Breaking: Shooting At Copenhagen Free Speech Event, Danish Media Reports

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish media say several shots have been fired at a cafe in Copenhagen where a meeting about freedom of speech was being held, organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has faced numerous threats for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad in 2007.

The TV2 channel said Saturday there were some 30 bullet holes in the window of the Krudttoenden cafe and said at least two people were taken away on stretchers, including a uniformed police officer.

Helle Merete Brix, one of the organizers of the event, told The Associated Press that Vilks was present at the event but not injured. When the artist is in Denmark, he receives police protection.

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Last I heard the two shooters had got away.
I wonder if Obama will weigh in on the ”randomness” of this attack?

Not only was Swedish artist Lars Vilks there, so was the French Ambassador!
The gunman who has been shot dead was on a terror watch list but was not being hampered from prepping for this terror attack.
That is the problem with too wide a net such as what our NSA is doing.
Just focus.
An uncertain kazoo calls no one to action.