In videos on YouTube, the 'person of interest' in the subway shootings seems to express his disdain for Black people, often calling them “cattle” and using racial slurs. They 'should be wiped off the planet, even though I am one,” he says in one video.
recorded a video message to Mayor Eric Adams in which he said he had been through the city’s mental health system and experienced a kind of emotional violence that would make someone “go and get a gun and shoot motherfuckers.”
In a press conference on Tuesday evening that identified James as a person of interest, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said a number of “concerning posts” had been found online in connection to the investigation, though she declined to directly confirm that they had been made by James. The posts addressed topics such as homelessness, New York, and Adams, Sewell said, adding that the mayor’s protective detail would be increased as a precautionary measure.
William Weimer, vice president and general counsel at Phantom Fireworks, confirmed to The Daily Beast that James bought “smoke items” last June at the company’s Racine, Wisconsin, location that Weimer believes may have been used in Tuesday morning’s attack. “I made up my mind, kind of told myself, you know, I may have to hurt somebody one day, somebody may have to get hurt,” James says in one rambling 44-minute video viewed by The Daily Beast. “Because there’s no way that I’m going to do what society asks me to do, which is to try to be—to work hard to play fair, keep my nose to the old grindstone, pull myself by the bootstraps, you know, go to work, pay my taxes, do everything you asked me to do, and then you’re going to smack me in the face.
James also notes that he has spent time in the city’s mental health day treatment centers, stating that those places are filled with “violence, not physical violence, but the same kind of violence that’s similar to what a child may experience in grade school.” He then goes on to describe a situation in which “people keep talking and picking, picking, picking to the point where they go and get a gun and shoot motherfuckers. That kind of violence.
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