Quote:Yup. If someone wants to say that the bigger issue is hatred towards cops, then fine. To dismiss the race issue involved when the killer literally said "I want to kill whites" along with "especially [white] cops", though, is being intellectually dishonest.

 

The crowd seems to have been populated with plenty of white people, but there's a common thread to the ones who were shot. If he just wanted to kill generic white people the non-cops would've taken some hits. That he only shot cops shows that they were his higher priority though he has both factors in his motivation. I don't know why this is an issue with both sides of this argument, it's pretty obvious what he was about.

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