Conn. Gunman Called 911, Said He Shot Up 'Racist Place'

AP via AOLNews ^ | August 5, 2010 | Mark Scolforo and Stephen Singer

[rightwingintelligentsia]

HARTFORD, Conn. (Aug. 5) -- A black man who went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor calmly told a 911 operator that it was "a racist place" and that he "handled the problem" but wished he had shot more people.

Omar Thornton called 911 after shooting 10 co-workers - eight fatally - on Tuesday morning at Hartford Distributors Inc. He introduced himself as "the shooter over in Manchester" and said he was hiding in the building, but he would not say where.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All a black person has to do is blame his actions on racists and all is forgiven.

[Gaffer]

Obviously NOT a hate crime......nope, no black racism here, folks......didn’t shoot enough white folks, though.....

[cranked]

Pelosi’s comments on violent leftwing extremism is where and what exactly? /s =.=

[Carley]

Evidently not the first time he was fired for cause.

Always blaming others for his actions, he took the excuse making to a new height.

Murder those who are honorable and blame them for your own failings.

[Feline_AIDS]

He’s right. It’s disgustingly racist to fire people for stealing.

Incidentally, eating breakfast is also racist, as it blatantly marginalizes people with feathers.

[massmike]

So...he's caught stealing from work,but the reason he got fired is "the company is racist"......

...almost sounds like OJ's defense team!

[backwoods-engineer]

Oh how quickly we are marching toward a race-based civil war. It is breathtaking.

[demkicker]

It’s nice to know this POS is enjoying an eternity of burning in hell.

[bboop]

Loved gf’s comments — “Racism MADE him do it. No one would just go off like that.” um, nope...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I found this quote interesting:

"They've been bringing in more and more minority people to fill the positions," Cirigliano said. "You could almost go as far as that's reverse discrimination. They were hiring the groups to balance the workplace, because that's what we are in America, there's a balance."

[puppypusher]

Not one of those poor soules were carrying a firearm unfortunately.

This could have been stopped if the employees were allowed to carry.

[Erik Latranyi]

I am sure Eric Holder is trying to get ahold of this case so it can be dismissed.

[liberty or death]

Worked with a fellow just like him in the late 80’s. Not a racist in our whole crew except him and it’s all he screamed when told to “please just do your job”.

Even had his wife come in and scream racism. I do mean scream. I screamed back a single question. “Is it racist to expect everyone to do their job?”

[agere_contra]

Has ‘Zulu Shabazz’ commented on this yet?

[CWW]

Okay. Let me get this straight.

A black employee who has never filed a formal complaint with the company HR director or his Union Rep. alleging racism, and who gets caught red handed with a video camera stealing from a company truck, and who blows away 10 white employees randomly is not a racist?

If a white guy had done this, we'd have the hatecrimes sweepstakes.

[jiggyboy]

I don’t think there’s any case to go after.

[spectre]

In my perfect world, it would be against the law to call someone a "racist".

It's the most vile word in the English language.

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[camle]

I wonder what folks will be saying if the pics actually WERE on the guys’ cell phone.

racism isn’t an excuse for this crime, but there’s so much being invested in denying the charge, I wonder what would happen if they turn out to be valid?

[paulycy]

Someone should have explained the whole “sticks and stones” thing to this guy as a child.