A Florida man accused of posting online threats to carry out mass violence has been arrested and charged with making an interstate threat and a weapon violation, federal court records show.

Alexander Lightner, 26, of Venice, Florida, allegedly posted comments online that were “intended to convey the message that he was planning to conduct a racially or ethnically motivated mass casualty event,” according to an affidavit.

He was interviewed by FBI agents from the bureau’s Tampa Field Office a week later on January 5, and law enforcement executed a search warrant at Lightner’s home before he was arrested.

While searching Lightner’s home, FBI agents found an unlawful firearm suppressor in a laundry hamper of a bedroom he shared with his brother and “propaganda regarding white supremacist and accelerationist ideology in Lightner’s bedroom,” according to court records.

  • @[email protected]
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    471 year ago

    a racially or ethnically motivated mass casualty event

    How nice of a way to avoid saying “white supremacist terror attack”.

    • @[email protected]
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      -171 year ago

      “propaganda regarding white supremacist and accelerationist ideology in Lightner’s bedroom,”

      They say it later in the article, goober. Find something else to take offense to.

      • @NewNewAccount
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        121 year ago

        I’m mostly taking offense at your use of the word goober.

        • TheWoozy
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          11 year ago

          Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.

          I know it’s the wrong candy