Hussein's fault? We may need a beer summit.
Posted on 08/03/2010 9:05:05 PM PDT by Libloather
Omar Thornton Claimed He Was Victim of Workplace Racism
By Paul Shepard on Aug 3rd 2010 6:05PM
It's too early to tell what led Omar S. Thornton to go to the beer distributor warehouse outside Hartford, Conn., where he worked and to gun down nine workers before turning the rifle on himself.
Initial reports from the labor union that represented Thornton, 34, which say that he was a "disciplinary problem," that he was racially harassed at work and supervisors did nothing to remedy the situation, shine a bright light on the potentially explosive situations in our modern workplaces.
Thornton had been disciplined earlier in the day for taking beer from his job, according to police sources. At a meeting with supervisors, he was given a choice of quitting or being fired. As he was being escorted from the building, Thornton secured a gun and began firing at co-workers, according to authorities.
The mother of a woman Thornton dated told reporters that he has long complained about racism at the plant and had pcitures of the word "nigger" and pictures of a noose taken from a bathroom stall at work.
Hussein's fault? We may need a beer summit.
The union said he never made a complaint to them or the state or federal level.
He was bankrupt by age 24, when, court filings show, his only worldly possessions were $250 worth of clothing and $600 in a checking account. Debt collectors hounded him for years.
In the last two years, he landed a job as a driver for a beer distributor. He lived with a longtime girlfriend in a bumpy relationship that ended, at least temporarily, in the spring. On Facebook, he wrote of his interest in exercise supplements and guns.
None of this adds up to explain why Omar S. Thornton, 34, walked into Hartford Distributors, where he worked, in Manchester, Conn., on Tuesday morning and opened fire, killing eight people and taking his own life; the facts that first trickle in after a catastrophic crime rarely do.
But as the hours passed, the police and the public sifted through the particulars of Mr. Thornton’s life for any clues about what had prompted the deadly rampage.
The story that emerged on Tuesday began in East Hartford, a working-class town across the Connecticut River from Hartford, where Mr. Thornton grew up, the youngest of three siblings. “He was the baby,” said his aunt, Rosetta Billie.
Ms. Billie recalled that Mr. Thornton, as a child, trailed her around at her Pentecostal church every Sunday. “He was a good kid,” she said. “He never had been in trouble a day in his life. He never had been to the jailhouse a day in his life.”
Mr. Thornton graduated in 1996 from East Hartford High School, where he left little impression on several classmates contacted Tuesday. He continued his education, although it is not clear where; public records show that he owed $2,500 in student loans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/nyregion/04gunman.html
Just his way of playing the race card for the white boys down at the DNC.
That tells me that instead of firing employees, I must kill them ninja-like from behind with a razor-wire garrote.
Then, he pulled out a gun and started shooting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_us/us_beer_distributor_shootingsWhich union....? Is this an SEIU vs ACORN vs NAACP vs CBC battle?
A better plan might be a trap door and a tank full of sharks with lazers on their fricking heads.
I've tried it. (And, I gotta tell ya, it ain't all that bad.)
Teamsters. He killed his union rep who was at the dismissal meeting with him. The union rep was also the head of the local Teamsters. There’ll be no sympathy from the union for this perp.
I don’t know what contains more drivel, The article or the comments by Vickiss
But would you hit them?
It looks like his union was a racist organization and sent him over the edge. That should be the narrative. The MSM will be mad that they can’t link him to the Tea Party.
It looks like his union was a racist organization and sent him over the edge. That should be the narrative. The MSM will be mad that they can’t link him to the Tea Party.
Most likely Teamsters
I had little more than that at that age, but worked for the US Navy.
Teamsters must be a racist organization /sarc
It was continuous sirens for 30 minutes, starting at 7:30am. The next hour was intermittent sirens.
How long before Obama chimes in about how those crackers had it coming?
Nothing in comparison to that Andrew Breitbart did.
\sarc off
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