Photo emerges of Robert Crimo disguised in women's clothes to flee Highland Park shooting

[sheshe2]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/highland-park-shooting-robert-crimo-planned-b2116362.html

[Achilleaze]

1. What the Republican Hate-Monger-in-Chief hath wrought

Shame on the Republicans for letting this evil fester and rot within their ideological nest.

Shame on them all for betraying America and Christ's teachings and giving birth through their poison rhetoric and lies to these poisoned twisted creatures.

[Chainfire]

2. The stupid bastard thought that he could get away with the murders.

His planning must have been flawed...

It takes a really special kind of cowardly SOB to make war on unarmed parade goers; shooting random unarmed people in the back for the hell of it. Perhaps he thought himself as being "manly" for the first time in is miserable prick life. Perhaps he thought he could escape to the Montana and become a cult hero with the Proud Bois.

The one small bright side is that, if he lives a normal life span, he will have a long, long time to suffer for his crimes. 50-60 years in prison is hard time...

[mrchris]

10. He knew he was getting caught

That’s why he’s wearing the Waldo shirt; he knew people would go sifting through pictures of crowds to find him. The little shit has a sense of humor.

[LisaL]

13. He is wearing a blue jacket.

NT

[FalloutShelter]

3. He's a dangerous drag Queen...

In 3…2…1…….

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Kid was having an identity crisis overall based on the pics I've seen and blurbs I've read

Any 'type' of person can be mentally unstable.

Even some of those in groups we all love, like gays, lesbians, trans persons, drag queens, gender non-conforming, etc.

Mental Illness, like addiction, cuts a broad swath, no 'group' is untouched.

Not saying he's any one of the above, but ... it seems to me like he didn't know 'who he was in the world' and probably concluded the path to making himself 'matter' ... was to become a mass-murderer.

MHO, fwiw.

[sheshe2]

6. Police say he did it to hide his facial tattoo.

Notice the make up and no tattoo.

He is not mentally ill, he planned this down to a tee.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Okay, well, mental illness is a fairly vague term ...

And one might argue that anyone who decides to try to murder as many people as they possibly can ... has SOME form of mental illness (perhaps transitory), or at least a personality disorder.

Point is ... there's going to be the occasional individual in our favored groups of oppressed persons who does something horrible.

Maybe Crimo is, maybe he isn't in one of those groups ... but eventually it's going to happen.

[sheshe2]

14. Yet the GOP is calling it mental illness.

This is their line.

The trumpers are evil and wish all others to die. They are so caught up in their hatred and religion that they can't see beyond that. The ones that want women to die giving birth to a non viable fetus are not mentally ill, they are evil and so caught up in their religion that they can't see straight.

They aren't mentally ill, they are religious fanatics.

[EarnestPutz]

8. I think that your idea that he wanted to "make himself matter" is really the heart of this. Mental..

.....illness, in my opinion, is used as an explanation too often to explain away abhorrent behavior. Another DUer, (AZLD4Candidate) recently posted about this saying "Being an asshole is not a mental illness". Sums it up pretty well.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216889468

Readers, please read this. I think it's really interesting. FWIW.

[Progressive dog]

5. Dressed as a woman to flee

but has to leave his gun at the scene.

[sheshe2]

7. According to police he had plenty of guns to spare one.

[malaise]

9. So the wid was black not brown

😀

[Emile]

12. Looks like he is dressed for winter

[Takket]

15. cue the right wing saying this is what happens when draq queens groom our kids.........