The man charged with plowing his car into a group of protesters during a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., was “very infatuated with Nazis” — and once in the US Army, according to his former high-school teacher and military records.
Derek Weimer, who taught history to suspected killer James Alex Fields Jr. at Randall K. Cooper High School in Union, Ky., told WCPO-TV that Fields had “radical ideas on race.”
Weimer said Fields always wanted to join the Army. Military records show that Fields entered the Army on Aug. 18, 2015 — with his mother writing on Facebook about him beginning boot camp — then dropped out Dec. 11, the New York Times reported. It’s unclear why he left.
But Weimer said it was because of mental-health issues.
“It was because of a history of anti-psychotic medication that was prescribed,” Weimer said.
“And when you bring that into the picture, and you bring the views … of Nazism and white supremacy — and who knows what he was experiencing once he left this area and went up north in Ohio — like who he was hanging around with and stuff, you start to see how it is like this perfect storm. It comes together, and you get an incident like this.”
A now-deleted Facebook page believed to have belonged to Fields included several photos reflecting his white supremacist views.
“Paging Professor Raoul X. Professor X to the white courtesy phone, please…”
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2011/01/bracken-professor-raoul-x.html?m=1.
And once again divisive rhetoric attracts the crazies.
The right goes to great effort to reject those on the right with extreme views. No matter how far left a nut job goes, the left accepts, endorses, encourages, supports, justifies, defends, funds, and tries to get society buy into radical views.
Well, at least he couldn’t buy a gun. Which is why I’m in favor of 4473’s for car buyers.
Loves big centralized government with racist policies.
Believes blacks are inferior
and he hates Jews…
Sounds like a liberal…
A nutbag detonates at a gathering of unsocialized, violent nutbags and kills nutbags after the BLMANQUEEFAXYZ123 Nutbagathon Extravaganza is over.
The tikki torch march the prior night to save historical monuments and white people chanting they don’t want to be replaced, the real protest, gets painted as Nazi.
Score one for Soros.
Fantastic. Someone should introduce him to that Muslim cop who is triggered by loud noises.
I object to the term “crowd plower” on the basis that I’ve been using it as a derogatory term for fat people. You know, “let’s follow that crowd plower, she’s clearing us a path to the exit”.
Like everyone else does. Now it’s ruined. RUINED. Although, to be fair, I am glad you ruined it before the porn industry got a hold of it.
To Late
A teacher???? What the h*ll did he teach his kids????
Yeah…. I know. I can hear the waka waka guitar riff in the background already.
But the point is, of course dude was a whack job. He drives a girl car.
Any comment on the mental issues of moldylocks?
Have to ask but you people know what’s what.
I’ve been away from news for the past few days. What else, if anything, is going on right now that this story and its follow ups can distract from?
Anybody notice the percentage of the population that is mentally deficient seems to be on an asymptotic curve upward?
What are we going to do about that?
Just continue to elect them to political office?
He’s got those dead eyes.
Police told to stand down, chaos ensues and they turn this chimp loose.
From Ferguson, to Baltimore, to Berkley to Charlottesvile I’m seeing a pattern here. Could it be that they went out and found an unstable Republican and recruited him for this to create a situation?
Time will tell.
Likes Nazi’s and big government? Hardly a Republican, except for the RINO’s, of course.
I know I’m not the only one who saw the mental illness in all the photos of him. It’s in the eyes. Once again, my unspoken assessment was on target. Unfortunately many people close to those who are suffering such, do not see it nor the potential for harm.
He was the ace in the hole that all the Trump-haters we’re hoping for. Now, everyone who isn’t fully onboard with the leftist, globalist agenda is just like him… JUST LIKE HIM!!!…In every way!!!… We know how this bullshit narrative goes.
As one commenter at GWP described it, the whole Charlottesville episode was one big ‘FUSTERCLUCK’! Great description, yes? (Sorry, Billy–nothing to do with your chicken!).
I think I’ll start calling those nasty, brawling, masked lefties ‘ANTIFAFA’ the Anti-Fascist Action FASCISTS because if it looks like a FASCIST, destroys like a FASCIST, then it must BE a FASCIST– amirite?