The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker

[lostinblue 1,989]

The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence because Flanagan deemed them 'racist'

• Innocuous phrases Alison Parker used every day to describe her job may have led to her death, simply because Vester Lee Flanagan thought they were racist.

  The 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.

  It sheds further light on the murderer's erratic behavior, details of which have emerged since he callously gunned down Parker and cameraman Adam Ward live on breakfast TV.

  Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his aggressive and violent temper, before he was fired in 2013.

• But now colleagues have revealed his assumptions were 'crazy' and even described one occasion where he believed someone bringing a watermelon in for fellow staff was a racist joke directed at him.

  They were included in a complaint filed by Flanagan while Parker was working at the Roanoke, Virginia, station in 2012.

  The report, seen by the New York Post, that was written by news editor Greg Baldwin read: 'One was something about 'swinging' by some place; the other was out in the 'field'.'

  Parker, who was referred to by her middle name as Bailey in the documents, was never disciplined for the remarks.

  But they appear to be the 'racist' comments Flanagan was referring to when he Tweeted in the aftermath of the deadly shooting.

  Ryan Fuqua, a video editor at WDBJ, told The Post: 'That's how that guy's mind worked. Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that.'

  'He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.'

  Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ, told the newspaper the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely anger Flanagan.
  
  

  'We would say stuff like, "The reporter's out in the field." And he would look at us and say, "What are you saying, cotton fields? That's racist".'

  'We'd be like, "What?' We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we're all racists.'

  Fair added: 'This guy was a nightmare. 'Management's worst nightmare.'

  On Wednesday, Daily Mail Online revealed management at WDBJ dubbed the failed newsman the 'human tape recorder' because he frequently parroted what interviewees had told him rather than doing his own journalism.

  He was also censured for wearing an Obama sticker while recording a segment at a polling booth during the 2012 US Presidential Election - a clear breach of journalistic impartiality.

  The complaints are outlined in court papers seen by Daily Mail Online that include a scathing performance review carried out prior to his termination in Feb 2013.

  The station filed the documents to rebutt a wrongful termination claim which he had brought, claiming he was the victim of discrimination because he was black and gay. The station won the case.

  Flanagan earned a dismal 1 out of 5 score in several categories for his poor communication skills and a failure to show respect to colleagues.

  
  
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[Expat1 971]

Yep. Read his complaints. Small wonder his case was rejected by the EEOC and his civil lawsuit was tossed out of court.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes. He was paranoid and had obvious anger issues.

[Jacque67 7,328]

He needed to find his last stop.

[Expat1 971]

He sure didn't do the rest of these communities any favors

[decocker 7,198]

The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence because Flanagan deemed them 'racist' a crazy person had access to a gun

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

He sure didn't do the rest of these communities any favors

I find it weird that the actions of this person weigh so heavily on other communities.

[decocker 7,198]

I find it weird that the actions of this person weigh so heavily on other communities.

however, sir dylan's wannabe-hooded ####### was not, in any way shape or form, representative of his 'community'

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think people who do this sort of thing aren't part of any community. That's sort of the problem - isolated crazies

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

however, sir dylan's wannabe-hooded ####### was not, in any way shape or form, representative of his 'community'

I was trying to leave that out, but yeah. That was my whole point. Isolation seems to be a privilege.

I think people who do this sort of thing aren't part of any community. That's sort of the problem - isolated crazies

He's black, which means we have to claim him, whether we like it or not...

[Expat1 971]

The inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence because........... Flanagan deemed them 'racist' a crazy person

Flanagan displayed traits of what a former FBI profiler calls "an injustice collector," someone who blames others for their problems, asserts nothing is their fault and contends everyone is insulting them even when it's not true, but Flanagan seems to have been a dangerous kind of injustice collector, because he showed aggression and made threats, said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a psychologist and a former FBI agent for 28 years who worked in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.

(and) had access to a gun

There you go. Fixed. Hopefully we can recognize and identify imaginary "injustice collection" right here when it pops up.

Edited August 28, 2015 by Expat1

[Expat1 971]

I find it weird that the actions of this person weigh so heavily on other communities.

Didn't say it's right. I find it weird that you find it weird since you sure talk about it a lot.

[decocker 7,198]

There you go. Fixed. Hopefully we can recognize and identify imaginary "injustice collection" right here when it pops up.

injustice collecting can be as basic as a constant whiner..recognizing it all the time would get boring quick.

[Expat1 971]

injustice collecting can be as basic as a constant whiner..recognizing it all the time would get boring quick.

LOL true

[decocker 7,198]

LOL true

it's the narcissist + hardcore injustice collectors to look out for.