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William Kennedy

North Carolina man arrested over threat to ‘shoot and skin’ black babies in YouTube comment

Zachary Charles Newell, a 25-year-old from Newport, North Carolina, was arrested on September 1, 2025, after posting a racially charged comment on YouTube threatening to kill black preschool children.

According to a United States Department of Justice press release, The comment, made under the username “CommentatorsHateMe,” read: “I’m gonna shoot up a black pre-school. 20 black babies will be shot and then skinned like the animals they are.”

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