UPDATE: POLICE CONFIRM MAN SHOT DEAD WITH WHITE CAR – White car hits police in Barcelona…

A white Ford Focus blew through a checkpoint near where the van attacked happened in Barcelona. They hit a police officer, then jumped out of the car and began firing at police. The apparently escaped on foot!

The other Barcelona thread was getting so long, so this will be the new thread for any Barcelona updates, not just on this white car attack.

If you want to see all of our updates on the Barcelona Van attack, click here.

 
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It’s being reported that one man was shot dead by police, but it’s unclear any other details about this shooting. It may be related to the gunfight after the car plowed through a checkpoint.

Also I’m seeing reports now of 64 injured, 13 dead:

 
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Trump tweets weird tweet about Barcelona attack:

According to Fox News, Snopes has an article on this and says whatever Trump is referring to isn’t true.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 
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Snopes isn’t the only one who says this isn’t true. TIME reported this last year:

Brian McAllister Linn, a history professor at Texas A&M University who is an expert in the Philippine conflict, said he first remembers this tale about Pershing surfacing right after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. (Another version of the story has Pershing burying Muslim bodies with pigs.) Linn said that he and Frank Vandiver, who wrote a biography of Pershing and passed away in 2005, were contacted at the time about the veracity of the story.

“We both checked our notes and found no evidence to support this,” Linn told TIME. “We also concluded it was out of character.”

In 1941, TIME ran a letter to the editor from a soldier named J. R. McKey who had served with Pershing in the Philippines decades before. In the letter, McKey describes using pigs in burials to deter Muslim insurgent activities, but does not ascribe the act to Pershing.

McKey wrote, “U.S. soldiers … had a pretty good cure for juramentado [Moro swordsmen] activities. Knowing the horror of the Mohammedan for any contact with swine, and particularly with its blood, these American roughnecks, when they had killed a juramentado, held for him a very public funeral. The body of the defunct bad man having been deposited in the grave, a pig was brought, stuck, its blood sprinkled freely over the D B M, the dead pig thrown in with him, and the burial completed.”

Some reports do say that Pershing was engaged in burying Muslims with pigs or throwing pig’s blood on them. According to the History News Network, a Chicago Daily Tribune article from 1927 describes Pershing sprinkling prisoners with pig’s blood, then setting them free to warn others of being doused with the blood. “Those drops of porcine gore proved more powerful than bullets,” the article wrote.

Christopher Capozzola, a history professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also cited an incident in which Pershing brought a pig’s head to a ceasefire negotiation with a Muslim leader.”So yes, there were deliberate efforts to offend Muslim Filipinos’ religious sensibilities,” Capozzola told TIME. “And yes, there was large-scale violence against their communities. But I know of no event like the one that Mr. Trump describes.”

 
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The AP confirms the man shot was with the vehicle that ran over two police officers:

The police force for Spain’s Catalonia region says troopers have shot and killed a man who was in a car that hit two officers at a traffic blockade in Barcelona.

The Mossos d’Esquadra force did not indicate if the incident was related to the van attack in the city’s Las Ramblas district on Thursday.

Local media reports say a white Ford Focus ran over the officers and then was intercepted by police 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away.

That’s where troopers shot one man dead.


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