The FBI Was Warned About A School Shooting Threat From A YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz In Septembe

[FarCenter]

Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and frequent YouTube vlogger noticed an alarming comment left on one of his videos. "I'm going to be a professional school shooter," said a user named Nikolas Cruz.

The YouTuber, 36-year-old Ben Bennight, alerted the FBI, emailing a screenshot of the comment to the bureau's tips account. He also flagged the comment to YouTube, which removed it from the video.

Agents with the bureau's Mississippi field office got back to him "immediately," Bennight said, and conducted an in-person interview the following day, on Sept. 25.

"They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person," Bennight told BuzzFeed News. "I didn't. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them."

FBI agents contacted Bennight again Wednesday, after a 19-year-old named Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, killing at least 17 people.

In the wake of the deadly shooting, questions have emerged over whether officials and acquaintances had missed warning signs about the alleged shooter, a former student who was expelled from the high school last year for disciplinary reasons.

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[global1]

1. Help Me Here - The FBI Interviewed The Person That Warned Them....

Why didn't they interview Cruz - the one who posted the YouTube where he said he was going to be a professional school shooter.

If we're supposed to 'say something when we see something' why do we go under the scrutiny of the FBI instead of the person that actually did the offensive posting?

[malaise]

3. Ding ding

Only gun humpers have freedumbs!!

[FarCenter]

7. The FBI probably has some standard procedure for taking reports, filing paperwork, etc.

But in this case, it seems superfluous, since all the evidence is available to them on the internet. The bona fides of the person making the report are pretty irrelevant.

[GusBob]

2. So the fake president says one should notify the authorities again and again and again

The shooter's own mother called the cops several times
his neighbors called the cops
this guy notified the FBI for the everlasting sake of fuck


and Trump blames the students

[uponit7771]

4. +1, he'll just blame Muslims during his presser ... again

[EffieBlack]

8. Or he'll blame the FBI

And use that as another excuse to discount their investigation of him.

[BigmanPigman]

5. This is all over the news right now.

[Cha]

6. So Cruz said he was going

going to be a "School shooter" way before he got expelled?!

[Adrahil]

9. This isn't 100% confirmed, but....

looks like the killer was a Trump humper. This was the profile pic of an instagram account reported to have belonged to him:

[randr]

10. All the warning signs where there

From law enforcement to social medial platforms to school officials. They all had all the information needed to intervene in this boys life and avert the tragedy that just unfolded.
Given the neglect surrounding this I can hardly blame the gun lobby. My resolve to strengthen back ground checks and remove assault rifles from public consumption is not wavered.
I am just laying blame where it is deserved.

[FarCenter]

11. Sometimes the warning signs are ambiguous, but not in this case