Trump orders USA flags lowered to honor 5 slain at newspaper
- by Muriel Colon
- in Global Media
- — Jul 4, 2018
Attendees at the "celebration of life" on Monday said they would remember Hiaasen for how he lived, rather than the way he died senselessly at the hands of a gunman.
O'Brien says they will be near the front of the parade behind an honor guard for police and fire and the U.S. Naval Academy Band.
Five employees of the newspaper were killed Thursday when a gunman with a grudge against the newspaper shot them in the newsroom. He is being held without bail in an Anne Arundel County detention facility in Annapolis.
Trump had ordered flags lowered for recent mass-shootings at Florida and Texas high schools and Buckley said the newspaper massacre "was an attack on freedom of speech". But it wasn't just his height that made the nickname ring true to those who knew him best.
Ramos had posted a message on his Twitter account, which was dedicated nearly entirely to attacking the Capital Gazette and its reporters, that warned the paper over a criticism of Trump, saying cryptically that it could "end badly" for the paper. He faces five counts of first-degree murder.
He issued the proclamation on Tuesday morning, a day after Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said the White House had declined his request to lower flags.
Sanders said she spoke to Buckley Monday night to inform him of the President's decision, adding that she was "not sure about the process" which led to Buckley's request initially being denied. Buckley had already ordered the Annapolis flags lowered and Gov. Larry Hogan did the same for Maryland state flags, the Baltimore Sun reported.
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The president said Friday, one day after the attack that left five people dead, that the killings at the newspaper "shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief". Columnist Rob Hiaasen, sales assistant Rebecca Smith, editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, special publications editor Wendi Winters and writer John McNamara. Authorities have filed murder charges against a man who had a feud with newspaper.
Retired publisher Tom Marquardt told the Capital Gazette he had concerns about Ramos and called police on him in 2013.
U.S. president Donald Trump, who has had a combative relationship with the media since his 2016 election, was asked by reporters traveling with him on Air Force One whether he was reconsidering calling journalists "enemies of the people".
Burgum, a Republican, encouraged North Dakotans to do the same at their homes and businesses in honor of the victims of the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, Md.
According to the Baltimore Sun, Ramos sent a document to the Capital's former lawyer, received by his office Monday and handed to police, making threats.
Police had responded to the scene within a minute of first reports at about 2:30 p.m.
Ramos, 38, was the subject of a 2011 article by paper titled "Jarrod wants to be your friend" after he pleaded guilty to criminal harassment.