Another one was stopped in time, for now:
An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown.
James Reardon Jr., 20, has been charged with telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on $250,000 bond with a court hearing planned for Monday morning.
On Friday, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided Reardon’s house and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of round of ammo, multiple semi-automatic weapons, a gas mask and bulletproof armor. [snip]
Police initially became aware of Reardon on July 11 when he posted a video on Instagram of a man shooting a semi-automatic rifle with sirens and screams in the background. He tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown in the post.
"That kicked off an intense investigation, a very rapidly evolving investigation, because of the way the world is," New Middletown Police Chief Vince D’Egidio told Youngstown ABC affiliate WYTV.
They're continuing to crawl out from under rocks all over the country. Maybe this weak simpleton (look at his smirking mug shot) just wanted to get arrested (posting a violent video and tagging a Jewish Community Center?) to give himself some cred among his incel buddies without actually, you know, "performing"? WTF, we've already wasted too much time on another Shitty Walter Mitty.Reardon is an avowed anti-Semite and white nationalist and attended the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to WYTV. During the raid on his house on Friday police also discovered anti-Semitic and white nationalist propaganda.
(Photo: Must've confiscated your MAGA cap)
2 comments:
There are a lot of new categories in terrorism. We now have to consider every phase of threatening acts, from suspicious purchases to suspicious publishing of threats to actual acts and murder. It's terrible that we have to keep renaming and recategorizing this terrorism, but we have to do whatever we can to break it down and learn to recognize the levels and stages in the mass murder process.
I'm a Dayton resident, minutes from the Oregon District where the shooting just happened. My son lives there and was five minutes away from that shooting. Had he left the other bar where he was at the time a little earlier, he would have been in the middle of that tragedy. I cannot express the shock and grief I felt, and the wave of relief I felt when I found out he was okay.
Whatever we have to do, whatever it takes, we have to stop it. Stop it so other people don't lose their loved ones. Just stop it.
donnah -- whatever the motivation, the attacks (and planning for attacks) seem to be crescendo-ing. We're relieved your son wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time! It shouldn't be that way for any loved one or for the most distant stranger.
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