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Florida shooting: FBI was alerted about threat posted on YouTube
NBC News ^ | Feb 15 2018 | Michael Kosnar and Daniel Arkin

Posted on 02/15/2018 1:49:48 PM PST by Lera

A YouTube user who used the same name as the suspected Florida gunman was investigated by the FBI for a comment boasting about plans to shoot up a school, the agency said Thursday.

The FBI was alerted to the comment but failed to identify the user, said Robert Lasky, the FBI agent in charge of the Miami division. The comment did not include information about timing or location, Lasky said at a news conference.

The suspect in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, identified as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, officials said Thursday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; browardcounty; highschool; nikolascruz; parkland; schoolshooting; stonemandouglas
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[[Cruz "threatened to bring the guns to school multiple times," senior Eddie Bonilla said. Other students, he said, "threw jokes around that he'd be the one to shoot up the school." ]]
1 posted on 02/15/2018 1:49:48 PM PST by Lera
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To: Lera

The FBI and LE dropped the ball (again), so let’s ban ARs.


2 posted on 02/15/2018 1:52:15 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Lera

FBI was too busy texting about how much they hate President Trump


3 posted on 02/15/2018 1:52:40 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

...and having office sex with other.


4 posted on 02/15/2018 1:54:48 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Lera

The FBI had their hands full getting to the bottom of Trump’s urine fetish.


5 posted on 02/15/2018 1:55:18 PM PST by Blurb2350
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To: Lera
After the arraignment, his court-appointed defense attorney, Melisa McNeill, described her client as a "child," adding: "He's sad, he's mournful, he's remorseful, he is fully aware of what is going on, and he's just a broken human being."

It was out of his control! The AR15 made him do it!

6 posted on 02/15/2018 1:55:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: hal ogen

Yeah that too


7 posted on 02/15/2018 1:55:24 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah remorseful my ass..he ran out like a coward to get away..other school shooters have offed themselves but not this lil chicken..he had no problem killing others but not his precious self


8 posted on 02/15/2018 1:56:26 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Lera
So, the FBI was alerted about him, yet that same FBI - which was tasked by then-President Obama to use a fine-toothed comb on "domestic" terrorists - not only didn't follow up the red flag on his threats, they didn't even manage to run across him doing post-graduate work with any outfit they were surveilling.

To be fair, the FBI was busy turning fiction into FISA warrants...

9 posted on 02/15/2018 2:00:34 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: Lera
Sure sounds like they should've been able to locate him about the comment.

He had recently been expelled from the school for disciplinary reasons

So had Trevon Martin.

10 posted on 02/15/2018 2:04:26 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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How many mass shootings have occurred where the FBI had the suspect ‘on their radar’?

Too many coincidences...


11 posted on 02/15/2018 2:04:39 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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“FBI was too busy texting about how much they hate President Trump”

Ain’t that the truth.


12 posted on 02/15/2018 2:05:30 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Travis McGee

See something, say something....we’ll do nothing.


13 posted on 02/15/2018 2:09:51 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Lera

I’m beginning to think that FBI means “Fuckin’ Black I”! They have to find some way to, possibly, get their credibilty back.


14 posted on 02/15/2018 2:14:03 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Lera
March 25, 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian authorities warned the FBI in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers accused of carrying out last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, but U.S. authorities missed chances to detain him, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

"Missed chances" is one way to describe terrorist attacks and mass shootings that could have been prevented.

15 posted on 02/15/2018 2:17:12 PM PST by Daaave ("You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.")
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To: Chipper

Yep.


16 posted on 02/15/2018 2:17:28 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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The FBI was too busy trying to frame TRUMP colluding with the Russians to even investigate the Youtube post!
17 posted on 02/15/2018 2:22:32 PM PST by KavMan
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To: Lera
Last fall, a You Tuber provides the Bureau with the screen shot of a post in the comment section of his channel from Nicholas Cruz saying he was going to become a professional school shooter. Mind you, the post had the shooter's real name right there on the post. Fast forward - The SAIC gets in front of the camera today and essentially claims the Bureau had nothing to go on. However, Cruz's facebook site with his real name was only shut down yesterday. Go figure this one out. If the Bureau was too lazy to do its job, I bet they were also too arrogant to turn the information over to the local sheriff so he could have checked out Cruz.
18 posted on 02/15/2018 2:26:29 PM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: Lera

I’m a little upset...I just heard Ollie North say the FBI gets tens of thousands of these tips everyday. He seemed really annoyed that we didn’t already know that.

Well, then, just what are we supposed to do??

When they say “See Something, Say Something”, but that doesn’t mean we can do anything about it, so keep it to yourself or send a Priority Mail letter to get some attention.

The next time the authorities offer solutions, who will trust that they really can handle the response.

And I don’t believe that FBI guy who says they could not trace the person who was on YouTube acting like a jackass.


19 posted on 02/15/2018 2:44:48 PM PST by Maris Crane (`)
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To: Blurb2350

........well, overthrowing our government was a hefty task for them too............no time for kid killers!


20 posted on 02/15/2018 3:03:48 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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