Neo-Nazi cult leader Michail Chkhikvishvili — whose propaganda inspired real-world bloodshed, including a deadly Nashville school shooting — was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a New York federal judge who called his crimes “extraordinarily serious.” The 22-year-old Georgian national, known online as “Commander Butcher,” appeared gaunt and pale in green jail scrubs, fighting back tears as US District Judge Carol Bagley Amon handed down the sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court. “The defendant is not being sentenced for his warped views,” Amon said. “He’s being sentenced for his calls to action.” Chkhikvishvili led the Maniac Murder Cult, or MKY, an international neo-Nazi extremist group that used Telegram and other encrypted platforms to recruit followers and encourage acts of racist violence, according to federal prosecutors. He distributed bomb-making instructions, poison recipes and ‘The Hater’s Handbook,’ a manifesto praising Hitler, Timothy McVeigh and Satan while encouraging school shootings and attacks on minorities and Jews. Assistant US Attorney Andrew Reich urged the court to come down hard on Chkhikvishvili, telling the judge, “This is not a case about abstract rhetoric or internet trolling. This is about a systemic, deliberate solicitation of real-world violence.
via new york post: Neo-Nazi cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ gets 15 years for online calls to violence that led to shooting
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