THEY KNEW.
Michelle Malkin: A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.
There will be no CNN town halls or student walkouts over the lost life and preventable tragedy, because there are no guns to blame. Only dropped balls.
As the exploiters of crisis know full well, bureaucratic screw-ups don’t make good fodder for partisan fundraisers and hipster T-shirts.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Palm Beach County police, 17-year-old Corey Johnson bought a knife last Sunday and brought it with him to a sleepover at longtime friend Kyle Bancroft’s house. At 4 a.m., he decided to kill Kyle’s mother, Elaine, his brother, Dane, and Dane’s friend, Jovanni Sierra Brand.
SNIP: Here’s the ball-dropping part:
[…] Law enforcement officers at the Jupiter Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office convened at Johnson’s high school last January to investigate the self-radicalized teen’s contact with ISIS as he sought to join the terror group. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force became involved after European intelligence counterparts told them Johnson had used Instagram to issue security threats to a Catholic high school in England. The threats “were so severe in nature,” local officials discovered, “that up to 100 students were removed from the school fearing some kind of attack.”
One of the messages threatened: “By Allah, we will kill every single Infidel student at this school.” Johnson told FBI agents he “was supportive of known terrorist Anwar al Awlaki” — the spiritual patron of lone-wolf jihadists.
The FBI’s plan of action? Inaction. The agency watched and waited and wanly admonished Johnson to knock it off because authorities “believed a redirection approach would be the most beneficial regarding his conduct.” READ MORE
This type of story makes me ill, but it also brings back memories. Several years ago a close member of our family was into heavy, heavy drinking. At least three times, we went to the local police and begged them to do something, all three times we were told, “well, no one has been hurt yet so we can’t do anything. As soon as someone gets hurt let us know.” A few months after our last visit, the relative was drunk driving with his daughter and had a head on with a truck. He wasn’t hurt, but she suffered a head injury that has ruined her life. Of course, then they could do something.
Not only was there no gun involved, the murder was carried out in the name of “the religion of peace”. Keep moving, nothing to see here.
KCI (Knife Control Inc.) President, O.J. Simpson, could not be reached for comment… 😳
the FBI has not had a leader both:honest + competent in 46 years! It and the CIA – which has been a disaster since HST made it – should be abolished. For decent Americans they both have been 180 degrees out of phases with Hippocrates command “First do no harm!” they have only worked for “our betters” for decades! Against us!
The FBI has not had a leader both:honest + competent in 46 years! It and the CIA – which has been a disaster since HST made it – should be abolished. For decent Americans they both have been 180 degrees out of phase with Hippocrates command “First do no harm!” they have only worked for “our betters” for decades! Against us!
The instructional slogan or mantra “see something, say something” was meant to activate people.
What was left out of the slogan, perhaps the most important part, was the instruction to the various government entities “DO SOMETHING!!”
Well, duh. Without instructions the Florida law enforcers appear to be without sufficient intellect or ability to act.
Just sayin’.
By the way, where is the David Hogg (whose middle name is “PUBLICITY) for this event demanding that we control kitchen knives. There is an entire cable network devoted to chefs and cooking. Should the channel not be banned?
The two agencies have become the FIBS and CYA. The only thing that is required is knowing paydays, if you are not on direct deposit.
@an ol exJarhead:
You’re calling J. Edgar Crossdresser honest? Really?!?
What the hell is a 17 yr male doing at a “sleepover”?
Killing people!