Brooklyn subway shooting: Person of interest Frank James posted racist rants to YouTube for years

NEW YORK – Frank James, the person the NYPD recognized as an individual of curiosity in reference to the Brooklyn subway assault Tuesday morning, posted a string of antagonistic video rants to a YouTube channel for years.

Utilizing titles like “DOMESTICATED AVERAGES” and “SENSIBLE VIOLENCE,” James posted hour-long, profanity-laced rants about race, politics and present occasions. The banner picture confirmed an alarm clock studying “Too Late.”

 “If you speak to of us [about] what occurs to you in jail, it’s what it’s,” he mentioned within the “DOMESTICATED” video. “That’s why I’m by no means going to jail… I’m not related, I don’t have no one, [and] no one has my m———ing again.”

If he did find yourself in jail, he predicted, that might be “a wrap.” 

When police introduced James as an individual of curiosity within the subway assault, they shared a nonetheless picture that seems to have been taken from a video he posted three weeks in the past entitled, “STOP ONE COMPLETE.”

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Police and federal investigators look at a U-Haul van discovered parked on Kings Freeway in Brooklyn Tuesday, linked to particular person of curiosity Frank James.
(Michael Ruiz/Fox Information Digital)

At instances, he sharply criticized Black Europeans and People utilizing strings of slurs and racism, in addition to ladies and the homeless. He joked about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and questioned the existence of civil rights.

He additionally shared native information reviews and film clips and used them as jumping-off factors for his rants. A March 1 video started with a PIX 11 report about rising violence in New York Metropolis’s subways. In it, he went on to criticize Mayor Eric Adams, ladies, social employees and homeless folks.

“I wished to kill the whole lot in sight,” he says about 12 minutes into the video. “I used to be planning to kill the whole lot I noticed.”

In one other video, he posted ominous footage of a crowded subway automobile, which seems to have been taken earlier than coronavirus lockdowns required face masks and dramatically lowered ridership. The title is “THE GOOD OLE DAYS.”

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives exhibits up at discovered U-Haul truck.
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He additionally chronicled an obvious street journey from the Midwest to Philadelphia, the place he mentioned he was dropping off objects in a storage unit. The movies return for greater than three years however had comparatively few views earlier than the subway capturing introduced consideration to his social accounts. They started as clips taken from elsewhere and reposed to his account to others that includes his personal narrations.

James has been linked to addresses in Wisconsin and Philly and lists his hometown because the Bronx on social media.

Police labeled James an individual of curiosity in reference to the assault on the thirty sixth Road subway station in Sundown Park Tuesday morning.

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An assailant in a brilliant nylon security vest and fuel masks opened a smoke canister and fired off not less than 33 rounds from a 9 mm Glock handgun because the Manhattan-bound N prepare pulled into the station round 8:25 a.m., police mentioned. They recovered the weapon and different objects believed to have been deserted by the suspect within the automobile.

Nearly 30 folks have been handled for accidents – with not less than 10 affected by gunshot wounds. Others had signs of smoke inhalation or different illnesses sustained on the frantic scene. Authorities mentioned nobody was killed.

Police additionally linked James’ bank card, which they mentioned they discovered on the subway crime scene, to a U-Haul van discovered parked on Kings Freeway later within the day. Police closed a number of surrounding blocks and referred to as within the bomb squad, hazmat groups and federal authorities to analyze.

Close by residents mentioned police informed them to evacuate till the world was deemed secure.

Police stopped in need of naming a suspect however introduced a $50,000 reward for data within the case.

“We need to decide if he has any connection to the assault,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig mentioned of James throughout a night information convention.

Anybody with data is requested to name New York Metropolis Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.