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The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a white-supremacist radical
dneiwert.blogspot.com - 4/6/2009
The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a white-supremacist radical
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-- by Dave Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we're starting to learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away. It appears that what police may be ...
crooksandliars.com - 4/5/2009
The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a white-supremacist radical
— crooksandliars.com — Download | Play    Download | Play Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we're starting to... learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that ... (more) The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a ...

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adl.org - 4/7/2009
Richard Poplawski: The Making of a Lone Wolf
— adl.org — An ADL investigation has revealed that Poplawski, the man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers on... April 4, 2009 , was an increasingly troubled young man who exhibited growing rage against racial minorities, Jews, the government, and ... (more) Richard Poplawski: The Making of a Lone Wolf

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Poplawski was 'Braced for Fate' in days leading to attack
postgazette.com - 4/6/2009
Poplawski was 'Braced for Fate' in days leading to attack
— postgazette.com — Accused cop-killer Richard Poplawski spent hours posting racist messages on an extremist right-wing Web site, decrying blacks... and Latinos and warning of forthcoming economic collapse fueled by the "Zionist occupation" of America, an expert in ... (more) Poplawski was 'Braced for Fate' in days leading to attack
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Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Stormy Monday edition
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... And David Neiwert has more on Richard Poplawski. Sorry, folks, but the gun nuts and the people who circulated those e-mails about Barack Obama being part of a secret Muslim cabal, and the birth certificate kooks, and Glenn Beck weeping for his country, and Michelle Bachmann calling for armed revolution, and all the rest of the crazies -- you own this guy. ...

Related: what guns did poplawski use?
Richard Poplawski: Was Pittsburgh shooter driven by right-wing gun paranoia about Obama?
dneiwert.blogspot.com 4/5/2009 — -- by Dave We're gathering more information about Richard Polawski, the 23-year-old man who decided to kill four Pittsburgh police officers and wound five others because it appears he was afraid they -- at the behest of the Obama administration ...
Right-wing’s false claims that Obama will take away guns ‘has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms.’
thinkprogress.org 4/5/2009 — In Pittsburgh today, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing three of them. Many bloggers have noted that the shooter, 23-year old Richard Poplawski, irrationally ...
Pittsburgh Cop-Killer Was Conspiracy Nut and Member of Stormfront
littlegreenfootballs.com 4/5/2009 — Yesterday we noted reports that the Richard Poplawski, who murdered three police officers in Pittsburgh, was obsessed with the idea that Barack Obama wanted to take away his guns. Today more of Poplawski’s story is coming out, and it’s ...
Critical error by 911 worker failed to note Poplawski owned guns…
GrassrootsPA.com 4/7/2009 — Critical error by 911 worker failed to note Poplawski owned guns… Council declares slain officers ‘heroes of the city’…
Boehlert: Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media
mediamatters.org 4/7/2009 — 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 ...
When conspirozoids attack — Daimnation!
Until a few days ago, this young man was just another disaffected, antisemitic, conspiracy-theorizing Alex Jones fan: Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the ...
Talk Shows and Cop Killers — TPMCafe
Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh Cop killer had been worried for weeks. He had abandoned his own attempts at talk show fame (an Internet talk show) because nobody called in. But still the fears he heard on Right Wing talk radio must have haunted him. Poplawski's friends at the scene ...
Suspect in officers' shooting(Pittsburgh) was into conspiracy theories — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[/b] Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry. His online profile suggests someone at once ...
— No More Mister Nice Blog
I LOVE GUNS. DON'T CONFUSE ME WITH THE FACTS. It's not clear from early reports how big a factor this was in his rampage, but it is being reported that Richard Poplawski, who just killed three cops in Pittsburgh, told acquaintances that he feared an "Obama gun ban." The gunners, of course, ...