Beer warehouse shooter long complained of racism

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Truth wrote:

It is always the same excuse for perceived failure. This guy was given a decent job, even received a good promotion (sounds like a raise to me). Then when he returns the favor by stealing, believes his firing was because he is black. Oops, African American. Same old phony excuse, it was racial.

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julia wrote:

Blacks have had enough of white people satan hateness.Times are a changeing.Blacks cannot go to work in peace.It is time to start fighting. A young black male has to watch fox news keep mess going and lies. The white male population has use dumb sarah palen to the limit.This woman need to be home with her sick child and out of wed lock daughter.We are the laughting stock of the century with palin.We have dumb white males sitting behind a mike all day with stupid people sending money to these lazy two legged animals. This is America.I am with other countries Americans are money hungry sinful fools.People god is going to come through America and destroy the good and the bad.

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It was a simple fix wrote:

Diversion from the truth, he was never on record or had made any complaint about it. And now his family and friends are trying to make him a saint.
He stole and was fired. End of story.

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Truth wrote:

It is always the same excuse for perceived failure. This guy was given a decent job, even received a good promotion (sounds like a raise to me). Then when he returns the favor by stealing, believes his firing was because he is black. Oops, African American. Same old phony excuse, it was racial.

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curious cat wrote:

"Brocuglio's sister, Toni, said Thornton would come home and say co-workers called him racial slurs. He was also upset by comments made by passers-by about the interracial couple, she said.
"He just didn't understand why people had so much hatred in their lives," Toni Brocuglio said."

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Truth wrote:

It is always the same excuse for perceived failure. This guy was given a decent job, even received a good promotion (sounds like a raise to me). Then when he returns the favor by stealing, believes his firing was because he is black. Oops, African American. Same old phony excuse, it was racial.

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Justinia wrote:

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Maybe you didn't notice this from the article - "Brocuglio, who said she dated Thornton until eight years ago..."
It sounds to me like the Brocuglio sisters were talking about 8 year old discrimination at a different company.
"Thornton was hired for a warehouse job at Hartford Distributors about two years ago and was later promoted to driver."
So let's see - 8 years ago he had some racist crap happen to him at a different company, two years ago he got a job at Hartford Distributors, sometime in that 2 years he was PROMOTED (Is getting a promotion discrimination?), then he stole stuff, was caught on tape and forced to resign then he murdered INNOCENT people.
IF he had not stolen from the company, and if he had documented and reported the harassment through official channels I'd have sympathy for him - IF he hadn't murdered innocent people! If he had evidence of racist acts at work then instead of being a dead man he might have gotten some alleged racists fired and perhaps a financial settlement - IF what the current girlfriend and her mom say is true.
The only thing that I am certain of in this case is that he was a mentally ill man who probably blamed everybody else for his problems, sure maybe he was the target of racist crap, but he should have been smart and sued some people instead of killing innocent people!
He gets no sympathy from me, I hope there is a special place in Hell for him.

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James K Polk wrote:

I think Thornton just doesn't like white people, and doesn't like living in a white society. The fact that he has to go shoot a bunch a white guys indicates that he was far more hateful and racist than the people he complained about.
Liberals are ultimately to blame for this. They are responsible for forcing black people to assimilate to a white society. What black people really need tis to have their sovereignty restored. They need to have their own nation and government.
I have no idea what it means to be a minority; and I don't want to know. Of course the Libs have a big plan to make white people the minority and to place "Latinos" in the majority controlling position in America. They refer to this as "social justice." But all sensible people know that liberalism is a mental illness, just like homosexuality.

Sure Thing wrote:

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it's typical Left Wing media tripe to make it seem reasonable to kill 8 White men since the killer thought they were racist. You see racism is so abhorrent in their eyes that even if it was a tragedy the reasoning behind it was just. The mainstream media would never bother with a sympathetic article about the killer if he were White and killed 8 Black men or 8 individuals of any race for that matter. Somehow they are willing to give reasoning for the death of Whites as if they had it coming for some unknown reason.

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curious cat wrote:

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read the article more closely. to quote:
""I know what pushed him over the edge was all the racial stuff that was happening at work," said his girlfriend, Kristi Hannah.
Thornton, a black man, said as much in a chilling, four-minute 911 call.
"You probably want to know the reason why I shot this place up," Thornton said in a recording released Thursday. "This place is a racist place. They're treating me bad over here. And treat all other black employees bad over here, too. So I took it to my own hands and handled the problem. I wish I could have got more of the people.""
he said his current company was a racist place. that they treated him and other black employees bad there. understandable anger, poor choice of action.
he experienced racism and it made his blood boil. anyone who has been systematically discriminated can understand his intense anger about it.
anger which cannot be channeled in a constructive way, produces violence. it's just like the postal employees who go postal:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_...
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"Over the last few decades, the United States Postal Services (USPS) has suffered a poor reputation from incidents of workplace violence and homicide. A national study was ordered by the Postal Service in the hopes of dispelling occupational fears and directly challenging the purported misconception that postal workers are under greater threat than those who work at other occupations. According to an article by Bob Dart titled Study Calls Go Postal Stereotype Mere Myth, research showed that the USPS employees are no more likely to go postal or commit homicide than other American workers.
Washington Post staff writer Cathy Newman writes in Going Postal? that only 16 of 6,719 workplace homicides were attributed to postal employees between 1992 to 1998. The article quoted Jerry Rubenstein, a psychologist at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, who stated that the public nature of the job led to postal worker homicides being more highly publicized, thus creating a distorted picture of postal workers propensity to commit violence. Intriguingly, a large number of postal employees have embraced this myth, believing that they are at higher risk of dying on the job than others.
In fact, Dart claims that homicide rates in the postal service were considerably lower than in other workplaces, with the retail trade having the highest incidence of occupational homicide. However, although the homicide rates were substantially lower when compared with other occupations, Newman stated that there was a higher risk of stress amongst postal employees, likely due to the drudging daily routine associated with the work. This fact only is a critical variable that could lead to an increase in disgruntled workers and possibly violent consequences."
THE PHENOMENA OF WORKPLACE HOMICIDES CROSSES RACIAL AND JOB BOUNDARIES.

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James K Polk wrote:

I think Thornton just doesn't like white people, and doesn't like living in a white society. The fact that he has to go shoot a bunch a white guys indicates that he was far more hateful and racist than the people he complained about.
Liberals are ultimately to blame for this. They are responsible for forcing black people to assimilate to a white society. What black people really need tis to have their sovereignty restored. They need to have their own nation and government.
I have no idea what it means to be a minority; and I don't want to know. Of course the Libs have a big plan to make white people the minority and to place "Latinos" in the majority controlling position in America. They refer to this as "social justice." But all sensible people know that liberalism is a mental illness, just like homosexuality.

James K Polk wrote:

I have no idea what it means to be a minority; and I don't want to know.

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James K Polk wrote:

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I have no idea what it means to be a minority; and I don't want to know.