Kenneth Darlington "shoots" two Climate protesters in Panama

[pasterno]

Anyone seen this? Looks fake to me.

Blanks? Did he shoot at all? Sounds effects? Seems to me these 2 guys that go down are acting.

Just too perfect... white old grumpy man shoots 2 kind "native" people that are worried about the climate.

Kenneth - Karen - Even a similar tone.


Look at this PERFECT shot, with the shell jumping off!

The photographer is Bienvenido Velasco who seems to be a "talented" photographer of (fake) activist protests.
https://www.instagram.com/bvelascob/

Photos like this:


Article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -dead.html

Video

Description
Motorist who shot dead two environmental protesters blocking a road is retired US lawyer, 77, 'with a conviction for illegal possession of firearms': Gunman 'declared "this ends here" before opening fire'

Kenneth Darlington, 77, was filmed on Tuesday approaching protesters blocking a highway in Panama, and shooting two of them dead with a handgun
Darlington, who has both U.S. and Panamanian citizenship, has a previous conviction for illegal possession of firearms, local media reported

[rachel]

The Metro has the video, overacting terrible, no wonder most of the other sites cut it out.

https://metro.co.uk/video/horrific-mome ... d-3056363/

Here's the apparent shots. Interesting he can shoot them without moving his arm. And the guy in red really couldn't care less, neither the woman in black.

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You see his gun is still down as she falls to the ground.

This is the point where the guy apparently fires the second shot, notice the person editing the video puts this frame in to hide the fact nothing happens other than the guy in black seems to now be suffering from myocarditis.

And shooter guy still hasn't changed position.

It could be a stitch up, but the gun guy is apparently a lawyer. 77 says it all, I think.

[pasterno]

@rachel You spot some very interesting things:

- The reaction of the guy in the red shirt: I imagine myself in a protest, a guy comes up and shoots the guy next to me, I have no reaction. I just see a calm man. Chilling out, almost wondering. Huh.. what's going on?
- We see no recoil at all

Some other things:
- The shooter seems completely cool with "killing 2 people". Much like the 80s movies with Sylvester Stallone, who comes in and without emotion cleans house.

Found this on a Spanish site:

http://elsiglo.com.pa/cronica-roja/kenn ... s/24239346
Shooter CONDEMNED in 2006

For the crime of possession of weapons of war, 2 M-16 rifles, 10 pistols, 2 revolvers, a shotgun and M-16 and AK-47 ammunition.

Lol pushing the guns kill narrative.

On the follow up:
http://elsiglo.com.pa/cronica-roja/ases ... /24239350
This Friday, there will be the funeral services for Iván and Abdiel. At 10:00 in the morning, they will be taken to the San Carlos educational center, then they will tour the town of Bejuco. The present body mass will be at the María Auxiliadora church.

It just check all the boxes of a staged event.

Geopolitical

I am wondering? Why do we hear about it in the west? Daily 100s of people are killed globally?

Panama is crucial in global trade. The panama canal is functioning badly for rainfall, is it really?
https://safety4sea.com/panama-canal-has ... ne-ticket/

There are "grass root protests" across the country stopping all industry:
https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2023/ ... r-update-5

Rating agency Moody’s this week downgraded Panama’s debt to Baa3 from Baa2 — the lowest investment-grade rating .

Good article:
https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/file ... Dilema.pdf

Seems the US is in "colour revolution" territory. Too much stuff going on. It reminds me of the Ukraine in 2014.

Act 1:
Break down the economy; panama canal, the big mines are closed, panama paper case, corrupt president allegations. Big protests.

Act 2:
Find global attention; like this atrocity "murder". People love these stories. Now everyone in the world is watching. Think about it, the fact that we know it is crazy, I'm sure many murders happen in Panama, but this one goes ALL across the globe. LIVE TELEVIZED. (even we see the shell in the picture) Panama is top of mind. I wonder, huh what's going on there?

Act 3:
We have to see but I wouldn't be surprised we get some nice spectacle with people with flags, who very guerrilla come and storm the parliament to free the country of the corrupt leaders that oppress them. I good neo-colonial fashion the power that be are setting up a nice spectacle there. I'm sure the protestors will desire a nice sustainable economy.

The US banned the former president as he was corrupt:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ ... 023-07-13/

It's all so fake:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... ne-deaths/
Protesters say the government should instead be promoting industries such as sustainable agriculture, fishing and tourism.

Lol. Really, the people want low income industry?

Panama is the US influence sphere, just as Europe. And it's been interesting to see the deindustrialisation in Europe in the last few years, again the call for de-industrialisation in Panama while the US is industrializing again.

Anyhow, it's guessing largely, but this "event" is part of a larger political power play.

I think the US wants tighter control on the Panama canal and resources. Somewhere along these lines.

[rachel]

Interesting @pasterno , I didn't realise the story was from Panama. I thought it was a road in the US. It struck me that it's very similar to the JustStopOil protests in the UK which have been ongoing since the beginning of 2022. It's clear in the UK that the police are part-and-part of the disruption. They stop the traffic to allow the protesters to block the roads, and then are on hand, mainly it would appear, to stop members of the public attacking them.

In the report below it says, -- "Demonstrators were deliberately 'going floppy' making it harder for police to remove them from the road.", -- No, it's happened enough times in the UK to know the police do nothing to clear the protesters for a set amount of time, then they pretend to arrest the protesters. It's a big act by state employees to disrupt ordinary people's lives, and it's all to do with the Green agenda instituted by King Charles III. From what I can tell, Charles absolutely hates the people he swore to protect.

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-11 ... ondon-road

The Panama one looks like a Reuters story from the attributes on the images. That would likely make it a prepackaged event. But the actions of the people involved seem very disjointed. No one else in the video seems bothered by the guy brandishing the gun. And he himself doesn't look angry or in any way close to shooting anyone.

They definitely do seem to be variations on the same theme that looks to be running internationally.

[rachel]

I just put this picture into TinEye, as I was wondering what the thing on the gun guy's head was. It looks photoshopped, and I see the Daily Mail ran with the same picture, and has the full story. I love the Mail, they are the go-to fakeologist resource, they love plastering lots of pictures, this one being no exception.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... anama.html

Motorist shoots dead two environmental protesters blocking a road: Driver caught in traffic gets out of his car and guns down demonstrators when they refuse to move in Panama

Shocking footage shows the man gunning down two environmental protesters in Chame, Panama
The pair were killed and one person was arrested in connection with the incident, officials said
***WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES***

The Mail cuts out the piss-poor acting part with a black screen, so we just hear screams. That kind of shows there was an editorial decision made that the video was so fake and gay that they couldn't run with it as it was presented. https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mo ... 584957.mp4

They had a professional cameraman at the scene it would seem, more than on in fact. What's that thing on the shooters head? It's definitely photoshopped. Is it meant to be a curler?


Caption: This is the shocking moment an irate motorist shot dead an environmental protester in Panama. He went on to shoot another man in the incident before being detained

Then we have Mr Shooter posing with his gun up, which doesn't actually fit with the shooting video.


Caption: The man was seen pulling a gun from his pocket and waving it in front of the protesters in the middle of the road


Caption: This is the shocking moment one of two environmental protesters blocking a road in Panama was shot dead by an irate driver


Caption:The first man to be shot is seen being treated on the ground




I always like including a photo where one cameraman catches another cameraman in their photo. It just goes to prove the staging aspect of the scene. And we can see another reason for the Mail blacking out the shooting part of the video, the continuity doesn't match between photos and video, one of the two had to go.


Caption: A second man also confronted the gunmen. This photo was taken moments before he was also shot by the angry motorist in Chame, Panama


Then the Daily Mail article finishes with two unrelated filler shots in an attempt to suggest people care about this stunt, when the video evidence that they blacked out shows no one cared one bit as they were apparently being shot.


Caption: People react after witnessing a man shoot two protesters with a gun in the middle of a teachers' blockade on the Pan-American Highway


Caption: A woman participates in a vigil for two two men killed in the shooting incident during Tuesday's protest

[napoleon]

hes got a cap !on his head ,popped a cap is gang talk ,trouble that fella looks like a teddybear we need more scars ,or an eyepatch

[napoleon]

oh sorry i meant to add it looks like a golf tournament ,all of it,any tigers in the panama woods

[napoleon]

still looks like images taken on the green at a golf tournament