An alleged neo-Nazi was arrested for threatening a woman and saying he would ‘exterminate’ Hispanics, feds say
By Reis Thebault August 20 at 10:12 PM
First came the picture of Hitler.
The menacing message, sent privately on Facebook, featured the Nazi leader’s face superimposed onto the author’s body, a mash-up both bizarre and deeply disturbing. What it portended was even worse.
Over the next several months, the recipient, a South Florida woman whom law enforcement officials have not identified, was bombarded by more than 150 pages of messages filled with racist threats of violence and murder that were nightmarishly, cartoonishly grotesque.
Meanwhile, authorities say, the sender was also hatching a plan to kidnap his target and transport her across the country, from Miami to Seattle.
On Friday, federal agents arrested Eric Lin, who they say sent the messages and devised the abduction scheme, and charged him with interstate transmission of threatening communications. The 35-year-old from Clarksburg, Md., espoused neo-Nazi rhetoric while threatening to kill both the woman and “all Hispanics in Miami and other places,” prosecutors said.
“I look forward to committing a ‘Genocide,’” Lin allegedly wrote. “The Time will come when Miami will burn to the Ground — and every Latin Man be lined up against a Wall and shot and every Latin Woman Raped or Cut to pieces.”
Earlier, he allegedly said, typing in all capital letters, “I FOLLOW ONLY ADOLF HITLER AND THEN GOD. THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME.”
Lin’s string of messages resembles the racist ramblings linked to the man accused of shooting and killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso earlier this month. The alleged gunman said he was targeting Hispanics in his attack, which shook the border community and reverberated across the country — a sign, some said, of the dangers of increasingly divisive political rhetoric.
Prosecutors said Lin peppered his threats with paeans to President Trump, writing on one occasion, “I Thank God everyday President Donald John Trump is President and that he will launch a Racial War and Crusade.”
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