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White Man Who Threatened To ‘Kill All Black People’ Charged With Killing Two

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If you have any doubt that we still live on Emmett Till’s America, the following story will set you straight.

Glenn E. Rice, Ian Cummings, Joe Robertson, and Toriano Porter, Kansas City Star:

The 22-year-old man suspected of shooting five middle-aged black men since last year… threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and “kill all black people,” according to court records.

Fredrick Demond Scott… who is white, has been charged with murder in the deaths of Steven Gibbons, 57, and John Palmer, 54…

All five were black men between ages 54 and 67. All five were fatally shot, most from behind, in surprise attacks as they walked dogs, visited parks and, in one case, walked down a city street.

And all of them were murdered for the color of their skin. Ambushed by a cowardly racist. Absolutely disgusting.

Their lives mattered. If you’re white, you’re complicit in their deaths. You created this society. You’re responsible for this racist country. This is your fault.

Shame on you.

Update: Whoops! That was a typo. It turns out that Scott is black and all those men were white. He threatened to “kill all white people,” which means we may never know why he did it. It can’t be racism, because that’s literally impossible. Never mind. Move along. Shut up.