“I’m gonna shoot up a black pre-school. 20 black babies will be shot and then skinned like the animals they are.” Those were the horrific words Zachary Charles Newell wrote in a YouTube comment that caught the attention of a cybercrime team at Google, who then quickly alerted the FBI, according to a probable cause affidavit via The Independent.
The 25-year-old from North Carolina was spewing his hate anonymously, under the name CommentatorsHateMe, in the comments section of a video discussing the devastating wrestling incident between MMA fighter Raja Jackson, who is Black, and pro wrestler Stuart “Syko Stu” Smith, who is white.
On Aug. 25, Jackson pummeled his opponent during a professional wrestling skit gone wrong while he was lying on the mat and apparently unconscious, in an attack