Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando
last month, had complained that he was repeatedly harassed at his job
for being Muslim, records show. In newly released documents, Mateen
wrote to his employers that he was being taunted during work as a
Florida courthouse guard and said he made statements claiming
connections to terrorists to get back at his co-workers. “I love the
United States. The boasting I did it just to satisfy the gang of
co-workers who ganged up against me,” Mateen wrote in a letter to his
bosses at G4S Secure Solutions, according to the documents. Mateen said
that when boxes would be delivered to the courthouse, a guard would
sometimes say, “We have to be careful. Omar may send us a bomb and he
will get his 72 virgins.” At one point, a deputy told Mateen that his
fingers had pork oil on them and that he was going to rub them all over
him, according to the documents. He reportedly told his employer the
taunting made him angry and that, as a response, he’d said he had
connections to the man who was eventually convicted for the 2009
shooting at the Fort Hood army base in Texas and to the Boston Marathon
bombing suspects. |
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