Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook

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Jay Baker incited outrage on Wednesday when he said the 21-year-old who admitted to murdering eight people at Asian massage parlors was having “a really bad day.”

Pilar Melendez, National Reporter
William Bredderman, Researcher
Updated Mar. 18, 2021 12:21AM ET



A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning the deadly Tuesday shooting rampage that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “really bad day.”

“Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said during the joint news conference with the Atlanta Police Department about 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long.

But it seems the same spokesperson shared racist content online, including pointing the finger at China for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—the same vitriol advocates say has fueled a horrific surge in violence against Asian Americans.

In a Facebook page associated with Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office, several photos show the law enforcer was promoting T-shirts with the slogan “COVID-19 imported virus from CHY-NA.”

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Sheriff Jay Baker should be permanently removed from the Sheriff's Dept.

[FlyingPiggy]

3. 10,000+

[matt819]

2. Anyone want to cone with an alternative statement

If the victims were white and the killer black or Muslim or Asian?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This asshole also worked for Blackwater

Link to tweet

[crickets]

6. Of course he did. Wow. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. ACAB.

[demtenjeep]

7. William Rownd the owner of the nasty shirts has a FB that is pathetic

and it seems he has violated several copyrights with his shirts