No one was killed or wounded, according to police. Police rushed to the scene, blocked off several blocks around the restaurant for about 90 minutes-including a nearby major intersection-and, with guns drawn, took the man into custody. According to some reports, unconfirmed by a police spokesperson, he fired shots into the floor. On Sunday, though, Alefantis's assurances were shredded when a man walked into Comet Ping Pong with a loaded assault rifle, sending customers and their children fleeing for the exits. But Alefantis thought the hate campaign had been contained, writing on Facebook last week that he didn't "anticipate any altercations as much of the harassment has occurred online." In recent months, businesses near Comet Ping Pong also became targets of the mounting harassment, which included telephoned death threats. MUST READ," the retired general tweeted on December 2, citing a story on a far-right website, True Pundit. "Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc. Even Mike Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency chief who is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for White House national security adviser, jumped on the sex coverup bandwagon. Beneath Comet Ping Pong, they charge, is a network of tunnels where pederast rituals take place. On Twitter, Reddit and other social media sites, far-right commentators have been frothing over the unfounded allegations. Then again, the other businesses haven't been the target of a bizarre, fever-pitch fake-news campaign by far-right conspiracy theorists alleging that Alefantis and his friend John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, have overseen a child sex-trafficking operation beneath the restaurant. Related: Students can't tell the difference between real and fake news
"But as we have before we now have security present at every show." It was an unusual note from a business in the low-crime, Chevy Chase neighborhood of upscale homes, condos and shops that cater to the city's professional elites. "There have been no hostile situations at the venue, and we do not anticipate any altercations…," the proprietor, James Alefantis wrote on December 1. All while the public security cameras overlooking the place were conveniently turned away that day.įor the record, there are too many pieces of evidence in that string of events (in general with PG-theory) that are too difficult to verify for someone of my skills or ambitions, but the events around this "shooter", and how it was handled on the news and all that seems too strange to ignore.Three days ago, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a popular, family-oriented restaurant in upscale northwest Washington, D.C., took to Facebook to assure customers that it was safe to patronize his business despite months of harassment and death threats by far right-wing conspiracy theorists. So I'm not sure about the fact that it was a single bullet, but one of only two or three bullets fired conveniently destroyed a computer that had been alleged to be holding a private corner of the CPP website with encrypted files on it. I remember having seen a picture of the computer in the storage room, and recently another which seemed to show, however, two bullet holes. Which seems to have contained a computer with a hard drive, which the bullet destroyed. > Pretty sure that dude just fired into a storage closet. I'm honestly not sure where I saw it, I haven't looked into all this for a while, so take it however you will. Articles on the hard drive are hard to come by.