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AFRICANGLOBE - Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was “100 percent” gay and had a grudge against Latino men because he felt used by them, a man claiming to have been his lover for two months told Univision. “I’ve cried like you have no idea. But the thing that makes me want to tell the truth is that he didn’t do it for terrorism. In my opinion he did it for revenge,” the man, who only wanted to be identified as Miguel, told the network. Miguel revealed that Mateen was furious after a man he had had sex with later told him that he had HIV.

AFRICANGLOBE - An entire New York block was shut down and a school put on lockdown after an NYPD thug pulled his gun out on a group of bikers in a fit of road rage. The interaction was caught on camera as the raging officer threatened the lives of multiple people. As the incident unfolded in broad daylight, causing a traffic snarl, reports of a crazed gunman began pouring into the NYPD dispatch center causing a local elementary school to be placed on lockdown.

AFRICANGLOBE - The mainstream media narrative of Omar Mateen as a “terrorist,” the picture that is actually coming together of his life is that of a very troubled individual — someone who had a history of domestic violence, a struggle with his sexual orientation.

AFRICANGLOBE - A survivor of one of America’s worst mass shooting to date has spoken for the first time of what occurred when gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in the club, killing 49 people and injuring 53. Speaking from a wheelchair at a press conference yesterday afternoon (June 14), Patience Carter, 20 revealed how the gunman promised not to shoot Black hostages because they had “been through enough”.

AFRICANGLOBE - Hours after Omar Mateen opened fire in the LGBTQ Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the Orlando Police Department informed the media that Mateen had sworn allegiance to ISIS in a call to its 911 emergency line. This single detail became the focus of all the coverage that followed, prompting politicians from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump and a parade of pundits to call for stepped up military efforts and hardline measures against Muslim-American communities.

AFRICANGLOBE - The FBI is investigating reports that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen used gay dating apps and regularly visited Pulse before he shot more than 100 people inside, killing 49. At least five people have come forward saying they saw Mateen at gay clubs, painting a complicated portrait of the American-born Muslim whom the FBI claim was radicalized by terrorist groups.

AFRICANGLOBE - Waking up to news of the Orlando shooting, I thought of the possibility that a Muslim shooter would be identified, in which case a Trump presidency would be nearly guaranteed. As with 9/11, the 2015 Paris massacre and the San Bernardino shooting, Islamic terror is immediately fingered, with the purported killer already dead. What lightning fast police work, eh?