Courtesy of Anti-Immigrant Barbie's Facebook page:
He's NOT Hispanic, and YES - He Terrorized... Shame On Media
We share such sadness for lives lost in Washington State. Please offer heartfelt prayers for those impacted forever by Friday's heinous attack.
In reporting this, once again the media got it wrong - why? It's appalling they made sure to announce the murderer was Hispanic. (Early eyewitness reports suggested the shooter was Hispanic.) Ironically, my Hispanic family friend and I watched the unfolding coverage that night and both commented that media was terrible in making that racial pronouncement. (She does actually have one Hispanic friend, Juanita Fuller, but I have no idea if they actually watch TV together.) It was glaringly obvious they could NOT know this otherwise unidentified dark-skinned male was Hispanic - in fact he didn't look "exclusively" Hispanic to many of us - so why did media lie?
As per usual, after capturing this evil man who struck such terror, media THEN feigns caution and holds off as long as possible to reveal the killer's background as a Muslim immigrant. We don't even have to ask "why?". (To make sure they go the facts right? To delay folks like you from jumping on the Muslim terrorism bandwagon? Could be a lot of reasons.)
And where's your apology, media? You give us no reason whatsoever to trust you. It's a good thing there are more of us than there are of you - and we know where to put our trust, faith and reliance for wisdom and strength to victoriously plow through these coming days... Proverbs 3:5-6. (Perfect, a Bible quote about not trusting your critical thinking skills and instead trusting in God. Good choice in this situation.)
- Sarah Palin
Okay so what we know so far is that the shooter, Arcan Cetin, killed four women and a man in with a rifle in a Macy's store at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington.
Right now there is no identified motive, though apparently he did recently break up with a girlfriend who worked at a Macy's store.
Cetin has a history of inappropriately touching women, and he was arrested on assault charges back in 2015.
He posted this about Hillary Clinton, though to my ear it sounds a little sarcastic.
However there is also online evidence that he suggested that President Obama's liberalism was a lot like communism.
Though Cetin came from the predominantly Muslim country of Turkey there is little known about his own religious beliefs, and no evidence as of yet that he was connected to terrorist groups.
Cetin came to this country as a young child and attended public schools in Washington.
So considering the fact that he immigrated to this country many years ago as a child, does not seem connected to any radical Islamic groups, and has no known ties to terrorists, just why does his nationality seem like such a big deal to Sarah Palin that she is demanding an apology from the media for not getting it right?
Oh I think we all know the answer to that question.
Here's what I know.
This is once again a case of a mass shooting by a guy with a gun in America.
Why he did it, where he is from, and what religion he practices, do not change that fundamental fact.