Posted on 03/24/2018 2:29:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro
A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.
There will be no CNN town halls or student walkouts over the lost life and preventable tragedy, because there are no guns to blame. Only dropped balls.
As the exploiters of crisis know full well, bureaucratic screw-ups don’t make good fodder for partisan fundraisers and hipster T-shirts.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Palm Beach County police, 17-year-old Corey Johnson bought a knife last Sunday and brought it with him to a sleepover at longtime friend Kyle Bancroft’s house. At 4 a.m., he decided to kill Kyle’s mother, Elaine, his brother, Dane, and Dane’s friend, Jovanni Sierra Brand.
Johnson repeatedly stabbed Jovanni in his bed and slit his throat. Then he attempted to murder Elaine as she approached the boys’ bedrooms in response to Jio’s last gasps. Dane rescued his mom and sustained 32 stab wounds. Both were hospitalized and survived. Jio was buried last Friday — less than a week after celebrating his 13th birthday at a pizza party attended by Johnson.
The accused killer told police he “stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith,” watched videos of “Muslim jihadists” on his cellphone, and “was reading the Quran from his phone just prior to the attack to give him courage to carry out his intentions.”
Perhaps he read the Sword Verses for inspiration? Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan quoted from them in his presentation to classmates and superiors at Walter Reed Medical Center: “I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah.”
Or maybe it was Surah 9:5: “Fight and slay the idolaters wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush.”
Johnson’s brutal attack was no bolt out of the blue, no unexpected incidence of sudden jihad syndrome. Local school officials and police in Palm Beach County, along with federal and international law enforcement authorities, had encountered more red flags in their years of dealing with Johnson than at a Communist May Day parade in Havana.
In middle school, Johnson had reportedly stalked a student and sexually harassed her. She told school police. Nothing happened. He dabbled in white supremacy, anti-Semitism and gay-bashing, and then immersed himself in radical Islam — rising at 5 a.m. daily to pray and revere the Syrian flag. Johnson’s online jihad agitation, physical abuse and addiction to ISIS beheading videos prompted his sister in 2016 to confide in a school therapist, who contacted the local sheriff’s office.
Johnson’s mom, the sister told school officials, was in denial. The sister so feared for her life she slept with a knife under her bed.
Law enforcement officers at the Jupiter Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office convened at Johnson’s high school last January to investigate the self-radicalized teen’s contact with ISIS as he sought to join the terror group. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force became involved after European intelligence counterparts told them Johnson had used Instagram to issue security threats to a Catholic high school in England. The threats “were so severe in nature,” local officials discovered, “that up to 100 students were removed from the school fearing some kind of attack.”
One of the messages threatened: “By Allah, we will kill every single Infidel student at this school.” Johnson told FBI agents he “was supportive of known terrorist Anwar al Awlaki” — the spiritual patron of lone-wolf jihadists.
The FBI’s plan of action? Inaction. The agency watched and waited and wanly admonished Johnson to knock it off because authorities “believed a redirection approach would be the most beneficial regarding his conduct.”
“Redirection” is akin to the alternative social justice strategies school officials and police used in Parkland, Florida, before 17 innocent students and teachers died at the hands of teen shooter who was a walking neon sign for a mental health catastrophe.
No referrals, no charges, no records, no problems.
Except for the fact that Johnson ignored the FBI and continued his Islamic instigation online. After nearly a year of foot-dragging, the FBI gathered enough evidence to bring federal charges against Johnson for his social media terror threats. According to records released by the Jupiter Police Department, local officials were told the charges would be brought in the summer of 2017. But on the early morning of the jihad stabbings at Palm Beach Gardens last week, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office had yet to take action on a known radicalized threat who had menaced his family, his schoolmates and innocents abroad.
It’s a familiar narrative for the FBI — from the Boston Marathon bombers to the Orlando nightclub shooter to the Fort Lauderdale airport jihadist to the San Bernardino terrorists. Family members, teachers, neighbors and co-workers saw something and said something. Investigators investigated. But nobody did nuttin’ till it was too bloody late.
Nothing to see here; move along.
Major media strangely quiet.
Meanwhile Sessions took action by criminalizing bumpstocks. Yeah, that will cure everything.
That's very judgemental.
Don't forget that he is quite busy chasing down dope smokers and pill takers.
And ignoring the corrption that surrounds him in his own Department Of Justice.
Acting on President Trump’s1 request.
Obama’s deliberate legacy for America, hands off let if fester into a political cause and the collateral damage of some dead Americans
No referrals, no charges, no records, no problems.
Odungo’s answer to lowering minority crime numbers.....
Did I miss something, what happened to Kyle?
You know, if the police are either cowards or won’t act? Why should we trust them when they are supposed to be our protection as the only legal gun owners? Should we just do a conscript society like Switzerland where everyone gets military and therefore everyone gets armed?
L8r
I’m surprised the FBI didn’t help him buy an AR-15. Someone wasn’t doing their job. /s
Bumpstocks=easy crime to prosecute.
Internet thought crimes=difficult crime to prosecute or find.
Possession of drugs=easy to prosecute
Entrenched Bribery favoritism=difficult to find prosecute.
DUI check point=easy to prosecute and find
Illegal immigrant=difficult to find prosecute.
It is all in the bang for the buck IMO as to why things go the way they do.
http://fox2now.com/2018/03/14/teen-stabbed-three-kids-because-of-his-muslim-faith/
Here’s a link to a fuller version of the story.
The killer’s friend, Kyle, was unharmed in the attack. The 2 that the killer determined to kill were Kyle’s younger brother Dane, and Dane’s young friend who was visiting. The killer gives reason if you can call it that why he targeted those 2 young boys. He claims it was because their attitudes and activities struck him as very anti HIS OWN beliefs. Of course, we know they were just normal young kids, but their behavior particularly annoyed him.
Dane’s mother was attacked not because the killer planned it but because she interrupted his brutal knife killing of Dane’s friend. The 13 year old was breathing his final gasps after being knifed to death upstairs from where the mom was. She heard things that caused her to rush upstairs. So the killer stabbed her, but young Dane helped and defended her so that she did not die.
It never says what actions, if any, Kyle took, or where exactly he was when all of this went down, except that apparently he was in the house. As for why Dane’s friend was the only one who was killed - not any of the others - apparently he was the one the killer decided to kill first and that’s as far as the killer was able to get with the killing.
But Dane and his mother suffered multiple stab wounds...
That is a very good point.
It's a tactic right from the democrat playbook.
They create a problem where none existed before by instituting a "feel good" policy that purports to remedy an issue that wasn't an issue before.
And their policies are always narrowly thought out so usually cause significant collateral damage.
Then they rush in at election time claiming credit for the policy while at the same time claiming to have the solution to fix the collateral damage.
Of course the collateral damage problem they are so excited to fix is the problem that they themselves created.
And their solutions are always the same: more money, more political correctness, more government authority, more taking away constitutional rights.
It's like a perpetual motion machine.
WHERE IS THE DEMAND FOR FEDERAL AND STATE INVESTIGATIONS ????
They’re missing the point It’s not guns or the NRA It’s policies which had cops standing outside while killing was going on or some nut getting a gun the FBI knew he wasn’t suppose to... Plus a whole raft of other stuff
THE MEDIA IS DOING THIS BECAUSE
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENED
STOP SPREADING THE CABLE SWILL MILLS POISON
DEMAND STATE AND FED INVESTIGATION ON THE POLICIES WHICH CAUSED THIS
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
“I’m surprised the FBI didn’t help him buy an AR-15. Someone wasn’t doing their job. /s”
No, that’s the ATF’s MO /s
“Don’t forget that he is quite busy chasing down dope smokers and pill takers.”
Wants to make everyone feel guilty if they take some oxy after surgery. F’em.
Nice overnight guest you invited Elaine. From now on maybe you ought to watch who your kid’s friends are.
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