Co-worker: Mateen talked of murder but company wouldn't fire him because he was Muslim.

[Theowl32]

A former Fort Pierce police officer who once worked with 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the assailant in anOrlando nightclub shooting that left at least 50 dead, said he was "unhinged and unstable."

Daniel Gilroy said he worked the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift with G4S Security at the south gate at PGA Village for several months in 2014-15. Mateen took over from him for a 3 to 11 p.m. shift.

Gilroy, a former Fort Pierce police officer, said Mateen frequently made homophobic and racial comments. Gilroy said he complained to his employer several times but it did nothing because he was Muslim. Gilroy quit after he said Mateen began stalking him via multiple text messages — 20 or 30 a day. He also sent Gilroy 13 to 15 phone messages a day, he said.

"I quit because everything he said was toxic," Gilroy said Sunday, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."

Gilroy said this shooting didn't come as a surprise to him.


Co-worker: Omar Mateen homophobic, 'unhinged'

I lay this tragedy at the feet of the politically correct left wing morons. It is virtually identical to the reports that we heard about the San Bernardino attacks. People did not want to say anything cause they were afraid of the PC police for turning in a muslim.

 

[ogibillm]

lol. which am host is pulling the strings this morning - or which loony site?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Could it be that Coyote secretly owns PGA village? Just a thought.

In any case, this madness has become so out of control in the U.K. that they hand over their children quite willingly to Muslim rape gangs out of fear that they will be called a racist, Islamophobic bigot if they object.

 

[SwimExpert]

A former Fort Pierce police officer who once worked with 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the assailant in anOrlando nightclub shooting that left at least 50 dead, said he was "unhinged and unstable."

Daniel Gilroy said he worked the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift with G4S Security at the south gate at PGA Village for several months in 2014-15. Mateen took over from him for a 3 to 11 p.m. shift.

Gilroy, a former Fort Pierce police officer, said Mateen frequently made homophobic and racial comments. Gilroy said he complained to his employer several times but it did nothing because he was Muslim. Gilroy quit after he said Mateen began stalking him via multiple text messages — 20 or 30 a day. He also sent Gilroy 13 to 15 phone messages a day, he said.

"I quit because everything he said was toxic," Gilroy said Sunday, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."

Gilroy said this shooting didn't come as a surprise to him.


Co-worker: Omar Mateen homophobic, 'unhinged'

I lay this tragedy at the feet of the politically correct left wing morons. It is virtually identical to the reports that we heard about the San Bernardino attacks. People did not want to say anything cause they were afraid of the PC police for turning in a muslim.

Sounds like his company was committing discrimination. The guy who quit should sue, as should anyone else who was fired during the time Mateen was getting away with this nonsense.

 

[waltky]

Mateen was one sick puppy to begin with...

Gunman Was Abusive, Homophobic, Racist
June 13, 2016 - Those who knew Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old Florida security guard who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history, described him Sunday as an angry and disagreeable person.

His ex-wife said he was unstable and beat her. His father said he spoke openly of his disgust for gay people. A co-worker recalled him as a virulent racist. Those who knew Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old Florida security guard who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history, described him Sunday as an angry and disagreeable person. But the roots of his rage -- and much else about his assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando -- remained unclear.

Was the killing of 50 motivated by the homophobia Mateen spewed to his family and co-workers? Or by the allegiance to Islamic State that he professed to a 911 operator the night of the attack? Or by a mental unraveling that drove his wife away after four months of marriage? And what lay behind his choice of a target: a Latin dance party at a club 130 miles from his home?

The faces of officials leading the response to the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, are, from left, Orlando police Chief John Mina, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, FBI assistant-agent-in-charge Ron Hopper and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.​

President Obama acknowledged the unanswered questions about Mateen at the White House, but noted, "What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred." Mateen's outbursts and possible connection to terrorists attracted the attention of the FBI twice in recent years. Agents questioned Mateen, the American-born son of Afghan immigrants, twice in 2013 after being told his co-workers suspected he might be linked to terrorists. The colleagues reported that Mateen had made frightening claims that he had ties to terror groups, including Al Qaeda, a U.S. law enforcement official said. The Wall Street Journal reported that he also told colleagues he had connections with the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.

FBI agents closed the 2013 investigation after they determined that Mateen didn't understand how the groups operated and he told investigators that he had been lying and blustering about his terrorist ties. "Ultimately we were unable to verify the substance of his comments and the investigation was closed," FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper said. Agents talked to him again in 2014 after learning he had attended the same mosque as Moner Mohammad Abusalha, a 22-year-old Floridian who joined a branch of Al Qaeda in Syria and killed himself and more than a dozen government soldiers in a truck bombing that year. The FBI conducted an intensive investigation into Abusalha because he was the first known American to die in a suicide bombing for Islamic State.

The investigation into Mateen's relationship with Abusalha revealed that the two men probably knew each other by sight but were barely acquaintances. Hopper told reporters in Orlando that agents "determined the contact was minimal and did not constitute a substantive relationship or a threat at that time." The FBI had placed Mateen on the terrorist watchlist during the investigations but removed him after he was cleared, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mateen was born in New York and grew up in Florida. He lived in Fort Pierce, about a 10-minute drive from his parents' home in Port Saint Lucie. Current and former neighbors described the area as ethnically mixed with immigrants from Haiti, Guatemala and the Middle East.

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FBI Starts Probe of Orlando Gunman's Devices
June 13, 2016 - FBI agents scrambled Monday to recover data from mass killer Omar Mateen’s electronic media -- cellphones, computers and other devices.

This phase of the investigation — a deep dive into Mateen’s planning, contacts, communications and other evidence — will take at least a few weeks. FBI Tampa Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal said “hundreds” of leads were being pursued. As the investigation moved forward, yellow police tape cordoned off Pulse, the nightclub that became the scene of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. “There was blood all over the street. You can see where people were dragged,” said Patty Sheehan, Orlando’s first openly gay city commissioner, pointing toward the building and grimacing.

This is the heart of her downtown district. Sheehan knows the owner of the club and a bartender who witnessed the shooting early Sunday morning, and described to her how it unfolded. “When the police went in, they told people, ‘Raise your hand if you’re alive,’” she said. “Some of the living covered themselves with the dead.” She and other officials have asked residents to hold off on staging a vigil until all the victims are identified. But she stressed that the attack “is not reflective of who we are as a community.”

Law enforcement agencies and local city representatives give a news conference on Jane 12 in the wake of a mass-casualty shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.​

Mayor Buddy Dyer said officials are concentrating on notifying and supporting families of those killed. All but one of the 49 shooting victims have been identified, their bodies removed from the scene, and 24 of the victims’ families have been notified so far, officials said. Gunman Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Fla., was also killed during the attack when confronted by police. At least 53 others were wounded, with many still hospitalized Monday. “We will not be defined by the act of a cowardly hater,” Dyer said. “We will be defined by how we respond.”

Police responding to the deadly nightclub attack had attempted to negotiate with Mateen for hours early Sunday, Police Chief John Mina said, rescuing dozens of people and confronting the shooter only when he mentioned explosives and they believed “further loss of life was imminent.” Mina outlined the police response during a Monday briefing near the scene of the shooting at the nightclub, flanked by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Dyer, federal investigators and prosecutors.

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Gunman 'Cool and Calm' as He Called Police
June 13, 2016 - Authorities on Monday released chilling new details about the standoff and gun battle that ultimately felled mass killer Omar Mateen.

As the nation continued to mourn and with the grim task of identifying the dead inside Orlando’s Pulse nightclub nearly complete, authorities on Monday released chilling new details about the standoff and gun battle that ultimately felled mass killer Omar Mateen. The 29-year-old gunman, after an initial gun battle with an officer working off-duty at the club and other cops, holed up in a nightclub bathroom with several hostages. He called police over the course of three hours but made no real demands, Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters during a Monday morning news conference.

During the standoff, Mateen began calling police, conversations that included an “allegiance to the Islamic State,” the chief said. “I would say he was cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,” Mina said. Mateen began talking about bombs and explosives. “We believed a further loss of life was imminent,” Mina said.

Police explosives failed to breach the wall. An armored police vehicle known as a Bearcat was then deployed to punch a hole in the club’s wall. Clubgoers began streaming out — as did Mateen, who emerged and fired at SWAT officers. One officer was hit in his Kevlar helmet, but survived. Mateen was shot dead. “SWAT officers acted very heroically and courageously in saving many, many lives,” Mina said.

Monday morning’s news conference unfolded as state and federal authorities continued their investigation into what drove Mateen to kill 49 people in what is now the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, a security guard described as mentally unhinged, stormed the gay club about 2 a.m., armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun. The horrific carnage at the popular Orlando nightspot spurred vigils across the nation, intense grief among the gay community and again raises questions about gun control in a country already weary of mass shootings.

Gunman 'Cool and Calm' as He Called Police | Officer.com

 

[Claudette]

The FBI dropped the ball on this one. They investigated this guy twice and didn't think he was a threat to anyone.

I'm sure the families of the dead will disagree when the FBI says they did all they could.

 

[Freewill]

Mateen was one sick puppy to begin with...

Gunman Was Abusive, Homophobic, Racist
June 13, 2016 - Those who knew Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old Florida security guard who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history, described him Sunday as an angry and disagreeable person.

His ex-wife said he was unstable and beat her. His father said he spoke openly of his disgust for gay people. A co-worker recalled him as a virulent racist. Those who knew Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old Florida security guard who carried out the worst mass shooting in American history, described him Sunday as an angry and disagreeable person. But the roots of his rage -- and much else about his assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando -- remained unclear.

Was the killing of 50 motivated by the homophobia Mateen spewed to his family and co-workers? Or by the allegiance to Islamic State that he professed to a 911 operator the night of the attack? Or by a mental unraveling that drove his wife away after four months of marriage? And what lay behind his choice of a target: a Latin dance party at a club 130 miles from his home?

The faces of officials leading the response to the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, are, from left, Orlando police Chief John Mina, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, FBI assistant-agent-in-charge Ron Hopper and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.​

President Obama acknowledged the unanswered questions about Mateen at the White House, but noted, "What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred." Mateen's outbursts and possible connection to terrorists attracted the attention of the FBI twice in recent years. Agents questioned Mateen, the American-born son of Afghan immigrants, twice in 2013 after being told his co-workers suspected he might be linked to terrorists. The colleagues reported that Mateen had made frightening claims that he had ties to terror groups, including Al Qaeda, a U.S. law enforcement official said. The Wall Street Journal reported that he also told colleagues he had connections with the brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.

FBI agents closed the 2013 investigation after they determined that Mateen didn't understand how the groups operated and he told investigators that he had been lying and blustering about his terrorist ties. "Ultimately we were unable to verify the substance of his comments and the investigation was closed," FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper said. Agents talked to him again in 2014 after learning he had attended the same mosque as Moner Mohammad Abusalha, a 22-year-old Floridian who joined a branch of Al Qaeda in Syria and killed himself and more than a dozen government soldiers in a truck bombing that year. The FBI conducted an intensive investigation into Abusalha because he was the first known American to die in a suicide bombing for Islamic State.

The investigation into Mateen's relationship with Abusalha revealed that the two men probably knew each other by sight but were barely acquaintances. Hopper told reporters in Orlando that agents "determined the contact was minimal and did not constitute a substantive relationship or a threat at that time." The FBI had placed Mateen on the terrorist watchlist during the investigations but removed him after he was cleared, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mateen was born in New York and grew up in Florida. He lived in Fort Pierce, about a 10-minute drive from his parents' home in Port Saint Lucie. Current and former neighbors described the area as ethnically mixed with immigrants from Haiti, Guatemala and the Middle East.

MORE

See also:

FBI Starts Probe of Orlando Gunman's Devices
June 13, 2016 - FBI agents scrambled Monday to recover data from mass killer Omar Mateen’s electronic media -- cellphones, computers and other devices.

This phase of the investigation — a deep dive into Mateen’s planning, contacts, communications and other evidence — will take at least a few weeks. FBI Tampa Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal said “hundreds” of leads were being pursued. As the investigation moved forward, yellow police tape cordoned off Pulse, the nightclub that became the scene of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. “There was blood all over the street. You can see where people were dragged,” said Patty Sheehan, Orlando’s first openly gay city commissioner, pointing toward the building and grimacing.

This is the heart of her downtown district. Sheehan knows the owner of the club and a bartender who witnessed the shooting early Sunday morning, and described to her how it unfolded. “When the police went in, they told people, ‘Raise your hand if you’re alive,’” she said. “Some of the living covered themselves with the dead.” She and other officials have asked residents to hold off on staging a vigil until all the victims are identified. But she stressed that the attack “is not reflective of who we are as a community.”

Law enforcement agencies and local city representatives give a news conference on Jane 12 in the wake of a mass-casualty shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.​

Mayor Buddy Dyer said officials are concentrating on notifying and supporting families of those killed. All but one of the 49 shooting victims have been identified, their bodies removed from the scene, and 24 of the victims’ families have been notified so far, officials said. Gunman Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Fla., was also killed during the attack when confronted by police. At least 53 others were wounded, with many still hospitalized Monday. “We will not be defined by the act of a cowardly hater,” Dyer said. “We will be defined by how we respond.”

Police responding to the deadly nightclub attack had attempted to negotiate with Mateen for hours early Sunday, Police Chief John Mina said, rescuing dozens of people and confronting the shooter only when he mentioned explosives and they believed “further loss of life was imminent.” Mina outlined the police response during a Monday briefing near the scene of the shooting at the nightclub, flanked by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Dyer, federal investigators and prosecutors.

MORE

Related:

Gunman 'Cool and Calm' as He Called Police
June 13, 2016 - Authorities on Monday released chilling new details about the standoff and gun battle that ultimately felled mass killer Omar Mateen.

As the nation continued to mourn and with the grim task of identifying the dead inside Orlando’s Pulse nightclub nearly complete, authorities on Monday released chilling new details about the standoff and gun battle that ultimately felled mass killer Omar Mateen. The 29-year-old gunman, after an initial gun battle with an officer working off-duty at the club and other cops, holed up in a nightclub bathroom with several hostages. He called police over the course of three hours but made no real demands, Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters during a Monday morning news conference.

During the standoff, Mateen began calling police, conversations that included an “allegiance to the Islamic State,” the chief said. “I would say he was cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,” Mina said. Mateen began talking about bombs and explosives. “We believed a further loss of life was imminent,” Mina said.

Police explosives failed to breach the wall. An armored police vehicle known as a Bearcat was then deployed to punch a hole in the club’s wall. Clubgoers began streaming out — as did Mateen, who emerged and fired at SWAT officers. One officer was hit in his Kevlar helmet, but survived. Mateen was shot dead. “SWAT officers acted very heroically and courageously in saving many, many lives,” Mina said.

Monday morning’s news conference unfolded as state and federal authorities continued their investigation into what drove Mateen to kill 49 people in what is now the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen, a security guard described as mentally unhinged, stormed the gay club about 2 a.m., armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun. The horrific carnage at the popular Orlando nightspot spurred vigils across the nation, intense grief among the gay community and again raises questions about gun control in a country already weary of mass shootings.

Gunman 'Cool and Calm' as He Called Police | Officer.com

It is interesting how gun ownership makes one go completely mad and hate gays. I am thinking they may need to reformulate gun oil or something.

 

[Freewill]

The FBI dropped the ball on this one. They investigated this guy twice and didn't think he was a threat to anyone.

I'm sure the families of the dead will disagree when the FBI says they did all they could.

Could it be that the FBI didn't drop the ball on this one?

Think about it.

 

[JoeB131]

I lay this tragedy at the feet of the politically correct left wing morons. It is virtually identical to the reports that we heard about the San Bernardino attacks. People did not want to say anything cause they were afraid of the PC police for turning in a muslim.

Right. Nameless people who told other people they were working in their garage...

"I quit because everything he said was toxic," Gilroy said Sunday, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."

Right. Ex-employees are always honest about why they quit. It's not like he's just taking an opportunity to slime an ex-employer who fired him.

 

[Freewill]

OK, let's have a kumbaya moment and put our heads together to blame anyone or anything other than the Muslim who committed mass murder. Apparently he didn't hate gays, maybe he did this because he couldn't get a date?

 

[Freewill]

Could it be that Coyote secretly owns PGA village? Just a thought.

In any case, this madness has become so out of control in the U.K. that they hand over their children quite willingly to Muslim rape gangs out of fear that they will be called a racist, Islamophobic bigot if they object.

You need a link to confirm that story, please.

 

[JoeB131]

OK, let's have a kumbaya moment and put our heads together to blame anyone or anything other than the Muslim who committed mass murder. Apparently he didn't hate gays, maybe he did this because he couldn't get a date?

It doesn't matter WHY he killed them.

What matters is that someone who was clearly mentally unstable was able to acquire a battlefield grade weapon and shoot over 100 people with it.

 

[Freewill]

OK, let's have a kumbaya moment and put our heads together to blame anyone or anything other than the Muslim who committed mass murder. Apparently he didn't hate gays, maybe he did this because he couldn't get a date?

It doesn't matter WHY he killed them.

What matters is that someone who was clearly mentally unstable was able to acquire a battlefield grade weapon and shoot over 100 people with it.

No, what matters is the reason why a person clearly mentally unstable would acquire a battlefield-grade weapon, if it was, and shoot over 100 people with it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

OK, let's have a kumbaya moment and put our heads together to blame anyone or anything other than the Muslim who committed mass murder. Apparently he didn't hate gays, maybe he did this because he couldn't get a date?

It doesn't matter WHY he killed them.

What matters is that someone who was clearly mentally unstable was able to acquire a battlefield grade weapon and shoot over 100 people with it.

Battlefield grade?
You liberals crack me up with your made up shit!!!

 

[JoeB131]

No, what matters is the reason why a person clearly mentally unstable would acquire a battlefield-grade weapon, if it was, and shoot over 100 people with it.

Yet these things never seem to happen in Japan or Canada or the UK where mentally unstable people (or anyone else) can't buy them.

Imagine that.

 

[SwimExpert]

What matters is that someone who was clearly mentally unstable was able to acquire a battlefield grade weapon and shoot over 100 people with it.

 

[Claudette]

The FBI dropped the ball on this one. They investigated this guy twice and didn't think he was a threat to anyone.

I'm sure the families of the dead will disagree when the FBI says they did all they could.

Could it be that the FBI didn't drop the ball on this one?

Think about it.

The director has stated that those Syrian dirt bags that douchebag is bringing in can't be vetted. I think the man is honest but his FBI dropped the ball big time on this one.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Could it be that Coyote secretly owns PGA village? Just a thought.

In any case, this madness has become so out of control in the U.K. that they hand over their children quite willingly to Muslim rape gangs out of fear that they will be called a racist, Islamophobic bigot if they object.

You need a link to confirm that story, please.

If you are unaware of the Rotherham rape gangs as well as others allowed to operate throughout Britain due to political correctness, you are too ignorant to be worth my time.