police said was recovered after the shooting, which included more than 1,400 rounds of ammunition and 12 pipe bombs, Chesley said: Obviously, these things were found there, how they got there we dont know.
In the video, the attorney also suggested there is a lot of motivation at this time to emphasize or create incidents that will cause gun control or prejudice or hatred toward the Muslim community.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-chesley-sandy-hook-truther
KT2000
(20,581 posts)lawyer. He must be working for free to use this to espouse his won crazy theories.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)The whole event is starting to weird me out especially after the FBI was perfectly okay with letting the media and the public riffle through the terrorists' house 48 hours later and failed to take possession of important items such as shredded documents, photo ID's and several family photo albums.
DonnaM
(65 posts)Addressing a question from a reporter about the amount of ammunition found in the home, he said that was not at all unusual as he, himself, has several thousand rounds of ammunition because it's cheaper to buy in bulk. My eyes popped out at hearing that. I would think that's probably not something you'd want to say on national television while talking about a mass shooting.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)The idea anyone would put forward the notion that Sandy Hook was staged in order to take away guns is crazy enough to entitle a person to a mandatory stay at the happy hotel for evaluation. And they most definitely should not be allowed to purchase a gun.