“Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong
And another, smaller injustice was obscured: the sadistic prosecution of Noor Salman.”
▻https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/noor-salman-pulse-massacre-wrong_us_5ac29ebae4b04646b6454dc2
There was no evidence [Mateen] was a closeted gay man, no evidence that he was ever on Grindr. (...)
As far as investigators could tell, Mateen had never been to Pulse before, whether as a patron or to case the nightclub.
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On the night of the attack, Mateen first went to Disney Springs and EVE Orlando ― both of which had heavy, visible security ― before ending up at Pulse after a Google search for “downtown Orlando nightclubs.” Notably, his search did not include the words “gay” or “LGBT.”
The evidence suggested it was a crime of opportunity, the location chosen at random. If Mateen didn’t know where he was going that night, how could his wife have known?
See also this article on The Intercept, which discusses the case and puts it in the context of Muslims accused of terrorism in the USA:
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/03/30/noor-salman-widow-of-pulse-killer-omar-mateen-is-found-not-guilty-of-a