Critics pointed to Omar’s tweet after the mass shooting in Atlanta
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., faced backlash online Tuesday after claiming that there were different narratives used with mass shooters based on their “race or ethnicity.”
In a tweet posted the day after the mass shooting in Boulder, Colo. that left 10 dead, Omar claimed that the “race or ethnicity” of mass shooters appeared to be the main focus of the media when the shooters “aren’t white.”
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Prominent liberals jumped to conclusions about the race of the Boulder shooter. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a 21-year-old man of Syrian descent, was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder.
She also claimed that narratives around the heinous acts are what “drive” people’s responses “to awful crimes.”
“The shooter’s race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren’t white,” wrote the Minnesota Democrat. “Otherwise, it’s just a mentally ill young man having a bad day.”
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“Narratives drive our responses to awful crimes committed against innocent people, pay attention to these responses and who is targeted,” she added.
The shooter’s race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren’t white.
Otherwise, it’s just a mentally ill young man having a bad day.
Narratives drive our responses to awful crimes committed against innocent people, pay attention to these responses and who is targeted.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 23, 2021
Omar’s tweet sparked a backlash, with critics pointing out that she brought up the race of Atlanta mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long, who is White.
Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher blasted Omar for her tweet, saying that this “shooter’s race and ethnicity was front and center yesterday when we didn’t even know what it was and just assumed it was white.”
This shooter’s race and ethnicity was front and center yesterday when we didn’t even know what it was and just assumed it was white. https://t.co/KTnKDhQ1To
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) March 23, 2021
Mediaite editor Caleb Howe also took aim at Omar’s tweet, saying it was using misinformation to push a “narrative.”
Starts with obviously untrue sentence. Follow with debunked smear perpetrated by Aaron Rupar. Decries “narratives” to push narrative.
Yep, that’s an Ilhan Omar tweet alright. https://t.co/xGTUJ6Jweq
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) March 23, 2021
RedState editor-at-large Kira Davis also weighed in, telling the congresswoman to take her own “advice.”
“This literally works both ways, [Omar] so take your own advice. Maybe that’s how we find justice instead of hyperventilating to blame each other about everything all the time,” wrote Davis. “I invite you – as a leader – to take the first step and then keep walking forward.”
Pluribus editor Jeryl Bier said that Omar’s tweet “sounds like it comes from an alternate universe.”
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Omar posted a similar tweet last week, after the mass shootings in Atlanta that targeted three massage parlors.
In the tweet, she wrote that it isn’t “hard to understand why it’s so normalized for law enforcement to protect the humanity of white mass murderers and their willingness to continually make excuses [for] them.”
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The tragedy in Colorado has led to calls from Democrats for an increase in gun control legislation, and President Joe Biden is considering taking executive action, per White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
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Ilhan Omar Decries Whiteness Of Atlanta Shooter, Then Vilifies Focus On Race Of Boulder Shooter
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar complained Tuesday after the identity of the Boulder, Colorado shooting suspect was revealed to be a 21-year-old Middle Eastern Muslim that people only raise focus on race when the accused is not white.
“The shooter’s race or ethnicity seems front and center when they aren’t white,” Omar wrote on Twitter. “Otherwise, it’s just a mentally ill young man having a bad day. Narratives drive our responses to awful crimes committed against innocent people, pay attention to these responses and who is targeted.”
Amazing isn't it. pic.twitter.com/uhFP9OBYmY
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 23, 2021
On March 17, however, when Atlanta police held a press conference cautioning their investigation into an area shooting spree on massage parlors was still early but did not appear racially motivated, Omar focused on the charged culprit’s race, who is white.
“It isn’t hard to understand why it’s so normalized for law enforcement to protect the humanity of white mass murderers and their willingness to continually make excuses for them,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s niece also fixated on the alleged Boulder shooter’s race presuming the assailant was white in a since-deleted tweet.
“The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago,” Meena Harris wrote, according to Fox News. “Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.”
This was how Vice President Harris' niece immediately reacted to the shooting in Boulder pic.twitter.com/jzMzTroc81
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 23, 2021
Harris later tweeted a racist apology Tuesday morning.
I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.
— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) March 23, 2021
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