CNN INTERVIEW - can’t believe I am watching CNN
Interviewed former employer (black btw) Lorel Reynolds (sp?)
Was in tears as he talked. Spoke about the victims—then about the perp.
Lorel: “He was not the best co-worker. He was very aggressive with people and he couldn’t take criticism. He took it personally.
And at the station, he threw a huge tantrum that caused a lot of our co-workers to fear our own safety.
Like we were in a lockdown the day he was fired And a few days later we had police detail that king of watched over the station bec we didn’t know the extent og, I guess, his mental illness.
Interviewer:...When you say a tantrum, be specific.
Lorel: I wasn’t there, but when I came in a few hours later after the tantrum, and what I-—the aftermath of the tantrum was there was newsroom desks, computer monitors were on the ground. People were shaken and in tears because they experienced something so horrific at that time.
Police officers were there in our building, watching over us.
Interviewer:
Lorel: I left a few months after he was fired, so I don’t have any perspective of how his name is still in the newsroom [i.e., how he was regarded]. What I do know is that he filed a lawsuit aga the company and that lawsuit [did not go in his favor].....
He felt that his firing was racially motivated.
Interviewer: ...Did he ever talk to you about anything racially motivated?
Lorel: You know, I just thought about this. He did kind of approach me one day, and he was-—kind of like-—us, we need to stick together. He insinuated that the black people and the company needs to watch out for one another.
So he always had that racial awareness and the company-—even though it did not exist to my knowledge and my experience of how the company was.
Interviewer winds up interview with a question about the victims
Tantrum? He should have been arrested!