A police official in Georgia is under fire after seeming to downplay the motive for the man who confessed to murdering 8 people at spas in the Atlanta area. During a news conference Wednesday, Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office said, “He was pretty much fed up and at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did.”
https://twitter.com/quinncy/status/1372214317504897024
Obviously, saying it was a bad day is an understatement and even The Onion broke its satirical character to point this out.
when Onion is reporting not parody you know things are bad
— Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) March 17, 2021
There’s also a suggestion of a major double standard.
when Black people have "bad days" they are killed by police and then exposed on national media for smoking a joint once in middle school https://t.co/FX5aMdAnjt
— manny (@mannyfidel) March 17, 2021
If you're black, you can be executed by police for having a water pistol and they'll say you were "no angel." If you're white, you can murder a bunch of Asian women and they'll say you were having a "bad day" while admitting you've shown no remorse. https://t.co/JofzhGIBoZ
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 17, 2021
Baker is also being criticized for his comments suggesting that the suspect said the killings weren’t “racially motivated.”
The murderer targeted Young’s ASIAN Massage Parlor. He then drove 27 miles to another ASIAN spa. Here’s a review of Gold’s Spa: “Good atmosphere with Korean girls giving proper massage.”
If the murderer’s temptations are Asian women and he kills them, that’s racially motivated. https://t.co/MP7Bp4lXET pic.twitter.com/t6P7NcP28s
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 17, 2021
White male mass murderer tells authorities he isn’t racist because he has a sex addiction and is tempted by Asian women. White men in power pat him on the head say he’s having a bad day.
6 Asian Women are dead.
It was targeted. It was racially motivated. It is a hate crime. https://t.co/fQK9KYEsqO
— Ravenna Tran (@RavennaTran) March 17, 2021
“No indicators these were racially motivated attacks/hate crime” but he specifically sought out ASIAN spas? You think racists are going to publicly call themselves racist? Worms for brains https://t.co/x9nsYyWOzl
— Esther Olu 🍑 (@estherolu) March 17, 2021
