
Over 50 people are believed to have been killed and over 500 injured in an attack on a concert on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night.
A 64-year-old white man called Stephen Paddock was identified by police as the gunman behind the attack.
Prior to this, Donald Trump's supporters and the right wing media had been speculating that the attack was one of Islamist terror.
Isis has since claimed responsibility for the attack, despite the FBI saying that they have yet to find any connection between Paddock and the terror group.
Interestingly, Isis soldiers are even querying the claim.
@maddow 22. In the chat below sent to me by the very smart @einfal, one ISIS guy asks for proof that Vegas shooter… https://t.co/QDmgcRBNsC— Rukmini Callimachi (@Rukmini Callimachi) 1506996513
Meanwhile, more details are emerging of Paddock's terrifying inventory of weapons.
The LV shooter had 42 firearms between hotel room and home. They found ammonium nitrate in his car & binary explosive Tannerite at home.— JJ MacNab (@JJ MacNab) 1506996752
Despite the evidence that Paddock had seemingly planned the attack, many media outlets are taking a somewhat softer approach in their reporting style towards him.
His treatment in the press has been compared to headlines about black people shot by police - in particular 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was holding a pellet gun when he was shot and killed in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014.
When you’re a white adult & committed the worst massacre in American history vs. when you’re a black child and did… https://t.co/WSRdZPehPp— jordan (@jordan) 1506965899
People on Twitter are also complaining that the media is humanising Paddock by reporting stories that quote family members describing him as "regular" or "normal":
So tired of the media portraying Stephen Paddock as seemingly "normal". Tell it as it is, he's a damn terrorist. Stop humanising him— JY (@JY) 1506992011
Who is Stephen Paddock? A terrorist who murdered 50 people and injured and traumatised so many others. Stop humanis… https://t.co/YHoSmh3EBP— Leah (@Leah) 1506977855
HT Jordan Uhl
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