NOTE: No mention of bodycam footage to be found anywhere online, yet.https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-pizzagate-gunman-killed-by-police-in-north-carolina-after-traffic-stop-authorities-say/by: Associated Press Posted: Jan 9, 2025 / 06:52 PM EST Updated: Jan 9, 2025 / 06:52 PM EST KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation’s capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop.Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a Kannapolis Police Department news release. One of the officers recognized the car as the vehicle of someone he had arrested and who had an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation - Welch, police said.When the officers approached the vehicle to arrest Welch, police said the man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers. After he was instructed to drop the weapon but didn’t, two officers shot Welch, authorities said.Emergency responders took Welch to the hospital and he died from his injuries two days later, according to the release. None of the officers, nor the driver and another passenger, were injured.
NO BODYCAM FOOTAGEIn 2016, authorities said, Welch drove from North Carolina with an assault rifle to Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington after believing an unfounded conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of the pizzeria. The fake theory, dubbed “Pizzagate,” began circulating online during the 2016 presidential election.He entered the restaurant armed, and as customers fled the scene, Welch shot at a locked closet inside. After realizing there were no children held captive in the pizzeria, Welch peacefully surrendered. No one was injured.At the time, Comet Ping Pong’s owner, James Alefantis, said the conspiracy theory and subsequent violence from it traumatized him and his staff.Welch later pled guilty to interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition and assault with a dangerous weapon in 2017. His judge, now Supreme Court Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson, subsequently sentenced him to four years in prison.City of Kannapolis communications director Annette Privette Keller confirmed the man who died was the same one involved in the “Pizzagate” incident.The shooting death of Welch, a resident of Salisbury, is under review by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the officers who fired at him are on administrative leave, per the department’s protocol. 1. "Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle"2. "One of the officers recognized the car as the vehicle of [Welch] who had an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation..."3. "When the officers approached the vehicle to arrest Welch..."4. "...police said the man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers.""The man"5. "None of the officers, nor the driver and another passenger, were injured."6. "...took Welch to the hospital and he died from his injuries two days later."
>>1374034You see! "They" really were out to get him
>>1374034Of all the people to pull a gun on police officers during a traffic stop, this is among the least surprising.
>>1374034Good for North Carolina.
I thought this guy died in a shootout at ping pong pizza (or was it cosmo pizza, I don’t remember)
>>1374069No, if you actually read the fucking post you'll see he just shot up a closet, realized "wait, there's nothing here" and then got arrested. He served 4 years in prison, got out, and then 5 years later tried to quickdraw during a traffic stop.
>>1374034how is it a conspiracy theory if it's true look at diddy and epstein
>>1374072>pedophiles exist that means Obama and Clinton are fucking children inside a pizza parlorPizzagate literally started as a shitpost on /pol/, that people on this website continue to believe it should astound me, but these idiots are tourists from reddit, so it doesn't.
>>1374093so they're doing it in a chuckEcheese or a mickyd instead why are people for focused on whether its a pizza shop or a burger shop.We have reported instances of massage stores being involved in human trafficking in the US. After that back to back hollywood celebrities being involved in organized sex trafficking.
>>1374034RIP super based schizo hero.
>>1374093Most people who think Pizzagate isn't real are in jail for being chomos
>>1374113>pizzagate scandal breaks>”oh shit, they’re gonna find out”>nut-job holds up Comet Ping Pong at gunpoint and the only thing he end up shooting was a computer hard drive.>”phew, that was a close one”I thought the pizzagate angle to that story was that he was actually hired to cover up for the sex trafficking ring by destroying incriminating evidence on that computer. Sounds like a loose end that just got tied up.
>>1374138you think a lot of stupid things
>>1374138Nah. It was covered up by killing the guy who leaked the podesta emails and using the media to gaslight the public into believing it was a conspiracy theory. I can give you a longer tl;dr of everything that happened if you want but you probably already know the rest.
>>1374140Sure, most people could use a refresher on what happened back then.
he's talking to himself again
>>1374143>leaked DNC emails published on wikileaks>among them include emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Podesta using coded language, says "Pizza" in reference to something unclear>pizza is a common phrase in the pedophile community to describe CSAM>another email found sent from Tamera to John Podesta, speaks of transporting young children to pools for “entertainment”>in other Podesta emails, a pizza joint called “Comet Ping Pong Pizza” is referenced multiple times>Comet Pizza is located across the street from Beyond Borders, which explains on its website it works to “end child slavery and violence against girls” in Haiti>Haiti is well documented as one of the Clinton Foundation’s major countries of focus>other restaurants in the area have pedophile-coded icons in their logos (see: unclassified FBI guide on pedophile iconography) >Comet Ping Pong's owner has social media pages filled with pages that heavily imply rape/prostitution, e.g a child being taped to a table by the wrists>Podesta notes in a public article that one of his favorite artists is Biljana Djurdjevic, a woman who creates illustrations that heavily imply CSAM or sexual abuse in general>ensuing investigation leads to multiple people being assassinated in order to keep things quiet>corporate media scrambles to DEBOOOONK the scandal, claims they are illegal to read unless you get them from a corporate media source
>>1374148Pt. 2/?The Gaslighting was pretty severe.https://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/from-scratch-james-alefantis/>By Doug Rule on April 16, 2015>ALEFANTIS: Because a lot of restaurants will open a can and put it on. Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38156985>2 December 2016>Soon there were protesters outside of Comet Ping Pong. Alefantis even invited some of them in - they filmed the encounter and put it on YouTube, external.>"They ignore basic truths," Alefantis tells BBC Trending. For instance, the conspiracy supposedly is run out of the restaurant's basement. "We don't even have a basement."
must be a slow day at the shill farm if they're being told to talk about pizza gate
>>1374150Pt. 3/3Forgot to mention: the journalist who debunked the pizzagate story was convicted for CSAM production. None of this is new though. There are pedophiles all over DC.
>>1374154before you reply to your own post and pretend to be someone else, let me call you a faggot
>>1374150Did Alefantis' other restaurant have a basement? Do we know?
>>1374156I don't remember. I do know he owned a museum nearby, though, and that had a basement too.Most of this shit was documented on voat but a lot of the guys who vlogged about it are dead now. Same as the guy who leaked the Hillary campaign emails to wikileaks.
>>1374151Who’s shill farm are you talking about? Because all sides of the political spectrum will shill to some degree or another.
>>1374150Your literal main piece of evidence is taking a food network interview out of context.
>>1374148anon you fucking retard they were scheduling political fundraisers at a pizza place.>Hmmm, what could this "pizza" thing be. Obviously it can't just be pizza from a pizzeria. It must mean kids.>Obviously they then speak of transporting children to a pool... hmmm... this must mean they're transporting them to somewhere they can have sex! It can't just mean people want to take kids to a pool while they do things>And this pizza place is across the street from a charity that's against trafficking children! Therefore, it must be a taunt that they themselves are trafficking children!>Now look at this guy's social media! If we take all these things out of context, and mix his random things together we get... a child trafficking ring out of a pizza place! and a pool!
>>1374177>Hmmm, what could this "pizza" thing be. Obviously it can't just be pizza from a pizzeria. It must mean kids.Protip: pedophiles coded language to refer to different shit.That's why /b/ circa 2006 used to call CSAM "cheese pizza". Or young boys "hotdogs". There was a community of pedophiles there that used to communicate with each other, up until moot handed over moderation of /b/ to the FBI.
>>1374177he's a qtard. they're dumber than retards
>>1374177The owner had his facebook filled with pictures of kids strapped to tables anon. Don't even try to argue.
>>1374183Or, hear me out anon, they were just talking about ordering pizza. You know, that thing people do at a pizzeria.>>1374187From what I saw, it was one pic that was an in-joke. You can do magical things if you just take random posts from a dude's facebook out of context. Real question you should be asking is "Wait, if this is this highly secret, why are they leaving the fucking blues clues to their operation instead of just... not doing that?". The irony is nothing will ever be enough for you retards. You can produce a full investigation and you'll just say it's fake. You can pull up the blue prints of the guy's pizzeria and you'll just say the magical basement was installed secretly. You could literally have a retard go in there with full intent to break into the basement and find nothing, and you'll just say he was part of it.
>>1374190>From what I saw, it was one pic that was an in-joke.>it was just a prank brokekAnon please stop.
>>1374190they're posting this on purpose because it's a deliberate campaign. they just want retards to believe it
>>1374194Are you trying to say that PizzaGate was a psy-op by the intelligence agencies? Because that’s a possibility too.
>>1374213are you ever posting in good faith? rhetorical question btw
>>1374214I’m trying to make sense of what people believe happened or didn’t happen.
>>1374221well i guess i believe pizzagate was an intelligence agency psy op, but not the american agencies
>>1374034Good riddance.
>>1374175The smoking ladle
