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Pittsburgh Cop Killer was a Glenn Beck fan.
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by Bob Carson | April 7, 2009 at 01:40 pm
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This Saturday, three police officers were gunned down while responding to a domestic dispute. The shooter was later identified as Richard Poplawski. Richard Poplawski, a known white supermacist, was disturbed over the idea of President Obama taking away his guns.
Last week I wrote an article about this merely speculating about the influence of right-wing pundits. This week my suspicions were confirmed. Richard Poplawski was influenced by Glenn Beck. Poplawski posted a link to Stormfront of a YouTube video featuring talk show host Glenn Beck talking about FEMA camps with Congressman Ron Paul.
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at 13:56 on April 7th, 2009
An excerpt from Glenn Beck and the Rise of Fox News Militia Media :
After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an AK-47 rifle, and waited for the police to respond to the domestic disturbance call his mother had placed. When two officers arrived at the front door, Poplawski shot them both in the head, and then killed another officer who tried to rescue his colleagues.
In the wake of the bloodbath, we learned that Poplawski was something of a conspiracy nut who embraced dark, radical rhetoric about America. He was convinced the government wanted to take away his guns, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Specifically, Poplawski, as one friend described it, feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." (FYI, there is no Obama gun ban in the works.) The same friend said the shooter feared America was "going to see the end of our times."