Flag-wearing nut fires on Trump resort
REAL DESPAIR DISTORTED BY SUPREMACISTS
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Seen as the causes of their woes, people of color and society at large become the enemies. What appears necessary is the assertion of a white supremacist order.
“While not a factor in every mass shooting, even when the shooter is white, far-right white supremacist political violence is persistent and intensifying despite consistent efforts to downplay, ignore or depoliticize it,” says King.
Elements of white supremacy can be found throughout recent shootings.
Friday’s mass killer Pagourtzis pinned his trench coat with an Iron Cross, a traditional German military decoration reintroduced by Hitler.
Nikolas Cruz etched Nazi swastikas on his ammunition magazines before killing 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Before massacring nine AfricanAmerican churchgoers at Emanuel African methodist Episcopal Church, Dylan Roof reportedly told a friend “blacks were taking over the world.”
In his manifesto, Elliot Rodger, who killed six people near the University of California, Santa Barbara, described loathing people of color, including Asians — despite being half-Asian himself.
The victims of these attacks are the victims of white supremacy.
If we truly hope to prevent such tragedies, we must combat the racism that fuels white supremacy, while also addressing the underlying material conditions — the declining living standards of the entire working class — that make resentment so potent it becomes violent.
Dilawar is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. A GUNMAN draped in an American flag opened fire at one of Donald Trump’s Florida golf resorts early Friday after “spewing information” about the President, Barack Obama and hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, according to police and reports.
Officers in Doral, outside Miami, said they responded to the Trump National Doral Golf Club around 1:30 a.m., and arrested 42-year-old Jonathan Oddi after an exchange of gunfire in the resort’s lobby. No one was wounded in the tumult.
“We don’t know what his intentions were in the long term but we know what he was doing at the time — he was trying to engage our police officers in some kind of ambush-type attack,” Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said. He added Oddi pulled the fire alarm and fired shots at the ceiling ahead of the attack in what he suspects was an effort to lure officers to the building.
No motive has been established for the bizarre attack, but the shooter snatched a flag from the rear of the complex and draped it over a counter before engaging with officers.
“He was preparing for battle,” Perez said. “That was a tactic he used.”
After getting taken into custody, Oddi berated Trump, Obama and Combs, who’s commonly known by his rap moniker P. Diddy, a law enforcement source told the Miami Herald.
“He doesn’t like Obama. He doesn’t like Trump. And, apparently, he doesn’t like P. Diddy,” the source told the newspaper.
Investigators do not believe that the suspect was staying at the hotel, according to Perez.
Video from CBS News shows the man identified as the suspect alert and awake as he was wheeled into the hospital.
“He’s at the hospital stable,” Perez said. “Don’t know how many times he was hit.”
Oddi’s records show no previous arrests in MiamiDade County. Trump was in Washington, D.C., Friday morning. “A huge thank you to the incredible men and women of the @DoralPolice Department and @MiamiDadePD. Every day they keep our community safe. We are very grateful to you!” Eric Trump, the President's son and a Trump Organization head, said in a tweet with three American flag emojis.
One officer from Doral suffered a broken wrist during the incident, though the injury was not from a gunshot and no other officers were harmed.
Homeland Security, the Secret Service and the FBI also responded to the shooting.