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FBI Tip-Line Caller Said Nikolas Cruz ‘Is Going to Explode' [Transcript of call]
The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 23, 2018 | Del Quentin Wilber

Posted on 02/23/2018 2:21:40 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

A person close to accused Florida shooter said she wanted ‘clear conscience’ if he ‘just starts shooting’

A person close to the teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school warned the FBI she was concerned he would “get into a school and just shoot the place up,” according to a transcript of her call with a bureau tip line operator more than a month before the massacre.

More recently, Mr. Cruz “switched it to he wants to kill people,” the unidentified woman told the operator in a somewhat rambling conversation.

“Something is gonna happen,” she said. “Because he’s, he doesn’t have the mental capacity. He can’t, he’s so outraged if someone talks to him about certain things.”

The transcript, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, provides chilling detail about the woman’s efforts on Jan. 5 to warn authorities about Nikolas Cruz’s propensity for violence and his troubled past. The caller’s identification was redacted from the transcript.

“You know, it’s just so much,” she said on the call. “I know he’s—he’s going to explode.” She said she was making the call because she wanted a “clear conscience if he takes off and, and just starts shooting places up.” [snip]

The FBI last week acknowledged receiving such a call, which it said was from a person close to Mr. Cruz. But the transcript, and the stark nature of the caller’s precise warnings about Mr. Cruz’s disturbing actions and volatile temperament, previously hasn’t been made public.

The caller began by saying Mr. Cruz had the mental capacity of a 12- or 14-year-old. She said he had started posting messages on his Instagram account that he wanted to kill himself and she’d alerted police to that threat, but wasn’t sure what happened in that investigation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cruz; fbi; guns; mentalillness; parkland; schoolshooter
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
She should have immediately called the place where he claimed he was going to strike- his school- MS Douglas.

... who would have promptly called the police and then they would be just where they are right now.
81 posted on 02/24/2018 6:11:18 AM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
She predicts that something will happen, for sure, and that Cruz has diminished mental capacity and that he's constantly outraged.

Sounds like the profile of a typical Democrat. The party of hate and intolerance.


82 posted on 02/24/2018 6:17:39 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: liberalh8ter
Again I ask, what prescription drugs was he on? This is important to know.

Good question. I’d ask, what good is the FBI?


No good at all. Now, back to the first question...

According to this article at WND, he was taking something.
83 posted on 02/24/2018 6:19:23 AM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater

Good info on the link between psychiatric drugs and mass shooters. I suspect more killers could be added to the list of psychiatric drug users but neither out politicians or their big Pharm donors are interested in having an honest look at this. In fact, I’d lay money on big Pharm claiming the number of shooters taking their drugs are within “an acceptable realm” when looking at the overall number of users. For me, there is no acceptable realm.


84 posted on 02/24/2018 7:50:45 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: rickomatic
Take special note of this line. Mark my word. This will be used against Trump because he overturned Obama's ruling that added social security recipients who had trouble managing their money to the "no buy" NICS list. Mark my words.

The ACLU also opposed that Obama policy...

85 posted on 02/24/2018 8:07:41 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Rome2000
We are GOY slaves.

What is that supposed to mean? Is there some kind of ethnic component to all this that I should be aware of?

86 posted on 02/24/2018 8:13:13 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: sargon

Are you NOT aware?

Do I need to spell it out for you?


87 posted on 02/24/2018 9:30:25 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000
Do I need to spell it out for you?

Please do. Because we don't like anti-Semitism around here...

88 posted on 02/24/2018 10:36:51 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: sargon

Was Winston Churchill an antisemite?


89 posted on 02/24/2018 12:42:06 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000
Was Winston Churchill an antisemite?

In his earlier years, yes—before he matured.

And if he remained one, that would have been a major, lingering character flaw. I'm sorry to see that such misplaced bigotry still persists.

Our Enemy isn't any specific ethnic group. Indeed, pitting ethnic groups against each other is a primary tool of the Enemy—to divide and conquer. Surely you know that.

The true enemy is people who think and act to destroy freedom and unity—and Jews certainly enjoy no monopoly in that crowd. Jews were used as scapegoats in Europe, and became the victims of ignorant and genocidal collectivist policy. If anything, Americans and anyone who loves freedom should go out of their way not to disparage Jews, so as not top be a stumbling block for their brothers. The Jewish people have more than paid their dues.

The only reason the nation of Israel had to be carved out of the Arab world—as proof of UN sovereignty and the reality of "world government", I might add—was as a direct result of Europe's anti-Semitic legacy. Behold the consequences. My point being that it sure would have been better if Europe's Jews had simply been left the f-ck alone.

If you want to oppose "Zionism", fine. But anyone who paints Jews with a broad, hateful brush is part of the problem, not the solution—and repeats the same mistakes which caused Europe to embroil nearly the entire globe in a murderous World War.

If you're a Christian, examine your heart. Don't heed me—heed God. In my humble opinion, you might have some work to do—as do we all.

But take my advice and don't peddle anti-Jewish prejudice on FR. I'm not Jewish, but such attitudes are frowned upon in this community—and rightly so...

90 posted on 02/24/2018 1:37:02 PM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Bttt.

5.56mm


91 posted on 02/24/2018 1:38:02 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Rome2000
Sorry if you can’t tell the difference between facts and “anti-Jewish prejudice”.

Oh, I certainly can tell the difference. And when the discussion turns to rationalizations about "disproportionate" representation and such crap, without any facts, I know exactly what I'm seeing: anti-Jewish prejudice.

You're basically admitting it, because of your broad-brushing assertions about "disproportionately so"...

93 posted on 02/24/2018 6:36:43 PM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Rome2000

Do you get the picture now? Take your anti-Semitic broad-brushing elsewhere...


94 posted on 02/24/2018 6:38:58 PM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: sargon

LOL

I appreciate you quoting from my deleted posts.

Any facts I put up will be removed, so I won’t bother.

You can’t erase the truth.


95 posted on 02/25/2018 3:37:46 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000
I didn't erase your post.

I tried to warn you.

Keep pushing crap like that and you'll get zotted.

96 posted on 02/25/2018 7:04:37 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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