Comments on: Kristi Hannah: Omar Thornton’s Girlfriend (Photos)

By: Earl Turner

Earl Turner — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:06:09 +0000

@all4real: We’ll all be seeing that videotape of Omar stealing company product a lot sooner than we’ll ever see those cell phone pictures of the racist graffiti in the company men’s room, because those cell phone pictures don’t really exist. The cops are still using the videotape to conduct an ongoing criminal investigation of who received stolen property from Omar.

By: all4real

all4real — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:18:29 +0000

I’m sorry, i haven’t seen the Video Tape of Omar taking the beer yet.

By: Theresa Benett

Theresa Benett — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:36:52 +0000

Racism exists and uneducated people will stop it the only way they know how. Basically, violence stops when racism stops.

By: Earl Turner

Earl Turner — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:28:22 +0000

@Christine: You seem like some clueless dope and you don’t know WTF you are talking about. Omar Thornton was an obvious nut job who was in fact caught stealing on videotape. If it weren’t for him being in the Teamsters Union, that videotape probably would have just been shown to the cops first instead, and then Omar would have been arrested at his own home before he could even bring all of those guns to work that day. The cops have so far even arrested somebody who was caught on the same videotape accepting stolen product from Omar Thornton. Also, just because somebody is in union doesn’t mean that he or she cannot file discrimination complaints themselves directly with local, state, and federal agencies like the federal EEOC or the state human rights commission. You made it seem like Omar was helpless to do anything about this supposed racism at his company – what a crock that is.

By: christine

christine — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:40:52 +0000

I believe that Omar complained to his union and the union failed to file grievances with company. A lot of people don’t know that unionized employees don’t actually file grievances. They make their complaint to their union and it’s the union that files the grievance. Employees have the right to the grievance procedure, but it is the union that controls access to the grievance procedure and it’s the union that decides if a grievance is filed or not file.

So an employee could make a complaint to their union and their union decides not to file a grievance, leaving no record of the employee complaint. It doesn’t mean the employee didn’t complain to their union. It could simply mean the union didn’t file file a grievance with the employer.

Furthermore, it was not in Omar’s best interest to resign his employment. And it’s very strange. No decent union would allow a member to be resign in that situation. The employee is fired – terminated from their employment. Termination is an automatic grievance by a union. It seems the resignation was preferred to avoid filing a grievance.

If in fact Omar was caught stealing, he would not have been the first employee. employees caught stealing are fired, Then the union files a grievance and sometimes the termination is converted to a suspension. Had Omar been terminated a grievance would have been filed and it would have been the vehicle to present his complaints.

But it seems he was denied once again that opportunity. It’s not that surprising that he included several union officials in his killing spree. They denied him access to the grievance procedure to resolve his complaints right until the end.

By: Jamie White

Jamie White — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:18:35 +0000

This racial inequality also reverses itself in the workplace where blacks exceed employment of whites. I have more minority friends than white although I am white; however I was fired after 4 years at a daycare for “making a racial comment” by a educated black director who didn’t want white hands touching her newborn who was housed there. So forget the whines black people….you don’t get sympathy as a group from me, although I like my minority friends…they do not practice reverse discrimination.

By: Earl Turner

Earl Turner — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:33:27 +0000

So, “sickofitall” claims to “know” that Omar experienced racism. This same presumably black person “sickofitall” seems to also “know” that Omar’s coworkers were all also stealing beer from work but getting away with it.

Give me a f****** break. Was I asleep or something when “sickofitall” and all of the other blacks developed psychic powers?

Here’s what I know: There are way too many blacks going on the internet now and trying to give rationalizations for the cowardly murders of eight white men that were committed by their fellow black named Omar, who then killed himself rather than stick around to face the consequences of his crimes. Omar was a guy who showed up at his workplace armed with two 9mm pistols when he knew he was going to be facing a disciplinary hearing. After being confronted with extensive videotape evidence of his workplace thievery on video, and given a chance to just resign instead of being reported to the police for his thievery, Omar decided that he was just “sick and tired” of all the “racism” from his workplace, so he pulled out his guns and started shooting at all of those mean white crackers in his workplace who had the nerve to expect Omar not to steal beer from work and then sell it his friends so that he could supplement his measly 40K annual income with Teamsters Union benefits.

By: sickofitall

sickofitall — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:06:23 +0000

I have been in the work force for many years. I am considered a professional and a 6 figure earner. I Work for a very popular and prestigious company and I experience blatent racism quite often. From my VP to managment, and even other employees. I have more degrees than all of my superiors, who are white, who has a high school diploma or less, they worked their way up the ranks. Having little formal education, there is a deep seated ignornace that is in grained in them. I know Omar experienced racism. It is still alive and well and it runs deep in America, especially since Obama became president. The Budweiser warehouse employees were probably worse than the ones I worked with. They were laborers and did not have to keep up an image. I am sure Omar was racially harrassed and did complain. He was not one of the “good ole boys”. Companies will alway say they have no racial problems, but most of us know better. The measures implimented by the government such as EEO does not work. They are only words that are posted on a bill board that nobody reads. The other workers were probably also stealing beer, but got away with it, they knew not to get caught on camera. Omar was ignorant too, he should have known there was another way to handle this. He was just “sick and tired of being sick and tire” of the bull. So he settled it the only way he knew how. When people in the work place are oppressive to others, when they lack human kindness, when they are uneducated, when they have little respect and tolerance for people of cultures and races not of their own, and there is continuous harrassment, situations will end disasterously.

By: Valery Fabrikant

Valery Fabrikant — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:02:06 +0000

Set emotions aside, and try to use common sense. Why would anyone kill himself if he didn’t feel that the quality of his life was made so terrible that it was not worth living? It is quite natural that he took with him those who made his life so intolerable. Does all this make sense?

There is an epidemic of shootings at work place all over. As long as we curse and dismiss people who are doing it, instead of using common and trying to understand why this person did it, this epidemic will never stop.

There is a clear message to all bullies: stop abusing people. You are placing your life in danger as well as sometimes, the life of bystanders. The shootings will stop only when bullying is stopped.

Use your brain.

By: Lordadolf

Lordadolf — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:24:26 +0000

waaa waaa Im black its hard for me waaa waaaaa….everybody he shot was a racist except him…what a load of crap