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Family: Racial Bias Caused Conn. Gunman to Snap
ABC News ^ | August 3, 2010 | Everton Bailey, Jr.

Posted on 08/04/2010 6:50:09 AM PDT by Zakeet

Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distributor where he worked.

Busted, he didn't put up a fight, company officials said. He quietly signed a letter of resignation and was headed for the door when he pulled out a gun and started firing — "cold as ice," as one survivor described it.

In the end, Thornton killed eight people, injured two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday at Hartford Distributors that union and company officials said they would not have anticipated from someone with no history of complaints or disciplinary problems.

Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.

"Everybody's got a breaking point," said Joanne Hannah, the mother of Thornton's longtime girlfriend.

After shooting his co-workers, Thornton hid as police moved in. He called his mother, who tried for 10 minutes to talk him out of killing himself, his uncle Will Holliday told reporters.

"He said, 'I killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me,'" Holliday said. "He said, 'The cops are going to come in so I am going to take care of myself.'"

Authorities said they found him dead.

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Brett Hollander, whose family owns the distributor, denied any racial bias. And a union official said Thornton had not filed a complaint of racism with the union or any government agency.

"I can assure you there has never been any racial discrimination at our company," Hollander said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; ambulancechasers; bias; connecticut; obamasfault; racism; shooting
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The nasty Crackers forced the nice guy to kill eight of them plus himself

1 posted on 08/04/2010 6:50:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Ah, it’s whitey’s fault he stole the beer and got fired.


2 posted on 08/04/2010 6:51:43 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Zakeet

were all the victims white?
is this a hate crime?


3 posted on 08/04/2010 6:51:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet

Yeah, sure. Free will had nothing to do with it. /s


4 posted on 08/04/2010 6:51:50 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: Zakeet

The employer’s mistake was in having him meet to sign a resignation. They should have had him arrested for theft instead.


5 posted on 08/04/2010 6:52:33 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: Zakeet
and was headed for the door when he pulled out a gun and started firing — "cold as ice," as one survivor described it.

I understand that he used a .223 rifle. How do you conceal that?

6 posted on 08/04/2010 6:52:44 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Zakeet

Omar eh.....

Omar the tent maker???

was he muzzzzy (most likely a muzzy wannabe at least)?

he should have offed his ugly self BEFORE he killed the others....even the union thugs who accompanied him, said he never filed a racism suit.


7 posted on 08/04/2010 6:53:31 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: mrmeyer

I had a student who blamed ALL of his problems on whites. He was denied tenure because of lack of publications. His lawsuit was ... whites were biased.

He didn’t win.


8 posted on 08/04/2010 6:54:00 AM PDT by whitedog57
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To: Zakeet

The screams of racism are like a conditioned response these days. Kids drown, its whitey’s fault. Guy shoots up a beer distrubuter, It’s whitey’s fault. Congressmen get caught, it’s whitey’s fault.


9 posted on 08/04/2010 6:54:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Zakeet

Oh for Pete’s sake!

Give it a rest, already!

This turd was a bad actor and his actions were of his own choosing!

I said from the beginning that Stroker would be responsible for setting race relations in this country back by at least 50 years, and I am being proven right on this.


10 posted on 08/04/2010 6:55:29 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: thethirddegree
folding or colapsing stock


11 posted on 08/04/2010 6:55:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Zakeet

Same thing the media reported when Hasam gunned down 13 at Ft. Hood. He was discriminated against. He was picked on. Then, when the truth we all knew came out, the media shut up about him.

This really sucks for the families of the dead. Imagine how they felt if they turned on CNN’s Rick Sanchez last night and heard him give credence to the claims of a man who murderered their father, husband or son.


12 posted on 08/04/2010 6:55:59 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Zakeet

Expect to see a lot more of this claptrap as Obama continues to orchestrate his War on Whitey. Phony racism charges will abound as negroes jump on the Obama balkanization bandwagon. America’s Black Muslim Marxist president is sowing the wind — and we will all reap the whirlwind.


13 posted on 08/04/2010 6:56:32 AM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: mrmeyer; saganite

From what I’ve seen, he was a pure racist, hated whitey and thought they were the source of all his problems. This is the type of guy who explodes when encouraged by Obama and Holder ginning up the racial divide, accusing Arizona of racism, accusing anyone but minorities of racism. They are staring a race war.


14 posted on 08/04/2010 6:56:46 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: thethirddegree
I understand that he used a .223 rifle. How do you conceal that?

Kel Tec .223, folds up pretty small. No idea if this is what he had, but it does address your question.

15 posted on 08/04/2010 6:56:46 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Zakeet

Disgusting that they are trying to make this evil monster into the victim. Same thing happened with Ft. Hood too.


16 posted on 08/04/2010 6:57:40 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Zakeet
Fox News this morning was reporting the story as if Omar's allegations were automatically true.

I guess it would be racist to question his veracity. His victims can't tell their side of the story.

17 posted on 08/04/2010 6:57:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force.

Maybe they're right. Were the white workers allowed to steal beer?

18 posted on 08/04/2010 6:58:43 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Zakeet
I killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me

They probably wanted him to turn up on time, sober, and do his job. And he interpreted that as racism.

19 posted on 08/04/2010 6:59:21 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Zakeet

What’s the world coming to when ‘the man’ begrudges a brother a few cases of beer? He got THOUSANDS of ‘em you know!

Whitey not only racist; he selfish!


20 posted on 08/04/2010 6:59:54 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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