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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 12:23 AM Nov 2016

Iowa Police Shooter a Confederate-Flag-Waving Racist

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/02/1590110/-Iowa-Police-Shooter-a-Confederate-Flat-Waving-Racist

I woke up to the news this morning that two Iowa police offers were shot and killed overnight, ambush-style. As of 9am ET, the gunman was still on the loose. Predictably, the comments to any news story about this were disgusting, and many comments were aimed at blaming #BlackLivesMatter for the shootings.

Yet — it appears the suspect, Scott Michael Greene, who is now in custody — was hardly a #BLM adherent and is, in fact, a Confederate-flag waving white man who is aggrieved because he was told to stop waving his confederate flag in front of African Americans at a local football game....

And finally — as if we didn’t know where this was leading, this:




I don’t have anything else to add except to say — sadly — that I am not surprised. Get out and vote people. Make calls from home to swing states. Canvass this weekend. Bury the orange menace utterly — it’s our only hope to tamp down some of this hatred.


I'm shocked, shocked to find out that racism is going on in this establishment!
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Iowa Police Shooter a Confederate-Flag-Waving Racist (Original Post) KamaAina Nov 2016 OP
is that why the media is largely ignoring it ? JI7 Nov 2016 #1
At least they caught the worthless bastard. NaturalHigh Nov 2016 #3
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