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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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Hussein's fault? We may need a beer summit.

1 posted on 08/03/2010 9:05:13 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The union said he never made a complaint to them or the state or federal level.


2 posted on 08/03/2010 9:07:56 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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A Bumpy Life Ends in a Fatal Rampage
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY and NATE SCHWEBER
Published: August 3, 2010

He was bankrupt by age 24, when, court filings show, his only worldly possessions were $250 worth of clothing and $600 in a checking account. Debt collectors hounded him for years.

In the last two years, he landed a job as a driver for a beer distributor. He lived with a longtime girlfriend in a bumpy relationship that ended, at least temporarily, in the spring. On Facebook, he wrote of his interest in exercise supplements and guns.

None of this adds up to explain why Omar S. Thornton, 34, walked into Hartford Distributors, where he worked, in Manchester, Conn., on Tuesday morning and opened fire, killing eight people and taking his own life; the facts that first trickle in after a catastrophic crime rarely do.

But as the hours passed, the police and the public sifted through the particulars of Mr. Thornton’s life for any clues about what had prompted the deadly rampage.

The story that emerged on Tuesday began in East Hartford, a working-class town across the Connecticut River from Hartford, where Mr. Thornton grew up, the youngest of three siblings. “He was the baby,” said his aunt, Rosetta Billie.

Ms. Billie recalled that Mr. Thornton, as a child, trailed her around at her Pentecostal church every Sunday. “He was a good kid,” she said. “He never had been in trouble a day in his life. He never had been to the jailhouse a day in his life.”

Mr. Thornton graduated in 1996 from East Hartford High School, where he left little impression on several classmates contacted Tuesday. He continued his education, although it is not clear where; public records show that he owed $2,500 in student loans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/nyregion/04gunman.html

3 posted on 08/03/2010 9:08:38 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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Just his way of playing the race card for the white boys down at the DNC.


4 posted on 08/03/2010 9:08:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ich bin ein illegal alien! - Barry Obama standing up with Central and South America against Arizona.)
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To: Libloather
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.

That tells me that instead of firing employees, I must kill them ninja-like from behind with a razor-wire garrote.

5 posted on 08/03/2010 9:09:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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Hollander tells the AP that Thornton was caught on videotape stealing beer several
times. He says Thornton did not contest it or get angry, and chose to quit rather than being fired.

Then, he pulled out a gun and started shooting. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_us/us_beer_distributor_shootings

6 posted on 08/03/2010 9:09:57 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Libloather

Which union....? Is this an SEIU vs ACORN vs NAACP vs CBC battle?


7 posted on 08/03/2010 9:12:17 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Lazamataz
That tells me that instead of firing employees, I must kill them ninja-like from behind with a razor-wire garrote.

A better plan might be a trap door and a tank full of sharks with lazers on their fricking heads.

8 posted on 08/03/2010 9:13:33 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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That tells me that instead of firing employees, I must kill them ninja-like from behind with a razor-wire garrote.

I've tried it. (And, I gotta tell ya, it ain't all that bad.)

9 posted on 08/03/2010 9:13:44 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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Teamsters. He killed his union rep who was at the dismissal meeting with him. The union rep was also the head of the local Teamsters. There’ll be no sympathy from the union for this perp.


10 posted on 08/03/2010 9:14:35 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Libloather

I don’t know what contains more drivel, The article or the comments by Vickiss


11 posted on 08/03/2010 9:16:12 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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But would you hit them?


12 posted on 08/03/2010 9:16:39 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: hoosiermama

It looks like his union was a racist organization and sent him over the edge. That should be the narrative. The MSM will be mad that they can’t link him to the Tea Party.


13 posted on 08/03/2010 9:18:33 PM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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It looks like his union was a racist organization and sent him over the edge. That should be the narrative. The MSM will be mad that they can’t link him to the Tea Party.


14 posted on 08/03/2010 9:18:36 PM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: hoosiermama

Most likely Teamsters


15 posted on 08/03/2010 9:19:40 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: Libloather
He was bankrupt by age 24, when, court filings show, his only worldly possessions were $250 worth of clothing and $600 in a checking account.

I had little more than that at that age, but worked for the US Navy.

16 posted on 08/03/2010 9:21:38 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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Teamsters must be a racist organization /sarc


17 posted on 08/03/2010 9:24:28 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Libloather

It was continuous sirens for 30 minutes, starting at 7:30am. The next hour was intermittent sirens.


18 posted on 08/03/2010 9:31:59 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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How long before Obama chimes in about how those crackers had it coming?


19 posted on 08/03/2010 9:48:29 PM PDT by Spok (Liberalism is more of a mood than a philosophy. -Robert Bork)
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To: Libloather

Nothing in comparison to that Andrew Breitbart did.

\sarc off


20 posted on 08/03/2010 10:24:01 PM PDT by NoLibZone (If we could remove bad representatives through voting, voting would have been made illegal by now.)
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