Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters: Dollar General mass shooting was "racially motivated" 

There are instigators out here used specifically to keep us divided. Only so we won’t power up against the machine. Rip to the victims 🙏🏽

I feel bad for the family who lost their loved ones. Your family members went to shopping and never come back home 😢😢😢it's so sad

As a white tatted up biker.. just know that all white people are NOT racist! One of my best friends is black. We are brothers from another mother! We don't see each other as white or black, I'm just saying that for those that read this.. not everyone is racist!👊🏻

The same people doing all the crimes are now crying injustice. Nothing of value was lost.

What do you expect when people in our own government continually push hatred between different racial groups.

Why are you not that upset about black killing black in gang related actions?

If your unhappy about the world you live in then leave others alone and just be alone. I am sick of the racism and hate that festers in our communities. This world’s moral compass points straight to the devils hand.

I'm so very sorry to hear of another senseless shooting. My condolences and prayers are with all involved. When the Sheriff said that this was a hate crime against Black people, when he said the N word it just made me sad and sick to think people could be so hateful.

Political behavior drives these actions.

Disgusting act of evil from a disgusting individual. No place in America for this kind of idiocy. My condolences and prayers for those affected families.

Condolences to those affected by this tragedy! 🙏

Hate is taught, not something a person is born with. Let's teach our children to love so that it follows them into adulthood.

I don't understand how anyone can decide to hate someone because of the color of their skin. No one should fear being murdered because of their skin. He must have hated himself too, he killed himself

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿for the victims families and friends. Also, for the Jacksonville community.

MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIMS.

Sad,people can't even go to the dollar store without fearing someone could take their life over the color of their skin.😢

Senseless, disgusting and cowardice act. Prayers for the families left behind.

Deepest sympathy to the families that lost their loved ones 🙏🏽💔

I went to high school with the guy who did it. He didn't have any red flags from what I saw and he was a funny dude who was a good friend. Seeing this makes me absolutely sick. You really don't know people even if they're your friends. My condolences to the victims' families. Such a senseless tragedy by a coward

People out there spewing with hate and talkin about civil war that's what caused this it has to stop!😑😔

"I dream of a day when my children live in a country where people are judged NOT by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" - Martin Luther King

The only good news is that the perpetrator ended his miserable and worthless life.

🇺🇲🇺🇲 God, Peace, Love, Laws & Respect. 🇺🇲🇺🇲

Very informative and couldn't have been put any better and clear by Sheriff Waters and the rest of the team at this conference. My condolences and prayers to the victim's families and loved ones and everyone affected by this vicious and unnecessary hate crime.

Where did y’all find Sheriff Waters?? You need to look and find more of him! WOW! Calm. Articulate. Focused. Never seemed to need to look down at notes. I am genuinely impressed!

If all you see is the color of another's skin, then you are truly blind. Just senseless. Prayers to the families of the victims.

What’s even Sadder is that it’s going to happen again and again and again 😢

I cry for all of you too. United is the way. Hate is just separation. This sheriff seems to have a lot of compassion and integrity. Blessings to all involved.

America cries with you, we all must speak out against racism in every form. It cannot be tolerated any longer.

💔😢 My deepest sympathy for the family's involved & to their friends who will also miss these people.

Imagine that.... You walk out of your home and into a Dollar General for a few items, only to lose your life to somebody you don't know. The reason.... He/she does not like your skin color. If that isn't madness, I don't know what is. Condolences to the families of all the innocent victims.

All.u.black.people.that.live.there.need.to.arm.your.self.when.u.go.out.protect.your.self

My prayers go out to the victims and their families and to all that this has affected. This is so heart breaking.

I like this sheriff a lot. He gave straightforward answers, with his personal opinions, and still kept it professional. I wish him and his department the best in dealing with this giant fecal tornado.

It’s sick what’s happening in America. Prayers with the family and friends of these precious people. Hate never wins.

😅 I'm Cherokee indigenous (+ several other tribes). I deal with so many race based harassment and hatred from blacks (mainly women), people who refused to allow the palest black people to identify as black as an act of hatred and hate me for not misidentifying as black is underscored when this happens. Don't claim my brown skin as black 💅🏾💁🏾‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️😊😅 don't put me in your system of hatred.

Absolutely heartbreaking Much loves and prayers to the families of those who were murdered today.

What is there to investigate? He pretty much made it clear.

Evil actions based on ignorance. My heart goes out to the people affected by this. May God bless you all.

There is no reason to shoot someone just because of their skin color, age, religious beliefs , gender, highth, weight ect. Absolutely ludicrous behavior that has no place on earth.

Prayers for the families. I'm so sorry. I stand against hate!!

Blame the news for the constant use of race and the court systems for not putting people in jail or mental institutions

Many, MANY are crying in the wake of this horrible crime. My prayers to family and friends of the victims, and to the countless others that are affected by this senseless act.💕 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏻

Martin Luther King's integration black folks.......Malcom X warned you all 🤔

That is so messed up. Uncalled for and I feel for those people.

I love Sheriff Waters. What a beautiful way to address this - This has to stop

Mt heart is breaking for the victims, their families, & the community. Hate has no place in our country. Unfortunately, we have way too much of it. Sending love to Jacksonville from TX. ❤️❤️❤️

I have no words. Rip. 🙏🙏🙏😰

This world is so cruel 😢

I pray the Lord comforts these families in their time of grieving & ease their pain.

Where's the Nashville shooters manifest

Very wicked and evil people.

Sheriff Waters with that mic drop 🤯 Like a BOSS ‼ 🚫 NO sugarcoating 🚫 TOO much respect for this man - BLESS YOU SIR ❣

Dude didn't deserve to be on earth thinking like that But how with his history did ge get guns..Rip to the victim's

Hate is one thing. To kill someone because you hate them? I think that goes beyond hate. It is something else, It is demonic.

My heart goes out to these people’s loved ones. I wish this world would rid itself from hate!

This Sheriff is eloquent, decent and heartfelt. 🙏

Unbelievable how someone can point a gun at another human being and pull the trigger based solely on the color of that persons skin. Prayers for the families. I can’t imagine and hope I never know what they are going through right now.

About TIME, the WORDS ARE SAID, “ White supremacy” IS & HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ISSUE IN AMERIKKK. THX. Sheriff.

You are gonna get the maifesto post haste as it fits the national narrative being pushed. The Nashville shooting not so much. Prayers for the lives senslessly lost.

I'd say the thousands of black on black murders are racially motivated as well. We don't get the outpouring of condolences from those though ❤❤❤❤

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families & friends affected by this tragedy! Hate is taught at home! And is a horrible thing. WE ALL BLEED RED!

I feel sorry for the innocent lives lost today. It appears the killer was suicidal but decided to take out “the enemy” (according to BLM, The government, etc that think it’s ok to discriminate against whites openly, because two wrongs make things right, right? Ugh). What he did was disgusting and then for the coward to kill himself, just shows how sick the murderer was. However, note how this has made NATIONAL headlines? Do you knowWHY that is? **Because it happens so INFREQUENTLY** that when it does happen, it’s headline news. Blax kill hwhites every.single.day yet no news reports on that anymore, afraid to appear “rayciss” against blaxx. So, keep that in mind.

My heart breaks every time I see “racially motivated” And my head has a hard time understanding why. We are all the same. It’s literally not hard to just love one another. ❤☹️

Evil has no bounds. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

But its never reported the other way. Its never a HATE CRIME the other way. If you don't point out HATE CRIMES both ways, then I don't wanna here anything about a HATE CRIME in this situation. PERIOD! God Bless

It's a disgusting and heinous crime.

Sheriff Waters & the people of Jacksonville, my heart, my thoughts, & prayers goes out to you. I pray we, as American People, can find a way to break this vicious cycle.

My heart goes out to the victims and their families. My thoughts and prayers go out to my fellow Americans who still have to struggle with this kind of hatred just because of the color of someone's skin. It was unexceptable behavior back then and should not be tolerated today. People with that kind of hate our the lowest scum of our society.

A devil took the lives of innocent people

This SCREAMS all kinds of red flags!!!!!

My prayers to the families, friends and the community. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

My prayers will be especially directed to all the victims and the grieving community left to pull life back together. My love and deepest condolences to all. Thank you, Sheriff, for sharing with all of us your current findings during the early stages of your investigation. May God bring some peace to you all. Lots of love from Southeast Texas ❤️

My deepest sympathy to the family, friends and community.

Darrell Brooks hated white ppl especially old white ppl,but that wasn't a HATE crime,didn't fit narrative

😢 So sad.

Condolences to all family members, horrible act of violence, again. It is so sad.

Too often today and in recent years hate has been preached and taught all across this country especially on the Internet. It's a damn shame that nobody wants to try to do something about it.

This is just so sad. The sheriff put it right dont matter party lines it comes down to working together for the greater good. My heart goes out to the familys even the shooters they just lost their child and no parent should have put their child to rest.

This world is ending 😢Pray🙏

You don’t have a positive ID but you’ve already been to his house and talk to his parents?

Just so sad. My condolences to the family 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Prayers go out to the Black families 🙏🏾 who lost their love one all cause of hate. 😠

Sending Love and Sympathy from Vancouver WA.

LOOK HOW ABSOLUTELY FAST ALL THIS INFORMATION IS BEING PUSHED OUT

Sending my prayers to all of you

DeSantis ain't said Jack!!!

I am so damn tired of communities saying this is not who we are as a community. When we see this sh!t happening time and time again. Even police officers who killed black ppl even when a person is complying to a command. Still gets killed now maybe a police officer may not say the N word. But I'm sure he's thinking about it!! Give me a break on this.... Condolences to the family. You can be out anywhere and some fool who hates ppl take his hate on a group of people!!!

i NOTICED THE SWASTIKA, HE WAS FILLED WITH HATE

Heavenly Father please be with these suffering individuals as the grieve the loss of their loved ones. Heal their broken hearts Lord. Hold the victims in your loving arms. Amen. 🙏

BREAKING NEWS: Trump vows if re-elected he will first revive then pardon the killer.😂

shouldn’t every shooting be considered a hate crime…..

Sheriff Water nailed the speech! What a loss to the community. Praying for the families of the victims who lost their lives. So sorry for your loss. Any kind of hate is evil. May the community heal from this Mass shooting. Terrible that this happened.

Very sad news. No matter what race you are, don’t allow hatred of another in your thoughts.😔💜😔♥️😔💙

Blame Desantis and all other racist folks...who thinks the status quo should remain..

So heartbreaking..those poor souls. Praying for their family.

Funny how they come right out with This manifesto....still waiting on tenn transfesto

More knife attacks then gun attacks!! BAN ALL KNIVES !!!!

Amazing within hours we know the motivation here but still haven’t been told what the motivation was behind the Nashville mass shooting…….

The amount of violence in today's society is phenomenal every single day from the time my feet hits the floor until I turn in at night I hear about some type of of violence whether it's in my own community or someone else's community it always makes me ask myself what is happening to make people behave like this of course I'm like most Individual's I automatically i think to myself that it must be drugs but after hearing the final investigation I often realize that's not always the case but sometimes it is then I come to realize that alot of times this stems from family the way people are brought up in today's society when I was coming up as a child it seemed like family spent a great deal of time with their children teaching them right from wrong and trying to instill a great deal of common knowledge in us and when we didn't listen or misbehave we got our bottoms tore up just from my personal aspect and mind set looking back at those times played a great role in helping us become amazing and productive individuals in society in personally I think a lot of parents are to blame for most of the violence that occurs in every day life I may be totally wrong but what do you guys think I would love to hear Thank you for taking time to read my post and God Bless everyone 🙏