If CT Shooter Had Pictures of Racial Hatred, Why Didn't He Just Sue?

Posted on | August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments |

Picture this:

You're a black man working at a beer distributorship and every day when you go into the bathroom, you see a new drawing of a hangman's noose around a black man's neck with "Kill the n-word" underneath. So you take pictures with your cell phone.

Why would you only show these pictures to your girlfriend and mother? Why would you not go directly to management with the evidence and address this? And where is the cell phone with the pictures now?

From ABC News:

Girlfriend of Hartford Shooter Speaks Out

The girlfriend of the man who gunned down eight people before turning the gun on himself at a Connecticut beer distributorship Tuesday said she heard evidence of enough racial harassment the man had allegedly suffered at work to drive someone "crazy."

"He said every day when he'd come in, there'd be new stuff on the [bathroom] wall," Kristi Hannah told "Good Morning America."

"One was a hangman with a noose around his neck and underneath it said, 'Kill the n-word.'"

Hannah, who said she was gunman Omar Thornton's girlfriend for nine years, said he showed her cell phone pictures of the racial slurs written in the bathroom.

Where is the phone now, Hannah? ABC conveniently forgets to ask that question. Instead it likes to keep trying to justify Thornton's motive by enhancing the racist motive.

"I know what I seen on that wall and that picture and that would make somebody go crazy," she said. "If they keep doing it to somebody over and over and over and over and over. And I know that was happening to him because no one just wakes up one day and does that."

Company and union officials have said they were unaware of any harassment.

Are we to believe that she and her boyfriend didn't know who to contact with this evidence?

Thornton passed over several people during the rampage inside and around the distributor, according to Manchester Police Lt. Chris Davis, who said Wednesday authorities believe the first few victims were likely targeted.

Were the targeted victims the ones who drew the pictures? Or knowing they would surely be fired for it, did they call him the n-word to his face?

Thornton had signed a one-line resignation letter after he was confronted with video surveillance evidence that showed him stealing alcohol from the distributor. A moment later, Thornton requested a drink of water and went to a nearby kitchenette where Davis said he had stowed his weapon-packed lunchbox.

If he wouldn't have gotten caught stealing the beer, do you think he would have just stayed there taking pictures until retirement without knowing where to go with any complaints?

Gregg Adler, a union attorney, said Thornton had never filed a harassment complaint with the union, but had filed a separate grievance that had been settled in his favor regarding insufficient training. Adler said that it was clear Thornton knew the protocol for filing a complaint.

Asked about the union's denials that Thornton had filed a complaint, Holliday said, "Of course they're going to say that."

Of course, a family member is going to say that.

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