Alan Colie (L) and Tanner Cook (R)

On Thursday, a Virginia jury acquitted Alan Colie, a 31-year-old delivery driver, of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of YouTube prankster Tanner Cook.

The incident occurred earlier this year at the food court in Dulles Town Center, about 45 minutes west of Washington, D.C.

Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the “Classified Goons” YouTube channel, followed Colie around the mall’s food court in an attempt to provoke a reaction and get more views for his video.

Footage shown in court reveals that just before the attack, Tanner Cook spoke with delivery driver Alan Colie, who appeared to be picking up an order.

Colie was seen on camera pulling away from Cook, telling him to “stop” three times, and attempting to remove the phone from Cook’s face.

Twenty seconds later, Colie drew his weapon and shot Cook.

“I was kind of in shock,” Cook said during Colie’s preliminary hearing. “I had to double-check I was shot because I didn’t feel anything at first.”

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YouTube “prankster” gets shot at a mall for harassing a delivery driver.

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According to reports, Colie surrendered peacefully to the deputies who found him at the food court. The charges against him include aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and discharging a firearm within a building.

The jury was divided on two lesser firearms counts but decided to convict Colie on one and acquit him on the other, The Guardian reported.

The trial saw about five hours of jury deliberation. Three hours in, the jury sent out a note stating they were “divided in terms of whether the defendant acted in self-defense.”

Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Matthew Snow urged the jury to continue deliberations. The jury eventually delivered its verdicts, acquitting Colie of the main charge but convicting him on one of the lesser firearms counts.

Colie’s defense attorney, Adam Pouilliard, argued that his client was acting in self-defense. He pointed out that Colie felt menaced by Cook’s actions, which were designed to provoke a reaction and draw viewers to Cook’s YouTube channel.

The prosecution, however, argued that the facts did not support a self-defense claim, stating that Cook’s prank was bizarre but not threatening.

Colie, who has been in custody since his April arrest, will remain incarcerated. A hearing next month will address the inconsistency between Colie’s acquittal on self-defense grounds and his conviction on the firearms charge.

Cook’s “Classified Goons” channel has almost 57,000 subscribers and is known for off-putting stunts. Cook earns $2,000 to $3,000 a month from his videos, according to The Daily Mail.

Cook has asserted that the episode won’t stop him from producing more content, and he has already uploaded three new videos since the incident, including stealing bags at the baggage claim.

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Dr. Scott Atlas resigned from his post as a temporary coronavirus advisor to President Trump in November 2020. Dr. Atlas was brought on in August 2020 as a special government employee for 130 days. Atlas resigned before his tenure ran out. Atlas’ less restrictive approach to the pandemic, especially on lockdowns and school closures was seen by many Trump supporters as a counter-point to the restrictive, doctrinaire views of leading White House Coronavirus Task Force members Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.

Fauci and Birx destroyed millions of lives and killed millions of people with their COVID policies that prevented any promising medications from being distributed to the masses.

Dr. Atlas was pushed out of the COVID team despite the scientific evidence he brought to the team that was rejected.

It was only later that it was confirmed (what The Gateway Pundit had reported since early 2020) that Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan labs where the doctors worked on gain-of-function experiments with COVID viruses.

Dr. Atlas early on rejected Fauci and Birx and their destructive and tyrannical policies. Atlas reported that two-thirds of COVID deaths had at least 6 comorbidities. Atlas unloaded on Fauci for his lockdowns that destroyed millions of lives. Atlas early on reported that there was no reason for children and young adults to take the dangerous vaccines that did not prevent a person from coming down with the disease.

This week Dr. Scott Atlas joined KUSI News out of San Diego to discuss the COVID vaccines that are still being pushed by the Biden regime.

Dr. Atlas told KUSI that doctors and politicians still pushing the COVID-19 vaccines are a complete disgrace.

Dr. Atlas: “I don’t know if we’ve elected the dumbest people in the country to be in charge or what’s happening here but, we have a country that now recommends a booster for everyone over six months of age. An experimental drug, for a virus, particularly children have no serious risk from who are healthy. This is a virus that has lost a lot of it’s lethality anyway. The overwhelming majority of people have long term immunological protection from previous infection. I don’t care what these bureaucrat say, we have to look at these numbers, look at the studies, look at the data, use your brain. I don’t know what else to say, it’s frightening, it’s very sad that these people have power still. I’ve said it before, we have to vote these people out… It will only end by people having a brain, common sense… (on doctors prescibing COVID vaccines) They are a complete disgrace. Most of our doctors are really sheep.”

Dr. Scott Atlas: Politicians and doctors still pushing COVID-19 vaccines are a complete disgrace
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— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) September 29, 2023

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