Suspects arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore: Prosecutors

All over the USA …

1.) White Kansas Man Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Threatening Black Man Walking In ‘White Town’

“In today’s episode of Existing While Black, a white man from Kansas has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison and 18 months of supervised release all because he spotted a Black man walking in his neighborhood and couldn’t stand the idea of him taking up residence there.”

“According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 27-year-old Colton Donner was driving through a residential area of Paola, Kansas, (which he no doubt spells with three Ks) when he saw a Black man walking on the sidewalk minding his own business—a thing many white people in America see as a threat in itself. The DOJ wrote in a press release that “Donner stopped, got out of the car, and approached the victim while brandishing a knife” then “threatened the victim, yelled racial slurs, and told the victim that Paola is a ‘white town.’

SOURCE : https://newsone.com/4364399/kansas-man-racism-black-man-white-town/amp/



2.) Man gets 2 years in prison after racially motivated threats, calling area a 'white town'

Colton Donner saw a Black man walking in a residential area of Paola, Kansas, in 2019. He threatened him with a knife to interfere with the man’s right to fair housing, officials said.

“A Kansas man was sentenced on Wednesday to two years and three months in federal prison after threatening a Black man with a knife because of his race in order to intimidate him and interfere with his right to fair housing, the Department of Justice said.

Colton Donner, 27, had been driving through a residential area of Paola, Kansas, on Sept. 11, 2019, when he saw the victim, a Black man, walking on a sidewalk, authorities said in a news release.”

SOURCE : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna36075



3.) Man with knife who threatened Black man and yelled slurs sentenced for hate crime in Paola

BY SOPHIA BELSHE UPDATED JUNE 30, 2022 12:24 PM

SOURCE : https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article263039788.html

LTC Eugene Chu No Surprises there!

LTC Eugene Chu
..."In a recorded conversation with the informant on Jan. 29, Clendaniel allegedly said she planned to target five substations in the Baltimore area on the same day -- including ones in Norrisville, Reisterstown and Perry Hall, according to the affidavit.

"[Clendaniel] described how there was a 'ring' around Baltimore and if they hit a number of them all in the same day, they 'would completely destroy this whole city,'" the affidavit alleges.

Both Clendaniel and Russell were scheduled to make their initial federal court appearances on Monday -- Clendaniel in Baltimore and Russell in Orlando.

Clendaniel made her appearance alongside her court-appointed attorney Kirsten Hopkins and agreed to the government’s request to remain in detention until trial.

"This is a very serious development and suggests that the far right threat inside the United States, and specifically the neo-Nazi white supremacist threat, is still very acute," Javed Ali, the former senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security Council told ABC News.

Her preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 15.

The arrests come after a series of attacks on energy substations nationwide, including one in December in North Carolina that left 45,000 utility customers without electricity for days and prompted local officials to declare a state of emergency.

The Department of Homeland Security has warned about similar attacks recently. A "National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin" issued on Nov. 30 said individuals and groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances "continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland."

"Power grid targets have long been the focus of domestic extremists here in the United States," Ali, now a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy told ABC News. "This perception of vulnerability, it's fairly easy to to walk up close to one unless it's guarded with lots of perimeter security. Other extremists in the past have thought about different ways of attacking energy targets in the United States, whether through explosive devices, small arms attacks or some combination of those."

In January, two men were arrested in Tacoma, Washington, and charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession of an unregistered firearm. Prosecutors said the suspects attacked four substations in the Tacoma area, causing more than $3 million in damage."...