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James48

(4,450 posts) Tue Oct 17, 2023, 04:54 AM Oct 2023

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

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.

More: Check out this article from The Detroit News:
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.

His 2010 arrest for shooting someone: 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

I'm glad they took this seriously. GentryDixon Oct 2023 #1

The victim in Mintz's previous road rage incident was an Arab-American Tanuki Oct 2023 #2

GentryDixon

(2,965 posts)

1. I'm glad they took this seriously.

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Tue Oct 17, 2023, 05:00 AM

Oct 2023

Tanuki

(14,933 posts)

2. The victim in Mintz's previous road rage incident was an Arab-American

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Tue Oct 17, 2023, 05:38 AM

Oct 2023

Mintz was also an organizer for the Meir Kahane extremist group JDL.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/09/23/jdl-leader%E2%80%99s-shooting-trial-resume-next-month-michigan

"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.”....(more)

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