Slur-spewing white men open fire on biracial children as they walk to a gas station to buy candy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story


NOOR AL-SIBAI
28 MAR 2019 AT 13:33 ET



James Reidnauer (left) and Brent van Besien (right), two men arrested on hate crime charges for shooting at children of color. Images via Lake County Sheriff's Office.


A pair of white Florida men have been arrested after shooting at and shouting racial slurs at two biracial children — and claimed that they did so because they thought the kids were on meth.

Orlando’s WFTV reported that James Reidnauer and Brent van Besien were arrested in the city of Leesburg on hate crime charges after shooting at the 16 and 12-year-old brother and sister on March 17.

pair of white Florida men have been arrested after shooting at and shouting racial slurs at two biracial children — and claimed that they did so because they thought the kids were on meth.

Orlando’s WFTV reported that James Reidnauer and Brent van Besien were arrested in the city of Leesburg on hate crime charges after shooting at the 16 and 12-year-old brother and sister on March 17.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/slur-spewing-white-men-open-fire-biracial-children-walk-gas-station-buy-candy/?utm_source=push_notifications

[hibbing]

1. They make them take their red hats off for the mughots? n/t

[olegramps]

49. Don't expect any justice from this racist Republican rat hole. Probably get a medal.

[FailureToCommunicate]

54. Good catch!

[JDC]

76. No shit.

These men are scum.

[snort]

2. Thanks Trump!

[Hoyt]

3. Lock em up.

[TEB]

29. Exactly

Pigs

[unblock]

4. ah, they thought the *kids* were on meth. yeah, that's a justifiable shooting right there.

[rurallib]

20. judge, jury and executioner they are!

Men of deep insight and brilliance in their own minds.
That one doesn't look like he could find his own asshole even with a map and a compass.

[2naSalit]

27. Must've thought they were in the

Philippines. Looks more like they were on meth instead.

[pazzyanne]

69. "looks like they were on meth instead".

I thought the same thing!

[geardaddy]

84. Yep, that's what I thought

They're following their dear leader's m.o.: project your own issues onto others.

[ck4829]

74. "Man, those kids were really jumpy" "Think it had something to do with shooting at them?" "Nah...

They were clearly on meth!"

[DirtEdonE]

5. Look at these two evolutionary failures

Two fine examples of U.S. "manhood" magats USA. Firing on children. I'm sure they got their weapons legally and are fine upstanding law abiding citizens.

I wonder if the corporate media will pick up this story like it did Smollet potatoes. Will that fucking orange traitor have a statement regarding this?

There is only one known cure for nazis. The same cure that was applied in WWII.

[OhNo-Really]

6. .... otherwise exemplary lives.....😡

[DirtEdonE]

7. !!!!1!!!!!!!1!

[olegramps]

50. Great reply!!!

[Amimnoch]

15. "ill that fucking orange traitor have a statement"

yeah "there were good people on both sides." has been his historical go-to for defending such creatures.

[DirtEdonE]

16. Yep. How the fuck did we ever get to this point? nt

[Jimbo S]

85. Good guy with a gun?

[Berlin Expat]

8. As they say,

"Behold the master race".

LOL. These two look like they could be extras from The Hills Have Eyes.

[DirtEdonE]

17. LOL - "extras from The Hills Have Eyes."

And no need for costumes or makeup.

Wanna' really make America great again? Deport everyone who voted for trump.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. Or that movie with banjo music..........

the meth thing seems to be pretty much projection, methinks.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Leesburg could be the capital of a new Confederacy. Very RWNJ.

[csziggy]

39. Leesburg is just down the road from The Villages

In fact, I suspect the reason The Villages was sited there was because the developers knew that the right wingers they were going to sell to would fit right into the neighborhood.

The few times I have been to Orlando in the last twenty years I tend to drive north through the Ocala National Forest as to avoid driving by Leesburg and ThVIllages.

[Celerity]

82. Still booming with retirees, The Villages gives Trump, GOP edge in Florida

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/2017/10/05/still-booming-with-retirees-the-villages-gives-trump-gop-edge-in-florida/

snip

For several consecutive years, The Villages has been the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States, drawing retirees to an area northwest of Orlando with endless recreation, relative affordability and an almost jarring level of cleanliness and order. Now more than 124,000 people live in the metro area.

The Villages proper has soared from 8,300 residents in 2000 to more than 66,000 today, with a median age of 67. There are two Republicans for every Democrat.

snip

“It was important to us that this was a Republican area. We have conservative values,” said Efie Mercer, who moved from Arizona in August with her husband, paying $229,000 for a villa across the street from a grocery store and near a recreation center. “Every one of our neighbors is brand new,” she said, marveling at the thought.

Next election, Mercer hopes to cast her first vote as a Floridian for Trump. “We love this man,” she said, sitting with friends at an outdoor bar and sipping a Coke. “He’s a personality, of course, but everyone knew that.”

snip

John and Anna Hodak, in their early 70s, came in 2009 from Democratic stronghold California, where they ran a print shop and didn’t pay much attention to politics. They bought their home here sight unseen, convinced by friends who had already moved.

“Now we’re definitely Republicans,” Mrs. Hodak said from their cart parked near Panera Bread. She said she didn’t like Clinton, especially after the comment about some Trump supporters being “deplorables” — a label some in The Villages embraced as they covered their carts with campaign signs and paraded through the streets.

“Hopefully the Democrats have learned we’re not dumb people,” said Edie Miller, 68, who moved from Pittsburgh six years ago with her husband Dan, a former electric company worker.

[Maxheader]

10. Jeese, without mentioning their location,

I would have put it at west kansaas..But floridia? Their supposed to be the land of gentle retirees playing
shuffle board...

This country keep it up with the racism and guns, mexico will build their own wall to keep us out..

[Aristus]

35. As I understand it, everything north of Miami is basically just

Alabama with palm trees.

Anyway, these two wastes of protoplasm seem to embody Florida Man to a tee.

[csziggy]

41. Gainesville and parts of Orange County (Orlando) as well as Leon County tend to be blue

Gainesville and Tallahassee are university towns. Orlando has brought in people from all over the US - and all over the world - so it is more cosmopolitan than it was when I was growing up south of there. Tampa also has some very blue parts.

But, yeah, even as a native Floridian, there are parts of Florida I don't want to visit. For instance, above I commented that I go out of my way to avoid Leesburg and The Villages. I only go to Panama City to visit my husband's family and only when I have to though three of his four siblings are very liberal.

[Roland99]

60. Leesburg is northwest of Orlando...up off the FL Turnpike. might as well be a different state.

completely different type of people live in the more rural areas of FL than near the cities. Scary in those rural areas.

Leesburg isn't quite like, say, Stark...more like hicks than scary mutants.

[TwilightZone]

51. Nah, there's quite a bit of blue north of Miami

Tampa
Tallahassee
Gainesville
Orlando

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida

[Grins]

53. I'm stealing that! NM

[ProfessorGAC]

66. Tampa Area Is Pretty Normal

[GulfCoast66]

78. Well, your understanding is incorrect.

The Orlando area, parts of Tampa, Gainesville and Tallahassee are all blue.

[Aristus]

80. Okay. I had heard that Tallahassee was pretty much indistinguishable from the redneck South.

I'm happy to be disabused of that notion.

[Ligyron]

37. Leesburg? (Named after Gen Robert E. Lee)

Lake County?

I'm surprised they were even arrested.

Folks in Kansas City can't be expected to know this but yeah, mid Florida can be real Confederate around them parts esp for those born there and more so 20 or 30 years ago for sure. Once South Florida pretty much filled up retirees from the North had to look north themselves as far as Florida went. Gets cold but not that cold.Pretty. Rolling hills, lakes and lots of orange groves.

[defacto7]

11. Hmm, why do these exemplary masters of the white race look so down trodden?

They look well fed. All the shit eating I'd imagine.

[Glorfindel]

46. No, they're not really white, since they have non-Anglo Saxon names

Reidnauer and van Besien? There's your "wretched refuse" right there. Euro-trash from central Europe. They should be grateful that us real white people allowed their subhuman ancestors to pollute our Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation. (just in case)

[fascisthunter]

12. My daughter is 'mixed'

Gawd forbid I personally experience this.

[CaptYossarian]

28. We're all mixed.

Adam and Eve were in Africa.

But we can celebrate two more Klansmen off the streets.

[erronis]

47. +1,000. We're all mixed. Maybe a few interbred 10 generations...

Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas. The genes have traveled all these continents and will continue to do so.

That's what makes any species strong.

Too much white-on-white gives these two fine examples.

[IronLionZion]

55. Definitely tell white supremacists that

they love hearing facts like this

[LanternWaste]

57. I think you're conflating the formal and the colloquial as one.

[ProfessorGAC]

67. Not Me

On my planet there are no races!

[UpInArms]

45. I am sorry that you have to even contemplate such a thing

[denverbill]

13. It's people like these that give white supremacists a bad name.

After all, there are good people on both sides.

[murielm99]

14. Not Florida man, but

Florida men!

Two cretins for the price of one.

[irisblue]

18. Why isn't shooting at the kids attempted murder? Felonious Assualt?

Source --https://www.newsweek.com/florida-racial-slurs-shooting-bi-racial-siblings-1378989


snip--"Jail records reviewed by Newsweek show that Reidnauer and van Beisen were charged with two counts of advanced hate crime charges of aggravated assault with a firearm. Van Besien was also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Reidnauer’s bond was set to $200,000 and van Besen's bond is $225,000, according to jail records."

[OhNo-Really]

22. Remember the Melissa Alexander Florida case

20 years for firing AT her abusive ex- husband in self-defense, fearing for her,life.

Later appealed but....

https://www.onenewspage.us/video/20150128/2493334/Melissa-Alexander-freed.htm

[appleannie1943]

19. Don't be surprised if they walk free because of Florida's Stand Your Ground Law.

Treyvon was armed with candy too.

[durablend]

42. Yes and these two men look "economically anxious"

[Yavin4]

21. You would think that having their own, special president would calm these assholes down

Guess not.

[58Sunliner]

24. Sick bastards were probably tweeking.

Reidnauer told deputies he had fired a warning shot at “two meth heads walking through the area because they were acting suspiciously.”

[llmart]

25. Disgusting!

Lock them up! Felons with a gun.

Floridiots love their gunz.

We are devolving into a cesspool due to Trump and the GOP/NRA.

[pdsimdars]

26. Well, don't they look like a couple of sweethearts!

[DFW]

30. Does this mean it's OK if the kids' guardians shoot back because these guys appeared homicidal?

Or is it only OK to shoot at unarmed minors in Florida?

[MFM008]

31. They will be standing

Behind maggot at his rally in MI tonight.

[fantase56]

32. A pair of white Florida men.....

sort of says it all. Such a brave looking pair And exactly who looks like they're on meth???

[catbyte]

33. Ah, two more stellar examples of "The Master Race."

And I'm so sure they were yelling racial slurs at those kids because they "thought they were on meth." I'd be willing to bet real money that neither one of these lowlifes have ever done anything of value to the world in their whole. entire lives, so they must look to their skin color--an accident of birth--as a point of pride. I can't decide if it's more despicable or pathetic. It's definitely both.

[kwassa]

34. Florida Men!

[Lonestarblue]

36. Poster boys for idiotic white supremacy.

Anyone who can look at these guys and still argue for the supremacy of the white race is nuts.

[Nitram]

38. Fuckin' primordial slime.

[TygrBright]

40. WTF is WRONG with people?!?! n/t

[ProfessorPlum]

43. I think I know who was on meth in this situation

and it isn't the kids

[Initech]

44. This is why flirting with white supremacism is dangerous.

Obviously these assholes are products of the MAGA lifestyle.

[ut oh]

48. It's more likely

that they were on Meth....

[John Fante]

52. Two less Trump voters in Florida!

Thank goodness the kids are OK, though the memory of this horrible incident won't soon be forgotten. 😔

[Flaleftist]

56. That's two less votes for Trump. nt

[yellowcanine]

58. They look like nice young men, bless their hearts.

meth heads? They look like meth heads themselves.

[Snake Plissken]

59. The term White Supremacist is an oxymoron

These shit for brains inbred cretin are about has far from supreme as anyone can get can still be considered human.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

61. I have a dream that one day I'll read an article that starts with "Florida man (men), man from

Florida, woman from Florida, etc., etc., etc." and it won't be about something fucked up.

[riversedge]

81. Hope is eternal.

[joe_stampingbull]

62. absolute savages

[muntrv]

63. Willis McCall lives on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_V._McCall

[marble falls]

64. These guys are obviously brain surgeons. Or rocket scientists. They were so high on meth ...

there forgot exactly who was really high on meth. They were sure it was the kids, but it was the racists.

[Judi Lynn]

72. That's gotta be an original. It's so damned stupid. Children, high on meth, should be shot!

I have never heard of children doing meth, at all.

Unbelievable.

[marble falls]

77. And we all know the drug of choice for skinhead Nazis is Meth.

[ck4829]

75. "I'm not high! You're high!"

[quickesst]

65. Poster boys....

.... for der trumpenfuerher's Amerika 💩

[rockfordfile]

68. These two are trumptrash. It would not surprise me if they are NRA members.

[3catwoman3]

70. The one on the right looks...

...like he might know a thing or two bout being on meth.

[Codeine]

71. White trash angry because they thought the kids

used up all the meth and they wouldn’t get their tweak that evening. Fucking garbage people.

[ck4829]

73. Disgusting white nationalists

[meadowlander]

79. This is why you can't have nice things "responsible" gun owners.

Instead of complaining about latte liberals trying to snatch your guns for no reason, why don't you sort these people out and then get back to us about why anyone who hasn't already committed a crime or been institutionalized for mental illness should be allowed to purchase military grade assault rifles?

[muriel_volestrangler]

83. This is white supremacist terrorism (nt)