The volunteer, tasked with security for the march and later identified as Matt Alder, saw Gamboa assembling a legally owned, legally carried AR-15-style rifle near the march in downtown Salt Lake City on June 14. Alarmed, Alder called for another volunteer security guard before drawing a concealed handgun. As Gamboa tried to rejoin the march, Alder opened fire, hitting Gamboa and killing Ah Loo.
Immediately after the shooting, police arrested Gamboa on a murder charge. The arresting officer claimed that Gamboa’s actions had created the situation that caused Alder to fear for his life and the lives of others, prompting Alder to open fire.
As a result Gamboa was blamed for Ah Loo’s death for having “acted under circumstances that showed a depraved indifference to human life, knowingly engag[ing] in conduct that created a grave risk of death and ultimately caused the death of an innocent community member,” according to a police statement.
Gamboa was held without bail for five days under suspicion of committing a violent felony. Police briefly detained Alder but did not take him into custody.
And what if the ISP keeps the log that you visited some news website sometime in December? What are you afraid of?
If your opsec is so strict that you cannot visit a news website, then I think you are seriously breaking your own opsec by posting here.
I wouldn’t call what I do opsec. I am aware of my digital footprint. I work with computers, and am aware of some techniques for identifying desirable information in unstructured computer data. I do not know what every link on this platform may do wrt to those techniques, and therefore abstain for the most part from clicking things I dont recognize. Forgive me for simply being hegenic. The same thing on cnn is much less problematic.
Edit: I think I may have decided this isnt the community I should be spending tons of time in.
Honest question, because I try to be mindful of what I post, why is CNN better?
I don’t link to CNN, CBC, BBC, etc. to expand the media diet on Lemmy. I made this com and it’s trashy sister, !wildfeed@sh.itjust.works, in the interest of media pluralism, which means avoiding most news conglomerates. Still, I don’t post from any source I haven’t vetted by looking into their legitimacy, independence and fact-checking history. I’m not sure how to check for what makes you hesitant to click.
So I’m wondering how I can do that. If not, how could I better convey that these are legitimate sites? As far as I know the Lemmy TOS and most journalism copyrights prevent me from copy-pasting entire articles, so that isn’t an option.
I think its just a personal hang up. I’d have to personally know that the sites weren’t problematic. I think I just need to keep my thoughts to myself here.
If you wanted to do something, not that you should on my account, you could compile a list of sites you have vetted paired with what made you feel the source wasnt problematic.
That last part is a good idea. I’ve been meaning fo make a pinned post with a list of my most-trusted sources for a while.
Thanks for the extra kick to get that going.