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Occupy Wall Street? @OccupyWallStNYC 8m8 minutes agoHistory teacher of Charlottesville terrorist driver describes ex-students infatuation with Nazis http://ow.ly/iuZt30endyn
The former high school history teacher of James Alex Fields Jr., charged with second-degree murder in the death of a counter-protester in Charlottesville on Saturday, claims his former student was infatuated with Adolf Hitler and Nazism, reports WCPO.
Fields is currently being held in Virginia after driving his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counter-protesters attending a white white nationalist march on Saturday, killing one woman and injuring nineteen more.
According to Derek Weimer, who taught history to Fields at Randall K. Cooper High School in Kentucky, Fields was a quiet and respectful, but had some radical ideas on race.
He was very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler, Weimer explained. He also had a huge military history, especially with German military history and World War II. But, he was pretty infatuated with that stuff.
read: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/radical-ideas-on-race-history-teacher-of-charlottesville-driver-describes-ex-students-infatuation-with-nazis/
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Charlottesville Terrorist Driver "Infatuated" With Nazis (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2017
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SharonClark
(10,014 posts)1. No surprise at all.
bigtree
(86,015 posts)2. apparently, for some
oasis
(49,455 posts)3. A nazi at heart. He'll soon be with his soul/cell mates.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. In other words, he keeps hearing this song in his head:
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)5. When I was a teacher I used to say that in the future
so and so's going to be on the news and they will come to me and ask what he was like in school and I'll say, "He was like that as a kid and I predicted this..."
Some people are just "bad seeds".
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)6. It does happen.
I had a knife pulled on me in the library of a Jr. High School where I was student teaching. The staff and the principle just shrugged their shoulders at the time and nothing was done. Years later I was working as an RN in a local ER when that very same student came in, he had been fighting and had been hit in the head with a bat of some kind. He died in the ER. It was a shame from the very beginning of his life.