Atlanta Police Captain Slammed for Saying Spa Shooter Was Having a ‘Bad Day’: Not as Bad ‘For the People He Slaughtered’
News trackers were not impressed by Atlanta police officials when they spoke about the possible motivations behind the deadly shootings at three massage parlors in the area.
Cherokee City Sheriff Frank Reynolds held a press conference on Wednesday where he told reporters that Robert Aaron Long, the suspected gunman, had a “sexual addiction” and may have frequented the spas in the past. Reynolds said racial bias “did not appear to be” Long’s motive based on initial interviews, and at another point in the conference, Captain Jay Baker described Long as “fed up, at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.”
Among the eight people killed in the attack, six of them were Asian women, so the shooting has raised questions about whether this is the latest in a recent surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans. With all of these factors combined, the Atlanta police force was slammed on Twitter for describing the attack as a “bad day” for Long, and for acting as stenographers by taking his word that he’s not a racist.
A “really bad day” is when you mix wine and beer.
It’s a bit more when you decide to go on a murderous rampage targeting Asian women that leaves eight dead. https://t.co/kvexrAEHlA
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 17, 2021
Murdering a bunch of Asian women because you equate them with sexual temptation is not “having a bad day,” it’s being a racist misogynist terrorist, my god people https://t.co/MY6JeXUFKN
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) March 17, 2021
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“bad day”pic.twitter.com/2jxkJYFE0S— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) March 17, 2021
this framing is wild. https://t.co/bQugmdxHVl
— deray (@deray) March 17, 2021
rt if youve had plenty of bad days but never went out and massacred anyone https://t.co/nEfz3lVGnJ
— tracy the business goose (@brokeymcpoverty) March 17, 2021
A bad day “for him.” I wonder if it was a bad day for anyone else. https://t.co/ADUVE9KuAb
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 17, 2021
Not as bad a day as it was for the people he slaughtered. https://t.co/V8pSiFsx9B
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 17, 2021
calling a racist, anti-sex worker murder spree the result of a “really bad day” is beyond the pale, even for a goddamn cop https://t.co/X9XHetJJRr
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) March 17, 2021
As we all know, police typically just believe whatever suspects tell them about their motives and backgrounds. https://t.co/jiLc1k8tBN
— Joe Dunman (@JoeDunman) March 17, 2021
Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. Stop attempting to humanize these white fucking terrorists. https://t.co/3OjnHTuKAi
— Tyler McCall (@eiffeltyler) March 17, 2021
You know who it was also a bad day for? The eight people and their families who this man killed!
Stop giving radicalized white men different allowances than any of us would have. When I have a bad day, I eat ice cream and watch Tommy Boy, not gun down innocent people. Bullshit! https://t.co/9MeHVCt7Zs
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 17, 2021
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