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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: GrandJediMasterYoda

And that’s why so many terrorist attackers have “been on the FBI RADAR” and nothing is done until after they attack.


21 posted on 02/15/2018 4:36:39 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sounds more like an Eric Holder holdover from Fast and Furious. Heck, maybe he called Eric and was advised “oh goody, let’s let this thing play out.”


22 posted on 02/15/2018 4:37:27 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yep. See something. Say something. Be named a homophobe, xenophobe, racist, neo-Nazi,mysogynist.

Sounds like a winning plan to me.


23 posted on 02/15/2018 4:37:37 AM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Like the Boston Atrocity and the warning there
BEFORE THE FACT, the FB”I” only appears interested
in f’ing, f’ing the duly elected President,
f’ing the American public by delivering U to Russia,
and covering up slavery, rape and murder
including of JUDGES and witnesses,
f’ing the American public by not firing and
hanging those responsible.


24 posted on 02/15/2018 4:37:54 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Vaquero

No they doesn’t - great example of hows they writes though


25 posted on 02/15/2018 4:38:02 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Really. How is the FBI supposed to overthrow the will of the people, spy on private citizens, invent fictitious documents! and ruin people’s lives ... AND thwart school shooters? They have priorities.

I wonder if Wray, Comey, etc., have the decency to feel guilt. Maybe this will wipe the arrogance from their faces.


26 posted on 02/15/2018 4:38:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“This should lead to a class-action lawsuit”

CLASS ACTION = Dis concerning to know the FBI is sitting in a class room instructed on how to be PC; how best to treat females in the force so as not to seem too manly. Seated behind a female with pigtails, ponytail (whatever), too interested in pulling to keep abreast of instructive comments. A total waste of time, from total wasted taxpayers stolen dollars.
[s]Thank You, BO’B[/s]


27 posted on 02/15/2018 4:39:13 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The FBI are hell bent on proving rural landowners to be terrorists and driving them into prisons.

Agenda 21 type behavior.


28 posted on 02/15/2018 4:39:24 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sorry, too busy framing the President for trivial stuff like that.


29 posted on 02/15/2018 4:39:25 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Doogle

Much as I despise Comey, wasn’t all this after his watch?


30 posted on 02/15/2018 4:41:02 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Prior to the shooting, what crime had this boy committed for the FBI to investigate?

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.

Imagine what Obama could have done to conservatives if all he had to do to get us in jail is think we might commit a crime. Instead of salting a warrant to surveil Trump, Comey could have salted a warrant to have him jailed.


31 posted on 02/15/2018 4:41:41 AM PST by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.


32 posted on 02/15/2018 4:42:24 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

GUILT?? They’ve never met; never come close to meeting.


33 posted on 02/15/2018 4:43:02 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Too busy trying to bring down Trump!


34 posted on 02/15/2018 4:44:02 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: McGruff

The FBI has plenty of time to make watch lists that they then ignore.

Or they just like to tail jihadis to Pam Gellar like events and but the locals in danger.

Then they have 500 Very Special Agents working for the IG....


35 posted on 02/15/2018 4:44:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: TTFlyer

“What, exactly, is the FBI good for?”

Ask Wray and he’ll respond, “WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?!?”


36 posted on 02/15/2018 4:46:06 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Nikolas Cruz left a comment on a video stating: "I'm going to be a professional school shooter."

All their wire taps, eves dropping, billions in budgets for personnel and material, sophisticated computer systems... and yet out vaunted FBI/NSA/CIA can't find a giant red flag in writing. In this case, not only was it in writing, but another person noticed it and alerted the FBI to the message and still nothing. In fact, it appears all the FBI did was keep going back to Ben Bennight and asking if he knew Cruz.

37 posted on 02/15/2018 4:46:41 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: IamConservative
Prior to the shooting, what crime had this boy committed for the FBI to investigate?

How about communicating terroristic threats over the internet? The evidence is there for all to see. Relieve the perp of his firearms at least.

38 posted on 02/15/2018 4:47:26 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: ScottinVA

Correction....Robert Swan Mueller III...pick up line #2


39 posted on 02/15/2018 4:48:11 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: V K Lee

Wray worked for Comey for a year or so.


40 posted on 02/15/2018 4:48:55 AM PST by Paladin2
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