Summary of New York Subway Shooting Suspect’s Hateful Social Media Trail in ASL

FBI, Tech Giants Miss New York Subway Shooting Suspect’s Hateful Social Media Trail
Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / April 14, 2022

The man charged with shooting commuters on a New York subway train Tuesday the 12th left a trail on social media in which he disparaged whites and complained about racism, homelessness, and violence.
Frank James, 62, of Milwaukee, made several videos. In one, he addressed New York Mayor Eric Adams. He asked, “What are you doing, brother? What’s happening with this homeless situation?”
James, who like Mayor Adams is black, also talked about numerous conspiracy theories on YouTube, according to the Justice Department, and commented: “And so the message to me is: I should have gotten a gun, and just started shooting mother——s.”
Two days before the shootings, which wounded or injured 23, James posted a video in which he asserted:
This is what white b—–s and white m———ers’ expect you to be … when you blow one of their … brains out—this is what you asked for. This is how you wanted me to be, obviously.
For more than a year, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (which is owned by Google) have pledged to flag domestic extremists.
The FBI—criticized for pursuing Russian collusion theories, “white supremacists,” and school parents—also had access to monitor social media posts by James or anyone else.
Kara Frederick, director of the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation, said, “Social media giants as well as the Justice Department, which includes the FBI, seem to have focused elsewhere. We are experiencing the dichotomy[contrast or division] between what the [Biden] administration calls domestic extremists and what really are domestic extremists. Parents at school board meetings or someone online supposedly spreading COVID misinformation are viewed as … a leftist concept of terrorists, as opposed to an actual domestic terrorist threat.”
James has been arrested at least 12 times by the NYPD between 1984 and 1998 on charges ranging from burglary to criminal sexual acts, the New York Post reported.
James posted messages on Facebook about guns and bullets, and about the 9/11 terror attacks being an inside job.
In another video, James said: “This nation was born in violence, it’s kept alive by violence or the threat thereof, and it’s going to die a violent death.”
How sad is it that Social Media censors parents that are concerned about school, doctors that are sharing different opinions about whatever they want to, and religious topics – just to name a few- while Social Media lets people like James say whatever they want without any consequences? We need to keep an eye on Social Media and whenever we can make a difference (i.e. petition, vote for people that want to hold big tech responsible) we need to. Our future is at stake. Only time will tell…

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