What Happened in Moore County?
The power grid in Moore County, North Carolina collapsed over the weekend after attacks at multiple substations. While the local sheriff's department described an act of vandalism disrupting power to over forty-thousand people, a disgraced former Army psyops officer suggested she had knowledge of a terror hit. When police showed up, she told them the power failure was God's will, so deputies prayed with her, and Sheriff Ronnie Fields reminded people to not make false posts during an emergency.
What we know is that earlier Saturday, terrorists forced the cancellation of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio, and then, in North Carolina, one Emily Grace Rainey encouraged people to act against a local drag show and later claimed she knew why the power was out, posting a photo of the Sunrise Thatre with the Downtown Divas show on the marquee.
Local news↱ reports that "Before the show, Rainey posted on Facebook the contact information of the sponsors, imploring others to voice their opinions, saying, 'You know what to do.'" And while law enforcers cannot yet connect the vandalism to the drag show, or find any suspects, Axios↱ quotes Sheriff Fields saying, "We had to go interview this young lady and have a word of prayer with her, but it turned out to be nothing."
It's kind of a strange statement: They had to go interview her and pray with her.
In 2020, Rainey was charged with injury to personal property after twice vandalizing a local park during Covid lockdown so her children could play. Later that year, though, she smiled and posed for a photo↱ alongside a friendly Sheriff Moore at a maskless patriotic celebration.
Meanwhile, over thirty-three thousand remain without power; as many as forty-one thousand Duke Power customers were affected, and it could still be days before power is restored. The Sheriff's department has no suspects and no leads, but they had to stop by and pray with the white, Christian lady with a record of vandalism, who led a group at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, encouraged supporters to act against Satudray's drag show, and claimed knowledge of the substation hits. Or, as Sheriff Fields explained↱, "No group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept that they're the ones that done it … we're looking at all avenues."
It remains unclear whether we will ever actually know what happened in Moore County, but if local law enforcement is not up to the job, the FBI has joined the investigation. We'll see what comes.
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Notes:
@SilentSamIAm. "Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields and Emily Grace Rainey at a Back the Red White & Blue event in Southern Pines on Oct. 17, 2020.". Twitter. 5 December 2022. Twitter.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3B8B028
Eanes, Zachary and Sri Ravipati. "North Carolina county may be days without power after 'targeted' attack". Axios. 4 December 2022. Axios.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3UuDX3H
Rempfer, Kyle. "Army PSYOP officer resigned commission prior to leading group to DC protests". Army Time. 11 January 2021. ArmyTimes.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3P3MXvN
Schoenbaum, Hannah. "Power outages could last days after shootings at Moore County substations". WCNC. 5 December 2022. WCNC.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3FpUAJE
WRAL Staff. "Authorities investigate social posts claiming knowledge of Moore County blackout". WRAL. 4 December 2022. WRAL.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3XVSDf7
The power grid in Moore County, North Carolina collapsed over the weekend after attacks at multiple substations. While the local sheriff's department described an act of vandalism disrupting power to over forty-thousand people, a disgraced former Army psyops officer suggested she had knowledge of a terror hit. When police showed up, she told them the power failure was God's will, so deputies prayed with her, and Sheriff Ronnie Fields reminded people to not make false posts during an emergency.
What we know is that earlier Saturday, terrorists forced the cancellation of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio, and then, in North Carolina, one Emily Grace Rainey encouraged people to act against a local drag show and later claimed she knew why the power was out, posting a photo of the Sunrise Thatre with the Downtown Divas show on the marquee.
Local news↱ reports that "Before the show, Rainey posted on Facebook the contact information of the sponsors, imploring others to voice their opinions, saying, 'You know what to do.'" And while law enforcers cannot yet connect the vandalism to the drag show, or find any suspects, Axios↱ quotes Sheriff Fields saying, "We had to go interview this young lady and have a word of prayer with her, but it turned out to be nothing."
It's kind of a strange statement: They had to go interview her and pray with her.
In 2020, Rainey was charged with injury to personal property after twice vandalizing a local park during Covid lockdown so her children could play. Later that year, though, she smiled and posed for a photo↱ alongside a friendly Sheriff Moore at a maskless patriotic celebration.
Meanwhile, over thirty-three thousand remain without power; as many as forty-one thousand Duke Power customers were affected, and it could still be days before power is restored. The Sheriff's department has no suspects and no leads, but they had to stop by and pray with the white, Christian lady with a record of vandalism, who led a group at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, encouraged supporters to act against Satudray's drag show, and claimed knowledge of the substation hits. Or, as Sheriff Fields explained↱, "No group has stepped up to acknowledge or accept that they're the ones that done it … we're looking at all avenues."
It remains unclear whether we will ever actually know what happened in Moore County, but if local law enforcement is not up to the job, the FBI has joined the investigation. We'll see what comes.
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Notes:
@SilentSamIAm. "Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields and Emily Grace Rainey at a Back the Red White & Blue event in Southern Pines on Oct. 17, 2020.". Twitter. 5 December 2022. Twitter.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3B8B028
Eanes, Zachary and Sri Ravipati. "North Carolina county may be days without power after 'targeted' attack". Axios. 4 December 2022. Axios.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3UuDX3H
Rempfer, Kyle. "Army PSYOP officer resigned commission prior to leading group to DC protests". Army Time. 11 January 2021. ArmyTimes.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3P3MXvN
Schoenbaum, Hannah. "Power outages could last days after shootings at Moore County substations". WCNC. 5 December 2022. WCNC.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3FpUAJE
WRAL Staff. "Authorities investigate social posts claiming knowledge of Moore County blackout". WRAL. 4 December 2022. WRAL.com. 5 December 2022. https://bit.ly/3XVSDf7