A new white supremacist bigot has been arrested and is being held in a Washington state jail under the state’s hate crime law. According to the Everett, Washington, Daily Herald, 20-year-old Dakota Reed was arrested on Friday and held through the weekend. According to the report, sheriff’s detectives and the FBI “seized 12 firearms, ammo, gun magazines,” as well as some white supremacist notes. Reed was being tracked by authorities after posting numerous anti-Semitic diatribes from a handful of pseudonym-handled accounts. He also seems to have been amassing a particularly large arsenal of weapons, all while threatening to shoot up schools or synagogues.
He wrote in early December about his parents asking why he owned military-style guns.
“To kill people,” he answered, according to his post. “Why else would I own them?”
In one post, Reed apparently uses the phrase “pulling a Dylan[n] Roof.” This comes only a week or so after an Ohio woman and her boyfriend were arrested and accused of plotting a mass murder hate crime. The woman, Elizabeth Lecron, was one of only four known winners to correspond with Dylann Roof while he sits on death row for murdering nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. Reed for his part seems to have been pretty scary. After holding him through the weekend, the Snohomish County sheriff’s office filed paperwork Monday morning asking for an extreme-risk protection order against Reed. The order would prohibit Reed from having access to firearms. According to the Herald, Reed remains in jail pending a bail hearing.
Remember how the incoming Republican administration wanted everyone to believe that the Black Lives Matter movement was the burgeoning domestic terrorist scene to watch out for? Remember how anyone with even the smallest capacity for logic wondered how that worked, considering that virtually any and every mass shooting or bombing conceived and carried out on American soil was done by a white guy? So here’s another white guy planning on killing people for not being his perverted version of what he considers “white.”