BY VICTORIA TAFT | P J MEDIA
Frank James images from NYPD Crime Stoppers
flyer.Now that the suspected New York train shooter has been
arrested by the police, charges of terrorism and hate crimes can’t be far
behind. Or can they?
As PJ Media has reported, suspected terrorist Frank James was a
supporter of the black separatist group Nation of Islam. His recorded rantings
on his YouTube channel and Twitter account were full of his racist poison.
YouTube has already disappeared his channel with Frank James’s hundreds of
videos.
But there’s one comment in particular that may sound
eerily familiar to those who were sentient beings on 9/11/01 and remember its
aftermath.
One of the most shocking comments uttered in response to
the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon and the
attempted attack on the White House or Congress was said by Senator Barack
Obama’s spiritual advisor and pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Barack Obama’s Chicago minister, who officiated the
Obama’s wedding ceremony, declared before cheering parishioners that
the Islamist Al Qaeda attack was America’s “chickens coming home to roost.” It
was so divisive that Obama, then running for president, had to disavow Wright
and gave a speech on race to distract from the poison coming from the pulpit of
the church he’d belonged to for 20 years.
James, who, as we reported, calls himself a “prophet of
doom,” described 9/11 as “the most beautiful day, probably in the history of
this f***ing world.”
James was also quite upset that new Supreme Court
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is married to a white man. “I had no idea, with
that African name, that she would be married to a white man. … Our black sister
Supreme Court Justice, power to the people, is married to a f**king white man.
(Crying) I don’t believe this sh*t. Oh, God! Wait a minute. This motherf**ker
right there, there he is. There he is! White man! Black sister, Ketanji,
married to a white man.”
He posted positive things about Black Lives Matter
shooter Micah Xavier Johnson, who murdered five Dallas Police officers.
Will the Leftist media memory-hole the name of the racist
terror suspect and stay mum on hate crime and terror charges against the man,
as they have done with other Leftist killers?
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Breaking:
Brooklyn Subway Attack Suspect Arrested
Frank R. James, 62, was taken into custody in Manhattan’s
East Village neighborhood, law enforcement officials who weren’t authorized to
discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity told The
Associated Press. Law enforcement located James after police received a tip
about his potential whereabouts, the official said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed the arrest while speaking at
an unrelated news conference. Further details weren’t immediately available.
Police had initially said Tuesday that James was being
sought for questioning because he had rented a van possibly connected to the
attack, but they weren’t sure whether he was responsible for the shooting.
Mayor Eric Adams said in a series of media interviews Wednesday morning that
investigators had upgraded James to a suspect but did not offer details beyond
citing “new information that became available to the team.”
The gunman sent off smoke grenades in a crowded subway car and then fired at least 33 shots
with a 9 mm handgun, police said. Five gunshot victims were in critical
condition, but all 10 wounded in the shooting were expected to survive. At
least a dozen others who escaped gunshot wounds were treated for smoke
inhalation and other injuries.
The shooter escaped in the chaos but left behind numerous clues,
including the gun, ammunition magazines, a hatchet, smoke grenades, gasoline
and the key to a U-Haul van.
That key led investigators to James, a New York City-area
native who had more recent addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin.
Federal investigators determined the gun used in the
shooting was purchased by James at a pawn shop — a licensed firearms dealer —
in the Columbus, Ohio, area in 2011, a law enforcement official said
The van was found, unoccupied, near a station where
investigators determined the gunman had entered the subway system. No
explosives or firearms were found in the van, a law enforcement official said.
Police did find other items, including pillows, suggesting James may have been
sleeping or planned to sleep in the van.
Investigators believe James drove up from Philadelphia on
Monday and have reviewed surveillance video showing a man matching his physical
description coming out of the van early Tuesday morning, the official said.
Other video shows James entering a subway station in Brooklyn with a large bag,
the official said.
In addition to analyzing financial and telephone records
connected to James, investigators were reviewing hours of rambling,
profanity-filled videos James posted on YouTube and other social media platforms
— replete with violent language and bigoted comments, some against other Black
people — as they tried to discern a motive.
In one video, posted a day before the attack, James
criticized crime against Black people and says drastic action is needed.
“You got kids going in here now taking machine guns and
mowing down innocent people,” James says. “It’s not going to get better until
we make it better,” he said, adding that he thought things would only change if
certain people were “stomped, kicked and tortured” out of their “comfort zone.”
In another video he says, “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. There’s nothing going to stop that.”
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell called the posts
“concerning,” and officials tightened security for Adams, who was already
isolated following a positive COVID-19 test Sunday.
Several of James’ videos mention New York’s subways. A
Feb. 20 video says the mayor and governor’s plan to address homelessness and
safety in the subway system “is doomed for failure” and refers to himself as a
“victim” of the city’s mental health programs. A Jan. 25 video criticizes
Adams’ plan to end gun violence.
The Brooklyn subway station where passengers fled the
smoke-filled train in the attack was open as usual Wednesday morning, less than
24 hours after the violence.
Commuter Jude Jacques, who takes the D train to his job
as a fire safety director some two blocks from the shooting scene, said he
prays every morning but had a special request on Wednesday.
“I said, ‘God, everything is in your hands,’” Jacques
said. “I was antsy, and you can imagine why. Everybody is scared because it
just happened.”
