Three Men Who Shot Black Lives Matter Protesters Emerged From Internet’s Racist Swamp

[LiberalArkie]

The white supremacists who showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest Monday night in Minneapolis and shot five African-American participants were not there just by coincidence.

As more facts emerge in the case, it’s now beginning to appear that not only was the attack a carefully planned attempt to disrupt the demonstration, but the men who participated in the shootings had been radicalized in the course of conversing on websites and in chatrooms where racist and other far-right extremist ideology flourishes. Indeed, the men began networking in real life as a result of their Internet hatemongering.

Minneapolis police have now arrested three men in connection with the shooting, which occurred at about 10:45 p.m. in front of the police precinct station where the Black Lives Matter had set up an encampment Nov. 15 to protest the shooting that day of an unarmed 24-year-old black man named Jamar Clark.

According to several witness accounts, the men confronted protesters at the rally, but were in turn chased by a group of protesters into an alley, where one of them pulled a gun and shot into the crowd. None of the five victims suffered life-threatening injuries, but all were hospitalized. Authorities are trying to determine whether the men fired in self-defense, or whether the matter should be investigated as a hate crime.

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/three-men-who-shot-black-lives-matter-protesters-emerged-internets-racist-swamps

[tularetom]

1. Self defense? Why is that even in the picture?

They plot this thing out, even film themselves doing it, go to the protest to start some shit, provoke some protesters into chasing them, shoot at their pursuers and then the "authorities" are considering that they acted in "self defense"?

[LiberalArkie]

3. They are all trying to start the "Race War" that they all say is coming.

I guess if the blacks won't riot and "start the raping and killing all the white women" ( yea I know Blazing Saddles came to mind) that the great patriotic white supremacists will have to start it.

Sickos

[Shandris]

6. I don't think one is necessarily definitely coming, but you're blind as a bat if you don't think...

...a powerful interest group is pushing for one.

Probably more than one (group, that is), and from multiple directions. Race relations aren't the worst they've been in 50 years because people suddenly turned into racists or just hid it so successfully before, its because people have been intentionally radicalized for this purpose. And by people, I mean people of all shades.

[exboyfil]

2. They just might walk on self defense

Protesters should never have chased them. Not saying I like it, but if they were lawfully carrying their guns, I am not sure what you can do about it.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I agree.

It's a legal gray area, and all that's going to happen is the racial pressure cooker will get turned up a few degrees. There is little that can be done as long as people are legally allowed to carry guns.

[exboyfil]

5. A question I have is a scenario

in Texas for example if one of the nut jobs in the front of the mosque had put his hands on his front slung weapon - lets say to adjust it. Would another standing in front of him be justified in shooting him?

[LuvNewcastle]

7. That's exactly why I think we're

going to have to stop letting people carry guns around. When everyone is walking around with a gun, you have a society that is constantly on edge. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want to live like that. It would be nice not to think about violence and death all the fucking time.

[Generic Other]

8. Only rightwing white men are allowed to stand their ground.

Everyone else is required to surrender their land and their freedom.



These vigilante men scare the crap outta me.

[cwydro]

9. And these horrid men are all under 25 years of age.

Looks as though racism has a bright future ahead.

smh

[Moostache]

10. Call them what they are - WHITE CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS, period.

No more "gunmen".
No more "supremacists".
No more humanity at all.

They are arrested and pending trial terrorists.
I want to see Fox News and Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP circus call for waterboarding them because....yeah, why not?

White Christian Terrorists are popping up at an alarming rate.
First in South Carolina, then in Minnesota, and again tonight in Colorado via North Carolina.
Where's you database for tracking DOMESTIC TERRORISTS Donald? Pray tell...

[Octafish]

11. Kick.