White Supremacist Teen's Radicalization to Terrorism

0:00It's April 30th. Welcome in. This is Global News Today, where the world meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. A 21-year-old British white supremacist named Alfie Coleman got convicted this week of preparing terrorist acts. Prosecutors say he idolized Adolf Hitler and shelled out 3,500 pounds, about $4,730 for A. Pistol and 200 rounds of ammo from undercover cops back in September 2023. He got arrested right after the deal, with devices loaded up on manifestos from killers like Dylan Roof, who took out nine black folks in the South. Carolina Church and Bren Tarant behind the Christ Church mosque attacks that claimed 51 lives. Coleman even penned his own diary-style rant calling for death to anyone not on his side. This all ties back to his teen years drowning in extreme right-wing content online, wrapping up hard during that COVID lockdown when he was just 15. He copped please on possessing the gun and 10 counts of terror-related docks, but denied plotting

1:03attacks, jury didn't buy it after a retrial act. London's old Bailey. Counter-terror bosses are calling him a straight-up danger, driven by racist hate against other races and fates, fully geared to unleash harm and, push his twisted agenda. Coleman's heading for sentencing in July, a stark wake-up on how online poison can turn kids into threats. We gotta keep eyes wide open on that front.