Robert Lewis Dear (1958- ), a White American “lone gunman”, shot 12 people, killing three, at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Friday November 27th 2015.
Among his victims, he shot six police officers, killing one. The police, instead of “fearing for their lives” and quickly gunning him down, as they do with Black males as young as 12, talked him into surrendering after a five hour stand-off. They took him alive.
As is the custom in the US with White mass killers, the president spoke of gun control and the press painted him as a “loner” and a nutcase, not as an “extremist” or “terrorist”. Not even as “a possible terrorist”.
Even Planned Parenthood backed away from the T-word. At first they said:
“We share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country.”
but then walked that back to:
“We share the concerns of many Americans that the continued attacks against abortion providers and patients, as well as law enforcement officers, is creating a poisonous environment that breeds acts of violence.”
When Fox News read their statement, they left out the bit about extremism and terrorism. Fox News has for months been banging the drum against Planned Parenthood, claiming they sell dead baby parts.
Planned Parenthood provides abortions, which some Americans see as a right, others see as the taking of innocent life.
Planned Parenthood has no metal detectors – they do not want their patients to feel unsafe. But they do have security cameras, safe rooms and employees trained to deal with attacks like this. Dear did not get very far into the building.
Colorado Springs itself is very pro-life and pro-gun. Many are White Evangelical Christians. The US Air Force Academy is just north of town.
- Just the other week in Colorado Springs, a man walked down the street carrying a gun. The police did nothing because Colorado is an open-carry state. Later that same man killed three people.
- Just that morning in front of Planned Parenthood, a priest held a protest mass despite the bitter cold.
The police say that Dear’s motives are unclear, but the mayor says that we can make “inferences from where it took place.”
Dear lives about an hour west of Colorado Springs in Hartsel. People sometimes see him at the post office, but he pretty much keeps to himself. He comes from South Carolina and used to live in the mountains of North Carolina, the same place that gave us Eric Rudolph, a Christian terrorist.
Police record: Dear has been accused of animal cruelty, leering, pushing his wife out of a window, shooting a neighbour’s dog, making threats and so on. He has been arrested several times for stuff like that, but has never been found guilty of any of it.
– Abagond, 2015.
See also:
- The term “terrorist”
- White American terrorists
- White suspects
- James Holmes – kills 12, injures 58, taken alive
- Dylann Roof – kills 9, taken alive
- Craig Stephen Hicks – kills 3, taken alive
- Robert Lewis Dear – kills 3, injures 9, taken alive
- Eric Rudolph – kills 2, injures 150, taken alive
- Wade Michael Page – kills 6, commits suicide
- Black suspects
- Henry Louis Wallace – kills 11, taken alive
- Laquan McDonald – kills 0, gunned down
- Corey Jones – kills 0, gunned down
- Tamir Rice – kills 0, gunned down
- John Crawford – kills 0, gunned down
- Sam Dubose – kills 0, gunned down
- Walter Scott – kills 0, gunned down
- Michael Brown – kills 0, gunned down
- Jonathan Ferrell – kills 0, gunned down
- Alan Blueford – kills 0, gunned down
- Ramarley Graham – kills 0, gunned down
- Kimani Gray – kills 0, gunned down
- Kenneth Chamberlain – kills 0, gunned down
- Sean Bell – kills 0, gunned down
- The Black Brute stereotype
- Phantom Negro Weapons
- Christianity
- Fox News
Not only was the media not calling him a terrorist, they were calling him an older “gentleman” !!! Wow, what a “gentleman” and a great example of being “pro-life” as well.
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He sounds like a terrorist to me.
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Dude shot three cops?
AND he killed a roller?
Yet they still let him live?
Wow. Just wow.
This white dude got JUICE!
Or, there’s some amazing (inordinate) confirmation bias going on there!
Or both.
(I bet this guy wears a sign that says, “I ALWAYS get the benefit of the doubt!”
– – MC HAMMER’s hit song – YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS! comes to mind..)
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Robert-Lewis-Dear has the complexion for protection which is why the cops didn’t come out with there guns blazing. There is a double standard when it comes to deciding who they will kill and who they won’t kill. Robert-Dear is a terrorist even though the media will not identify him as one.
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It’s no secret that white killers are given a lot of leeway, just as long as they belong to the right social and ideological circles. Even if not, LEOs are less likely to get as bloodlusty as they would when pursuing and apprehending a person of color.
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He SHOT six cops and killed 1 yet Laquan McDonald was plugged 16 times to death without even making a move on them?! F**k that!
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
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Added to the See Also section:
White suspects:
James Holmes – kills 12, injures 58, taken alive
Dylann Roof – kills 9, taken alive
Craig Stephen Hicks – kills 3, taken alive
Robert Lewis Dear – kills 3, injures 9, taken alive
Eric Rudolph – kills 2, injures 150, taken alive
Wade Michael Page – kills 6, commits suicide
Black suspects:
Henry Louis Wallace – kills 11, taken alive
Laquan McDonald – kills 0, gunned down
Corey Jones – kills 0, gunned down
Tamir Rice – kills 0, gunned down
John Crawford – kills 0, gunned down
Sam Dubose – kills 0, gunned down
Walter Scott – kills 0, gunned down
Michael Brown – kills 0, gunned down
Jonathan Ferrell – kills 0, gunned down
Alan Blueford – kills 0, gunned down
Ramarley Graham – kills 0, gunned down
Kimani Gray – kills 0, gunned down
Kenneth Chamberlain – kills 0, gunned down
Sean Bell – kills 0, gunned down
Those are just the ones I have done posts on.
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Of the 68 UNARMED Black Americans killed by police so far this year, 33 were shot dead. That is nearly half.
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I appreciate that you spell it out, quantifying the difference in how officers respond with lethal force for little if any cause, all according to the color of the “suspect’s” skin. It feels insanely wrong “liking” the commentary but it must be spelled out for all the deniers.
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Reblogged this on Boycott.
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“It’s too early to speculate.”
*siiiigh*
I’ve also read commentary to the effect “Well of course they didn’t shoot him, he surrendered. That’s the difference.” No he didn’t. He shot half a dozen cops & half a dozen civilians in a six hour standoff.
And emerged without so much as a scratch.
In a situation that would have totally excused a Rodney King-style beatdown, he came out still wearing his glasses.
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I think he imagines himself as some kind of pro life warrior. I read he was yelling “No more baby parts.”
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I think Robert Lewis Dear imagines himself as some kind of pro life warrior. I read he was yelling something to the effect of “No more baby parts” as he went on his killing spree.
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He is a fundamentalist Christian terrorist no different then fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. Killing for God.
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Sympathy for the devil….rolling stones.. Is it life imitating art or vice_versa.
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If he happened to be of Middle eastern descent or a muslim……
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I view this incident as yet another example of toxic white masculinity. Chauncey DeVega, writer, of the website, chaunceydevega.com/Indomitable defines toxic white masculinity as:
DeVega continues,
DeVega goes into greater detail in his open letter to “White America” http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/08/dear-white-america-your-toxic.html and its companion piece: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/the_plague_of_angry_white_men_how_racism_gun_culture_toxic_masculinity_are_poisoning_america_in_tandem/
The fact that this coward wasn’t shot on sight by the police is the greatest proof of White Privilege. The same privilege that many Euro-Americans claim is a Black community fantasy….
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I still can’t get over how scary a twelve year old boy with a toy is compared to a grown man with a gun. My wish for Christmas is that these liars reap what they’ve sown……ten fold.
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It’s really hard to stomach. Tamir Rice and John Crawford were shot within seconds for having toy guns in an open-carry state, while this violent terrorist and murderer was given hours.
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like how some pointed out that this fool was pro life yet took life. He shot at officers and killed one smh, yet was taken alive. A black child playing with a bb gun, walking home, or sleeping, is a threat and needs to be taken out, but a murderer is to be taken into custody.
These things will continue to happen as long as they give these killers rock star treatment. It is becoming a competition, the news reports mass shootings like it is a high score to be beat. Then they put them on magazine covers like they did the boston bomber, had him looking like a celeb teen idol. They have shows talking about the murders and they write books, and they even have serial killer memorabilia.
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