Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri today for his involvement in half a dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers. Thompson had most recently written for the hard left publication, Intercept.
Thompson’s Twitter account is laced with anti-Semitic and racist tweets. “Make no mistake,” he tweeted on February 23, “#Chicago’s southside is about to be ethnically cleansed.” This cleansing he attributed to Donald Trump and his friends in the white establishment. In another tweet, Thompson, who is black, writes “42% of Americans are filthy fascist appeasers and they should be taken out along with Trump.”
In another tweet, Thompson talks about a recent visit to Senegal and say’s he is “reverting” to Islam.
More to follow.