8 Killed in Shootings at 3 Atlanta Spas, Questions If Racism Due to COVID Was a Motive

Still playing the 'white terrorist' angle....

In a press conference Wednesday morning, Capt. Jay Baker, a spokesperson for the Cherokee Sheriff's Office, said Long was taken into custody "without incident" and described having "a bad day" as part of the suspect's mindset.

Baker said the Long "understood the gravity of [his crime]. And he was pretty much fed up, had been kind of at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did."

The spokesperson said that Long was blamed "sex addiction" and temptation for his rampage and told police the attack was not racially motivated. It was not clear if Long ever went to the spas where the shootings occurred, and other officials said it was too early to determine a motive.

Baker's characterization of the cold-blooded murders drew intense reaction, with some calling it "strange," "casual" and even "sympathetic."

"This sheriff is offering up excuses for the murderer like he's their legal defense," @sea_of_shoes posted to Twitter.



"There is no way in hell he would have said that if the killer was brown or black," @asiehnamdar tweeted.



Long was charged Wednesday with four counts of murder and one count of assault.
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Brian4Liberty said:
Where's Scott Adams when we need him? Somebody ask him if this is hypnosis, conditioning or brainwashing...
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A little of all three.

I can see how a normal young man could have an impossible time just trying to get laid, between the queeers, weirdosexuals, shrieking feminists, and overly sexualized hookers.
 
Really ramping this one up!
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took issue with the way authorities described the possible motive of the suspect in the Tuesday evening killings of eight people at three spa locations.

The mayor countered the depiction used by Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department shortly after he pointed to suspect Robert Aaron Long’s assertion that “sexual addiction” rather than racism toward Asian Americans was behind his shooting rampage.

“We are not about to get into victim blaming, victim shaming, here,” Bottoms said at a Wednesday news conference, adding, “We don’t know additional information about what his motives were. We will not begin to blame victims, and as far as we know in Atlanta these are legally operating businesses that have not been on our radar, the radar of [the Atlanta Police Department].”
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“That the Asian women murdered yesterday were working highly vulnerable and low-wage jobs during an ongoing pandemic speaks directly to the compounding impacts of misogyny, structural violence and white supremacy,” said Phi Nguyen, a litigation director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, in a statement.
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“While authorities are still investigating the motive in these attacks and whether or not they were anti-Asian in nature, we already know that too many within the AAPI [Asian American/Pacific Islander] community fear every day for themselves and their loved ones as a result of the spate of attacks over the past year,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement. “We all must call on elected officials to take steps to counter anti-Asian hate and other extremist or hateful ideology. And law enforcement at every level, along with social media companies, must work together to help intercept and combat this growing threat.”
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-shooting-asian-women-mayor-bottoms-victim-blaming-205454804.html
 
phill4paul said:
Really ramping this one up!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-shooting-asian-women-mayor-bottoms-victim-blaming-205454804.html
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What anyone's motives actually are (or are not) is no longer relevant. ("Intent does not matter" is the current Woke lingo for this.)

If at any point the question "Was this racist?"[SUP][1][/SUP] is asked (as it certainly will be), then the answer is automatically and always "Yes." From there, it is simply a matter of adapting or customizing a standard narrative template for "racism"[SUP][1][/SUP] in order to fit it to particulars.



[1] Or misogynist/misogyny or transphobic/transphobia (homophobic/homophobia is très passé) or whateverist/whateverism.
 
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Now the White House weighs in....

Lead in from reporter "The president in the Oval Office said he doesn't want to make a connection on the motivations for what happened in Atlanta, BUT, to broaden it out why does the president think attacks on Asian-Americans are increasing?"

“There’s no question that some of the damaging rhetoric we saw during the prior administration — calling COVID ‘the Wuhan virus’ or other things — led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have elevated threats against Asian Americans,” Psaki said.
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https://newsthud.com/watch-psaki-puts-blame-on-trump-for-elevated-threats-against-asian-americans/
 
Anti Federalist said:
Another bitter Incel.
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That appears to be latest narrative and MSM seems to have switched its tone slightly.

Some competeting narratives still being pushed in MSM, this headline is still on top of Drudge Report despite claims from police on motives.

KUNG FLU: Shootings coincide with rise of hate online...
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Biden decries 'brutality' against Asian Americans following Atlanta-area spa shootings

Biden said that he had spoken with Justice Department officials and that a motive for the shootings was still being determined.

March 17, 2021, 4:12 PM EDT
By Lauren Egan

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday addressed the spa shootings in Atlanta that left eight people dead, saying he understands the concern among Asian Americans as investigators work to determine a motive.

"Whatever the motivation here, I know Asian Americans, they are very concerned, because as you know I have been speaking about the brutality against Asian Americans, and it's troubling," Biden said.

Biden said that he had spoken on the phone Wednesday with the attorney general and the FBI director and that a motive for the shootings was still being determined.

A gunman shot and killed eight people at three massage spa parlors in the Atlanta area on Tuesday night, and six of the victims were women of Asian decent. Cherokee County sheriff's Capt. Jay Baker said that after a brief manhunt, Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested and later confessed to the attack.

Baker said in a news conference Wednesday that Long claimed that the attack was not racially motivated. Baker said that Long told investigators that he had a "sex addiction" and that he saw the spas as "a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate." Law enforcement officials said Long was believed to have previously visited the spas he targeted.

In a prime-time speech last week marking one year of Covid-19 shutdowns, Biden condemned "vicious" hate crimes against Asian Americans who he said were "attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated" for the pandemic.

Vice President Kamala Harris cautioned Wednesday morning that "the investigation is ongoing."

"We don't yet know — we're not yet clear — about the motive," Harris said. "But I do want to say to our Asian American community that we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that answers were "urgently needed" to determine whether the attack was a hate crime.
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Anti Globalist said:
Democrats will be using these mass shootings as their justification for gun control.
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Atlanta massage parlor shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long had passion for guns: report

March 17, 2021
The 21-year-old man suspected of killing eight people — six of them Asian women — at three metro Atlanta massage parlors professed a passion for guns and God, according to a report.


A student who graduated from Sequoyah High School with Long in 2017 told the news outlet on condition of anonymity: “He was very innocent seeming and wouldn’t even cuss.

“He was sorta nerdy and didn’t seem violent from what I remember. He was a hunter and his father was a youth minister or pastor. He was big into religion,” the former classmate added.

A tagline on an Instagram account that appeared to belong to Robert Aaron Long said: “Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God. This pretty much sums up my life. It’s a pretty good life.”via REUTERS
A 2018 video on the Crabapple First Baptist Church’s Facebook page features Long discussing his Christian journey toward baptism, according to the Daily Beast.

“As many of you may remember, when I was 8 years old I thought I was becoming a Christian, and got baptized during that time. And I remember a lot of the reason for that is a lot of my friends in my Sunday school class were doing that,” Long says in the video, which had been deleted Wednesday morning.

“And after that time, there wasn’t any fruit from the root that is our salvation,” he says, adding that as a seventh-grader, he attended a youth group and a speaker was discussing the biblical story of the prodigal son.

“The son goes off and squanders all that he has and lives completely for himself and then, when he finds he’s wanting to eat pig food, he realized there’s something wrong and he goes back to his father and his father runs back to him and embraces him,” he says, according to the report.
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Officials said that the 21-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, appeared to have frequented the spas where Tuesday’s violence occurred or similar ones, and that he was heading to Florida when he was apprehended, perhaps to carry out further shootings. Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...uspect-in-georgia-spa-shootings-idUSKBN2B926D
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I wonder if he caught some incurrable STD and blamed it on the women from the spas.
 
Anti Federalist said:
Another bitter Incel.
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Anti Federalist said:
A little of all three.

I can see how a normal young man could have an impossible time just trying to get laid, between the queeers, weirdosexuals, shrieking feminists, and overly sexualized hookers.
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Mmmmm.....hookers only require payment. Possible he went to these spas expecting "happy endings" and instead found out they were actually massage parlors, that just gave massages, but in Atlanta, from what I hear, it's easy to find actual hookers. (Not legal like in Nevada of course). And while there is some risk of getting caught up in a vice sting operation, even that's much less than getting caught up in a murder rap. I'm betting he caught something like HIV and was pissed. Either that or his girl found out he was frequenting massage parlors and dumped him over it. Somehow he felt that the massage parlors ruined his life and he wanted revenge. And no, I don't buy the "He was mad at Asians over COVID-19" claptrap.

Edit: Reading further into what [MENTION=26621]jct74[/MENTION] posted, I see that the suspect told police he wanted to eliminate his "temptation." (Of course since he also had a porn adiction one wonders if he shot up his computer and cell phone too.) Is someone who can get sex if he pays for it considered an "incel?" Yes paying for sex is illegal, but it sounds like the reason he stopped was because he felt guilty for paying for it. I wonder if he got diagnosed as a sex addict as a part of a "John school." (Where courts send men who have been busted in prostitution sting operations.) I hate to sound like [MENTION=10908]dannno[/MENTION], but I wonder if this crime would have happened but for the criminalization of prostitution? Man ripped by guilt over paying for sex attacks the source of the guilt. To the extent the guilt was based on the criminality of what he was doing.....?
 
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claptrap.
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Narrative continues to evolve, controversial site "buzzfeed" alongwith CNN appear to be leading with this angle IN MSM coverage:

The Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had A "Bad Day" Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic

Capt. Jay Baker shared a photo of a T-shirt he got on Facebook, saying that the coronavirus was imported from "CHY-NA."

Stephanie K. Baer
March 17, 2021, at 6:13 p.m. ET

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Megan Varner / Getty Images Cherokee Sheriff's Capt. Jay Baker

The Georgia sheriff's official who said the man accused of killing six Asian women and two others in shootings at spas in the Atlanta area had "a bad day" previously shared a photo of racist T-shirts on social media.

In a Facebook post from April 2020, Cherokee County Sheriff's Capt. Jay Baker shared an image of T-shirts based off the Corona beer label that said "Covid 19 IMPORTED VIRUS FROM CHY-NA."
"Love my shirt," Baker wrote. "Get yours while they last.'"


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Baker did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but after BuzzFeed News asked about the shirt, the public Facebook post became unavailable.
At their press conference about the shootings on Wednesday, police said it was too early to determine if the suspect was motivated by race, but added that the suspect told officials he had sex addiction issues and targeted the businesses because he wanted to “take out that temptation.”

As director of communications and community relations at the sheriff's office, Baker was among the law enforcement speakers who gave an update on the investigation.
Speaking to reporters about the suspect's explanation for the shootings, which he allegedly admitted to, Baker said it was "a really bad day" for the shooter.
His comments and officials' decision to focus on the suspect's narrative amid a spate of increased hate incidents against Asian Americans have been widely criticized.

Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks
I was speechless after watching that press conference. Thanks @divafeminist for laying out what was so bone-chilling about what was named (his "bad day") and what was not named-the misogynistic dimensions of anti-Asian racism. To reckon, we have to denounce every bit of it. https://t.co/lJZcQHa7xN
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Hurricane Helms @ShaneHelmsCom
Dude made a conscious decision to go murder a bunch of people, mostly Asian Americans. That’s not a “bad day.” Locking my keys in my car is a bad day. This asshole is a Terrorist! Bottom line. https://t.co/hbIyYN1xji
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enhanced_deficit said:
Narrative continues to evolve, controversial site "buzzfeed" alongwith CNN appear to be leading with this angle IN MSM coverage:



buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/spa-shooter-bad-day-racist-facebook
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It just so happens that the US House has a committee hearing scheduled for tomorrow to address anti-asian hate "incidents". Not hate crimes but rather "incidents". Very convenient that this isn't being classified as a hate crime but was rather "incidental" to race but not actually a crime committed because of race and gives the committee a perfect scenario to talk about. Total coincidence! Expected to be discussed is the lack of "tools" to address anything that isn't a crime and otherwise falls under constitutional freedom of speech. "Incidents"
 
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Non-Atlanta news broadcast tonight:

“Investigators are trying to determine a motive here. Six of the victims were Asian and seven were women, authorities say the 21 year old told them he had a sex addiction and was trying to eliminate temptation though there is no evidence the women targeted here were sex workers. Investigators have not ruled out race as a motive.”

Wink, wink, it’s really all about race, no matter what anyone says...
 
 
It wasnt hard to use reasoning to know Jussie Smollet story was bs the first day it broke, I knew they would spin this for Asian hate narrative.

The reality is he shot up massage parlors (aka prostitution houses), it doesn't take a genius to take a first guess that this was sex/envy/jealously related and thats exactly what it turned out to be. He had a sex addiction and blamed them when he should've blamed himself.

But is it any surprise that our resident RPF troll [MENTION=47542]enhanced_deficit[/MENTION] is towing the democrat party line? Jen Psaki and the democrats are all spinning this as racial. E_D poses intentional questions to pretend to be neutral.
 
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