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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Mon May 27, 2019, 09:38 PM May 2019

Alabama 4channer with body armor guns down three police officers, one fatally

While protesting Black Lives Matter activists and the FBI’s “black identity extremists” remain popular bogeymen in the eyes of law-and-order conservatives, a man in Alabama recently reminded us once again that, in fact, the most lethal threat to police lives from a radical terrorist element in the United States comes from the white far right.

Three police officers were shot, one of them fatally, when they responded to a domestic disturbance call in Auburn on Sunday night. The man arrested shortly afterward, it soon emerged—Grady Wayne Wilkes, 29, a veteran from Auburn—was fond of posting memes from the alt-right online gathering spot 4chan, most of them mock humor about guns, white nationalist trolling signals, and encouragement for Proud Boys-style violence against left-wing protesters, who he described as “leftist scum.”

J.J. MacNab, an extremism researcher at George Washington University, collected and posted samples of Wilkes’ social-media posts on Twitter.



Auburn Police said that the three officers—William Buechner, Webb Sistrunk, and Evan Elliott, all veterans of the department—shot by Wilkes had arrived at the scene of a domestic disturbance when he emerged suddenly, wearing body armor, and opened fire. Buechner was killed at the scene; Sistrunk and Elliott both survived, but remain hospitalized for their wounds.

Wilkes was arrested nine hours later, less than three miles away. In addition to the charges for shooting three police officers, he also faces attempted strangulation and domestic violence charges for his assault on the woman police found at the home.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/27/1859472/-Alabama-4channer-with-body-armor-guns-down-three-police-officers-one-fatally#read-more

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Alabama 4channer with body armor guns down three police officers, one fatally (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
He is part of tRump's legacy. n/t CaliforniaPeggy May 2019 #1
5 Fast Facts You Need to Know struggle4progress May 2019 #7
Armed, nazi, white nationalist terrorist is taken alive after shooting three cops sop May 2019 #2
Yeah, they tried to negotiate with him. Blue_true May 2019 #3
When in doubt consult the chart: Initech May 2019 #8
Police Peacefully Arrest Suspected Cop Killer One Week After Killing Unarmed Pamela Turner lunasun May 2019 #19
He was doomed nocoincidences May 2019 #4
Also my first thought Sucha NastyWoman May 2019 #9
Did you think "John Wayne Gacy?" ProudLib72 May 2019 #13
Oddly enough GeoWilliam750 May 2019 #15
I had to look that up because I didn't believe you ProudLib72 May 2019 #16
Why would anyone give their child that middle name? GeoWilliam750 May 2019 #14
Shut it down. 4chan has blood on its hands now Initech May 2019 #5
Wasn't 4chan or another chan a supporter of the New Zealand shooter? dustyscamp May 2019 #10
It was Pew Die Pie, who is a YouTuber. Initech May 2019 #12
I like the photo from the story better. LMAO!!! nt Progressive Jones May 2019 #6
What sort of internal dialogue Aussie105 May 2019 #11
Yet another entitled BlueMTexpat May 2019 #17
Typical Violent Leftist, Right? Ztolkins May 2019 #18

struggle4progress

(118,280 posts)
7. 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:28 PM
May 2019

By Ellyn Santiago
Updated May 20, 2019 at 4:05pm

... Wilkes is a supporter of Pres. Donald Trump and took to Facebook to show his support for Trump policy. Wilkes praised Trump in October of 2016 while blasting “every fragile feminist brain …victims of a bullshit form of rape.”

“Trump makes a comment years ago……triggers every fragile feminist brain in the country……they scream,stomp and swear that they are also victims of some bullshit form of rape that they made up yesterday…..Donald Trump, I drink to you my friend” ...

https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/manhunt-grady-wayne-wilkes/

sop

(10,165 posts)
2. Armed, nazi, white nationalist terrorist is taken alive after shooting three cops
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:00 PM
May 2019

while unarmed, innocent black men are routinely gunned down.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. Yeah, they tried to negotiate with him.
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:06 PM
May 2019

A Black man would not have been allowed to don body armor.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
19. Police Peacefully Arrest Suspected Cop Killer One Week After Killing Unarmed Pamela Turner
Tue May 28, 2019, 12:26 AM
May 2019

Black women too
Peacefully Arrest Suspected Cop Killer One Week After Killing Unarmed Pamela Turner
It's the latest evidence showing police reacting differently to white suspects than Black ones.

https://newsone.com/3852923/alabama-police-shooting-vs-pamela-turner-killing/

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)
15. Oddly enough
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:45 PM
May 2019

Two years before the shooting at Ford's Theater, John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin, saved the life of Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln.

Also, Robert Todd Lincoln was in the White House when his father was assassinated, he was an eye-witness to the assassination of James Garfield, and was at the same exhibition when McKinley was shot. Subsequently, he declined all invitations to be in the same place as any President.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
16. I had to look that up because I didn't believe you
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:56 PM
May 2019

Holy crap! It's all true!


Can we hang a portrait of Robert Todd Lincoln in the Oval Office?

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
10. Wasn't 4chan or another chan a supporter of the New Zealand shooter?
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:51 PM
May 2019

I think he posted on one of the chans before the shooting. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the past shooters did the same

Initech

(100,065 posts)
12. It was Pew Die Pie, who is a YouTuber.
Mon May 27, 2019, 11:11 PM
May 2019

Pew Die Pie has been known to post white nationalism and white supremacy propaganda under a "wink wink nudge nudge" kind of deal and YouTube hasn't done anything about it. He has millions of followers and a sizable percentage of them are under 20. It's very worrisome.

Aussie105

(5,383 posts)
11. What sort of internal dialogue
Mon May 27, 2019, 10:55 PM
May 2019

leads a 29 year old to attempt to strangle a female (presumably spouse or family member) then turn a police visit into a shoot out?

White Male owning guns - potentially the most dangerous animal in the world.

If you are a 29 year old white male, look critically at your own internal dialogue and view of the world. Get it into shape. It could save a life or two. A wife, a police officer, maybe your own.

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