citizen.”Ĭhief Mina said that an off-duty officer who had been working at Pulse responded to shots fired at about 2 a.m. “He went against my principles as a father and as a U.S. “If I knew 1 percent about what he was doing, I would have called the F.B.I.,” the elder Mr. But on Monday, the father, teary-eyed, told reporters that he had no inkling of what was to come. Mateen said in a video he posted online that he believed that it was up to God to punish gays. His father, Seddique Mir Mateen, an Afghan immigrant, has said that he was particularly enraged by seeing a same-sex couple kiss, though the elder Mr. Mateen had a chilling history that included talking about killing people, beating his former wife and voicing hatred of minorities, gays and Jews most of his victims were gay, Latino, or both.
