Student Arrested After Threatening to Kill “White Devils” and Cops at University of Chicago

Everyone who uses the internet knows that it can be an incredibly malicious place. With the benefit of a little anonymity, people tend to show their true faces and say horrible, and sometimes threatening statements. So at first glance the story of Jabari R. Dean being arrested for threatening to kill white people, doesn’t sound that surprising. Considering that he deleted his statement immediately after he posted it to Worldstarhiphop.com, you might think that he didn’t really mean it. After all, people make empty threats online all the time, right?

Once you read it however, it’s hard to believe that it wasn’t genuine. It’s obvious why one of the website’s users took a screenshot of the message before it was deleted, and sent it to the FBI. In response to the death of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times by police, Jabari wrote:

“This is my only warning. At 10AM Monday morning, I’m going to the campus quad of the University of Chicago. I will be armed with an M-4 carbine and two desert eagles, all fully loaded. I will execute approximately 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time McDonald was killed. I then will die killing any number of white policemen in the process. This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils. I expect you to do the same.”

The 21-year-old Jabari is a student at the University, and was arrested by the FBI on Monday without incident. They found that he didn’t own any weapons and have said that they don’t think he is a threat. Still, he is being charged with “transmitting a threat in interstate commerce” and could face up to 5 years in prison.