The gunman who killed two women at a Tallahassee, Florida yoga studio on Friday before killing himself was a misogynist extremist with a record of arrests for groping women.
Scott Beierle posted a series of first-person videos on his YouTube account in 2014, calling women “whores” and threatening violence against women who sexually rejected him, as Buzzfeed News first reported.
Tallahassee Police identified the 40-year-old as the man who opened fire at the Hot Yoga Tallahassee studio, killing Nancy Van Vessem and Maura Binkley and injuring five others.
In one video uncovered by Buzzfeed, Beierle name-checked Elliot Rodger, who released a manifesto about his hatred for women before going on a shooting rampage in Santa Barbara, California in 2014. Rodger is lionized in the “incel” or “involuntarily celibate” community.
“I’d like to send a message now to the adolescent males… that are in the position, the situation, the disposition of Elliot Rodger, of not getting any, no love, no nothing,” Beierle said in the video. “This endless wasteland that breeds this longing and this frustration. That was me, certainly, as an adolescent,” he said.
Alek Minassian, who murdered 10 people and injured 15 others in Toronto earlier this year, referenced “the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger” in a Facebook post shortly before his attack.
CBS News reported that Beierle had been arrested at least twice for groping women in public.
Another lone wolf, no doubt.
It’s hard to imagine that someone who referred to women as whores and who threatened violence against women was somehow rebuffed by them.
So, in a little over the span of two weeks, we have had one man kill two African Americans because they are African Americans,one man kill eleven Jews and wounded others including police officers because they were Jews and the police officers tried to stop him, one man send bombs to numerous elected or former Democratic office holders, including two former presidents, and other public liberals because they were Democrats and public liberals, and now one man kill two women and wound other women and some men because they were women and men in their presence. Yet the conservatives insist the left is the mob and prone to violence?
PS: I deleted this by mistake earlier while trying to edit it.
Damn.
But the GOP in Congress resisted/persisted in their determination to prevent any efforts to study/resist domestic terrorism - its manifestations, precursor conditions for those who commit these acts, etc.
I’ll leave the question of motivation for the GOP/Congressional resistance to trying to prevent/acceptance of these acts of violence/terrorism - to stand for itself.
These sad losers who wear the “incel” badge are really better described as incer – inoperative cerebrum.
AND, don’t forget – it’s the fake news media that is causing this violence. Not the turd-in-human-form who is spewing all the hate enablement.