[raydan]

I wonder if we'll ever know why the police seem to be trying to protect the shooter.

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

I wonder if we'll ever know why the police seem to be trying to protect the shooter.

We already know, we just don't want to write it out loud.

All you have to do is look at their recent history, and the long past history, into things like voter suppression and how they treat Black Lives Matter protests, and you know.

In another time, those police would proudly show you their pictures wearing long pointy white hats.

[DrCaleb]

Oh! Look!

Officer who cited spa shooting suspect’s ‘bad day’ has history of anti-Asian posts

[Thanos]

Even more information about the victims here:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... ctims.html

They're all obviously family people who were at legit businesses. But that isn't stopping the media and irresponsible social media from hopping on the "massage parlour - PROSTITUTES" bandwagon. This one is shaping up to be as much another Columbine in terms of media laziness because the damn reporters and networks are running with a narrative that's completely false. At Columbine they went with "the killers wanted to shoot bullies", which was complete bullshit. And now with Atlanta they're trying to insert some kind of "whores" angle due to the killer's initial statements, which could be complete bullshit as well because if he's a killer then he's just as likely to be a fucking liar as well.

Are we ever going to see another day in this world where a vital American institution like the media doesn't complete disgrace itself from either sheer laziness or adherence to demented political factionalization? Jesus fucking Christ, what the hell has gone so wrong inside the minds & hearts of these people?

[xerxes]

No. Because accuracy requires doing work and why do that when you can jump to conclusions?

In the case of Columbine though, what we know about those two murderers came out in the subsequent investigations. At the time, that really did look like their primary motivation.

[rickc]

Thanos Thanos:

Even more information about the victims here:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... ctims.html

They're all obviously family people who were at legit businesses. But that isn't stopping the media and irresponsible social media from hopping on the "massage parlour - PROSTITUTES" bandwagon. This one is shaping up to be as much another Columbine in terms of media laziness because the damn reporters and networks are running with a narrative that's completely false. At Columbine they went with "the killers wanted to shoot bullies", which was complete bullshit. And now with Atlanta they're trying to insert some kind of "whores" angle due to the killer's initial statements, which could be complete bullshit as well because if he's a killer then he's just as likely to be a fucking liar as well.

Are we ever going to see another day in this world where a vital American institution like the media doesn't complete disgrace itself from either sheer laziness or adherence to demented political factionalization? Jesus fucking Christ, what the hell has gone so wrong inside the minds & hearts of these people?

Legit businesses eh? Then maybe you could explain why the two Atlanta massage parlors have been raided by the Atlanta police on numerous occasions resulting in the arrests of numerous employees of these "legit businesses" on prostitution charges.
https://www.startribune.com/attacked-sp ... fresh=true

Perhaps you could explain why all three of the massage parlors have numerous current "full service" ratings on rubmaps.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/inv ... 737755001/
Rubmaps is like a yelp for massage parlors that are involved in prostitution. The two parlors in Atlanta have over 100 ratings. Some of those ratings were made just a few days before the massacre, so you can not say that it is old news. The ratings happened BEFORE the massacre so you can not say that a bunch of hateful people are attempting to smear the good name of these "legit businesses". The ratings go on and on stating whats on the menu (which everyone on the planet other than yourself already knew). They go into full detail describing their exploits and how much they paid.

In your updated list of the victims I notice that they dropped the part where Hyun Jung Grant was telling her kids to tell people that she worked at a makeup parlor and not a massage parlor because of the "stigma" of working at a massage parlor. There is a stigma for a reason. Where there is smoke there is fire. Almost every 24 hour Asian massage parlor is a front for prostitution. Perhaps her previous criminal conviction for prostitution while working at a massage parlor permanently banned her from ever working in a massage parlor again. That could be a good reason for not wanting people to know that she worked at a rub and tug.
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/b ... F3ML33JXU/
Miss Grant was arrested in Gwinnett county Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta) in 2009. She was charged with pimping, prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, and giving a massage in a place used for lewdness. So it sounds like Miss Grant was arrested while working in a massage parlor. She pled guilty to the prostitution charge. In your earlier post you tried to use age as a defense against prostitution. Asians age better than other races. Miss Grant would be 51. I would not put her a day over 30 based on her latest picture. She was a beautiful woman. The women that are even older than Miss Grant? They would be the Mama sans. They run the place. Women do it all in the Asian brothels. They do not have some black buy wearing a big brimmed hat with a feather attached. An old mean Asian lady keeps the whores in line. They can be just as mean if not meaner as the stereotypical pimp. Everything from threats of deportment to mistreatment of the working girls family that are still back in Asia.

These are no family run "legit businesses". They are 24 hour a day slave labor whore houses. Many of these girls live in the massage parlor. They are on call to perform sexual services 24 hours a day. They do not get to be picky in who they service. They do what they are told, or else.

Raids, arrests, criminal convictions for prostitution, hundreds of statements from customers describing what goes on in these establishments and the cost. Wake up and smell the coffee.

[xerxes]

And? Does that in any way excuse the murders?

[raydan]

xerxes xerxes:

And? Does that in any way excuse the murders?

Exactly... I don't really care what his motivation was, he should never see the light of day again.

[DrCaleb]

xerxes xerxes:

And? Does that in any way excuse the murders?

And that the shooter went to 3 different ones?

[Thanos]

And that even if these places were sex-dens in the after-hours he killed people on the dayshift who, going by their ages, were only doing spa-type work. And who weren't involved at all in any prostitution that allegedly was happening, which both the mayor and police chief said last week didn't appear to be going on.

[xerxes]

Or that there were probably a few strip clubs in between each of his targets. Each, one would think, a more worthy target if he truly was seeking to get rid of places of temptation.

[Thanos]

It hasn't even been told if he'd been "serviced" at the places he shot up. For all we know right now he could have been going to other brothels and when he flipped he shot up the ones randomly in the belief that "all these g**k whores are all the same everywhere".

[DrCaleb]

Prostitution isn't punishable by death.

And I don't see what's wrong with it to begin with. It is the oldest profession. Might as well accept it.

[Scape]

I heard these people were not even sex workers.

[Tricks]

Maybe if prostitution were legalized they wouldn't need to be hiding and could ensure proper protections in place.

And that's even if it was a front for prostitution.