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The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz
Buzzfeed.com ^ | 2/15/18 | Brianna Sacks

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: fbi; florida; flschoolshooting; guns; knownwolf; negligence; nicolascruz; nicolascruzbio; nicolascruzfbi; nikolascruz; schoolshooting; youtube
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To: oincobx

“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.


61 posted on 02/15/2018 5:42:28 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: bk1000

Oops! Forgot to close quote after CWII.


62 posted on 02/15/2018 5:43:14 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: bmwcyle

Actually it’s a plan.


63 posted on 02/15/2018 5:52:21 AM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: nclaurel
Things get heated for the FBI in the news and this tragedy offers a distraction.

That’s 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.

64 posted on 02/15/2018 5:53:28 AM PST by bkopto
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


65 posted on 02/15/2018 5:54:52 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: Diogenesis

Amen brother.


66 posted on 02/15/2018 5:55:43 AM PST by bkopto
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To: Vaquero
“Does the writers...” Grammar police curse. 🤦‍♂️
67 posted on 02/15/2018 6:23:04 AM PST by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: McGruff

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.


68 posted on 02/15/2018 6:23:39 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: americas.best.days...

“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.


69 posted on 02/15/2018 6:38:18 AM PST by moehoward
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Once again, Mueller ignored a warning. He needs to be fired if not put in a GITMO cell.


70 posted on 02/15/2018 6:52:51 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: oincobx

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.


71 posted on 02/15/2018 6:56:32 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Moonman62

Moonman62 wrote:

“”The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In September

...”

Interesting that this was before the death of his mother.”

F B I screwed up again....


72 posted on 02/15/2018 7:43:28 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: nhwingut

Yeah…. ‘ Do ‘ Or.… ‘writer’.

But I’m 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)


73 posted on 02/15/2018 7:44:14 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: sipow

Well Trump is going to build a new FBI building.


74 posted on 02/15/2018 7:51:11 AM PST by Karoo
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

But they did not react because they were too busy looking for Russians under Trump’s bed.


75 posted on 02/15/2018 8:07:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: IamConservative
Let’s say this boy was identified as a high risk to commit a crime through some FBI process, what should we do? Such a process might implicate half the population of our inner cities.

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...

76 posted on 02/15/2018 8:16:44 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: MayflowerMadam; ScottinVA
“Much as I despise Comey, wasn’t all this after his watch?”

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.

77 posted on 02/15/2018 8:20:01 AM PST by politicianslie (Lying to Americans is easy-Presstitutes repeat what they are told to say !and they say it 24/7)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


78 posted on 02/15/2018 8:34:26 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (The GOP-Democrat-Media Uniparty must be destroyed.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


79 posted on 02/15/2018 8:51:23 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: TTFlyer
How about communicating terroristic threats over the internet?

And the as-yet unasked question (unless I missed it):
When did he convert to Islam?

80 posted on 02/15/2018 8:53:40 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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