Media brand crossdressing BLM rioter as Trump supporter
Mainstream media are attempting to brand a recent mass shooting suspect who dressed in women’s clothing, supported the Black Lives Matter riots and went by “they/them” pronouns as a Trump supporter.
Police have arrested 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker for a mass shooting in Philadelphia Monday night that killed four adults and an adolescent. Two more children were injured, including a two-year-old who was shot four times in the leg. Carriker is facing more than 30 counts, including murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and carrying a firearm without a permit.
Carriker is a Black male with prior convictions including drug possession and carrying a firearm without a license. He posted photos of himself on social media wearing women’s clothing and jewelry.
During the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, he posted a video to Facebook of a police car that was set aflame in Philadelphia which had “ACAB” — an acronym for “All Cops Are Bastards” — spray painted on it. Carriker captioned the post, “I was there; where were you? #we matter.”
According to the New York Times, Carriker’s “gender identity” alone proved a tough case which took the police over 24 hours to solve.
“There was some confusion initially about Mr. Carriker’s gender identity, and in a news conference on Tuesday, authorities used the pronouns ‘they/them’ to describe him,” wrote the Times. “But on Wednesday, officials from the district attorney’s office said they had no information indicating that the suspect considered himself anything but male.”
Media operatives, however, are attempting to brand Carriker as a Right-wing Trump supporter concerned with upholding the Second Amendment. News outlets are citing social media posts from Carriker, though those posts are unavailable because the suspect’s Facebook page was recently deleted. The only evidence is an article by VICE News titled “The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People”:
On his now-deleted Facebook page, reviewed by VICE News, he posted repeatedly about his second amendment rights, his pro-gun stance, his support for former president Donald Trump, and his disdain for President Joe Biden.
Gender ideology has emerged as a frequent factor in recent mass shootings. In March, a woman who claimed she was a man killed three children and three adults at a school in Nashville. November’s mass shooting at a nightclub in Colorado Springs which killed five people was perpetrated by a man named Andersen Lee Aldrich. Aldrich used “they/them” pronouns and demanded to be called “Mx. Aldrich”.
Nevertheless, media operatives continue to attempt to portray all mass shooters as White Trump supporters.
In May, following a mass shooting at a Texas mall by a Hispanic man, The Atlantic ran the headline: “Latinos Can Be White Supremacists”.
