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The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence...
Daily Mail ^ | August 28, 2015 | Wills Robinsom

Posted on 08/28/2015 4:03:18 AM PDT by Flick Lives

Innocuous phrases Alison Parker used every day to describe her job may have led to her death, simply because Vester Lee Flanagan thought they were racist.

The 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.

It sheds further light on the murderer's erratic behavior, details of which have emerged since he callously gunned down Parker and cameraman Adam Ward live on breakfast TV.

Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his aggressive and violent temper, before he was fired in 2013.

But now colleagues have revealed his assumptions were 'crazy' and even described one occasion where he believed someone bringing a watermelon in for fellow staff was a racist joke directed at him. They were included in a complaint filed by Flanagan while Parker was working at the Roanoke, Virginia, station in 2012.

The report, seen by the New York Post, that was written by news editor Greg Baldwin read: 'One was something about 'swinging' by some place; the other was out in the 'field'.'

Parker, who was referred to by her middle name as Bailey in the documents, was never disciplined for the remarks.

But they appear to be the 'racist' comments Flanagan was referring to when he Tweeted in the aftermath of the deadly shooting.

Ryan Fuqua, a video editor at WDBJ, told The Post: 'That's how that guy's mind worked. Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that.'

'He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackracist; death; flanagan; parker; racism; shooting; vester; vesterleeflanagan
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To: Flick Lives

more basic, he was black, he was queer

he had been trained to be offended since birth

the blood is on Al Sharpton’s hands


21 posted on 08/28/2015 4:43:44 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: Red Badger

Probably turn into another OJ. Blacks packed on the jury cheering him on. I’m glad he’s dead.


22 posted on 08/28/2015 4:45:17 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Flick Lives

Don’t by into the “crazy” nonsense with this guy. This guy was not crazy by any stretch. He was just an @sshole at first ... and then he turned into a depraved killer.


23 posted on 08/28/2015 4:47:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Flick Lives

“The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence...”

The left has invented the concept of “racist dog whistles” “code words” and other “microaggressions” that signal racism. Whites have no way of knowing what these innocuous comments are and in fact they can be designated on the spot by any minority to put whites at a disadvantage. Working with blacks is like living next to a bomb and not knowing what might trigger it. And the left can’t understand why employers prefer to hire white folk.


24 posted on 08/28/2015 4:47:58 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Flick Lives
"using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field'"

Swinging from vines in the jungle. Picking cotton in the field. The micro aggression crap pushed by the race industry for its feigned outrage at every imagined sleight has taken its first high profile victims.
25 posted on 08/28/2015 4:54:02 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: Flick Lives

he was US Govvie material.


26 posted on 08/28/2015 4:55:07 AM PDT by ronniesgal (here we go again!)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

I much know this is completely off topic but does anybody remember the gay dentist in Florida who purposely infected his patients with AIDS to draw attention to the fact that he was gay and had AIDS? I believe one of the patients was a young girl named Kimberly Bergalis. It was just horrific that somebody would do something because they obviously hated their own personal choices and what their own actions did to them.


27 posted on 08/28/2015 5:01:55 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Flick Lives

” Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his aggressive and violent temper, before he was fired in 2013. “

He was justified, because the photojournalists would always “white balance” the cameras as an act of “micro-aggression” against him.

#sarcasm


28 posted on 08/28/2015 5:05:34 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Flick Lives

He was told by his fat boss that he was too fat for TV.


29 posted on 08/28/2015 5:05:54 AM PDT by batterycommander (- a little more rubble, a lot less trouble.)
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To: Flick Lives

Being gay is what made him crazy, it’s just easier to sell racism.


30 posted on 08/28/2015 5:09:24 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: Flick Lives
professional victimhood 101
31 posted on 08/28/2015 5:10:48 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: WayneS

Sorry, I don’t follow you there, WayneS...

It’s as though you’re saying that their personal and professional inaction in regards to his personal problems could be perceived as being racist and that reporting his behavior out of compassion would have been doing the right thing.

In my opinion, as co-workers, they didn’t owe him diddly-squat. Station management made the right call in terminating him and sometimes, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.


32 posted on 08/28/2015 5:19:10 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism"

In the twisted minds of the racially obsessed Left, everything is pure racism.

It's the same with any obsession. The obsessed see their fixation everywhere!

33 posted on 08/28/2015 5:21:31 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We the People OF THE UNITED STATESÂ…do ordain and establish this Constitution FOR THE UNITED STATES.)
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To: Flick Lives

How about just plain old demon possessed. We make excuses for people who are evil and enjoy hurting others. It is just plain old evil of the most Bibical sort.


34 posted on 08/28/2015 5:22:02 AM PDT by Cottonpatch
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To: Flick Lives

I have been reading combox reactions to the murders. More than a few blame the shooting victims for not being sufficiently sensitive to the racial/sexual vulnerability of their killer. That’s where we are as a country.


35 posted on 08/28/2015 5:22:55 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: miss marmelstein; Flick Lives

I heard a snippet quote of a person at the TV station who said of the murderer: “he was a professional victim.”


36 posted on 08/28/2015 5:26:18 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Flick Lives

Micro aggression

Blacks are allowed to find racism in anything and everything and somehow whites are supposed to know what offends them on any given day.


37 posted on 08/28/2015 5:27:39 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Flick Lives

We have an unstable crazy guy at our office. There was an incident with a weapon where I should have called the cops. I honestly would like to fire him regardless of the mania and instability.

But I refuse to fire him because of incidents like this. Hell I am afraid to quit because the company might fail without me. Either way crazy is sitting in his house thinking about me. No. Thanks. He’s allowed to work from home 4 days a week instead.


38 posted on 08/28/2015 5:29:20 AM PDT by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: GreyFriar

I’ve noticed that Fox has focused on the koo-koo theme - to the exclusion of the racial animosity element, at least in its news scripts (some of the commentators do mention it).


39 posted on 08/28/2015 5:31:15 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Old Sarge

I don’t think so. I think we’re heading for a divorce where we’ll pay a tax for a common military, but the rest of the laws will be determined by either the free states territory or the nanny states territory. The Court is orchestrating an inevitable split.


40 posted on 08/28/2015 5:32:14 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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