{"id":1434849,"date":"2022-04-13T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434849"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:59:49","slug":"man-who-pushed-racist-far-left-views-identified-as-suspect-in-brooklyn-subway-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-pushed-racist-far-left-views-identified-as-suspect-in-brooklyn-subway-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Pushed Racist Far-Left Views Identified as Suspect in Brooklyn Subway Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-who-pushed-racist-far-left-views-identified-as-suspect-in-brooklyn-subway-mass-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/PoliceNY.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Social media posts from a person of interest in connection to a mass shooting attack on New York City\u2019s subway on Tuesday showed leftist, racist, anti-Trump views, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice identified Frank R. James, 62, of Philadelphia as a person of interest in the case,\u201d CBS News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/live-updates\/brooklyn-subway-shooting-manhunt-nyc-attack\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThey say James rented a U-Haul van that might be connected to the shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Videos from the attack on the subway showed that the air was filled with smoke from smoke bombs that had been detonated. The suspect fired dozens of rounds during the attack, hitting at least 10 people. Another 19 people were injured in the chaos that ensued from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy.com, a fact-finding website, <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/frank-r-james\/\">identified<\/a> a Facebook page allegedly belonging to the person of interest which contained numerous posts that talked about shooting people and expressed other extreme views, including \u201cblack nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Ngo, Editor-at-large for The Post Millennial, tweeted out screenshots from the Facebook account that showed posts that promoted the Black Liberation Army, Black Lives Matter, a photo of the man who murdered five police officers in Dallas in 2016, a photo calling to \u201ckill all the whiteys,\u201d posts quoting communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, posts expressing support for shooting people, and posts demonizing former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: NYPD named Frank James as a person of interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brooklyn?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Brooklyn<\/a> mass shooting. I looked into his social media. Like the Waukesha suspect &#038; the Louisville BLM activist who allegedly tried to assassinate a mayoral candidate, he appeared to be a fan of black nationalism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUQZGakJfW\">pic.twitter.com\/aUQZGakJfW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1514029565622075405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s time for action&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For years, Frank James, the person of interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brooklyn?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Brooklyn<\/a> mass shooting, has made references to shooting and killing people on his Facebook posts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dCzK4JddUp\">pic.twitter.com\/dCzK4JddUp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1514040368773402630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frank James, the person of interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brooklyn?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Brooklyn<\/a> subway mass shooting, made a number of pro-communist and pro-Fidel Castro posts in the past. His more recent posts and videos have pivoted obsessively to black nationalist interests. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nvh1aoINR8\">pic.twitter.com\/Nvh1aoINR8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1514057189752807429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>YouTube videos allegedly uploaded by the person of interest also showed extreme views, including one where he allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/person-of-interest-in-subway-shooting-frank-james-warned-mayor-adams-gun-violence-plan-doomed-to-failure?via=twitter_page\">called<\/a> 9\/11 \u201cthe most beautiful day, probably in the history of this fucking world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The person of interest also allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/frank-r-james\/\">ranted<\/a> in the videos about white people, saying \u201cthe vast majority of people, white mother******* are racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire normally withholds the names and faces of suspects in mass shooting attacks and other terrorist attacks due to company policy. However, The Daily Wire does publish names and faces of persons of interest and suspects who are at-large in an effort to assist law enforcement in locating the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro explained the company policy following the Parkland massacre in 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/why-daily-wire-will-no-longer-publish-names-or-ben-shapiro\">writing<\/a>\u00a0in-part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Studies suggest that media coverage of mass shootings can have a significant impact on the psyches of potential mass shooters \u2014 that such potential mass shooters have a cognitive craving for attention, which they know they will receive for committing atrocities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As Professor Jennifer Johnston and Andrew Joy of Western New Mexico University found\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2016\/08\/media-contagion.aspx\"><em>in a paper<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>presented to the American Psychological Association\u2019s annual convention in 2016, \u201cmedia contagion\u201d can help make mass shootings more common. \u201cUnfortunately,\u201d said Johnston, \u201cwe find that a cross-cutting trait among many profiles of mass shooters is desire for fame.\u201d The rise of such a trait in mass shooters, she claimed, rose \u201cin correspondence to the emergence of widespread 24-hours news coverage on cable news programs, and the rise of the internet during the same period.\u201d Johnston recommended a media pact to \u201cno longer share, reproduce, or retweet the names, faces, detailed histories or long-winded statements of killers,\u201d predicting that if the media did so, \u201cwe could see a dramatic reduction in mass shootings in one to two years.\u201d While\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NyTZ8HOSD\"><em>other studies<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>do not make such a dramatic statistic prediction, they do support\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/yes-mass-killings-inspire-copycats-study-finds-n386141\"><em>similar conclusions<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We at\u00a0The Daily Wire\u00a0would like to do our part. We will still report the backgrounds of mass shooters, biographical details, the type of weapons used in such shootings, how such weapons were obtained, and other details that could make a difference in the public debate with regard to policymaking. But we will not contribute to the unintentional glorification of shooters themselves by giving their names and faces airtime. Instead, we will continue to focus on the victims of such awful attacks, and the heroes who all too often must give of themselves to stop them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media posts from a person of interest in connection to a mass shooting attack on New York City\u2019s subway on Tuesday showed leftist, racist, anti-Trump views, according to reports.\u201cPolice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}