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After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’
ABCNews.com ^ | August 26, 2015 | PIERRE THOMAS, JACK CLOHERTY, JACK DATE and MIKE LEVINE

Posted on 08/26/2015 11:37:28 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

A man claiming to be Bryce Williams called ABC News over the last few weeks, saying he wanted to pitch a story, and wanted to fax information. He never told ABC News what the story was.

This morning, a fax was in the machine (time stamped 8:26 a.m.)almost two hours after the shooting. A little after 10 a.m., he called again, and introduced himself as Bryce, but also said his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan, and that he shot two people this morning. While on the phone, he said authorities are “after me,” and “all over the place.” He hung up. ABC News contacted the authorities immediately and provided them with the fax.

In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:

“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”

“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blackracism; brycewilliams; livetvshooting; obamalegacy; reporter; shooting; southcarolina; suicide; thanksobama; vester; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; watchman; wdbj
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To: Timber Rattler
He did it because of the South Carolina church shootings.

He did it because he was a black guy wanting to murder some white people.

He's good enough at playing victim and doesn't need any one's help.
61 posted on 08/26/2015 1:15:41 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: DoughtyOne
I hope that they do print "Bryce's" manifesto and publicize his political beliefs. That will make it impossible for the media to sweep what this really is (racially motivated black on white violence) under the rug, no matter how much they try to spin it to make "Bryce" look like a victim of evil ole' white racists.

In fact, I wish they would publicize the rantings and views of most perpetrators of black on white crime, so people would finally wake up to the fact that white on black racial crime is a fringe phenomenon while black on white racial crime is the norm.

62 posted on 08/26/2015 1:17:22 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

That is a reasoned point.

I wonder if it plays that way.

My take is that many reading it will get their belief’s confirmed, see this is what happens when you White folks treat a man of color this way.

More folks than we would like to think, read their own beliefs into something.

We see this and think he’s a raving lunatic.

A welfare queen might read it and think of what a tragedy is is when minorities get treated like this. “What do they expect?”


63 posted on 08/26/2015 1:21:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: radu

“”” Seems to me Flanagan was too busy being on the run to send a 23-page fax to anyone. No telling who DID send the fax.”””

Computers can be programmed to send faxes later.


64 posted on 08/26/2015 1:21:49 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: re_nortex

Just heard someone at the airport use the term “racism PTSD” to justify his actions. I’m at a loss for words


65 posted on 08/26/2015 1:26:01 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: MNDude

That’s what the story said...


66 posted on 08/26/2015 1:31:25 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s informative to compare/contrast how white conservatives react to Dylan Roof vs. how radical blacks (and their white liberal enablers) will no doubt react to “Bryce Williams.” I don’t think Dylan Roof has a single defender or admirer on this site, and rightly so. In contrast, Bryce Williams will have many admirers among the likes of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, and even those black liberals who condemn his murder will qualify it by saying that Bryce’s sentiments are at least “understandable.”


67 posted on 08/26/2015 1:32:15 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Timber Rattler

Straight to hell with him. I don’t give a flip what this racist POS had to say.


68 posted on 08/26/2015 1:32:42 PM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Yes, I agree with that.


69 posted on 08/26/2015 1:33:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Timber Rattler

They need to take that manifesto and bury it him.


70 posted on 08/26/2015 1:33:55 PM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: ballearthout; DouglasKC

Right. Here is their MO: Doesn’t fit their template?

Obfuscate.

Use Pretzel Logic.

Be completely inconsistent. (What was said 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 year, 1 decade, 1 century ago is completely and totally irrelevant, and they are certain nobody is ever going to call them on it. As Rush Limbaugh says, they ARE the “Drive By Media”.

They will make up whatever they want, secure in the knowledge they will never, ever be called out on it.


71 posted on 08/26/2015 1:37:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Mad Dawgg

And in this day and age the media has to be careful*

Since when are the media careful? Geez their a big part of pushing this racial tension. Media in this country have no morals!


72 posted on 08/26/2015 1:50:54 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: bgill

You are correct. Homosexuality is an extreme narcissistic personality disorder.


73 posted on 08/26/2015 2:01:19 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You’re right; I’ve warned my young children that some blacks will kill them solely for being white, and that was the case here.

I also tell them homosexuals are crazy (also the case here)...


74 posted on 08/26/2015 3:00:42 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SVTCobra03; bgill

Our landlord of twenty years was a homosexual for some fifty years before we even rented his home [my older sister knew him as one, in the 50s], and although he could get [overly] emotional at times, he never craved any sort of special attention. Could it be this is something new with the ME generation?


75 posted on 08/26/2015 3:04:37 PM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: radu

The gay black man here also stated a hatred of women - which is something overlooked in the gay community - everyone assume gay men are like best friends with women but they actually hate them.

Google “Gay men hate women”. And I don’t mean they “hate to have sex with women” they loathe them the way Muslims hate Jews and Christians.


76 posted on 08/26/2015 3:08:29 PM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Timber Rattler

The SC church shooter did it over a Confederate flag. That made him a racist. And he was charged with a hate crime.

This guy did it because they were white and made racial remarks to him PLUS he hated the church shooter. He was a racist.


77 posted on 08/26/2015 3:25:21 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: Genoa

The station manager said the reporter had reported him to human resources.


78 posted on 08/26/2015 3:29:48 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: WENDLE

And straight people. And successful people. And happy people.


79 posted on 08/26/2015 3:43:44 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: ballearthout

>>The only thing tastier to them would be if he was also a trans-gendered vegan who entered the country illegally.

Like an earlier poster said “Now he’s worm food.”


80 posted on 08/26/2015 3:46:45 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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