A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father, before displaying his decapitated head in a gruesome YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories…
In the YouTube video, which was titled “Mohn’s Militia - Call To Arms For American Patriots” and is cited in a police complaint, Mohn is seen wearing gloves and holding his father’s head in a plastic bag. Later, the head can be seen in a cooking pot.
Mohn says his father was a federal employee for 20 years and refers to him as a traitor,** calling for the death of all federal officials and attacking President Joe Biden’s administration, the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community and antifa activists**. YouTube removed the video, which is more than 14 minutes long, hours after it was posted.
Why must these red hat losers take down loved ones and others in their spiral down the Qanon rabbit hole? Will the Qanon grifters ever be held accountable for their roles for feeding these types with misinformation and radicalizing those that will go to these extremes just to sell the latest hat, tee-shirt, flag, subscription?
These grifters and the homegrown white terrorists are the real threats…
Why do they say allegedly? I don’t think there are many scenarios where you are holding your father’s head in that context where you are not the one who killed him
This is standard practice in journalism to avoid libel lawsuits. Until there’s a conviction, you say “allegedly”. The media’s role is to report facts not to determine legal guilt.
Presumably either as a matter of principle, and/or to avoid any potential liability. Probably more the latter. Pre-trial it’s alleged, post trial it’s convicted. If for whatever reason there wasn’t a conviction, the news outlet could potentially be on the hook for defamation.
I’m not a lawyer, and this is just a guess.
What if you knew him, Horatio?