Coast Guard officer’s ‘views on race’ drove his plans to launch terrorist attack, prosecutors allege
By Lynh Bui Lynh Bui Reporter focusing on public safety and criminal justice Email Bio Follow April 23 at 9:30 PM The U.S. Coast Guard officer accused of planning a widespread terrorist attack on politicians and media personalities in the Washington area conducted Internet searches for the best gun to kill black people and the home addresses of two Supreme Court justices before going to firearms sales websites, prosecutors asserted in new court documents.
His federal public defender has argued that the government has no proof Hasson intended to launch an attack and that it would be inappropriate to keep him in jail on drug and weapons charges. Federal investigators say Christopher P. Hasson created this spreadsheet of people he would target in a terror attack. [‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says]
“The defendant’s Internet search history lays bare his views on race, which in turn inform his criminal conduct,” Windom wrote in a footnote to his motion. The footnote said Hasson searched for “white homeland,” “when are whites going to wake up,” and “please god let there be a race war” in 2017. Prosecutors allege Hasson had been amassing weapons for an attack since at least 2009, buying weapons from California and Virginia. Hasson purchased parts for silencers in July 2017 and used a drill press later found in his home during a search warrant, to assemble the silencer of “clandestine manufacture,” prosecutors allege in court documents.
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