Posted on 02/15/2018 4:17:18 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In September
In September, a YouTube user named Nikolas Cruz left a comment on a video stating: "I'm going to be a professional school shooter." The video's creator alerted both the FBI and YouTube.
Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and frequent YouTube vlogger noticed an alarming comment left on one of his videos. "I'm going to be a professional school shooter," said a user named Nikolas Cruz.
The YouTuber, 36-year-old Ben Bennight, alerted the FBI, emailing a screenshot of the comment to the bureau's tips account. He also flagged the comment to YouTube, which removed it from the video.
Agents with the bureau's Mississippi field office got back to him "immediately," Bennight said, and conducted an in-person interview the following day, on Sept. 25.
"They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person," Bennight told BuzzFeed News. "I didn't. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them."
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
“I have seem commenters in this forum say things like If event X happens, then it is going to be Civil War Two. Should we be reporting those kinds of threats to the FBI?”
That is merely an opinion. If the poster had said: “If X happens I’m going to start CWII, that would be a threat.
Oops! Forgot to close quote after CWII.
Actually it’s a plan.
Thats right. Tihe FBI realizes its time to distract the Right by letting an event like this happen and with all the subsequent calls for gun control, the Right is thrown off balance. Its like a defensive counterstrike. Since I have such a low opinion of the FBI, I can easily conceive of them doing crap like this.
The FBI is completely broken but so is our system that has closed down all of the nut houses and put crazy people on the streets.
Amen brother.
It’s only too many handle because they have their noses trying to figure out how to set up Donald Trump. They don’t care if they prevent any mass shootings by actually doing their jobs. They care more about having power. Same ole, same ole.
He saw something. He said something. The system worked.
Looks like it. School admin did their part. Authorities warned. I suppose the local police should have been alerted as well, but that would have had the same result as the FBI being notified.
Once again, Mueller ignored a warning. He needs to be fired if not put in a GITMO cell.
If someone says they want to shoot up/blow up/set fire to, etc., a school, stadium, concert, etc., we should take them at their word. Discussing taking preventative measures against a tyrannical government is no where near the same.
A tyrannical government/political party may try to equate the two but it is obviously an illogical argument that’s goes against common sense.
Moonman62 wrote:
“”The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In September
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Interesting that this was before the death of his mother.”
F B I screwed up again....
Yeah . Do Or. writer.
But Im writing a post to a thread. not an article.
If I write reports or other important prose I review and correct multiple times. Then I review after I print it out (funny how often I see more errors on paper, that I never saw on a screen)
Well Trump is going to build a new FBI building.
But they did not react because they were too busy looking for Russians under Trump’s bed.
Nonsense. Very few individuals post "I'm going to be a professional school shooter" online, and when they do, law enforcement should crawl up their -ss, and keep very close tabs on them...
Article says September. Assume 2017. Guess that would be Wray. ?
The political scum put in charge in the FBI goes back to Obama and before.
Clean house and make Congress provide oversight, not let the criminals run wild and then catch them after the fact. And along the way to oversight, document who did what with this report of the school shooter's plans. If the responsible agent's investigation was inadequate, demote them to toilet scrubber for a while along with the appropriate pay cut.
Supreme Court has already ruled on this multiple times. Law enforcement has NO DUTY to protect any specific individual. Or 17 individuals, in this case.
The FBI doesn’t have the personnel to track down every whackadoodle who u-toobs or Fakebooks. They have important stuff to do, like helping RAT criminals (are you listening, Hillary?) cover their tracks.
And the as-yet unasked question (unless I missed it):
When did he convert to Islam?
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