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A journalist’s recent Facebook status update destroying the myths about the Orlando shooter is quickly going viral.
Che Brandes-Tuka, a scholar, international human rights campaigner, and organizer who works as a journalist for TeleSUR English, ran through the known details of Omar Mateen — the 29-year-old who carried out a massacre at an Orlando nightclub that left 49 people dead and 53 others wounded — and shredded the myth that he was an Afghan terrorist with ties to ISIS:
So after a couple of days of reports and testimonies, we know the following about the Orlando shooter:
He was a child of immigrants, born and raised in the United States.
He pledged allegiance to Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda AND ISIS, 3 organizations that are de facto at war with each other, showing he was ignorant about all 3, let alone politics in the Middle East in general.
He knew practically nothing about Islam and according to his wife, father and community he was not religious in the slightest.
Brandes-Tuka pointed out that according to all available evidence, Mateen’s attack was rooted not in a desire to carry out an act of terrorism in the name of radical Islamic views, but rather as the result of letting hate take over his life and working for an employer with a long background of abuse and domination:
He struggled with his toxic masculinity, had an alcohol problem and beat up his wife for which he was never charged.
He was racist towards Blacks, Latin@’s and other minorities and in the shooting killed predominantly queer people of color.
Despite his own alleged queer inclinations, he was a homophobe in a country where still 1 in 5 LGBTQ people are victims of hate crimes and there are more than a 100 anti-LGBTQ bills (from anti-gay marriage to bathroom bills) pending in dozens of states.
He idolized the NYPD, one of the country’s most well-known and cherished institutions that has an army bigger than ISIS, is known to indiscriminately and disproportionately spy on Muslims and which engages in systematic violence against Blacks, Latin@’s and other minorities.
He beat juveniles in detention centers over the head for a living as he worked for and got his training from the private security firm G4S, which is not only one of the foremost stakeholders in the Prison–industrial complex, but is also invested in mass deportations as it runs immigration detention centers and participates in the occupation of Palestine, training other mass killers in Israel to target and imprison Palestinians.
Brandes-Tuka’s viral post also touched on America’s troubling addiction to guns, the prevalence of mass shootings in recent history, and undue attention paid to violent, hateful, and close-minded viewpoints.
He staged a mass shooting in a country that has seen a 1,000 mass shootings in the last 1,200 days.
So basically he was ignorant, self-conflicted, racist, sexist, homophobe, had a sick admiration for authority and was obsessed with guns and violence, eventually acting upon all of that.
Sorry folks, but your supposed “Islamic radical terrorist from Afghanistan” is as American as apple pie made with homegrown apples and baked in an American made oven.
I SAID THIS! THIS ISN”T SOMETHING FROM OUTER SPACE FOLKS.
The Shortest and Most Powerful Explanation of the Orlando Shooter I Have Ever Seen
24 Fri Jun 2016
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A journalist’s recent Facebook status update destroying the myths about the Orlando shooter is quickly going viral.
Che Brandes-Tuka, a scholar, international human rights campaigner, and organizer who works as a journalist for TeleSUR English, ran through the known details of Omar Mateen — the 29-year-old who carried out a massacre at an Orlando nightclub that left 49 people dead and 53 others wounded — and shredded the myth that he was an Afghan terrorist with ties to ISIS:
So after a couple of days of reports and testimonies, we know the following about the Orlando shooter:
He was a child of immigrants, born and raised in the United States.
He pledged allegiance to Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda AND ISIS, 3 organizations that are de facto at war with each other, showing he was ignorant about all 3, let alone politics in the Middle East in general.
He knew practically nothing about Islam and according to his wife, father and community he was not religious in the slightest.
Brandes-Tuka pointed out that according to all available evidence, Mateen’s attack was rooted not in a desire to carry out an act of terrorism in the name of radical Islamic views, but rather as the result of letting hate take over his life and working for an employer with a long background of abuse and domination:
He struggled with his toxic masculinity, had an alcohol problem and beat up his wife for which he was never charged.
He was racist towards Blacks, Latin@’s and other minorities and in the shooting killed predominantly queer people of color.
Despite his own alleged queer inclinations, he was a homophobe in a country where still 1 in 5 LGBTQ people are victims of hate crimes and there are more than a 100 anti-LGBTQ bills (from anti-gay marriage to bathroom bills) pending in dozens of states.
He idolized the NYPD, one of the country’s most well-known and cherished institutions that has an army bigger than ISIS, is known to indiscriminately and disproportionately spy on Muslims and which engages in systematic violence against Blacks, Latin@’s and other minorities.
He beat juveniles in detention centers over the head for a living as he worked for and got his training from the private security firm G4S, which is not only one of the foremost stakeholders in the Prison–industrial complex, but is also invested in mass deportations as it runs immigration detention centers and participates in the occupation of Palestine, training other mass killers in Israel to target and imprison Palestinians.
Brandes-Tuka’s viral post also touched on America’s troubling addiction to guns, the prevalence of mass shootings in recent history, and undue attention paid to violent, hateful, and close-minded viewpoints.
He staged a mass shooting in a country that has seen a 1,000 mass shootings in the last 1,200 days.
So basically he was ignorant, self-conflicted, racist, sexist, homophobe, had a sick admiration for authority and was obsessed with guns and violence, eventually acting upon all of that.
Sorry folks, but your supposed “Islamic radical terrorist from Afghanistan” is as American as apple pie made with homegrown apples and baked in an American made oven.
I SAID THIS! THIS ISN”T SOMETHING FROM OUTER SPACE FOLKS.
The Shortest and Most Powerful Explanation of the Orlando Shooter I Have Ever Seen
23 Thu Jun 2016
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inthe orlando police chief admitted some officers may have shot some of the victims
fuck this
Any deaths caused by police fire as they battled Omar Mateen inside the Pulse nightclub in the wee hours of June 12 should be blamed on Mateen and not on the responding officers, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said Monday.
“Those killings are on the suspect and on the suspect alone, in my mind,” Mina said.
The question of possible deaths by police fire arose soon after the shootings. One survivor, Norman Casiano, 26, told ABC News that he was shot by police when he crawled out from his hiding place in the bathroom after he thought it was safe.
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what the fuck
23 Thu Jun 2016
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fuck this
Any deaths caused by police fire as they battled Omar Mateen inside the Pulse nightclub in the wee hours of June 12 should be blamed on Mateen and not on the responding officers, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said Monday.
“Those killings are on the suspect and on the suspect alone, in my mind,” Mina said.
The question of possible deaths by police fire arose soon after the shootings. One survivor, Norman Casiano, 26, told ABC News that he was shot by police when he crawled out from his hiding place in the bathroom after he thought it was safe.
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what the fuck
17 Fri Jun 2016
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I haven’t seen anything about this on tumblr but the NYPD charged an Orlando solidarity march in New York City, trampling mourners from horseback. 4 people were arrested for peacefully marching in the street, and 1 person is suspected to be hospitalised with a broken leg.
This is what state power really thinks of our lives. This is what the police exist to do. The nicest, gayest cop in the world will still attack mourners when ordered to do so because police are the military arm of American state violence. They aren’t our allies and they aren’t our friends, they are racist enforcers of repressive power.
No justice, no peace.
I was at the march and let me tell you this was the scariest experience I have ever had in my life. There was no warning no “get off the street” nothing. (The woman you hear screaming to get on the street was one of the marchers trying to get all of us to safety). There was one officer riding on horseback next to us and no one thought anything about it because she wasnt saying anything to us. All of a sudden ¾ more officers on horseback came out of nowhere and started fucking CHARGING at the crowd. It was terrifying because not only were the horses charging but they were getting spooked by all of the people who were running away screaming so they started getting jump on their legs and kicking into the crowd. When I finally got to the sidewalk after my bf got unpinned from basically being stuck between a huge horse and a car I turned around and watched in horror as officers charged at people SWINGING THEIR FUCKING BATONS! I honestly have never been so scared in my life. The worst part is once we were on the sidewalk we are “complying with the law” and are no longer arrest-able. However as you can tell those 4 people got arrested in the sidewalk. Meanwhile I have a video (which I was told not to post for legal reasons in case my peers who were arrested want to use the video in court) of an officer charging people with the horse ON THE SIDEWALK!!! I have no words and honestly to be treated like that really shook me because we were doing nothing wrong. Sidenote: there were officers along the way every few blocks or so and none reacted the way these officers did, in fact some of them nodded at us as we passed by chanting “love is love” and “orlando we’ve got your back”. Just fucked up top to bottom.
That’s terrifying, thanks for the addition.
17 Fri Jun 2016
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fuck cops, jesus christ, nyc, Orlando, police brutality, video
I haven’t seen anything about this on tumblr but the NYPD charged an Orlando solidarity march in New York City, trampling mourners from horseback. 4 people were arrested for peacefully marching in the street, and 1 person is suspected to be hospitalised with a broken leg.
This is what state power really thinks of our lives. This is what the police exist to do. The nicest, gayest cop in the world will still attack mourners when ordered to do so because police are the military arm of American state violence. They aren’t our allies and they aren’t our friends, they are racist enforcers of repressive power.
No justice, no peace.
I was at the march and let me tell you this was the scariest experience I have ever had in my life. There was no warning no “get off the street” nothing. (The woman you hear screaming to get on the street was one of the marchers trying to get all of us to safety). There was one officer riding on horseback next to us and no one thought anything about it because she wasnt saying anything to us. All of a sudden ¾ more officers on horseback came out of nowhere and started fucking CHARGING at the crowd. It was terrifying because not only were the horses charging but they were getting spooked by all of the people who were running away screaming so they started getting jump on their legs and kicking into the crowd. When I finally got to the sidewalk after my bf got unpinned from basically being stuck between a huge horse and a car I turned around and watched in horror as officers charged at people SWINGING THEIR FUCKING BATONS! I honestly have never been so scared in my life. The worst part is once we were on the sidewalk we are “complying with the law” and are no longer arrest-able. However as you can tell those 4 people got arrested in the sidewalk. Meanwhile I have a video (which I was told not to post for legal reasons in case my peers who were arrested want to use the video in court) of an officer charging people with the horse ON THE SIDEWALK!!! I have no words and honestly to be treated like that really shook me because we were doing nothing wrong. Sidenote: there were officers along the way every few blocks or so and none reacted the way these officers did, in fact some of them nodded at us as we passed by chanting “love is love” and “orlando we’ve got your back”. Just fucked up top to bottom.
That’s terrifying, thanks for the addition.