Guns seized from home of SC teen who posted racist video and threatened to shoot up his school after

[Tanuki]

expulsion.

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article233574517.html

Deputies seized weapons from the home of a 16-year-old Cardinal Newman student this summer when they arrested him after the youth said he hated black people and threatened in a video to “shoot up the school,’’ according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

The Sheriff’s Department said the guns were taken as part of its investigation of the 16-year-old’s threats, spokeswoman Cynthia Roldan said Tuesday. She did not immediately have a list of the types of weapons taken from the home..

“We seized all the firearms in the house,’’ Roldan said.
(More at link. Other aspects of his story also being discussed here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212353698

[True Dough]

1. That was the smart thing to do

Kid's a ticking time bomb. He needs plenty of professional help.

[lagomorph777]

3. He's just a cog in Trump's terrorist movement.

Just one of hundreds of thousands.

[True Dough]

4. Some cogs are more dangerous than others

That kid appears to be on the extreme end of the spectrum. Best to keep weapons out of his hands.

[lagomorph777]

6. Weapons out of his hands and his ass in jail!

[mainstreetonce]

2. If parents know these are in the home

The parents need to be held accountable

[SunSeeker]

7. Of course they know. They would have been the ones who brought the guns in the home.

And taught him how to shoot.

[Doremus]

13. And taught him how to hate. nt

[MarcA]

5. Without their guns most of these jerks don't look very imposing. n/t

[Blue_true]

23. He would never tap a Black kid on the shoulder and say "let's find a patch of grass to fight".

I saw this type in high school. Sitting alone seething at Black people and Whites that were not racists. But the idiots only got mad, that was it.

[cwydro]

8. They probably have them back by now.

They’ll probably send the kid out of the country for a year. Nothing will happen to him.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Sickening to see any of our youth brainwashed to this extent.

I worked in SC for a couple of years in the late 70s in the low country. It was one of the most segregated places I had traveled to but I don't recall bitterness, hatred and expressions of violence anywhere near that degree.

I sense some external influences here and/or some very bad parents.....

What kind of a future could this child possibly have in our very diversified world?

[Aristus]

14. Well, if it was segregated, that means the white people of the region got what they wanted.

So of course there was no bitterness. And the hatred was easy to conceal because of the segregation; the white people of the region were able to treat black people the way they wanted to, rather than with the respect all people deserve.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Exactly.

Raised in the South in the 50s/60s, most towns had designated "N-towns" with unspoken rules blacks were expected to follow and they dare not go astray at night. Churches and schools were totally segregated.

* For reasons I can't recall in the town I was raised in, the blacks from their isolated section were supposed to walk only on one side of the street when walking into town. The conditions they lived in were deplorable, with little support from the city.

* One paper mill town in Louisiana where I did a service job in the 90s had a fenced "no-man's land" between the white and black areas. The town was originally designed and built by the mill.

Examples like that could fill a library. Some areas still haven't changed and low country South Carolina is a prime example. I suspect Hispanics are treated much the same in many states.

We still have a long way to go.

[Aristus]

22. My last two years in the Army, I was stationed on Fort Knox.

I had also lived there as a kid when my Dad my likewise stationed there.

There was town nearby called Shepherdsville, and was reputed to be a haven for the Klan. We were advised to steer clear of the town for that reason.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. You can believe that rumor...

about Shepherdsville. I've known several people from there and one told me very sincerely that he was taught it is perfectly OK to steal anything you can but only if you really need it.

You probably remember Dixie Highway, the sin strip of Louisville with all the tattoo parlors and bars, all for the benefit of Ft. Knox.

KY......

[Aristus]

28. That's another place I steered clear of.

That's okay. I hung out in St. Mathews instead. Had an interesting circle of friends there.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. LOL, very close to home. Small world we live in!

Just next door, so to speak......

Even during my craziest drinking days back in the day, we always avoided "Dixie Dieway".

[Initech]

25. It says a lot about the parents too.

I'd be willing to bet good money that he grew up listening to the right wing garbage his parents listen to in the car. Hate begats hate.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Agree.

It would be extremely unusual for a child to grow up with that degree of hatred without the influence of racist parents and neighbors. This is a well to-do family with the a kid in private school and the few white people with money I knew there were extreme segregationists and behaved aloof and arrogant.

No doubt in my mind Trump is fanning those flames of racism in the South and white-majority churches are not helping......

[rockfordfile]

10. He should be in jail. The coward pos.

[Mike_DuBois]

11. Seems legit

Troubled young idiot. Hope he gets the intervention he needs. Or tossed into a cell.

[monmouth4]

12. I believe the family is heavily involved in politics (R), father is a lawyer and grandfather was

active in R politics.

[Sugar Smack]

15. I'm betting a hell of a lot of them are going to get snagged that way.

They can't resist, and it's a youthful impulse to issue threats so recklessly. They're working for a salute from trump or somebody. The recognition's more fun & cleaner than the actual bloodshed, & the message is out. The only problem being, their lives are pretty much over after that. Without actually harming anyone.

[malaise]

16. you need to see this from dalton99a 's post

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12353591

Mustian’s maternal grandfather is Richard Quinn, 74, founder and president of Richard Quinn and Associates, a political consulting firm. Quinn is now facing decades in prison as part of a years-long corruption investigation of GOP state lawmakers.

Quinn was arrested in April after being indicted on nearly a dozen charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

4. His Father is Benjamin P. Mustian, a Well-Known Attorney Who Has Deleted His LinkedIn & His Name Has Been Scrubbed by a Law Firm

As an attorney at Willoughby Hoefer, his name has been removed as has his bio. An “Oops, This page could not be found” message pops up.

But a search of records finds he is a board member of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, was the House Judiciary Committee Chief Counsel for the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003, earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest and a law degree from the University of South Carolina.

[Sugar Smack]

21. Oh.

There's an entire line of those fuckers!!!! Thanks for the tip, malaise. Damn.

[pecosbob]

18. Cardinal Newman

https://www.thestate.com/opinion/op-ed/article233568927.html

What do you say to your daughter when her life has been threatened by a schoolmate simply because of the color of her skin? What words do you use to explain to her why a white fellow student “hate[s] black people” and records himself symbolically shooting a black man over and over and over again? Unfortunately, my husband and I somehow had to try and find those words this weekend after learning about the horrific situation at Cardinal Newman School where she attends.

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article233557502.html

The principal at Cardinal Newman School apologized to parents Monday night for failing to tell them about racist videos and threats against the campus by a 16-year-old student.

Robert Loia, who took the job at Cardinal Newman this summer, issued his apology after a group of parents blasted the school earlier in the day for leaving them in the dark about the student’s threats. The school found out about last spring’s threats in mid-July, but didn’t tell parents until after The State newspaper reported on the issue Friday night.

Sounds like a great school...teaching racism and intolerance.

[Progressive Jones]

20. This is perpetuated by the racist garbage students who attend the school,

and their racist garbage parents.

[RockRaven]

26. Didn't the video have him, a minor, using a firearm unsupervised? Is there nothing

illegal about that from the parents' side? Neglect or endangerment? Anything?