I heard the names of the employees slaughtered by the man in California.

[malaise]

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Almost all are Hispanic and another is clearly foreign.
This too may be a hate crime.

Adding link with names
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215469355

[Walleye]

1. We need to increase prison sentences for wife-beaters

That’s how so many of these guys start out,and get away with it, and develop a taste for cruelty in violence

[oasis]

2. +1,000,000

[malaise]

4. Woman beating period

starts long before they get married

[Walleye]

9. Yes, of course, that's what I meant.

[dawg day]

3. One was sikh (Singh)

As were many of the FedEx employees killed in Indiana.

[malaise]

5. Precisely

and the Asians in Georgia

[Retrograde]

7. Santa Clara county is roughly 1/3 Hispanic

and 1/3 Asian. To me, this sounds like a random collection of people at work

[malaise]

8. We'd need a breakdown of the VTA staff to draw that conclusion n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. I wouldn't call it "nearly all Hispanic", though

The surnames look like 3 Hispanic, 1 either Hispanic or Italian, 1 Sikh, 1 Iranian, 1 looks Russian but an online article says he was Roman Catholic so perhaps not, and 2 British or Irish (which might, of course, include someone Black with a name derived from enslavement of their ancestor). First names don't always match the guessed ethnicity of the surname, so they may be some generations after immigration.

[RockRaven]

10. In the article on the shooting in this morning's paper (San Jose Mercury News) they painted a

picture of an alcohol abuser, domestic abuser (physical, sexual, emotional/verbal), standoffish-to-hostile with his neighbors, once divorced, never had guests/friends/family visit his home.

An ex girlfriend (post-divorce relationship) detailed his abusive behavior and put it in the context of him coming home from work angry that other people had gotten assignments, opportunities, jobs which "should" have been his. Apparently he was always angry/resentful about being "mistreated" at work that way.

Sounds like frustrated-entitlement derangement. "They" got what was "his" and piece of human garbage that he was, he couldn't deal with it.

[malaise]

11. Well said

Sadly there are many more around who are just like him.

[bullwinkle428]

12. He allegedly complained about co-workers getting easier assignments than

he was getting, so it could have been a case of him seeing them as "lower on the totem pole" because of their backgrounds, also playing into the potential hate crime angle.

[MenloParque]

14. Grew up in that area

Most of my classmates and neighbors were Mexican. Most working class and laborers in this area are Mexican. Most residents in East San Jo are Mexican and Viet. I do know that he purposely spared women and had specific individual targets.

[malaise]

15. Thanks