Captain Jay Baker, the spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, is under fire for suggesting that the Atlanta-area shooter “had a bad day.”
“He was pretty much fed up and had been kind of at the end of his rope,” Baker said at a news conference Wednesday. “Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did.”
Baker was addressing the motive behind 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long’s killing spree which led to the death of eight women, six of whom were of Asian descent.
Baker is also accused of sharing anti-Asian posts on Facebook last year, supporting former President Donald Trump‘s inflammatory “China virus” rhetoric.
