Brooklyn subway shooting: Person of interest Frank James posted racist rants to YouTube for years
Category: News & Politics
Via: vic-eldred • 2 years ago • 69 commentsBy: Michael Ruiz (Fox News)
NEW YORK - Frank James, the man the NYPD identified as a person of interest in connection with the Brooklyn subway attack Tuesday morning, posted a string of antagonistic video rants to a YouTube channel for years.
Using titles like "DOMESTICATED AVERAGES" and "SENSIBLE VIOLENCE," James posted hour-long, profanity-laced rants about race, politics and current events. The banner image showed an alarm clock reading "Too Late."
"When you talk to folks [about] what happens to you in prison, it is what it is," he said in the "DOMESTICATED" video. "That's why I'm never going to prison… I'm not connected, I don't have nobody, [and] nobody has my m---------ing back."
NYPD have identified Frank James as a person of interest in the Brooklyn subway shooting. (NYPD)
If he did end up in prison, he predicted, that would be "a wrap."
When police announced James as a person of interest in the subway attack, they shared a still image that appears to have been taken from a video he posted three weeks ago entitled, "STOP ONE COMPLETE."
At times, he sharply criticized Black Europeans and Americans using strings of slurs and racism, as well as women and the homeless. He joked about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and questioned the existence of civil rights.
He also shared local news reports and movie clips and used them as jumping-off points for his rants. A March 1 video began with a PIX 11 report about rising violence in New York City's subways. In it, he went on to criticize Mayor Eric Adams, women, social workers and homeless people.
"I wanted to kill everything in sight," he says about 12 minutes into the video. "I was planning to kill everything I saw."
In another video, he posted ominous footage of a crowded subway car, which appears to have been taken before coronavirus lockdowns required face masks and dramatically lowered ridership. The title is "THE GOOD OLE DAYS."
He also chronicled an apparent road trip from the Midwest to Philadelphia, where he said he was dropping off items in a storage unit. The videos go back for more than three years but had relatively few views before the subway shooting brought attention to his social accounts. They began as clips taken from elsewhere and reposed to his account to others featuring his own narrations.
James has been linked to addresses in Wisconsin and Philly and lists his hometown as the Bronx on social media.
Police labeled James a person of interest in connection with the attack at the 36th Street subway station in Sunset Park Tuesday morning.
An assailant in a bright nylon safety vest and gas mask opened a smoke canister and fired off at least 33 rounds from a 9 mm Glock handgun as the Manhattan-bound N train pulled into the station around 8:25 a.m., police said. They recovered the weapon and other items believed to have been abandoned by the suspect in the car.
Almost 30 people were treated for injuries - with at least 10 suffering from gunshot wounds. Others had symptoms of smoke inhalation or other ailments sustained at the frantic scene. Authorities said no one was killed.
Police also linked James' credit card, which they said they found at the subway crime scene, to a U-Haul van found parked on Kings Highway later in the day. Police closed several surrounding blocks and called in the bomb squad, hazmat teams and federal authorities to investigate.
Nearby residents said police told them to evacuate until the area was deemed safe.
Police stopped short of naming a suspect but announced a $50,000 reward for information in the case.
"We are looking to determine if he has any connection to the attack," NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said of James during an evening news conference.
Anyone with information is asked to call New York City Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports
This is clearly a national news story. Evidently the third rail for many here.
The NYPD has only named Mr James as a person of interest in the case. After all he could have rented the van and allowed somebody else to use it. On the other hand, his picture has been posted all over the news since yesterday afternoon and thus far Frank James has not contacted the police.
So what are you saying? This isn't getting national coverage?
Read the second sentence again.
Answer my question
"'This isn't getting national coverage?"
Hardly any now.
VE: This is clearly a national news story. Evidently the third rail for many here.
T: So what are you saying? This isn't getting national coverage?
VE: Read the second sentence again.
T: Answer my question
Let me try, Tesslyo. Vic probably meant the readers / commenters at News Talkers when he wrote "for many here" in his second sentence. His first sentence affirms that it is a national news story so your question seems superfluous.
I hope that helped to clarify.
That's not true.
Which means what?
Why would 'many here' have a problem with this getting national coverage?
There you go again. Talking down to me. Thinking you're clarifying things for me. Did I ask for the clarification? Why not let him answer for himself without dodging.
Vic is obsessed with the fact that the shooter is black. He thinks that therefore "liberals" wont talk about it.
I havent said much about it because I dont say much about any mass shooting. From what I have heard, this guy sounds pretty deranged. He joins a long line.
No way, I'll work on how I word things to avoid any potential for a condescending tone.
Why not let him answer for himself without dodging.
Sorry that I wasn't helpful as intended.
What's to talk about? Yet another mass shooting. Generally it's the crazy white folks that go shooting up places for no reason, you know, the alleged conservatives and their supporters.
Do you have any stats?
Number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and February 2022, by shooter's race or ethnicity
66 out of the 126 mass shootings in the US were carried out by white shooters = 52%. 21 were carried out by Blacks = 16 1/2%
US racial demographics include 57.8% white, 12.4% Black
Statista says that you are wrong.
I'm not going there again with you
Are you more comfortable in the land of conjecture than the land of facts?
So in your stats - how many of those murders - white on white - and black on black - I suspect the majority.
There you go again . . . . . . . .
My mistake - mass shootings are generally carried out by white folks . . . . .
y mistake - mass shootings are generally carried out by white folks . .
no they aren't.
One can only imagine where you heard that.
Yes, they are
They aren't my stats, they were compiled by Statista.
I suspect the majority.
I don't understand your suspicion.
There you go again . . . . . . . .
Supplying facts?
Between 1982 and February 2022, 66 out of the 126 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 21 mass shootings, and Latino in 10. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 52 percent, 16 percent, and eight percent respectively.
So the majority of mass shooters are WHITE
Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population
Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole. While a superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around 10 percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be drawn. Conversely, looking at the mass shootings in the United States by gender clearly demonstrates that the majority of mass shootings are carried out by men.
Mass shootings and mental health
With no clear patterns between the socio-economic or cultural background of mass shooters, increasing attention has been placed on mental health. Analysis of the factors Americans considered to be to blame for mass shootings showed 80 percent of people felt the inability of the mental health system to recognize those who pose a danger to others was a significant factor. This concern is not without merit – in over half of the mass shootings since 1982, the shooter showed prior signs of mental health issues , suggesting improved mental health services may help deal with this horrific problem.
Not on a per capita basis.
While a superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around 10 percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be drawn.
Yet you had drawn conclusions at the beginning of this thread.
That's a tiny subset of "mass shootings" that excludes the overwhelming majority of mass shootings, like gang related mass shootings The Gun Violence Archive lists 600 plus mass shootings for 2020 alone.
Here's a summary of March 2021 mass shootings: " Of the 46 mass shooters in the Gun Violence Archive database for March 2021, 2% (1) was committed by a White male; 8% (4) were committed by Hispanics; 45% (21) were committed by African Americans; and in 43%, or 20 cases, the attacker’s race is unknown (for example because they were never caught or the police description of the shooter is ambiguous)."
Whatever
See 1.1.21
Well said Tessylo, well said.
That's not going to stop the blithering idiots who run with the "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" mentality.
That's right!
If he is the guy he has gone to ground. His plan however horrible was well thought out. He timed it so he could trap them, gas them, and shoot them then just get off the train just before the doors closed and the crime scene and all the victims sped down the tracks to the next stop while he escaped unchallenged. I would think he had a plan to elude capture at least for a while. They'll get him eventually but if his plan to hide out is as well thought out as his crime it may be a while. Law Enforcement has one thing going for them and it is that this guy is obviously crazy so he might do something stupid that gets him caught.
They have lots of forensic material, they will get him.
What I don't understand is why a person who posts this kind of statement..
...is not kept under surveillance from the time he posted it, or is allowed to purchase a gun, if he in fact purchased it.
There's still a lot of unknowns in this situation.
Often with people like this guy nobody's actually reading/watching their posts. When a poster posts crazy drivel constantly people tend to stop reading/watching anything they post.
Good question. I have some as well:
Where were the transit police???
Why were the station camera's not working???
They didn't just "malfunction." They have probably not been working for a long time.
The perp likely took them out weeks ago.
That should have been easily detected. That is if people were doing their jobs.
I agree Greg, people have the freedom to say stupid shit; however, the freedom to say stupid shit does not negate the fact that the stupid shit one says may give the government probable cause to conduct some sort search. That assumes the need for a warrant. No warrant necessary, and it is not a search, to watch what someone does publicly.
Thank you for posting a common sense comment in reply to a stupid comment.
FBI and DOJ were to busy investigating parents at school board meetings as terrorists.
He is obviously mentally disturbed.
Racists are just happy that he is black so they can say blacks are the real racists. It is sick.
Ya, it is sick. Deplorable. Not surprising.
Keep the faith, John. When he dies in a shootout you can make him the next poster hero.
In your medical professional opinion right? I am sure you have the creds to make that statement stick?
Playing the race card on this seed? Really?
Your are correct, your comment is sick.
Racists are just happy that he is black so they can say blacks are the real racists.
Do you remember what your thoughts were after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting?
He may very well be.
Racists are just happy that he is black so they can say blacks are the real racists.
First of all John, the NYPD hasn't charged him with anything yet. As to your obvious slander, only those who get into a lather whenever they see a black man's picture, could be described in racist terms.
It is sick.
Political correctness? Ya, very much so.
No, the media is. Remember Kyle Cleared By An All-white Jury Rittenhouse?
I think this is a big story. I also think the coverage has been a little over the top, mainly because it happened in NY city, and that always makes the news channels go overboard.
There are mass shootings in America all the time. On a regular basis. Most of them dont get any national coverage at all, let alone non stop for 12 hours.
"Most of them dont get any national coverage at all, let alone non stop for 12 hours."
Especially if the suspect or perp is black.
Mass shootings, gun violence, gun deaths are not "news". A day WITHOUT that WOULD be "news".
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Is this going to blamed on Putin, Trump or White Nationalists?
I'm pretty sure climate change is to blame.
Just this morning, I heard someone on the radio blaming this kind of thing on the pandemic. Also George Floyd.
A day earlier there was a mass shooting in Ceder Rapids Iowa, 2 dead 10 wounded, and not a word about it on NT.
Targeted shootings aren't the same as a racist opening fire at random people on the subway. But knock yourself out if you want to discuss it. I've even provided a link
Seems like we have once again identified a whole basket of red flags that anyone could have found - after the fact.
As the race of the perp becomes the narrative as forum idiocy exposes the insanity we face on social media. How about the victims of this crime? Arrest the perp, and let's worry about the victims. They need help!
"Frank James, the primary suspect in Tuesday’s subway shooting in New York City that left 29 injured, has been taken into custody and indicted on a federal terrorism charge, officials announced on Wednesday.
James was arrested at the corner of St. Mark’s Place and 1st Ave. in the East Village of Manhattan, NYPD commissioner Keeshant Sewell said at a press conference with city and law enforcement officials. Mayor Eric Adams joined via video conference from his residence, where he is quarantined after testing positive for Covid.
“My fellow New Yorkers: we got him. We got him,” Adams told the conference.
NYPD chief of detectives James Essig said James has nine prior arrests in New York between 1992 and 1998, as well as other arrests in New Jersey. Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said James has been charged with one federal charge of violating a law banning terrorist attacks on mass transit."
Hopefully he will also be charged with attempted murder of all the people he shot and injured. This person, with a record of all those arrests, is incorrigable and should have been locked up for the rest of his life.
I am thrilled that this nutcase killer is off the streets. That is what is important, right?
Besides all of his stuff dropped in the subway car, it's getting weirder and weirder, in that he himself tipped off the police as to where he was...(LINK) ->
Obviously. We don't want to know his motivation.
"At the start of the video, he told of his plans to drive to Philadelphia.
'I am on my way to Philadelphia. I packed my bags. I got up, even though it's rainy, go to my storage unit, loaded that up and then finished my apartment off this morning.
'I am on my way to Philadelphia. I should be there... I'm going to take my time though.
'This is the first leg of my trip, it's been a long time since I've had to drive this far. We're going to find out though.
'All my Instacart driving paid off or what. We are definitely going to find the f*** out.'
Two days before the shooting, he posted another video where he said black people were forced into violence by racism.
'This is what white b*****s and white m*********ers' expect you to be… when you blow one of their f*****g brains out – this is what you asked for. This is how you wanted me to be, obviously,' he said. "
We don't?
Now that this nutcase is off the street (priority #1) we want to learn as much as possible about this to attempt to prevent similar acts like this.
Not from what I can see.
Now that this nutcase is off the street (priority #1 )
Ahh, but he was off the street many times before and kept getting released. As a matter of fact he was on an FBI watch list. I guess the FBI was too busy with parents and framing wannabes in Wisconsin.
You are surprised that our system is imperfect?
Let's talk about this case. Right now, do you doubt that authorities are looking to get as much relevant information as possible to help ensure similar cases do not repeat?
Is that all. Where was the content moderation on You tube after he posted: 'This is what white b*****s and white m*********ers' expect you to be… when you blow one of their f*****g brains out – this is what you asked for. This is how you wanted me to be, obviously.'
Right now, do you doubt that authorities are looking to get as much relevant information as possible to help ensure similar cases do not repeat?
If they charge him with a hate crime, then yes. If they don't, the big city crime spree continues.
You either agree that our system is imperfect or you do not. If you agree that it is imperfect then you are either surprised that it is or you already understand the level of imperfection.
So what is your issue, Vic? We all want the system to catch perps before they can act and, if not possible, catch them as soon after as possible. Right? Most of us understand that the system simply does not meet those standards and are not surprised when failures are noted.
Rhetoric!
Politicians and activists need to stop using race.