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Suspected Capitol Attack Discussed About ‘End Times’ Before Supposedly Attacking Police Officers
Getty / Facebook Two weeks before he allegedly collided with his car against two policemen guarding the United States Capitol, killing one of them, Noah Green posted an article on his Facebook page with the title “Lull Before the Storm”. Muhammad and his divine warning to all of us during these last days of our world as we know it. Satan’s rule over us is over, ”said the 25-year-old’s apocalyptic post, with a link to an article from Final Call, the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam. Green’s social media posts suggest he was preparing for the attack on Friday. On the eve of his alleged assault, his brother, Brendan Green, told The Washington Post, he sent a worrying message after leaving the apartment where they lived together. “I’m sorry, but I’m going to live and be homeless. Thank you for everything you’ve done. I admired you when you were a child. You inspired me a lot ”, said the text. That message – and the deadly attack that took place less than 24 hours later – ended a period that was riddled with red flags. Green’s social media posts described the search for “a spiritual journey” within the Nation of Islam, a Muslim sect that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group for its “bizarre theology of innate black superiority over whites” and “deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric.” Nothing indicated a clear reason to target the police, nor the United States Capitol building located hours from the stretch of Virginia he recently called home. The blue sedan on two policemen guarding a barricade on a road outside the Capitol. He then jumped out of the car and charged the police with a knife, said US Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, causing them to shoot him fatally. A senior law enforcement official confirmed to The Daily Beast that Green was the suspect, although he has not yet been officially identified by the police. me and a second officer was hospitalized. He was in a stable state on Friday. Pittman said the suspect was not known to the Capitol Police before the attack and there was no indication of “any connection” with members of Congress. She also said there was no continuing threat and that the suspect did not shout anything before he was shot. She said that while an investigation into the motive was underway, it did not appear to be “related to terrorism”. With the reason still a mystery, more information about what led to such an attack was found in a series of social media posts that the 25-year-old published in the weeks leading up to the incident. In two long March 17 posts on Green’s Facebook profile, which was taken down shortly after the incident, Green wrote about his recent struggles and said it was a “big goal” to find the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan . There was no immediate indication that Friday’s attack was religiously motivated, and the Nation of Islam branch in Virginia and headquarters in DC did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Green also acknowledged that he suffered unspecified setbacks in his life recently. “To be honest, these past few years have been difficult, and these past few months have been more difficult,” Green wrote in the March 17 post. “I was tested in some of the biggest and most unimaginable tests of my life. I am currently unemployed after I quit my job in part due to afflictions, but ultimately in search of a spiritual journey. “Despite the lack of a job, he posted an image of a certificate that said he donated $ 1,085 to the Nation of Islam as a” 2021 Savior’s Day “gift. Green’s brother Brendan told the Post that Noah had become paranoid in 2019 and accused football colleagues of drugging him with Xanax. He moved into his own apartment and then abruptly moved to Indianapolis, where he believed that intruders were entering his apartment. It was at this time that Brendan said that he flew to see his brother and realized that his “mind didn’t feel right”. More recently, his brother said, Green up and moved to Botswana and suggested that he had tried to take his own life by jumping in front of a car. After returning home, Noah Green seemed to see the Nation of Islam as a way to stay anchored. In his most recent posts on social media, Green wrote that he faced “fear, hunger, loss of wealth and fruit decline” in recent months, and was being sustained by faith “centered on the belief of Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Jesus, the Messiah “He also alluded to other conventional pitfalls of young adulthood. He posted that he graduated with distinction, got a good job at college and did graduate school” despite not growing up under the best of circumstances. “Green played football in high school. and a biography from Christopher Newport University said he was born in Fairlea, West Virginia, and has seven brothers and two sisters. Calls to his brothers and parents went unanswered on Friday. Public records show that he enrolled in a postgraduate course. graduate from Florida State University this year, after graduating in marketing at Glenville State College. In Christopher Newport’s biography, he said the vacation spot of his dreams was Jama ica and the person he would most like to meet was Malcolm X. “He was always very sweet to me and all his friends loved him, we were all sad to see him leave Glenville”, Alaina Funk, friend of the suspect, told the The Daily Beast. At one point, Green wrote, perhaps alluding to the alleged incident in 2019, he experienced a “series of worrying symptoms” that he believed were “side effects of drugs I was taking without knowing”. He also said he was on the right path to enter the business world, but his path was “frustrated”. It was unclear on his Facebook page how recently he became involved with the Nation of Islam. Older posts were centered on football and college, not religion. Her grandmother, who died in 2019 of a long illness, was a Baptist, her obituary said. But in March, Green’s posts appeared to be consumed by religious warnings about the end of days. “I encourage everyone to study the Apocalypse, study the signs of the end times, study who the beast is, study who the antichrist is, study who the false prophet is, and study the images created during those times. The minister is here to save me and the rest of humanity, even if it means facing death, ”he wrote on March 17, before closing the post threateningly with:“ We have a little time ”. Once listed as living in an Indianapolis address, show that he recently tried to change his name. In December 2020, he filed a petition to legally change his name to Noah Zaeem Muhammad. But after he did not appear for a hearing earlier this week and the court apparently did not hear from him, the matter was closed and the case declared “closed”. – with a report by Pilar MelendezRead more in The Daily Beast. stories in your inbox every day. Subscribe now! 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