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Omar Thornton Claimed He Was Victim of Workplace Racism (Labor union: was a "disciplinary problem")
BV Black Spin ^ | 8/03/10 | Paul Shepard

Posted on 08/03/2010 9:05:05 PM PDT by Libloather

Omar Thornton Claimed He Was Victim of Workplace Racism
By Paul Shepard on Aug 3rd 2010 6:05PM

It's too early to tell what led Omar S. Thornton to go to the beer distributor warehouse outside Hartford, Conn., where he worked and to gun down nine workers before turning the rifle on himself.

Initial reports from the labor union that represented Thornton, 34, which say that he was a "disciplinary problem," that he was racially harassed at work and supervisors did nothing to remedy the situation, shine a bright light on the potentially explosive situations in our modern workplaces.

Thornton had been disciplined earlier in the day for taking beer from his job, according to police sources. At a meeting with supervisors, he was given a choice of quitting or being fired. As he was being escorted from the building, Thornton secured a gun and began firing at co-workers, according to authorities.

The mother of a woman Thornton dated told reporters that he has long complained about racism at the plant and had pcitures of the word "nigger" and pictures of a noose taken from a bathroom stall at work.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: omar; race; thornton; victim
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To: Libloather

I wonder if he was related to this guy
Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton (gunman/murderer)

6 Dead After Gunfire at Mo. Meeting
Feb 8 02:25 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UM090O0


21 posted on 08/03/2010 10:37:51 PM PDT by stlnative
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Well, the Black Panthers that Holder shields from justice encourage killing “cracker babies.” Wright, the Panthers and other African Americn demagogues can easliy unhinge the unstable in their community. And even mainstream Black leaders, like Maxine Waters and the Black Caucus, can unhinge the shaky with their incessant playing of the race card. Waters, for example, clearly believes that being Black should be a license to steal and that it is outrageous that a Black crook be disciplined. Imagine Omar’s surprize when he, like Waters, was called to account for dishonesty.


22 posted on 08/03/2010 10:39:21 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Libloather

Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_City_Council_shooting


23 posted on 08/03/2010 10:45:30 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Libloather
that he was racially harassed at work and supervisors did nothing to remedy the situation

BS. How many of you guys have seen black people racially harassed at work? Or anywhere, for that matter? I've lived on the East Coast, the West Coast, and in the Midwest and I've NEVER seen it in all my life. And I'm near retirement. It just doesn't happen, or it's a one in a million type thing. And, surely, NO employer would tolerate it.

24 posted on 08/03/2010 10:52:09 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Libloather

Will bump and be back on Wednesday to read later Postings.


25 posted on 08/03/2010 11:01:05 PM PDT by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF - Year: 1972)
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To: DaveTesla
Sounds like Amy Bishop meets Looter Guy...

NO Cheers, unfortunately.

Prayers UP for the families.

26 posted on 08/03/2010 11:22:05 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Libloather

How does a guy being fired pull out a rifle? They ain’t that easy to conceal.


27 posted on 08/04/2010 12:00:43 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

He might have had it in his locker and got to it when he was getting his personal items.


28 posted on 08/04/2010 2:17:06 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: hoosiermama

No, a real union, the Teamsters. Whichever Repub can separate Hoffa from the rest is the next president.


29 posted on 08/04/2010 4:22:13 AM PDT by steve8714 (Our long national nightmare is over. We can resume our proper disdain for soccer.)
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To: Libloather

Sudden ‘Reparations’ Syndrome, see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sudden+jihad+syndrome


30 posted on 08/04/2010 4:27:00 AM PDT by bvw
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To: stlnative

A bankruptcy that doesn’t clear debt and leaves a man burdened to the point of been shackled for many years is also a motive for such outrage turned into ‘random lash-out’ murder. Thorton was shackled into a payment load, post-bankruptcy, of over $4,000 a month. That’s not a clearing bankruptcy.

I do not know what the post-bankruptcy load of the Connecticut was. But clearly he was harassed by of debt collectors, meaning that this era’s easy up-front credit and loan policies trapped him in them.

There’s no excuse for such killings, but it is obvious that the desperation a man in mid-life can feel from being shackled to a lifetime burden of debt or settlement payments is a ancient motive for such ‘lash-out’ violence and crime.


31 posted on 08/04/2010 4:40:37 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Libloather
Omar Thornton Claimed He Was Victim of Workplace Racism

This sounds like BS but even if it is true So what? Are we justifying murder now? Has the slur 'racism' become the end all to be all? Are whites fair game because of 'racism' real or imagined but blacks are immune? Are blacks not responsible for anything they do?

Tea Parties are 'racist' I guess anything is fair game.

32 posted on 08/04/2010 4:57:44 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Libloather
"He was a good kid,” she said. “He never had been in trouble a day in his life."

I knew it, i just knew it! That statement is made about every mass murderer.

Damn, nice guys are dangerous!

33 posted on 08/04/2010 5:24:24 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: seemoAR

so when do you think he brought the rifle in? Did no one notice an employee carrying a rifle? Were all the victims white? His girlfriend or ex-girlfriend was white. Lots of questions.


34 posted on 08/04/2010 5:25:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: bvw

That sounds incredible for a low-skilled truck driver. What, may I ask, is your source?


35 posted on 08/04/2010 5:30:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

If only they had posted “no guns” signs and the warehouse.


36 posted on 08/04/2010 5:38:43 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: 9YearLurker

The bankruptcy payments of over $4K a month were assessed on one Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton, 52, a black man resident of Missouri. See the link to which I replied.


37 posted on 08/04/2010 5:40:32 AM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

That makes more sense. It looks like Cookie was a major crook who was allowed to keep his construction company and the payments only ran for 5 years.

I hear you though on bankruptcy payments possibly adding to a sense of desperation and resentment.


38 posted on 08/04/2010 5:46:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

I work with a couple of angry black people. They’ve been trained since birth to see racism in everything and everywhere. They are never happy. What a miserable existence.


39 posted on 08/04/2010 5:53:13 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Republic of Texas

And he assumed that an alleged stick figure w/a noose on the bathroom wall was meant for him.

It could have been there for YEARS-who knows?

That will be the next headline I’m sure on Rachel Madcow’s show...and of course that the gun was responsible for the carnage, not Omar. (wonder if that was his real name or if he changed it to reflect his “religious beliefs”?)


40 posted on 08/04/2010 6:25:58 AM PDT by homegroan (Proud member of the Hoi Polloi......ILLIGITIMA NON CARBORUNDUM..... -that's 4U Dad!))
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