16 yr old private school kid posts videos expressing his hate & desire to shoot black ppl

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“Howdy, I’m Parker Mustian and I hate black people,” he said at the beginning of the first clip we were provided.

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Mustian identified himself in the second clip, too. “Hey. It’s me again, Parker Mustian, hater of all black men,” he said at the beginning of that video.

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Aside from Mustian’s clear self-identification in these videos, their content created obvious cause for alarm. So did the threats Mustian is alleged to have made against his former school, according to an incident report filed on July 17, 2019 by deputies of the Richland County sheriff’s department.

That incident report referenced “additional videos and text messages” from Mustian in which he allegedly stated that he was “on his way to shoot up the school.”

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In the case of disclosing the identity of sixteen-year-old Parker Mustian – the son of a prominent Columbia, S.C. attorney and grandson of a legendary Palmetto State political consultant – my decision involved many factors.

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I have also quoted sources close to the family who claimed the young man is not racist and was merely participating in some “shock value” experiment to see “who could be the most outlandishly, ridiculously offensive.”

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