Posted on 08/29/2015 11:14:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Vester Lee Flanagan (aka Bryce Williams) had contacted ABC News over the past few weeks about a story, but never gave any details. On August 26, the day he ambushed and murdered WDBJ7’s Alison Parker and Alex Ward, he faxed what appears to be a manifesto/suicide note to the organization, citing, among other things, that the Charleston church shooting sent him “over the top.” It’s the ramblings of an unhinged person. Flanagan’s work history has mostly been dotted with him filing complaints about discrimination at work, of which there is no evidence, and a reputation of being difficult among his co-workers.
As The New York Times reported, these written letters documented “the homicidal rage that had apparently been building for years.” After being fired from a previous station, Mr. Flanagan reportedly killed his cats in anger. The article noted that there appears to be a brief period of calm between 1996-98, where he worked for WTOC-TV in Savannah, Georgia. There, he met a co-worker named “Kenny,” who he apparently fell in love with during his time there:
He moved from Georgia to Florida, where a job at WTWC in Tallahassee became what Mr. Flanagan called “a disgusting, vile and wretched situation.” In a 2000 lawsuit, he alleged that he was the victim of racial slurs and bullying, a complaint that he would repeatedly make during the rest of his life.
The station fired him, citing “misbehavior with regards to co-workers,” but the discrimination case he brought was settled out of court.
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Mr. Flanagan continued to pursue work in television after the “fiasco” in Tallahassee. He notes that a job in Greenville, N.C., was “amazing.” In a 2011 email seeking a job at WAFF, a station in Huntsville, Ala., Mr. Flanagan sounded enthusiastic and upbeat. He wrote proudly of his ability to multitask, cultivate sources and work with “little or no supervision...being a self-starter.”
The Alabama station declined to hire Mr. Flanagan. Adam Henning, the news director there, said references had told of finding Mr. Flanagan “exceedingly difficult to work with.”
That proved to be the case in Roanoke as well. By the summer of 2012, managers at the station had begun to document problems in his employment file, accusing Mr. Flanagan of “misinterpreting” the actions and words of his co-workers…
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After he was fired from the Roanoke station in February 2013, Mr. Flanagan seethed again. He filed another harassment lawsuit, and served as his own lawyer. So angry one day after what he called “an awful chain of events,” he writes that he killed his two cats and drove to a forest, where he dug a grave and covered the bodies with leaves and a flower.
Besides his apparent erratic workplace demeanor, Flanagan seemed to have this mindset that he was besieged with racism at the workplace. Before his termination at WDBJ, co-workers said he thought the words “field” and “swinging” were racist. According to the Daily Mail, this is what prompted him to file a complaint in 2012 against then-intern Alison Parker, who he would eventually murder, for saying stuff like “'swinging’ by an address,” or “going out into the ‘field.’” To no one’s surprise, Flanagan was described as “management’s worst nightmare.”
[Alison] Parker, who was referred to by her middle name as Bailey in the documents, was never disciplined for the remarks.
But they appear to be the 'racist' comments Flanagan was referring to when he Tweeted in the aftermath of the deadly shooting.
Ryan Fuqua, a video editor at WDBJ, told The Post: 'That's how that guy's mind worked. Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that.'
'He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.'
Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ, told the newspaper the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely anger Flanagan.
We would say stuff like, "The reporter's out in the field." And he would look at us and say, "What are you saying, cotton fields? That's racist".'
'We'd be like, "What?' We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we're all racists.'
The article then went on to delve into other aspects of Flanagan’s work performance at the station, which was abysmal. He also exhibited a poor work ethic as well.
There are many Americans who get down on their luck. They may lose their jobs, face discrimination at work, and have legitimate anger as a result. Yet, they do not engage in cold-blooded murder. Only the mentally unstable engage in such behavior.
Whoa. Working for an Engineering company anytime we left the office and went to a site it was called “going to the field.” Measurements and sketches we took were referred to as “field notes.” I went with a lot of black colleagues and they would refer to it as the same. Were they allowed to use the term because they were black? I’m so confused.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-false-flag-of-vester-lee-flanagan-ii.html
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That’s the end of baseball.
Every word in the English language “offends” somebody these days. Thanks to government handouts, a lot of people don’t have to work so they sit around all day looking for things that “offend” them. Pelosi said once everyone quit their jobs, they could stay home and learn to paint, write poetry or play the guitar. I guess learning those things was too tough and time consuming. Instead, they sit on their @$$es thinking up stuff that “offends” them.
Beeeee cuz he was mentally far a field and far from a swinging guy, that women would like?
Vester the touchy.
This is a degree of drama queening that even goes beyond most of “gaydom.” He really was special. As in a special exhibit of the devil.
I recently worked with a guy just like him.
It was insane.
He constantly looked for any little word or scenario that he could use to verbally attack both myself and anybody else.
His verbal attacks were nonsensical but always contained physical threats.
Everything was about race.
He was completely full of himself and would seek out conflicts.
When he would “go off” everybody was on edge and they would try to diffuse the clash as would I.
As far as I’m concerned, this is someone that would bring his gun into work and shoot lots of people if he feels “disrespected”.
If it wasn’t for the general trend to P.C. that foments and coddles such wacky oversensitiveness... things like this would get laughed off in the bud.
Trump is right about this, whatever else he is wrong about. We don’t have time for P.C.
Yup Baseball is definitely racist, but what about Football. Don’t they play in fields? And what about farmers? Don’t they plant their crops in fields?
...as if he EVER encountered a cotton field OR a hanging...
I’m a Christian of Italian descent - which part of me should feel offended and picked on whenever I hear the phrase:
- “being thrown to the lions...”???
H’mmm, “fields” as a racist term. I was raised in farming country. All of the farmers went out to their “fields” every day. They even owned their “fields.” During the summer I worked in the “fields” getting paid 60 cents an hour to week the corn, onions, potatoes, and mint (spear & pepper). In the Army I spent every other week when I was in a field artillery unit at Ft. Knox going to the “field” where we did artillery practice with our M-109, 155mm self-propelled howitzers. I guess all of us guys in the unit, of all races were just secretly “racist” for talking about and going to the “field.”
Now don’t get me into the “racist” connotations of buying a “swing set” for my children from ToysRUs. I guess that company is racist too for selling “swings.”
You mean...”I got a field assignment for you Cotton.” Did he refuse to wear anything made of cotton because of it’s racist meaning?
I guess it’s like black slaves were the only people who toiled in fields!
(Guess why rednecks got red necks.)
Or the only way to swing something was to hang it till dead for some monstrously unfair reason.
(I guess Vester hated the “swing states” that helped Obama win the presidency twice.)
Sometimes you (rhetorical you) have to realize the problem is the devil picking on you and you playing the game along with him.
Supposedly English has one of the largest Lexicons of all earthly languages. Plenty of choices to go PC on.
He killed his cats in a fit of anger and STILL he was not loony enough for the bin?
I find the words “the” along with “and” to be offensive. Everyone please stop using these disgusting words...
BassetBall has people doing picks all day long....
THAT really appears ODD.
No ASPCA or PETA protests? Just let him swing right along in the field?
Exactly
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