Remember Pizzagate? The conspiracy theory about a child sex trafficking ring operating out of the basement of a pizza shop in Washington that didn’t actually have a basement, but right-wing idiots got so worked up about it that one guy actually stormed the place with weaponry to investigate it? Remember him? Yeah. He’s dead now.
The conspiracy theorist who entered Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington D.C. with two guns in late 2016 as part of the Pizzagate hysteria was shot by police on Jan. 4 and died this past Monday, according to a press release from the Kannapolis Police Department in North Carolina. Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over by police on the night of Saturday Jan. 4 while driving a gray 2001 GMC Yukon, according to the Kannapolis Police Department.
“The officer recognized the vehicle as one normally driven by an individual who he had previously arrested, and knew had an outstanding warrant for arrest. A vehicle stop was made by the officer and during his interaction with the driver, the officer recognized the front seat passenger as the person with the outstanding warrant for arrest,” the Kannapolis Police said in a statement.
The police department’s statement says the officer was speaking with the driver when two more officers arrived on the scene, and the first officer proceeded to open the front passenger side door.
“When [the officer] opened the door, the front seat passenger pulled a handgun from his jacket and pointed it in the direction of the officer,” the police statement reads. “That officer and a second officer who was standing at the rear passenger side of the Yukon gave commands for the passenger to drop the gun. After the passenger failed to comply with their repeated requests, both officers fired their duty weapon at the passenger, striking him.”
I must say, this was a development in the story I wasn’t exactly expecting. Now, though, I find myself wondering how long it’ll take the Q believers to declare him a martyr to the cause and that this incident was a targeted Deep State assassination of a guy who Knew The Truth or something like that… actually, what am I saying, I’m sure they already are…
