Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts
Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts
An X account that appears to have belonged to the deceased suspect has violent anti-LGBTQ messages dating to 2018.
The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media.
The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
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Seems like stochastic terrorism again.
Also a little surprised the police shot him instead of making nice. On the one hand I'm not sad the violent bigot is dead. On the other summary execution by the police is fucked up.
You mean the results of stochastic terrorism? Because what he did was just plain terrorism.
Yes, you are correct.
Summary execution? It’s a gunfight, he was shooting at the police using his gun.
Is there a better phrase for "he was killed without a trial" than "summary execution"?
Yes, killed in a gunfight. Execution by definition means that the person has already been subdued.
If he had been shooting at BLM protesters he would have been given a medal.
Thanks for this very related comment