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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 09:58 AM Nov 2017

The mass-shooting last week nobody covered, bc the shooter was a white racist.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/there-was-a-terror-attack-in-colorado-last-week-but-no-one-is-talking-about-it/

Scott Ostrem, a 47-year-old, white man, walked into a Walmart north of Denver on Nov. 1 and opened fire. Eyewitnesses described him as “nonchalantly” shooting shoppers with a handgun, killing three.

Police captured Ostrem alive the next day. They said they had “no possible motive for the shooting other than to say there was nothing to suggest it was related to terrorism.”

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Ostrem killed three Hispanic people, Pam Marques, Victor Vasquez, and Carlos Moreno, all parents. In the apartment complex where Ostrem lived, neighbors described him as “a bizarre, angry man who lived alone in an apartment with a stack of Bibles and virtually no furniture.” He was a “loner who would walk around carrying weapons” like a shotgun or bow and arrows.

When it came to relations with neighbors, Ostrem “was very racist towards Hispanics.” Another said he was “verbally abusive towards Hispanics.”

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Is there any doubt how Trump would have reacted if a Muslim carried around weapons, kept a stack of Korans in his apartment, verbally abused Christians, and then killed three people?

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A recent FBI-DHS report determined white supremacists were the most dangerous domestic extremists.
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The mass-shooting last week nobody covered, bc the shooter was a white racist. (Original Post) DetlefK Nov 2017 OP
+1, verbally abusive towards Hispanics. so he wasn't a quiet racist either uponit7771 Nov 2017 #1
This one hits home for me as I was heading Northbound on I-25 as this was happening and hlthe2b Nov 2017 #2

hlthe2b

(102,411 posts)
2. This one hits home for me as I was heading Northbound on I-25 as this was happening and
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 10:03 AM
Nov 2017

saw people in the southbound lanes pulling over with pick up trucks and other vehicles to let people fleeing from that Walmart get in. I had no idea what was going on until I got to Longmont and stopped to check my phone alerts, but it was very disturbing.

In fact, though I'm not a Walmart shopper, I'd thought about getting out of traffic long enough to pop in there or the Target at the next exit to pick up a few things and let the heaviest traffic back-ups ease.

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