Multiple calls to the police were made about a man wandering the streets with an “assault rifle” just in view of a local school in Bullhead City, Arizona. When the police confronted the man who matched the descriptions of the reports, they discovered that he did not in fact have a firearm but a cane.
As reported in Mohave Valley Daily News:
BULLHEAD CITY — A day after a Kingman school was placed on lockdown following an unconfirmed report of a man with a firearm in the vicinity, Bullhead City police were notified by two callers of a man walking with a rifle in the area of several Bullhead City schools.
It turns out that Friday’s calls apparently were in reference to a man on Hancock Road with a walking stick, not a firearm.
“The Bullhead City Police Department received two separate calls reporting a man walking in the area of Hancock Road armed with a rifle,” Emily Fromelt, the BCPD’s public information officer, said.
Police units responded and found a man matching the description in the 1100 block of Hancock — near the Bullhead City School District office and Bullhead City Middle School.
Despite the incident being cleared up by the police on the scene, the sheriff’s office is still investigating the matter.
Media reporting on crime, shootings in particular, is a major issue. Many Americans who only take cursory glances at the news from time to time might be under the impression that there is a mass shooting every week in America, and not a mass shooting as the FBI defines it but as the media does.
It can also be said that the media openly encourages mass killings by publishing the name, identity, and motivation of the attacker. Many new-age media publications have picked up the police of not sharing those parts of the story but the mainstream media still does these things regularly.
People are so afraid of mass casualty events, which are extremely rare, that they freak out over a guy walking the street with a cane. This is not a healthy sign for this area or for America as a whole. Sadly nothing will be done about America’s mass hysteria and the media will instead blame guns for these things.
