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It doesn't matter if they are white, black, or blue. Sometimes, people do stupid crap. Nothing you can do to stop it, nothing to learn from it, it just happens.
It doesn't matter if they are white, black, or blue. Sometimes, people do stupid crap. Nothing you can do to stop it, nothing to learn from it, it just happens.
May God bless those families that have to deal with this.
Indeed, which is where the focus belongs.
The Hartford Distributors and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have started a fund for the families of the 8 innocent victims. Seven of those eight unarmed victims were apparently teamsters.
The Hartford Distributors and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have started a fund for the families of the 8 innocent victims. Seven of those eight unarmed victims were apparently teamsters.
So true.
They released a tape this evening of the shooter calling 911 before he killed himself. Sounding calm, he said he killed the racists and wish he couldve killed more people.
Look, I dont like bullies, I dont like racists, etc. But there is something wrong with you if your final resolution to it is to kill. Accept who you are and just smile. File complaints, quit the job, use proper chains. If that doesnt work, take it up the change if you are indeed being wronged. But to take the actions of killing people, taking them away from their families, makes you worse than they were. There are different channels you can take than killing. The only reason to kill is to protect life. To stand up for life in the face of terror. Not because you were bullied. Not because you think someone is discriminating against you.
When your final action is to kill innocent people, you lose any sympathy I could ever have for you. This goes for this guy, the Columbine punks, and others. Murder because you feel you are being untreated is stupid and does nothing but create unneeded tragedy and horrors. Screw those who take this route.
Put yourself in his shoes. If you REALLY wanted a job bad and tried to get hired at this job why would you ruin it by stealing?
Well geez I don't know Indentured Servant, why don't you put yourself in his shoes and try to figure out why being fired would make you kill 8 people.
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The video has not been presented to the public and saying that this guy has disciplinary actions against him without the company every going into details is suspect to me. Why is racism and harrasment seen as so improbable? When did all the racist die out?
Even if racism had occurred, does it justify the execution of 8 human beings? Apparently you feel that this is a mitigating circumstance. That's scary!
Nothing justifies his actions but his actions were a reaction to something. When you have those mass shooting and murder in high schools, such as Columbine, it’s usually the result of kids who felt bullied and harassed. Something was going on in that place that created this reaction, which the company does not own up to, assuming that that they knew about it; however, again, it does not justify the degree of reaction.
The story that the company is telling does not make sense to me in light of what happened. The way they tell the story this guy just killed all those people after being essentially fired for stealing. We are supposed to believe that this guy was just “crazy” and burst out in rage because he was caught stealing. The last words he told his mother is that he killed those 5 racist who were bothering him and that he was going to kill himself. Now, if you know words are going to be your last words, they will be very IMPORTANT in what they reveal. Of all the possible things he could have said, as his last words, he chose those, which leads me to believe that he actually believed he was being racially harassed or bullied.
Now, if that is true, how far up the chain did it go? If a company or management wants to get rid of an employee, they can and will pay very close attention to you to build a case to get rid of you. Was he stealing beer? They say they have him on video. Are we supposed to believe that he is dumb and did not know that there were cameras? Oh……..companies don’t usually have cameras for security purposes and to guard against theft. I know people who worked for bottling companies and bakeries and cookie places that allowed employees to take home stuff all the time. I am not saying that is what happened here because I don’t know, but I do know people who have worked at places like this and who brought stuff home all the time. I guess it’s a possibility that they were stealing it too, given that all these people I know of were black. Hence, people taking home stuff may be something that is generally overlooked, unless it’s abused or unless the company wants to get rid of you and use that as the reason. It may be an example of subjective enforcement. Many other employees could have been doing the same thing….but the company just overlooked it.
In conclusion, I want to repeat that nothing that I said is justification for what this individual did. My point is that the story makes no sense the way the company tells it. Everything happens for a REASON. Every action creates a reaction. To suggest that this person was simply disgruntled for being fired for stealing makes no sense to me. I mean....50 plus year old white folks are the last people you would think would be racist.
Right, he stole was fired, got mad and went back and killed a bunch of people. I guess your gonna blame 300 yrs of opression on this one, well, what if he was white. He had mental problems period!
The fact still remains that he "thought" it was racism that he did not get a job as a driver when he wanted one and those jobs were based on seniority. When a job became available for a driver position after a year, he was awarded that job. Where is the racism there?
Did anyone bother to read about the President of Hartford Distributors and the contributions he made to the Bloomfield school system? He sued the town of Bloomfield in order to get the schools improved there. The Bloomfield school system is 88% African American. Hardly racist at all.
Again, if people want to make excuses, they can. But the facts are pretty clear and it is well documented about his stealing. The shame of it all is that a person cannot man up and take responsibility for his own actions and makes false claims of racism against others and people died for it.
We not to stop pandering to people and give them excuses for failure, rather we need to give them reasons to succeed. His cop out of "racism" was just an excuse for failure.
Although this crime was extremely tragic, NO it is not the worst mass murder case in U.S History. Stick with facts when speaking of something so tragic.
God forbid we should blame a black guy for anything, because after all he is a victem of 300yrs of opression and should be exonerated from any crime.
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So true.
