The Inoffensive Everyday Phrases Used by Reporter Alison Parker That Earned Her a Death Sentence Because Flanagan Deemed Them 'Racist'

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.

SJWs Always Lie: Takin... Day, Vox Buy New $5.99 (as of 01:45 UTC - Details) 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.

But now colleagues have revealed his assumptions were ‘crazy’ and even described one occasion where he believed someone bringing a watermelon in for fellow staff was a racist joke directed at him.

They were included in a complaint filed by Flanagan while Parker was working at the Roanoke, Virginia, station in 2012.

Suicide Pact: The Radi... Napolitano, Andrew P. Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $2.84 (as of 04:15 UTC - Details) The report, seen by the New York Post, that was written by news editor Greg Baldwin read: ‘One was something about ‘swinging’ by some place; the other was out in the ‘field’.’

Parker, who was referred to by her middle name as Bailey in the documents, was never disciplined for the remarks.

But they appear to be the ‘racist’ comments Flanagan was referring to when he Tweeted in the aftermath of the deadly shooting.

Ryan Fuqua, a video editor at WDBJ, told The Post: ‘That’s how that guy’s mind worked. Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that.’

‘He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.’

Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ, told the newspaper the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely anger Flanagan.

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