After being on the run for more than 36 hours, NYPD arrested Frank James this afternoon in Manhattan's East Village. James is alleged to have shot 10 people and injured dozens of others by throwing smoke grenades on a N train pulling into the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn.
Right-wing Twitter wants you to believe he was a Black Supremacist and a BLM supporter. Did he hate white people? No doubt. But he also had a fanatical hatred of New York's African-American Mayor Eric Adams.
James had a worldview, but it wasn't a coherent one. Let me put it this way. James isn't James Hodgkinson, the Bernie Sanders supporter who shot Republican Congressman Steve Scalise at the Congressional Baseball practice nearly five years ago.
In the last video he posted before the shooting James said, "I've been through a lot of shit, where I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to watch people die right in front of my fucking face immediately."
I think it is safe to conclude James hated everyone.
Throwing smoke grenades onto a subway car and randomly shooting people is a fairly strong indication that you hate people. Black lives didn't matter to Frank James. No lives mattered to Frank James.
That no one died in the attack is a miracle. We rarely get that lucky and we probably won't be so lucky next time.
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