Mass shooting targeting Islamic Center foiled by Jacksonville Police.

[ArcadiaGP]

Florida sheriff: Man planned mass shooting at Islamic center

Authorities say a Florida resident was planning to "shoot up" a Jacksonville mosque before his arrest on Friday.

Bernandino Bolatete, 69, has been charged with possessing a silencer not registered to him, a federal crime, said Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams at a press conference Monday. Bolatete is a Philippines national who has a green card, according to federal authorities.

Williams said a confidential source informed Jacksonville detectives in November that Bolatete "had expressed a strong anti-Islam sentiment and was planning to conduct a mass shooting of individuals at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida."

An undercover detective established a relationship with Bolatete, according to federal charging documents. The detective allegedly recorded several conversations with Bolatete, who authorities say said that he planned to be killed by police after shooting at mosque attendees from a nearby tower.

"I just want to give these freaking people a taste of their own medicine, you know," Bolatete allegedly told the undercover detective, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI.

 

[T.Lex]

Hmmm... the Philippines has its own complicated context regarding Muslims.

It would be one of the few terrorist acts (or planned terrorist acts) by an immigrant as opposed to a citizen.

 

[indiucky]

Hmmm... the Philippines has its own complicated context regarding Muslims.

And it runs deep.....

 

[Thor]

And what's up with people who are planning some horrendous event feeling the need to socialize it? It must be an aspect of the mental illness.

The conflict with islam in the islands has been a thing since long before we got there...

 

[BehindBlueI's]

And what's up with people who are planning some horrendous event feeling the need to socialize it? It must be an aspect of the mental illness.

The conflict with islam in the islands has been a thing since long before we got there...

Because attention for their agenda is a prime motivator. Mass shooting = broad platform for you on international media after the shooting.

 

[indiucky]

Because attention for their agenda is a prime motivator. Mass shooting = broad platform for you on international media after the shooting.

See how level headed he explains it here on INGO....In the shop he breaks into song and dance explaining it in Elvis attire.....

[video=youtube;nqMmquNLnHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMmquNLnHg[/video]

 

[BehindBlueI's]

See how level headed he explains it here on INGO....In the shop he breaks into song and dance explaining it in Elvis attire.....

[video=youtube;nqMmquNLnHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMmquNLnHg[/video]

Ah, good times. Do you still have those green shorts?

 

[Thor]

Because attention for their agenda is a prime motivator. Mass shooting = broad platform for you on international media after the shooting.

I was thinking more the need to socialize it before they do it..."hey, I'm going to go shoot up 'x'" go straight to jail.

 

[HoughMade]

I saw a scene just like this in New York this past weekend. It was inspring. You'd think that "Fame" was fictional, but there's a lot more public singing in NYC that you would think.

And to the topic at hand, yeah, I'd call this crazy, but there may well be plenty of ideology in it too. Glad they caught him and stopped this from happening. Good work.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I saw a scene just like this in New York this past weekend. It was inspring. You'd think that "Fame" was fictional, but there's a lot more public singing in NYC that you would think.

Haven't the poor people of New York City suffered enough?

 

[indiucky]

Ah, good times. Do you still have those green shorts?

I turned them into a breech cloth...So comfortable....

 

[femurphy77]

See how level headed he explains it here on INGO....In the shop he breaks into song and dance explaining it in Elvis attire.....

[video=youtube;nqMmquNLnHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqMmquNLnHg[/video]

Ahhh. . . . .High School girls. . . . .I keep getting older and they stay the same age!!

 

[Thor]

I have never seen that movie...and after the first 37 seconds of that clip I can say I never will.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I have never seen that movie...and after the first 37 seconds of that clip I can say I never will.

It was a TV show too. It was actually pretty good for 80s fare.

 

[HoughMade]

It was a TV show too. It was actually pretty good for 80s fare.

I liked them both. My sister used to put her tape recorder by the speaker of our TV to record the songs.