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While protesting Black Lives Matter activists and the FBIs 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 emergedGrady Wayne Wilkes, 29, a veteran from Auburnwas 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 officersWilliam Buechner, Webb Sistrunk, and Evan Elliott, all veterans of the departmentshot 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
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,593 posts)struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)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)while unarmed, innocent black men are routinely gunned down.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)A Black man would not have been allowed to don body armor.
Initech
(100,065 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)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/
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)from the moment his parents gave him the middle name: Wayne.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,748 posts)When I saw what his name was. What is it about that name?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I did.
And "John Wilkes Booth."
Hmmmmm...
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)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)Holy crap! It's all true!
Can we hang a portrait of Robert Todd Lincoln in the Oval Office?
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)I cannot vouch for the quality of the source, but the whole subject is morbidly amusing.
Initech
(100,065 posts)dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)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)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.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Aussie105
(5,383 posts)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.
BlueMTexpat
(15,367 posts)white male ...