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hookaleft

(938 posts)
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 09:32 AM Aug 2021

Suspected U.K. Mass Shooter Said He Was American, Trump-Supporting Virgin

Jake Davison raged on Facebook and YouTube for years before carrying out the worst shooting in Britain for over a decade.

The man suspected of killing five people before turning the gun on himself in a mass shooting in England on Thursday night was an incel Trump supporter who posted about “devil worshipers” in government.

The suspected shooter has been named by police as Jake Davison, a 22-year-old who is reported to have worked in construction. Davison allegedly killed two women, two men and one victim who officers described as a “very young girl,” during the rampage in Plymouth.

Before the shooting, Davison expressed his admiration for Donald Trump on Facebook and posted multiple self-pitying YouTube videos in which he identified himself as part of the incel community. On his Facebook page, Davison claimed to be from Arizona, but his distinctive accent is typical of people from the south-west of England.

In one post from 2018, Davison shared a Trump quote and, when his friends ridiculed him in the comments, the suspect hit back: “You may not agree with his political views (I do) but he is different from the scum like Hillary or the people running our country like the neo-con sellout that is [then-British Prime Minister] Theresa May.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jake-davison-suspected-mass-shooter-said-he-was-an-american-trump-supporting-virgin

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Suspected U.K. Mass Shooter Said He Was American, Trump-Supporting Virgin (Original Post) hookaleft Aug 2021 OP
Now it all makes sense! Beastly Boy Aug 2021 #1
He wanted to come here, but was not an American. niyad Aug 2021 #4
When they said it "was not terrorism", I knew it was incel/qanon/white terrorism ck4829 Aug 2021 #2
Domestic/misogynist and white supremecist terrorism. niyad Aug 2021 #3

Beastly Boy

(9,338 posts)
1. Now it all makes sense!
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 09:59 AM
Aug 2021

When I first saw the story, I just couldn't wrap my head around a British Trump-supporting virgin mass shooter. I mean, what are the odds of THAT?

American, on the other hand? Duh!

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