On Monday, November 30, a student at the University of Illinois in Chicago was arrested for his alleged involvement in threats that made the University of Chicago cancel all the classes.
Jabari Dean, was charged with transmitting and posted a threat on social media over the Thanksgiving weekend in interstate Commerce.
The threat reportedly said that the killings would come as revenge for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, a black, 17-year-old shot by a Chicago policeman last year.
This is the full message of the threat listed in the complaint:
“This is my only warning. At 10 am. on Monday mourning (sic) I am going to the campus quad of the University of Chicago.
I will be armed with a Carbine and 2 Desert Eagles all fully loaded. the post added.
I will execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) Mcdonald (sic) was killed.
I then will die killing any number of white policemen that I can in the process.
This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils. . I expect you to do the same…”
The message was posted on the website worldstarshiphop.com under a video for the 1995 movie Panthers.
The criminal complaint does not specify the nature of the video that Dean allegedly commented on. Chicago police released dash cam footage on Tuesday November 24 of former officer Jason Van Dyke allegedly shooting 17-year-old McDonald 16 times, including when he was on the ground.
McDonald was battered in the head, chest, lower abdomen, arms, legs and back while he lay in an "almost fetal position" on the ground. He was shot by Jason Dyke even though he dropped down to the ground after the first shots on October 2014.
The FBI does not consider Dean a threat, and he did not have the weapons to carry out the threat, federal prosecutors said in court. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison.
Dean was a student at Chicago State University from 2013 until summer 2015 before transferring to UIC this fall to study electrical engineering, according to records from both schools.
