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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by WashedOver@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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...

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[-] cardboardchris@lemmy.world 105 points 9 months ago

not to detract from the seriousness of this crime, but it's killing me that I keep seeing "decapitated head", when it should be "disembodied head". it's his body that's decapitated.

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Never too serious for a healthy dose of pedantry.

And I am taking note to your wording because it’s so easy to come off negatively when being pedantic, yet you’ve avoided that quite elegantly.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Indeed, their head surely is capacitated.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

How bad is it killing you?

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

The person is stored in the head

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Federal official" in this case being an engineer for the US Army Corp of Engineers.

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

How long until Trump promises to pardon?

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

If he ends up back in a position to do that and follows through, hopefully he'll adopt the guy too.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

I mean, we've all been there... /s

[-] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Good. He deserves to be.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Is this not considered normal behavior?

…asking for a friend

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Censorship has gone too far!

[-] ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Finally, something interesting on YouTube. The algorithm should like it too: two faces with craaaaazy expressions.

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