Ex-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’

[bigworld]

Source: Washington Post

The ex-wife of the 29-year-old man suspected of killing 50 people in a Orlando nightclub early Sunday said that he was violent and mentally unstable and beat her repeatedly while they were married.

The ex-wife said she met Omar Mateen online about eight years ago and decided to move to Florida and marry him.

At first, the marriage was normal, she said, but then he became abusive.

“He was not a stable person,” said the ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety in the wake of the mass shooting. “He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-wife-of-suspected-orlando-shooter-he-beat-me/2016/06/12/8a1963b4-30b8-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-main_flashoot-1237pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[BlueNoMatterWho]

1. Pakistani men can beat wives 'lightly,' Islamic council says

May 28, 2016

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/asia/pakistan-women-light-beating/

[jtuck004]

3. Been doing that here for over 200 years. n/t

[sulphurdunn]

8. I think this kind of progress

is called incremental change, which is great if you're controlling the increments, don't really like the idea and aren't in any particular hurry.

[villager]

2. Thank God his access to guns wasn't curtailed!

That would the real crime!

[avaistheone1]

4. Yes, and it would be a needless knee-jerk reaction to this "story" if anything like that happened

going forward.

[Darb]

6. Sorry, you are very very very wrong.

We need some knee-jerk reactions. We need to take some toys away and make it harder to get them.

[avaistheone1]

13. It is I that am sorry. I thought my sarcasm my obvious.

Evidently not.

[Chicago1980]

5. The new right-wing talking point is that this dude was a 'registered democrat'.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. I see your Mateen and raise you one registered Republican McVeigh.

Regardless of party affiliation, the problem is angry unstable people with high power weapons. Period.

Which reminds me, keep that angry unstable tRump away from high power nuclear weapons. Period.

[Chicago1980]

9. Yeah, but that was 20 years ago.

[BlueNoMatterWho]

10. It's already making the rounds. Who cares?

http://flvoters.com/by_number/1144/84524_omar_mir_seddique_mateen.html

[rockfordfile]

11. Actions show him murdering most likely democrats.

Sometimes actions of a person show the opposite of what they really are.

[Skittles]

20. I can call myself a fire hydrant

it does not make me one

[arithia]

12. yet another mass shooter with a history of domestic violence

it's depressing how little attention this statistic gets. It doesn't matter what philosophy the shooter claims to ascribe to, there is almost always a dead or battered woman where the violence began.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Yep. Always.

n/t

[Demonaut]

15. if she didn't prosecute or make an official report then he still had the right to buy weapons

why was this not reported?

[JI7]

17. he might have kilked her

[Demonaut]

18. true

[pennylane100]

19. So the abused ex wife is to blame?

That is a lot more reasonable than blaming the NRA, or the politicians that refuse to pass sensible gun control laws.

[Demonaut]

23. no, the situation is more complex than it appears

my thought process was cultural, not person specific

[MisterFred]

22. Because we often ignore people who take such actions.

U.S. justice is messed up.

Not to mention guns get sold at gun shows without any effective gun control. A report, even a conviction, wouldn't have made a difference. I don't know why anyone would think a conviction is a barrier to buying a gun.

[alarimer]

16. So why was he allowed to own weapons?

And work in security? He was a threat.

[MisterFred]

21. Too bad we often tolerate domestic abuse in the United States :(

Could have prevented two tragedies.

[Sunlei]

24. when the FBI checked him out TWICE for crazy internet posts, why didn't they talk with wife and empl

employers?