Weeks before a gunman opened fire on unsuspecting patrons at the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., this past weekend, killing five people and leaving at least 17 wounded, the FBI had warned law enforcement nationwide about increased threats to the LGBTQ community, documents obtained by Yahoo News show.
, the FBI had warned law enforcement nationwide about increased threats to the LGBTQ community, documents obtained by Yahoo News show.situational awareness bulletin issued Monday by the Colorado Information Analysis Center notes that the FBI alerted law enforcement partners in a report on Sept. 28 about"the expected increase in threats to the LGBTQ+ community throughout the remainder of 2022.
One intelligence bulletin, published Sept. 13 by the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center, similarly warned that racially motivated violent extremists were “very likely to disrupt and protest LGBTQIA+ events and drag performances” in the Philadelphia regional area, “posing a threat to public safety.” Another counterterrorism bulletin issued Monday by the New York State Intelligence Center noted that social media users on multiple domestic extremist platforms had been making violent threats against the LGBTQ community in the wake of the shooting in Colorado Springs. In some cases, the bulletin notes, the authors of those threats were “citing the pervasive conspiracy theory that members of the LGBTQ+ community are pedophiles, and recommending that these types of shootings become the norm.
“One has to wonder how many mass casualty attacks have to occur before we acknowledge that our approach to preventing mass shootings has to change and that traditional counterterrorism investigative strategies are inadequate to address the current threat facing the U.S.,” he said. Advocates were quick to connect the Colorado Springs shooting, which took place on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, to the broader"When politicians and pundits keep perpetuating tropes, insults, and misinformation about the trans and LGBTQ+ community, this is a result," Colorado state Rep.
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