{"id":19000,"date":"2013-01-10T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19000"},"modified":"2013-01-10T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:26:16","slug":"alabama-white-supremacist-charged-for-plot-to-blow-up-black-classmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19000","title":{"rendered":"Alabama White Supremacist Charged For Plot To Blow Up Black Classmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALABAMA &#8212; A 17-year-old Alabama high school student, <strong>Derek Shrout,<\/strong> who was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to kill 6 Black students by blowing them up with homemade grenades, has been released on $75,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shrout<\/strong>, known at Russell County High School as a self-proclaimed, White supremacist, was arrested last week after a teacher turned a misplaced notebook over to authorities where he had written that the bombs were \u201ca step or two away from being ready to explode,\u201d said Russell County <strong>Sheriff Heath Taylor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing I wanted to know was if you did exactly what he wrote, would it blow up,\u201d said <strong>Taylor<\/strong>. \u201cAnd everybody that I\u2019ve consulted with has said that it would absolutely blow up exactly the way he wrote it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylor<\/strong> also revealed that from all indications the explosion would have been serious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a lot of pent-up anger toward Blacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bomb-making material, including tobacco cans and shrapnel, were discovered when police searched his home last Friday. Two large cans were labeled \u2018Fat Boy\u2019 and \u2018Little Man,\u2019 referencing the two atomic bombs that the United States used to decimate Hiroshima and Nagasaki during War World II.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>Shrout<\/strong> and his military family moved to the area, he joined the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), but soon became involved with a White power group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the hallway, at breakfast, at the lunch tables, after school where we have our bus parking lot, he\u2019d have his big old group of friends and they\u2019d go around doing the whole white power crazy stuff,\u201d JROTC <strong>1st Sgt. David White <\/strong>said<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Classmate <strong>Jessica Watkins, <\/strong>who described <strong>Shrout<\/strong> as \u201cquiet and sweet,\u201d said that she was horrified when she sat in his desk Monday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt said, \u2018white power\u2019 with the F-word, and it was covered in Nazi symbols,\u201d <strong>Watkins<\/strong> said. The teacher tried to scrub it off, she said, but couldn\u2019t because it was in permanent marker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALABAMA &#8212; A 17-year-old Alabama high school student, Derek Shrout, who was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to kill 6 Black students by blowing them up with homemade grenades, has been released on $75,000 bond. Shrout, known at Russell County High School as a self-proclaimed, White supremacist, was arrested last week after a teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}