memeorandum: Robert Lewis Dear: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know (Tom Cleary/Heavy.com)

3:25 PM ET, November 28, 2015

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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:

Here's What We Know About The Suspect In The Planned Parenthood Shooting — Robert L Dear, 57, was arrested by police following a shooting at the Colorado Springs clinic where three people, including a police officer, were killed. — BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK

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Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:

Robert Lewis Dear: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Email Follow — A bearded suspect wearing glasses, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is led away in handcuffs after a shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs that left three dead and nine injured. (Getty)

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

During Shooting, GOP Congressman Says He Expects Apology From Planned Parenthood — Police have finally taken a shooter into custody after the five-hour siege at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs that has left at least three people dead, including one police officer.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Liberaland

New York Times:

Gunman's Past Is Scoured After a Day of Horror in Colorado — COLORADO SPRINGS — The injured man staggered into the grocery store, his face and chest bloodied. Customers stopped and stared. “He lifted his shirt up and he had holes in his chest,” said Miranda Schilter, 17 …

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

COURT RECORDS: Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooter NOT Republican, Identifies as Woman — Police detained a shooter at a Planned Parenthood building Friday afternoon, according to Colorado Springs police. — Four police officers and five civilians were injured in a shooting.

Discussion: Truth Revolt, Liberty Unyielding and twitchy.com

New York Times:

Garrett Swasey, Officer Killed in Colorado, Is Recalled for Courage and Faith — Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood office, was described by his fellow church members …

Discussion: Fox News, BostonGlobe.com, Associated Press, addictinginfo.org, Independent Journal, Religion News Service, Patterico's Pontifications, LifeNews.com, MSNBC and The Huffington Post

Fox News:

Official says Colorado Planned Parenthood gunman ID'd as Robert Lewis Dear — A law enforcement official tells the Associated Press the gunman in a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Friday has been identified as Robert Lewis Dear. — The shooter is from North Carolina, the unidentified official told AP.

Discussion: BizPac Review, Reuters, ThinkProgress, The Independent, Freedom Outpost, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, neo-neocon and The Gateway Pundit

Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:

None Of The 14 GOP Presidential Candidates Have Responded To The Planned Parenthood Shooting (UPDATED) — Approximately 10 hours after a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, only two presidential candidates have issued statements expressing support …

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Kirk Mitchell / Denver Post:
44-year-old University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was married with two childen

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Obama On Planned Parenthood Shooting: ‘Enough Is Enough’

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Samantha Allen / The Daily Beast:
Alleged Planned Parenthood Shooter Robert Lewis Dear Was Accused of Domestic Violence and Leering

Discussion: Raw Story, Business Insider and Gazette

Ali Breland / Politico:
Obama on gun violence: ‘Enough is enough’

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Nina Liss-Schultz / Mother Jones:
The New, Ugly Surge in Violence and Threats Against Abortion Providers

Discussion: Guardian and Hit & Run

Planned Parenthood:
Planned Parenthood Statement Regarding Developing Situation in Colorado

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Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
Suspect in custody after shooting at Planned Parenthood

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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Planned Parenthood Shooter Finally Convinces Leftists that Beliefs Matter

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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Three dead, 9 injured following shootout at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs

Discussion: Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, FOX31 Denver, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Sputnik International, Towleroad and RH Reality Check

NBC News:
‘Calm, But Crazy’: Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect ID'd

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New York Times:
3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center

Daniela Deane / Washington Post:

Young Greek women selling sex for the price of a sandwich, new study shows — Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity have pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.

Discussion: Althouse

Alana Wise / Reuters:

Republican Trump drops 12 percentage points in poll: Reuters/Ipsos — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump's support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the real estate mogul's biggest decline since he vaulted to the top of the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Discussion: UPROXX and Erick on the Radio

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Poll: Trump drops 12 points in one week

Discussion: Townhall.com, PoliticusUSA and The Right Scoop

New York Times:
Foul-Mouthed and Proud of It on the '16 Campaign Trail

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Daily Kos

David K. Li / New York Post:

People having sex with horses is on the rise in Switzerland — More Swiss people are having sex with horses, according to a sickening new report. — There were 105 cases of the maltreatment of horses in Switzerland in 2014 — 10 percent of which involved people having sex with them …

Tal Kopan / CNN:

Viral teen YouTube star renounces conservatism — Washington (CNN)The 13-year-old Internet phenom who gained national attention criticizing President Barack Obama and briefly was a part of the Ted Cruz campaign is renouncing conservatism, saying he's looking to be a voice unbound by party ideology.

Discussion: BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite and Towleroad

Dick Lehr / The Atlantic:

The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson — The Black Justice League, in protests on Princeton University's campus, has drawn wider attention to an inconvenient truth about the university's ultimate star: Woodrow Wilson. The Virginia native was racist, a trait largely overshadowed by his works …

John H. McWhorter / Wall Street Journal:

Closed Minds on Campus — Today's student protesters start with valuable observations, writes John H. McWhorter, but then they drift into a mistaken idea of what a university—and even a society—should be — From the aggrieved pitch of recent student protests against racism …

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