Police search for motive in Brooklyn subway suspect’s videos

Police search for motive in Brooklyn subway suspect’s videos

FILE - The YouTube app is shown on an iPad on March 20, 2018. A group of more than 80 fact checking organizations is calling on YouTube to address rampant misinformation on its platform. In a letter to CEO Susan Wojcicki published Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, the groups said the Google-owned video platform is “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect arrested in the Brooklyn subway shooting that left 10 people wounded by gunfire also left behind a trove of angry YouTube videos. Police were studying them Wednesday for a possible motive. Frank James seemed to vent about nearly everything in his videos. Racism in America, his struggles with mental illness, New York City’s new mayor, 9/11, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Black women. In one, he said: “This nation was born in violence, it’s kept alive by violence or the threat thereof, and it’s going to die a violent death.”

Photo: FILE – The YouTube app is shown on an iPad on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)