Heartbreaking: Man killed in Red Rose bar shooting had defended black man from racial slurs, police

[JoeOtterbein]

Chad Merrill, a 25-year-old new dad and Lower Windsor Township resident, was fatally shot in the chest early Saturday morning after defending a black man who was being called the n-word and other racial slurs.


[link:https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/21/red-rose-restaurant-shooting-chad-merrill-killed-after-defending-black-man-hellam-township-police-sa/812323002/|

[Phoenix61]

1. Racist POS should spend the rest of his

life in jail.

[Initech]

2. Just another day in MAGA country.

[DBoon]

3. Pennsylvania

not obvious from article

[JoeOtterbein]

4. York County, PA we are across the border from Baltimore County, MD

[smirkymonkey]

5. Took me a little while to figure that out, I had to scroll all the way to the end of the page to see

an ad. "York" and "Windsor" sound like they could be places in New England. Anyway, this is such a tragic world when a caring, decent human being gets gunned down in cold blood simply for sticking up for the rights of another human being. What kind of country are we turning into?

Sometimes, I feel like there is no way out of this but full on Civil War and secession.

[JI7]

6. the guy is a hero and patriot

[Tipperary]

7. Where are all the south haters? I read these stories again and again in northern states.

If it happened in the south, we would have south haters all over it. One poster promised to burn down Atlanta again....tough guy. Never mind that Atlanta is largely African American.

PA, OH, IL, CA, OR, NY....racists are everywhere folks.

[The Genealogist]

8. People who think that racism is a uniquely southern thing are dead wrong

One need only note that so-called sundown towns were largely a northern thing.

[Tipperary]

9. Thank you.

There is a large cadre of south haters here. Stay tuned.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. How does the OP relate to "the South"? Please explain.

[Tipperary]

12. Bingo.

Spot on.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Thanks for your non answer

[Blue_true]

15. I am a southerner.

We won't win this argument by pointing whatabout fingers. There are some solid, solid blue areas in my purple Florida. As southerners, we need to work on expanding the blue in our region and ignore the distractions.

[Aristus]

16. That was me. And while I regret the sentiment, it's beyond argument that the South,

where I was born and raised, by the way, is still the only region in the US that institutionalized their racism and bigotry. An institution embodied in the flag that racists around the country, including and especially in Pennsylvania, fly proudly.

[mythology]

17. Richard Nixon used the southern strategy to win in 1968

He was from California. Ronald Reagan born in Illinois, lived in California, literally took his campaign to Philadelphia Mississippi, institutionalizing racial animus in the modern Republican party.

On the other hand a good ole southern guy got the Civil and Voting Rights Acts passed.

Racism is more than the overtness of the confederate flag, or the hoods of the kkk. It's in structural disadvantages around education which occur in the north too. It's in unjust prison sentences for crack cocaine and other crimes that disproportionately put minority men in jail. It's why the guy in San Francisco had the cops called on him, or the student at Yale. The idiots still waving the confederate flag, those guys are easy to spot because they wear their bigotry on their sleeve. It's relatively easy to avoid them. It's the people who are smart enough to not use racial slurs, or hold up racist flags that you don't see coming.

[Aristus]

20. They always show their hand eventually.

It usually doesn't take much to get them to do it. Even the ones who are "smart enough" not to use racial slurs often express a perverse glee in demonstrating that they are not bound by 'political correctness'.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I know it isn't your fault or intent, but MAN, that newspaper site is full on click bait.

[JoeOtterbein]

13. I use an ad blocker with no problems on the ydr site

[USALiberal]

18. So the paper should provide content for free? Interesting. nt

[ck4829]

19. Rest in Peace, Chad Merrill.

[MagickMuffin]

21. Here's the murdering racist mug

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LOCK HIM UP!

[MagickMuffin]

22. Here's the murdering racist mug

LOCK HIM UP!