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Finally! Police Chief Confirms That Kroger Shooting Was A Hate Crime

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A Kentucky police chief finally acknowledged what was obvious to most people: the killing of two Black people by a white supremacist last week in suburban Louisville was race related. See Also: White Supremacist Who Targeted And Killed 2 Black People In Cold Blood Is Arrested Peacefully Speaking to the congregation of a Black church that was also targeted by the accused killer  Gregory Bush ,  Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers  said the Wednesday shooting at a Kroger supermarket parking lot was a hate crime, Wave 3 News reported. “The sentiments that were expressed to a witness by Mr. Bush, the suspect in this crime, are not indicative of this community. They’re not indicative of the Jeffersontown police. I wanted to call it what it was, and that’s racism in action,” the police chief stated. Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Jones, 67, were killed by 51-year-old Gregory A. Bush at a Kroger in Kentucky. https://t.co/HhZbOPzmt3 — NewsOne (@newsone) October 26, 2018 Meanwhile, Louisville GOP mayoral candidate Angela Leet also said on Sunday that the shooting was a hate crime, according to the Courier-Journal , making her one of the first local Republicans to acknowledge the obvious. Rogers had been slow at coming to that conclusion. Ed Harrell , a white man who witnessed the shooting and brandished his own gun for protection in the parking lot, reportedly claimed immediately after the shooting that Bush walked by him and said, “Don’t shoot me. I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.” Yet the chief hesitated for several days to confirm that the double homicide was race related. “I can’t speculate on motive at this time,” Harrell said Thursday. Here’s what Rogers is now saying: “I wanted to call it what it was, and that’s racism in action,” Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers said of last week's shooting at Kroger that left two people dead. https://t.co/RciS9hj7ge pic.twitter.com/V8Ybl9zF9A — WLKY (@WLKY) October 28, 2018 Bush, 51, had attempted but failed to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown on Wednesday, according to the police. He then went to a nearby Kroger where he shot and killed 69-year-old Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones , 67, apparently at random. Bush was taken into custody shortly after he fled the scene. In his remarks at the church, Rogers noted the parallels between the shooting in their community and the mass shooting Saturday at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where the gunman made anti-Semitic statements before killing 11 people. “These two most recent examples of hate crimes were carried out by evil people that base their beliefs and actions on ideas and ideals that are contrary to the good of the American people,” he said. SEE ALSO: Watch: Drunk White Woman Who Racially Harasses Black Women Faces Consequences After Sobering Up From Trayvon Martin To Blackface: Megyn Kelly’s Most Racist Moments [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3833615″ overlay=”true”]

Finally! Police Chief Confirms That Kroger Shooting Was A Hate Crime

Megyn Kelly Criticized By Hometown Students Who Once Admired Her

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T he backlash became more personal for  Megyn Kelly  as current students from Kelly’s high school rejected her controversial statement that blackface was acceptable when she was growing up in Bethlehem, New York. SEE ALSO: From Trayvon Martin To Blackface: Megyn Kelly’s Most Racist Moments A group of students at Bethlehem Central High School, where the former NBC host graduated in 1988, said none of their parents could recall a time back in the 1980s when blackface was considered not racist, the Students for Peace and Survival at Bethlehem Central High School stated Sunday in an NBC News op-ed. Kelly is an admired figure at her alma mater, where she was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2015 . NBC confirmed on Friday that it booted Kelly from her morning show. The firing was prompted by her panel discussion on Tuesday in which she defended wearing blackface for Halloween. “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a Black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK just as long as you were dressing as a character,” she stated. A huge backlash prompted Kelly to apologize, but it wasn’t enough given her history of making racist comments , particularly as a Fox News host before joining NBC. “We know full well that one of the hardest things to do is to apologize, and we thank her for doing so,” the students said. “But retroactively showing sensitivity isn’t nearly enough to prevent the cycle from continuing.” Megyn Kelly clearly won’t be missed at NBC. #MegynKellyCanceledParty https://t.co/mQn6RcYPIr — NewsOne (@newsone) October 25, 2018 Bethlehem is far from a racially diverse town, the students noted. It was 92 percent white and just 2.5 percent African-American, according the 2010 census. Minstrel shows were part of the city’s “sordid tradition” of humor at the expense of Black people. The local newspaper recorded that a minstrel show was performed for a school fundraiser in 1960, more than a decade before Kelly was born. “The reason that Megyn’s comments about blackface being OK when she was a kid … were so offensive is that blackface is a projection of the racism that lies much deeper, and a symbol of times that are not quite as far past as we may wish to admit,” the students commented. SEE ALSO: You Can’t Sit With Us! Megyn Kelly’s NBC Coworkers Reportedly ‘Hated’ Her Kanye’s ‘Blexit’ T-Shirts For Young Black Conservatives Shuns Democrats [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3833528″ overlay=”true”]

Megyn Kelly Criticized By Hometown Students Who Once Admired Her