Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen told USA Today that federal authorities detained Samuel Cassidy in 2016. He is the man responsible for the shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). However, federal law enforcement officers didn’t inform local law enforcement that Cassidy’s home was littered with writings and books that showed his hatred and the possible motive for shooting nine of his co-workers.
A memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal links the U.S. Customs Border Protection Agency and Samuel Cassidy. Cassidy had “books about terrorism and fear manifestos.” The memo also states that the shooter also had “a black memo book filled with lots of notes about how he hates the VTA.” Cassidy reportedly answered ‘no’ on the memo “when asked if he had problems with anybody at work.”
The report indicated that U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Samuel Cassidy on his way back into America from a trip to the Philippines but didn’t specify how long Cassidy was held.
San Jose shooter discussed killing people at work, ex-wife says https://t.co/tmDwgaZBxa pic.twitter.com/N8L9QuLWZo
— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2021
A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, Sarah Peck, released a statement saying, “Under the leadership of Secretary Myorkas, in February, DHS commenced a department-wide review which included efforts to ensure law enforcement person efforts to ensure law enforcement personnel have the tools and training to identify behavioral indicators associated with targeted violence and policy to improve information sharing with our partners.”
Rosen said that the “DA’s office was not notified” of Cassidy’s detainment, and his office “would like to have known this in 2016” when the search happened. DA Rosen’s office was one of the law enforcement agencies that processed the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019.
DA Rosen claimed, “There may have been interventions that could have put this individual on a different path.” For example, he added, “mental health interventions, counseling interventions, and as well as law enforcement interventions, in terms of whether the individual had firearms, and so forth” could have prevented the shooting.
These are the victims of the San Jose, California, mass shooting https://t.co/aCCN7ii4LL
— CNN (@CNN) May 28, 2021
California has draconian red-flag laws, which Rosen claimed stopped “dozens of these kinds of instances from happening in our country and saved countless lives.” According to Rosen, the District Attorney’s office has filed over 200 red-flag type restraining orders to get guns from their owners if the state feels the owner could have been a danger to themselves or others.
“If we had had that information, or local law enforcement had had that information, we would have looked into it, and that’s just the truth,” said Rosen. “We are not perfect. I feel like the standard we have to reach is perfection to stop these, and we’re human beings doing the very best we can.”
He added, “There’s not a news story written about the dozens of mass shootings that we have averted.”
Red-Flag laws or “gun-violence restraining orders” (GVROs) allow someone living with the gun owner to call authorities and petition the court for a restraining order allowing law enforcement to come into the person’s home and “temporarily” take their 2nd Amendment away. Many conservatives believe that power-hungry officials will use this to abuse political/personal adversaries.
The Veterans Administration infamously has a secret database where they flag “disgruntled” and “disruptive” American veterans. Michelle Malkin blew the lid off the scandal that showed how the V.A. abused veterans’ rights by having no standard to which a doctor had to rely on to label a vet a threat. The “patient record flags” can be used against any vet that was “difficult,” “annoying,” and “non-compliant.” The “Disruptive Behavior Committee” inside the V.A. failed to tell 49% of “flagged” patients that they had been flagged and had the right to appeal the ruling.
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