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The 40-year-old man who police said shot and killed two women at a Florida yoga studio on Friday spewed racist and misogynistic vitriol in YouTube videos posted in 2014, lamenting his inability to have successful relationships with women.
The gunman, Scott P. Beierle of Deltona, Fla., fatally shot himself and injured five others after he entered the yoga studio in Tallahassee, Fla., shortly after 5:30 p.m. and began shooting patrons with a handgun, the police said.
The two women who died were both connected to Florida State University, where Mr. Beierle had been arrested at least twice in the past, one time on charges of battery against women, records show.
In videos posted over a three-day period in August 2014, Mr. Beierle identified with involuntary celibates, railed against interracial dating and portrayed women and girls throughout his life as vindictive for refusing to go out with him.
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John Fante
(3,479 posts)implied that Donald doesn't always tell the truth! Kathy Griffin held up a bloody mask of Donald. These incidents are just as bad as a double murder!
"Both sides are equally to blame!"
Throck
(2,520 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)All social media has that problem, not just YouTube. If the FBI or State Police looked at every hostile post, they would be able to do nothing else.
The guy came into contact with the criminal justice system two times and was allowed to skate each time, prosecutors let him off without going to trail. You better believe that if he was Black or Brown, he would have been tried, convicted and sent to jail and would have gotten a record.
The touching of women against their will should have warranted a deeper look by prosecutors, police did their jobs, they made an arrest and helped women press charges. Prosecutors should have thought deeper about the guy, in particular after the second case, were they dealing with a potential serial rapist? , could the guy be a developing Ted Bundy? Prosecutors chose not to look deeper, but I would bet that Black kids caught with a few joints got convicted during that time.