People v. Farca CA1/4

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 30, 2024A165339California8,228 words

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BACKGROUND

Around June 2019, Farca had two accounts on Steam, an online gaming website and social platform. Steam allows users to post comments on one another’s pages, like a social networking site. The name of one of Farca’s accounts was “Adolf Hitler (((6 MILLION))).” The description of the account said “Brenton Tarrant is a hero!!” and had an icon of the flag of New Zealand. Brenton Tarrant shot and killed about 50 Muslim people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The description of the Steam account also stated, “I have a fully semi automatic assault weapon AR15 with multiple high capacity magazines. Wanna see a mass shooting with a body count of over 30 subhumans?” The Nazi party in World War II referred to Jews as subhumans. Using that account, Farca sent a message to three other users, saying, “I currently own an AR15 semi auto rifle but I can

2 buy/make the auto sear and get the M16 parts kit. What do you think of me doing what John Earnest tried to do, but with a Nazi uniform, an unregistered and illegally converted ‘machine gun’ and actually livestreaming it with Nazi music? I would get a body count of like 30 kikes and then like 5 police officers because I would…

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