Ep. 2025 - 3 Dead In Seattle Mass Shooting: Media Hides Race Of Shooters AGAIN

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
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A mass shooting in Seattle leaves three people dead and four people injured. And the reporting on the suspect in custody teaches us all an important lesson about race and the criminal justice system. Then a knife-wielding would-be killer in Paris stabs three women, including a pregnant woman, while yelling that Allah commanded him to do it. And the French Interior Minister is reporting that police are now investigating to figure out the motive. Really, I hope they can crack that case. Call in Sherlock Holmes. Then, in cultural news, conservatives score a major win, a long-awaited major win at Cracker Barrel. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show. In Berlin, a Muslim just drove a car into a pride parade. It is a little confusing. Don't confuse that with the Muslim who stabbed a bunch of people, including the pregnant woman in Paris. Those are different incidents. We won't get to all of the incidents that seem to happen every single day, because I'd have to extend my show to 17 hours. First, though, let's start in America. In Seattle, there was this festival going on, the Bite of Seattle Festival. I guess it's a food festival. And there was a mass shooting there. Really, really sad. Three people were killed in the shooting. At least four others were injured, including a two-year-old kid. Really horrific. So everybody pray for the victims, the people who are recovering.
There is a suspect in custody. It seems that there's one suspect in custody. One suspect might have been killed in the shooting. And there's another suspect that, last I was checking the news before this show, is still on the loose. The suspect who is in custody is a 15-year-old.
And that's all we know. At least that's all we're supposed to know. According to court papers, because the media don't want to talk about this, the prosecutors don't want to talk about this, the politicians don't want to talk about this, but some actual journalists out there are looking into court papers. They found out that the suspect arrested is a 15-year-old and they'll give us an update on the one who's still on the loose. Why is it that all we know about the suspect is that it's a 15-year-old? Here we have Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson giving us something, anything more to know about the alleged perpetrator.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:55)
Shortly after 6 p.m. last night, officers responded to the sound of gunfire. They were assigned to support Bite of Seattle and were on scene within seconds and took one suspect into custody. No police weapons were discharged. We believe that two people exchanged gunfire outside the Seattle Center Armory. Seven victims were caught in the crossfire with a possible eighth. A 19-year-old man, a 44-year-old man, and a 56-year-old woman were killed. Two died at the scene and a third passed away at Harborview Medical Center. Official identification will come from the King County Medical Examiner's Office.
The Seattle Police Department detained a 15-year-old juvenile in connection with the shooting. The teen was booked into the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center for investigation for firearms violations and first degree assault. We believe this teenager opened fire in the crowd, but details are still under investigation.
This individual will have a first-appearance court hearing at 1:30 p.m. today. And again, we have not formally arrested anyone for investigation of homicide.

**Michael Knowles** (4:09)
Okay, one phrase should really leap out to you here is being pretty weird. And that would be the phrase, 15-year-old juvenile. 15-year-old juvenile. That is a redundant phrase. Most 15-year-olds, last time I checked, are juvenile. It's like saying a short midget. Why include that word?
Why just repeat the one detail you're telling us? It would seem to me it's because the mayor doesn't want to give any additional details. It's a 15-year-old juvenile. It's a teenager. It's an individual. Yeah, I figured it was an individual. Usually when you arrest one person, it's an individual.
I hope the people aren't possessed. I can say that it's Legion because there are many.
Why are we getting so few details? We all know why. We all know why. Because we can now conclude that the suspect is not white. That's why. I shouldn't laugh about it. It's very sad. But it tells us something very, very important about our political system, our justice system. Andy Ngo, an actual journalist, releases a picture of the alleged suspect and it's actually unclear if it's a man or a woman, but very much not a white person, very much a black person. And to Andy's point, Andy, who's done incredible journalist work on the trans issue and gender politics and Antifa, points out these days, when the details are omitted on sex, you can almost certainly conclude it's a man or at least not a straight person. But this goes back to the old Ann Coulter rule. Ann Coulter made this point, I don't know, 10 years ago. The longer it takes the media to tell you the race of the alleged killer, the more certainly you can conclude, with greater certainty, can you conclude that the suspect is not white. Now you'll say, Michael, you're being unfair. You're jumping to conclusions. You're stretching this too far. It might just be that the media don't want to get ahead of themselves. The prosecutors don't want to get ahead of themselves. And so, you know, they'll release the details eventually, but it would be totally irresponsible to release something like the race of the alleged perpetrator so suddenly.