A representative of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU said the organization is aware of the James shooting, and looking into a "pattern" of police shootings in the state of Virginia.
He says there's a pattern of mass shootings in the US that has no parallel elsewhere in the world, and there are "steps" America can take to reduce the frequency of mass shootings.
Tehelka digs deep into the story of a young man killed by Gujarati police in 2003 on suspicion of being a terrorist, part of a pattern of such police shootings, almost all involving young Muslims.
Fearing a continued domino-like pattern of shootings, police are trying to act fast to forestall any acts of retaliation that could produce another string of violence.
Many in the mainstream media rushed to assert that this was an isolated incident due to mental illness, and both the strong individual voices and the great collective roar on social media pushed back, hard, to insist that it was part of a pattern of misogynist violence and mass shootings.
Slightly more than 56percentt of the shootings and victims were located in two areas, the Bronx and northern Brooklyn, said the president of the Citizens Crime Commission, Thomas A. Reppetto, who has studied the pattern of shootings and arrests.
"The Oregon shootings fit a pattern of gun violence that still shocks us... mainstream, middle class America can picture itself in a community college classroom in Oregon or in a movie theater in Colorado or an elementary school in Connecticut," wrote the Baltimore Sun editorial board.
But he said the Navy Yard shootings were part of a pattern of gun violence that set America apart among advanced nations.
These three incidents, within two states and two days, are part of a pattern of similar episodes that have shaken school systems across the country in the weeks since the shootings in Southern California at Santana High School.
