I have noted that many who were involved in the "Sandy Hook" (On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut).incident have expressed a desire that the press not inundate the community on the one year anniversary of the incident. However, the news that I have watched this morning, and yesterday, all seemed to have lengthy "playbacks" of the incident. There was a lengthy scenario of a father speaking to his deceased daughter.
By Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor The vetting of a sign language interpreter who got within three feet of world leaders including President Barack Obama during Nelson Mandela's memorial was being investigated Thursday after organizers admitted they were unaware of his violent history of schizophrenic episodes. Thamsanqa Jantjie, 34, was accused of gesticulating gibberish during Tuesday's service. Members of the deaf community said his movements did not resemble any recognized form of sign language and some groups accused him of being a "fake." Jantjie told NBC News that he is currently receiving treatment for schizophrenia and had been violent in the past. He said he started hearing voices in his head during the Mandela event and hallucinated visions of angels flying into the stadium. Asked by The Associated Press how often he had become violent in the past, he said "a lot," but he declined to provide details. Sign language interpreter Thamsanqa Jantjie told The Associated Press that he saw "angels" during a possible schizophrenic episode while appearing at the Nelson Mandela memorial and said he had been violent in the past. "There was nothing I could do. I was alone in a very dangerous situation," he said in a separate interview with Johannesburg's Star newspaper. "I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry. It's the situation I found myself in." The South African government said at a press conference Thursday that “a mistake was made,” adding that officials were "trying to establish what happened with the sign language interpreter." Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, the South African deputy minister for women, children and persons with disability, said that the government was investigating the whether the interpreter had been vetted before the memorial.
