prochlorperazines:

zoobus:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

the-real-eye-to-see:

They used the Boy Scout picture and not the Mug Shot. It’s an attempt to “Humanize” him, when they do the opposite with people of color…

If he was a black kid gunned down for walking through his mom’s neighborhood, they’d find the scariest photo possible.

Not to mention that freaking headline. Where is the ‘shock’ and ‘disbelief’ about two innocent black people being killed?

It’s wrong. It’s really just wrong. This is a sad world we are living in and it will only get worse.

If he was black they’d have trawled through hundreds of facebook photos to find the one that most made him look “Scary” to people…

Instead here he is in a fucking boy scout uniform ._.

“ Kenneth Gleason graduated from high school an honor student and became an eagle scout in 2012, and, on Tuesday, he was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder – in the apparently random shooting deaths of two black men”

This is the first paragraph for the first article on Google after searching the killer

to add to this; i really wonder how ‘shocking’ it was for his friends and family. people like this that commit racist hate crimes and racially charged murders don’t just wake up one day and think “well, i guess i’ll kill two black people today!” if he had copies of Hitler’s speeches, then it’s safe to say people were ware of his racism, and this crime could’ve been prevented.

it would not surprise me if he was known to make racist jokes, consistently used racial slurs and epithets and “joked” about killing people. it would also not surprise me if his friends and family either encouraged his behaviours, or simply ignored it.