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[–] Moon_Central [S] ago
APR 12, 2019, 8:25:03 PM "In late March, FBI agents arrested a Pennsylvania white supremacist for allegedly making racist threats online. On April 1, 2019, Corbin Kauffman of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, was charged with interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the maximum penalty for this offense is five years of imprisonment for each violation and a term of supervised release following imprisonment and a fine, but judges are given significant leeway in determining the final sentence.
On March 28, the ADL’s Center on Extremism alerted law enforcement to violent online rhetoric emanating from several social media accounts using variations of the screen name Shekels. The posts included hundreds of anti-Semitic, anti-black and anti-Muslim posts, as well as posts of the individual’s own anti-Semitic acts of vandalism. According to the Department of Justice that individual was identified as Corbin Kauffman.
In early March, after being banned from other social media platforms, Kauffman created a profile on Minds.com, a fringe social media site, using the screen name KingShekels. From March 3 through 29, Kauffman used the profile to post approximately 600 messages, images and videos. The vast majority of posts presented white supremacist beliefs and visions of violence.
Kauffman’s most alarming posts paired threats of violence with images of his weapons. On March 15, between posts seeming to echo and praise Brenton Tarrant’s New Zealand mosque attack, Kauffman posted an image of his own AR-15 style rifle with the words, “Let’s get it.”
Kauffman also used his Minds profile to express support for accelerationism, the idea that extreme racial violence can accelerate or cause societal collapse, paving the way for white supremacists to build and control a white ethno-state. In a March 13, 2019 Minds post, Kauffman wrote, “I’m ready for the collapse. Let’s accelerate things a bit.”"
Read more: https:// www.adl.org/blog/pennsylvania-white-supremacist-arrested-after-posting-violent-threats-and-images
[–] Turn_Coat ago
Holy shit, I've been doing this for years. How did King Shekels fuck up to get himself charged?
[–] Moon_Central [S] ago
There are some pics on the adl blog the article is very long I just posted a small piece of it.