Armed Terrorist Attacks FBI Cincinnati Field Office

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

An armed domestic terrorist who tried and failed to force his way into the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday, was shot and killed by police in an Ohio cornfield several hours after the failed attack.

Police report that Ricky Shiffer, 42, of Columbus, Ohio, tried unsuccessfully to force his way into the FBI Cincinnati offices yesterday morning.  Shiffer was reportedly armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as well as a nail gun.  A social media posting on Donald Trump's "Truth Social" later in the morning by what appears to be Shiffer admitted that he had stormed the FBI offices and that he "thought" he had a way to breach the agency's bulletproof glass, but that his idea had failed.  (Nail gun?)

Some news reports indicated that Mr. Shiffer had been a member of the "Proud Boys" and that he had been at a rally outside of the Capitol on January 5th, 2021.  There are also reports that he had been a financial donor to Donald Trump.  It is also believed, based on social media postings that apparently came from him, that Shiffer acted against the FBI in retaliation to the FBI search of Trump's home in Florida earlier this week.

After the failed attempt to breach the FBI offices, Ricky Shiffer fled northward into Ohio in his Ford Crown Victoria.  He was spotted at a rest stop on an interstate highway, and then took off again.  Police report that he fired his weapon inside of his car as he fled.  Eventually he was forced off of the road and into a cornfield.  Shiffer took cover behind his car for several hours, and police used that time to try to take him alive, but when he eventually raised his gun to resume firing, they took him out.

Republican Party leadership and several members of Congress who had been almost rabid in their response to the FBI search of Trump's home have quieted down considerably since yesterday's attack on the FBI by a domestic terrorist.

Here is a tweet posted by Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar in response to the FBI seizing of a Republican congressman's cell phone after the Mar-a-Lago search.   The tweet, which was posted at 6:16 p.m. on August 9th, is fairly representative of the anti-FBI vitriol that was coming from right-wing politicians:

"The FBI has reportedly seized the cellphone of House Freedom Caucus Chair, Scott Perry.  Our country is becoming unrecognizable.  

The FBI, and the Regime they take marching orders from, are the enemy of the American People.  They must be stopped.

DEFUND THE FBI"

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has also called for the FBI to be defunded.

Extremist rhetoric has consequences because it is often heard and acted upon by deeply disturbed individuals who have access to guns.  The FBI, our nation's premier law enforcement agency, safeguards democracy, protects our national intelligence including nuclear strategies and capabilities, enforces our laws, and protects us - all of us - including ungrateful members of Congress.

The men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation deserve our support and respect.  Anything less weakens us as a nation.