A South Carolina man with white supremacist connections and an apparent admiration for Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting an attack, not knowing he was describing his plans to an undercover FBI employee. He posted rambling, expletive-filled white supremacist rants on Facebook, and in early January, requested an “iron” — or gun — from someone through Facebook instant messenger, according to the complaint. Less than a week later, he was in touch with an undercover FBI employee whom McDowell believed handled problems for the Aryan Nations, a group that espouses racist and anti-Semitic beliefs. McDowell’s case is somewhat similar to Roof’s in that Roof, too, expressed frustration that, in his view, white supremacists were not taking enough action. He told the undercover FBI employee he wanted to target nonwhites at a county outside the one where he lived, and he did not want to get caught.

Source: Washington Post February 16, 2017 22:07 UTC