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We are in shock like the whole country."Īlthough, presumably, he is not speaking from any position of knowledge of Mateen's plans. Update 6/12, 12:08 p.m.: The Orlando Sentinelreports there is an urgent need for blood donations in the area.
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"There is an urgent need for O Negative, O Positive and AB Plasma blood donors following a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida," OneBlood said in a news release. "Dozens of people have been injured and taken to area hospitals. To find a donation center or Big Red Bus near you visit or call 1.888.9Donate. The site is crashing currently, but please keep trying.
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Update 6/12, 1:00 p.m.: Both U.S.Four days after the attack, on June 16, 2016, President Barack Obama visited survivors in Orlando and delivered a statement. “This was an attack on the LGBT community,” the president said. "And hatred towards people because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes from, is a betrayal of what’s best in us.”Ī few days earlier, presidential candidate Donald Trump said at a rally, “A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens, because of their sexual orientation.”īut during the trial of Omar Mateen’s widow, Noor Salman, all forensic evidence suggested that up until the moment he turned into the Pulse parking lot, Mateen had been considering other venues, rejecting them because they were more heavily guarded. Which leaves another question: How could the Pulse attack be a hate crime against gay people if the perpetrator chose it randomly? In their closing statement, government prosecutors admitted that there was no evidence to suggest that Mateen knew that Pulse was a gay club. His first wife, Sitora Yusufiy, suggested in an interview with Time magazine, with little evidence other than his penchant for bodybuilding and mirror-gazing, that Omar Mateen could have been gay. Olando florida gay bar shooting update#.