Posted on 02/15/2018 8:13:56 AM PST by xzins
Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in Wednesday’s horrific massacre at a Florida high school, was allegedly reported to the FBI in September after he left a comment on a bail bondsman’s YouTube channel saying that he was going to be a “professional school shooter.”
The former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had previously been expelled for disciplinary problems prior to the mass shooting that left 17 people dead.
In a YouTube video published on the evening of the attack, Ben Bennight, a Mississippi bondsman, explained that he was contacted by the FBI at approximately 3 p.m. about a comment on one of his videos that he had reported last fall.
“The FBI just left my house in regards to this situation,” Bennight stated. “September 24th 2017, I sent a screenshot of a comment on one of my videos — now people keep asking me which video was it, but I don’t know, I don’t remember what video it was — when I saw the comment come through on my Studio app on my iPhone I screenshot the comment and hit the report button to report it to YouTube. Of course, they removed the comment.”
The video then scrolled through the screenshot and his report to YouTube.
Bennight proceeded to report the comment to the FBI.
“I looked up the number to my local field office and I called and left them a message. The next day I had two FBI agents standing in my office taking down the information and copies of the screenshot. They were asking me questions that of course I couldn’t answer. All it was on my channel was a comment, people leave pretty heinous comments on a pretty regular basis,” Bennight continued.
“This comment said ‘I am going to be a professional school shooter’ and I knew that I could not just ignore that,” he said. “I screenshotted the comment, I sent it to the appropriate authorities — and I imagine that from there they did a pretty thorough investigation and tried to find out who this person was,” he explained.
The bondsman continued on to explain that the YouTube comment did not come from an anonymous account, but from one with the name Nikolas Cruz.
“It wasn’t a generic screen name, the screen name was Nikolas Cruz — which I’m sure as you know by now, is the name of the guy that did the shooting in Florida today,” Bennight said.
Bennight explained that the first contact from the FBI today came in a phone call from his local field office shortly after the shooting. He stated that an agent called him, asked where he was and asserted that he was on his way to his house. Immediately after that, he says that he received a call from an agent from the Miami field office.
“I called him back and he’s like, ‘hey, you know, I’m just following up on a report that you made a couple months back’ — and I was like yeah, I just got off the phone with an agent over here,” Bennight said. “I emailed the Miami agent everything I had — well, everything I had was just that screenshot.”
Within an hour, the agent from his local office was at his home.
When the agent arrived at his home, he was questioned about if he had any previous contact with Cruz, which he says he did not. He was also questioned about how his report was handled at the time.
“I would like to think they were already investigating this guy and they had him at the top of their radar and that’s how they ended up contacting me so quickly,” Bennight said. “I wish I could have given them more information, but it was just a comment on my channel.”
The YouTube channel as well as all other social media belonging to Cruz appeared to have been taken offline by Wednesday evening.
The Dude has Obama Ears.
“Thank you for calling the FBI. All agents are busy overturning a free and fair election. Your estimated wait time is forever.”
Hmmm.... Who is Nicholas Cruz? Is he another White Hispanic the Progressive Left can use against us?
Remember how the Left used Zimmerman as a White Hispanic in their anti-white racism against the right.
Every one of these mass shootings lately turns out the person had been in contact with the FBI. The FBI I think need to be suspended. Just stopped. Put down all your cases and step away from the computers.
NO. BOTH Russia and the parents warned the FBI,
but the terrorists were re-entered into the USA
without even needing passports.
That means, THEY knew but were too busy doing what?
My thoughts. How could the FBI possibly give priority to a school shooter threat, when they were clearly busy trying to frame and undermine the Trump presidency.
:)
“Cruz was a known mental case, menace. He made threats. They were reported. What else is needed?”
How many threats like this our law enforcement people get? My guess is it’s so many that they can’t spend much time on most of them. Another guess is that only a small percentage require law enforcement’s attention.
I remember a parole officer who was being bashed because one of her parolees did something bad. She responded that she had hundreds of parolees under her supervision and just couldn’t spend “adequate” time on each one of them.
Our cops are spread thin.
The FBI knew about the Garland, Texas ISIS attack before it happened as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/terrorism-in-garland-texas-what-the-fbi-knew-before-the-2015-attack/
Look at the political spin already being used in the school shooting to call for gun control and help Democrats. A few kids dead? What do Democrats care? They’re already in the business of murdering babies and selling the body parts.
He talks to a local agent then an hour later a Miami agent calls him. Both offices knew about Cruz. But didn’t know they both knew about him.
Making creditable threats is one thing. But do we really want the FBI or any other law enforcement agency to lock up people ala a “pre-crime” unit – “Minority Report”
Do we start locking up people for posting pictures of their guns on social media, hunting pictures, or saying things the government or the PC crowd doesn’t like, or forcibly institutionalizing people who are a bit “off” or anti-social?
That is my FRiends, IMO a slippery slope.
This is further indication to me that a sizable amount of people in the US government want Americans to be slaughtered. If the guy instead had threatened Feds, they would have tracked him fiwn before he did anything.
“What else is needed?”
An actual crime.
I guess some of this might dance on the edge of being a “threat,” but to be legally actionable a threat has to be very specific — not “I want to kill someone,” but rather “I am going to kill John Doe.”
And proving someone is crazy enough to deprive them of liberty (being a threat to himself or others) is very hard thanks to the liberal supreme court of the 1970s and .. . . believe it or not . . Geraldo Rivera who made his name by producing slanted and salacious shows on mental institutions, which turned public opinion against locking up crazies.
Time to disband the FBI. They can’t or won’t do their jobs.
I wonder how many teen/early twenties males in a state of 21 million like Florida, could be found with a similar personality profile and social media presence? If it was really researched, would they find three or four, thirty or forty, three or four hundred, or something in the thousands?
Everyone would hope some preventive screening procedures are possible, but how many fitting such a profile might be found and could anything be done, or should anything be done based on personality profiles?
EVERYONE knew this guy was crazier than the Cocoa Puffs bird and they did NOTHING..the FBI, well they are too busy investigating President Trump for this Russia nonsense instead of investigating posts like this
Our cops are spread thin.
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According to the story an agent showed up within an hour. It looks like the ball was dropped after that.
That close-up photo of his face “photoshopped” out the freckles and acne ..
Well I guess there goes that narrative that he snapped because mommy died..she died in NOVEMBER..this post was made in SEPTEMBER
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