Have you heard about that terrible workplace shooting in Connecticut?
In a phone call to his mom after in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the man suspected of shooting eight of his co-workers at Hartford Distributors in Manchester, Conn., reportedly said, "I killed the five racists that were bothering me." Then he took his own life.
The deaths at the beer distributor plant is the largest-scale workplace shooting since the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood last year. Union officials claim that there's no record of the alleged shooter, Omar Thornton, making any official complaints about racism. Company spokesmen deny that employees harbored racist views.
In a radio interview with Omar Thornton's uncle, I was mildly dumbfounded to hear his affirmation that his nephew's allegations of racism were true, even though there was not a record of any such incidents with the union:
"He wasn't one to be makin' stuff up"
So, he's capable of killing five people, wounding three others, but don't accuse him of "making stuff up"? Yeah. Right.
More at N.Y. Daily News
Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel
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