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James48

(4,441 posts) Tue Oct 17, 2023, 05:00 AM Oct 2023

Farmington Hills man charged with making terrorism threat after anti-Palestinian post

Source: Detroit News

Detroit News

A Farmington Hills man has been charged with making a terrorism threat in connection with a post on social media that proposed violence against Palestinian residents of Dearborn, according to police.

Carl Mintz, 41, was arraigned Saturday in 19th District Court in Dearborn on making a threat of terrorism, a felony, and a misdemeanor malicious use of a telecommunications device.

Mintz's post was discovered after someone anonymously shared it with the Dearborn Police Department on Wednesday. He allegedly asked if anyone in Metro Detroit wanted to "go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians," according to a screenshot of the post Dearborn police shared with The Detroit News.

Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/10/16/farmington-hills-man-charged-after-making-anti-palestinian-post/71203203007/

Note: this same guy SHOT another man in 2010 in a road rage incident, and he also has donated repeatedly to Republican candidates and the Republican Party. See “Carl Mintz, Farmington Hills, Mi as a donor in the Open Secrets donor lookup page. He also donated $ to Ryan Kelly, the Michigan GOP candidate convicted in the Jan 6 attack.

Road Rage arrest in 2010:
https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2010/04/farmington_hills_road_rage_sus.html

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Farmington Hills man charged with making terrorism threat after anti-Palestinian post (Original Post) James48 Oct 2023 OP

Update James48 Oct 2023 #1

Dude could move IronLionZion Oct 2023 #2

Farmington Hills is like 15 miles from Dearborn. Wednesdays Oct 2023 #3

Home to an amazing bakery as well. roamer65 Oct 2023 #5

Lock him up. roamer65 Oct 2023 #4

James48

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Tue Oct 17, 2023, 05:59 AM

Oct 2023

It turns out the guy he shot back in 2010 was Arab American.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center said he was “the state organizer of the Jewish Defense League”.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/09/23/jdl-leader’s-shooting-trial-resume-next-month-michigan

He did a plea deal back in 2010 that kept him out of prison.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/09/23/jdl-leader’s-shooting-trial-resume-next-month-michigan

JDL LEADER’S SHOOTING TRIAL TO RESUME NEXT MONTH IN MICHIGAN
September 23, 2010
Alexander Zaitchik, SPL Center

Was it road rage or self defense? Or maybe even a politically motivated act of violence?

That’s what a jury will decide when the trial of Jewish Defense League organizer Carl Mintz begins on Oct. 14.

Mintz, 27, a state chapter organizer for the JDL in Michigan, is charged in the shooting of a 20-year-old Arab-American named Faith Said. The prosecution’s first attempt at a conviction ended with a mistrial in August when three members of the jury refused to acquit Mintz.

According to local police reports, Said approached Mintz’s car after the two came to rest at a stoplight in Farmington Hills, Mich. Said got out of his car and walked toward Mintz, loudly criticizing him for tapping his brakes as he approached the light. Mintz then reached for his concealed handgun and shot Said in the arm. Mintz is claiming self-defense, but prosecutors note that the light had already turned green when Mintz opened fire and that he could have simply driven away.

At first, local news accounts failed to mention Said’s ethnicity. That changed when reporters discovered that Mintz was not only a state chapter organizer for the JDL but had posted video clips on YouTube in which he rants against socialists and Muslims, and declares Islam to be “the enemy.”