Justin Mohn posted a horrific 14-minute clip on social media platform YouTube claiming to show his father's bloody decapitated head – so why did it take so long for the video to be removed?
According to reports, the video was posted yesterday around 5:30 p.m. in Levittown, Pennsylvania by Justin's YouTube account @justinmohn6542, which had 115 subscribers.
In the footage, Mohn holds up his father's head in a bloody plastic bag placed in a silver bucket and declares: “Violence is the only solution to the betrayal of the federal government.”
“This is the boss of Mike Mohn, a federal employee for over 20 years and my father. “Now he is in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country.”
This extreme content remained visible to the public for almost six hours before it was removed. It has since been viewed and shared thousands of times.
Yesterday around 5:30 p.m. in Levittown, Pennsylvania, the video was posted by Justin's YouTube account @justinmohn6542
In the footage, Mohn holds up his father's head in a bloody plastic bag placed in a silver bucket
From right: Justin Mohn, his father Michael and his mother Denice; Zachary Mohn with his girlfriend Cherry and his sister Stephanie Mohn
Likewise, Mohn's YouTube page was still active the next day – although the video in question had already been removed by that time.
Online, the company states: “Violent or bloodthirsty content intended to shock or repulse viewers, or content that encourages others to commit violent acts, is not permitted on YouTube” and specifically advises users “no footage of corpses with serious injuries “Posting things like severed limbs on YouTube.”
Not only did his video show the extreme contents of a corpse, but Mohn also called on others to incite violence.
He put a $1 million bounty on anyone who could kill top officials, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
He also urged relatives who lived with federal employees to murder them.
The site's online guidelines clearly state that you must not “incite others to commit acts of violence against any individual or group of people.”
To detect these extremist channels, the platform uses a combination of algorithms and relies on people to report content that does not comply with its policies.
It says: “We remove content that violates our policies as quickly as possible, using a combination of humans and machine learning to detect potentially problematic content at scale.”
“In addition, we rely on the YouTube community and the experts in our Trusted Fahner program to help us identify potentially problematic content by reporting it directly to us.”
YouTube has been contacted for comment.
Photo from Justin Mohn's Facebook page showing him playing chess
Mike Mohn, Justin's father (left) and Denise Mohn, Justin's mother (right)
Justin Mohn records music to an image posted to his Facebook page
has chosen to obscure images from the clip because they are too disturbing to reproduce. Officially, the police described Michael Mohn's death as “suspicious.”
LevitttownNow said Mohn was arrested after 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday in Fort Indiana Gap in central Pennsylvania, about two hours from his last known residence, while driving his father's car. He is returned to Bucks County, where his father was found dead.
Police first located his car and then arrested the suspect nearby.
They confirmed that the victim had been decapitated and that the YouTube video was part of the same investigation.
Police were first called to the home shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday and found a headless body in the bathroom, said Chief Joe Bartorilla of the Middletown Police Department.
Mohn is said to live there with his father; his mother Denice, 63; his brother Zachary, 35, and his sister Stephanie, 38.
His father is believed to have owned two businesses – a cleaning company and a literacy initiative – that apparently had no connection to the federal government.