Florida shooting: FBI was alerted about threat posted on YouTube

NBC News ^ | Feb 15 2018 | Michael Kosnar and Daniel Arkin

[Lera]

A YouTube user who used the same name as the suspected Florida gunman was investigated by the FBI for a comment boasting about plans to shoot up a school, the agency said Thursday.

The FBI was alerted to the comment but failed to identify the user, said Robert Lasky, the FBI agent in charge of the Miami division. The comment did not include information about timing or location, Lasky said at a news conference.

The suspect in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, identified as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, officials said Thursday.

[Lera]

[[Cruz "threatened to bring the guns to school multiple times," senior Eddie Bonilla said. Other students, he said, "threw jokes around that he'd be the one to shoot up the school." ]]

[Travis McGee]

The FBI and LE dropped the ball (again), so let’s ban ARs.

[Sarah Barracuda]

FBI was too busy texting about how much they hate President Trump

[hal ogen]

...and having office sex with other.

[Blurb2350]

The FBI had their hands full getting to the bottom of Trump’s urine fetish.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After the arraignment, his court-appointed defense attorney, Melisa McNeill, described her client as a "child," adding: "He's sad, he's mournful, he's remorseful, he is fully aware of what is going on, and he's just a broken human being."

It was out of his control! The AR15 made him do it!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yeah that too

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yeah remorseful my ass..he ran out like a coward to get away..other school shooters have offed themselves but not this lil chicken..he had no problem killing others but not his precious self

[niteowl77]

So, the FBI was alerted about him, yet that same FBI - which was tasked by then-President Obama to use a fine-toothed comb on "domestic" terrorists - not only didn't follow up the red flag on his threats, they didn't even manage to run across him doing post-graduate work with any outfit they were surveilling.

To be fair, the FBI was busy turning fiction into FISA warrants...

[libertylover]

Sure sounds like they should've been able to locate him about the comment.

He had recently been expelled from the school for disciplinary reasons

So had Trevon Martin.

[Electric Graffiti]

How many mass shootings have occurred where the FBI had the suspect ‘on their radar’?

Too many coincidences...

[Electric Graffiti]

“FBI was too busy texting about how much they hate President Trump”

Ain’t that the truth.

[Chipper]

See something, say something....we’ll do nothing.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I’m beginning to think that FBI means “Fuckin’ Black I”! They have to find some way to, possibly, get their credibilty back.

[Daaave]

March 25, 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian authorities warned the FBI in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers accused of carrying out last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, but U.S. authorities missed chances to detain him, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

"Missed chances" is one way to describe terrorist attacks and mass shootings that could have been prevented.

[Travis McGee]

Yep.

[KavMan]

The FBI was too busy trying to frame TRUMP colluding with the Russians to even investigate the Youtube post!

[iontheball]

Last fall, a You Tuber provides the Bureau with the screen shot of a post in the comment section of his channel from Nicholas Cruz saying he was going to become a professional school shooter. Mind you, the post had the shooter's real name right there on the post. Fast forward - The SAIC gets in front of the camera today and essentially claims the Bureau had nothing to go on. However, Cruz's facebook site with his real name was only shut down yesterday. Go figure this one out. If the Bureau was too lazy to do its job, I bet they were also too arrogant to turn the information over to the local sheriff so he could have checked out Cruz.

[Maris Crane]

I’m a little upset...I just heard Ollie North say the FBI gets tens of thousands of these tips everyday. He seemed really annoyed that we didn’t already know that.

Well, then, just what are we supposed to do??

When they say “See Something, Say Something”, but that doesn’t mean we can do anything about it, so keep it to yourself or send a Priority Mail letter to get some attention.

The next time the authorities offer solutions, who will trust that they really can handle the response.

And I don’t believe that FBI guy who says they could not trace the person who was on YouTube acting like a jackass.

[Cen-Tejas]

........well, overthrowing our government was a hefty task for them too............no time for kid killers!