http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3213821/The-inoffensive-everyday-phrases-used-anchor-Alison-Parker-earned-death-sentence-Flanagan-deemed-racist.html?ito=social-facebookThe inoffensive everyday phrases used by reporter Alison Parker that earned her a death sentence because Flanagan deemed them 'racist'
Parker used phrases like 'swinging' and 'field' while she interned at WDBJ
Colleagues said they were commonplace, but Flanagan thought otherwise
Staff said his assumptions were 'crazy' and he was a 'nightmare' coworker
When someone brought a watermelon to work, he thought that was racist
He believed the fruit was placed in a 'strategic location' to harass him
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 01:10 EST, 28 August 2015 | Updated: 06:11 EST, 28 August 2015
Innocuous phrases Alison Parker used every day to describe her job may have led to her death, simply because Vester Lee Flanagan thought they were racist.
The 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.
It sheds further light on the murderer's erratic behavior, details of which have emerged since he callously gunned down Parker and cameraman Adam Ward live on breakfast TV.
Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling them in public and intimidating them with his aggressive and violent temper, before he was fired in 2013.
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