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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Discharged US Marine Threatened To Target White People In Mass Shooting, Feds Say
2024-05-17
[ZERO] On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced the arrest of Joshua Cobb, 23, on a single-count indictment of transmitting an interstate threat over the internet. According to a complaint filed in the case, Mr. Cobb authored a social media post on Dec. 17, 2022, indicating his interest in inflicting mayhem "on the white community."

The author of the Dec. 17, 2022, social media post states, "I want to cause mayhem on the white community. The reason i specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles."

The post’s author goes on to state he has already begun planning the attack, which he intended to carry out somewhere in New Jersey at some point in 2023, though he had not chosen an exact time.

"I have not chosen a exact date but I am going to be sure it is close to an important holiday to their race. I have a location in mind already which I have frequented for the past year and I am certain nobody there is armed to be able to stop me from spraying them to the ground," the suspect’s social media post continues. "I have already acquired 2 of the 4 firearms I plan to use for my attack, and I also know my entry and exit points already after the mayhem."

The social media post was published under the handle "NearbyUserl0l." Investigators determined that social media activity was associated with an internet protocol (IP) address matching the Trenton, New Jersey residence in which Mr. Cobb resided at the time.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Not to be a pedant, #10, but don't you mean "feeling no pain?"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-05-17 15:42  

#10  I rather enjoy being pain free.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-17 15:29  

#9  It's all about not casting your pearls before swine.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-05-17 15:28  

#8  There is no hope for us pedants, Seeking cure — there is only pain and lack of it for those who cannot not see.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-17 15:25  

#7  Oh thank goodness TW! You just saved me from being pedantic!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2024-05-17 15:06  

#6  threw, not through. My apologies.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-17 12:54  

#5   but bright enough for the USMC to recruit him and check a block, I suppose).

The Marines also through him out for this kind of thinking. It sounds like paranoid schizophrenia blossoming — at 23 he’s the right age for it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-17 12:05  

#4  #3 I agree. I have interacted with many different peoples and there are a few unbalanced people. Whites, black grizzled and gray. I would guess he is mentally unbalanced. Certainly this would have been noticed in his service records. Democrats thrive on this sort of outcome. He was programed well. All his problems were caused by white people.
Posted by: Dale   2024-05-17 09:16  

#3  Right. "Rich-ass white people" shop at Aldi's. This scumbag surely isn't too bright (but bright enough for the USMC to recruit him and check a block, I suppose).
Posted by: DooDahMan   2024-05-17 05:36  

#2  American Thinker - From inside the mind of a would-be mass shooter: ‘I am certain nobody there is armed’
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-17 04:32  

#1  After scanning a dozen links, no photo available. This snippet found behind the NYT register to log-in page:

Black Man Charged With Threatening to Kill White People in Mass Shooting. Joshua Cobb wrote in a message posted on a social media site that he wanted to “cause mayhem on the white community,” federal prosecutors said.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-17 03:45  

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