FBI arrests South Florida man accused of posting racial slurs, threats on YouTube
The FBI has arrested a South Florida man who posted a dozen online videos making “threatening” statements about wanting to “burn” black people and kill members of different religious faiths and the military.
Mostafa Hussaini, 34, taken into custody Thursday, is being held in the Miami federal lockup until his detention hearing Wednesday. A criminal complaint charges him with transmitting threatening communications. His lawyer with the federal public defender’s office could not be reached for comment.
Hussaini came to the attention of the FBI earlier this month after a Miami-Dade resident contacted the county’s communications department, which in turn reached out to the Miami Beach Police Department about an initial four videos posted on YouTube by the suspect. FBI agents found a total of 12 videos on YouTube under Hussaini’s personal account.
According to a criminal complaint, Hussaini published a video Dec. 8 entitled “Soldier Burns, Fantasizing to Burn Enemy” in which he makes various racial slurs and says he wants to burn black people. During the video, Hussaini appears to be using gasoline to create an open flame at a public grill, the complaint says.
In the video, Hussaini states: “Imagine burning a black person, because I don’t like blacks. I don’t know any blacks. I, I cannot even name any blacks. I don’t know any black people. ... This gasoline, imagine burning some black soldiers they are going to look very black. I can burn thousands millions of them.”
According to the complaint, Hussaini makes rambling, hate-filled statements in other videos posted on YouTube. Among the titles: “Car Shopping, Vlog, Mitsubishi is the Weapon of Choice, Part 1,” in which he talks about killing chickens and then using Mitsubishi vehicles in wars to “burn every enemy skin and eyes, punish them to maximum punishments and kill them.”
In another video, “Shit on Miami Beach, Part 2,” Hussaini states: “I don’t like blacks, Spanish, some white, but there is no whites in Miami. ... Try to stay outside City of Miami. ... If you are in Miami bring your gun and let everyone know.... If you have a machine gun bring your machine gun. If you have your handgun bring your handgun.”
In the same video, he later writes: “I want to let you know I have no respect for religious people like them Nazi associates who wanted to systematically genocide all European Jews. I also want to genocide Americans.”
And, in another video, Hussaini depicts himself setting a live parakeet on fire and killing it. “In the video, Hussaini claims to have named the parakeet “Jesus” because he hates Christians and wants to kill them,” says the complaint, which was filed by federal prosecutor Bertila Fernandez.
Man says he’s racist on YouTube video
The Miami Herald obtained one YouTube video by Hussaini in which he narrates his visit to the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie. Hussaini asserts that a college education is worthless. “I’m a businessman,” he says as he approaches the school in his car. “I have no respect for a degree.”
At one point, Hussaini admits: “I’m very racist.”
The FBI issued a news release Friday saying that Hussaini was arrested in Davie, but he is from Totowa, New Jersey.
His case was investigated by the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command, Miami Beach Police Department, Davie Police Department and the FBI.
This story was originally published December 13, 2019 at 2:44 PM.
