A self-avowed “Nazi” who claimed to have joined the military to practice killing Black people has been discharged and is now facing federal charges, RollingStone reports. 21-year-old former soldier Killian Mackeith Ryan is being prosecuted by the Department of Justice for lying on an official form, but during their investigation, the DOJ found the extremist also engaged in violent and racist online communications. Though Ryan’s criminal charges are unrelated to his racist online activity, federal prosecutors detailed the findings in their complaint. During their probe, the DOJ said they found Instagram messages that showed the discharged soldier’s intent to use combat training to kill Black people. “I serve for combat experience so I’m more proficient in killing n*s,” Ryan said in one of the messages discovered during the investigation. Ryan’s criminal charges stem from false claims he allegedly included on his application for security clearance. On an official form, the 21-year-old said he had not seen his biological father in a decade, but it was later uncovered that the father and son were in contact via Instagram, where they both engaged with accounts “associated with racially motivated extremism,” according to court documents.
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siehe auch: The Justice Department Got Creative to Rid the Army of a Self-Avowed ‘Nazi’ A now ex-soldier told fellow online extremists he’d enlisted to get the skills he needed to kill Black people. A week ago, Killian Mackeith Ryan was a rank-and-file soldier in the Army’s 82nd Airborne. But behind the scenes, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors, he was a self-avowed racist who was communicating with other online extremists and claiming he’d joined the military to practice killing black people. Now that extremism has come to light, and Ryan’s military career appears to be over — and his legal trouble is just beginning. Ryan, a 21-year-old who’d been stationed in North Carolina, was arrested on August 26, shortly after the army discharged him for misconduct, according to an Army spokesman. The official source of Ryan’s legal woes is an investigation into his 2020 application for security clearance, in which prosecutors say Ryan lied about his relationship with his father. But in the charging papers, federal prosecutors paint a picture of a racist extremist with violence fantasies. “I serve for combat experience so I’m more proficient in killing n_____s,” reads a message, which uses a racist slur against Black people, sent by one of Ryan’s Instagram accounts, according to the criminal complaint. In an affidavit, a Fayetteville police officer assigned to the FBI’s local Joint Terrorism Task Force wrote that Ryan, through his various Instagram accounts, had been “in contact with numerous accounts associated with racially motivated extremism.” One of the email addresses used by Ryan to register an Instagram account bore the handle “naziace1488.”