YouTube responds to decapitated head video after it was online for six hours

31 January 2024 , 16:31

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In the chilling video, Mohn issued a call to arms for 'American patriots'

YouTube has responded after a distressing video appearing to show a man holding up his father’s decapitated head while spouting conspiracy theories stayed up for six hours.

Justin Mohn, a deranged conspiracist who believes he is the “Second Messiah”, ranted about “woke mobs”, migrants and the “traitorous” Biden administration, before lifting up what appeared to be the decapitated head of his father, Michael Mohn. The 32-year-old said his late father, a federal employee, was “in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country”.

Questions were raised on why the video stayed on YouTube for six hours, after it was reportedly published at around 5:30pm yesterday in Levittown, Pennsylvania, on Mohn’s YouTube account with 115 subscribers. By the time it was taken down, the video had already been viewed and shared thousands of times.

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Michael Mohn, left, was a federal employee. Justin Mohn showed what appeared to be Michael's decapitated head on camera (Facebook)

After the Mirror got in touch with Google, which owns YouTube, about the apparent safeguarding and online safety failure, the tech giant responded that it had removed the video as it was in breach of their “violent extremism” policy. But the site declined to explain why it had taken so long to remove the post, nor did it express regret at its failure.

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In full, the short statement read: “YouTube has strict policies prohibiting graphic violence and violent extremism. The video was removed for violating our graphic violence policy and Justin Mohn’s channel was terminated in line with our violent extremism policies. Our teams are closely tracking to remove any re-uploads of the video.”

The 32-year-old nonchalantly swigged his water as he called for a revolution and reportedly sat next to his father's severed head

Justin Mohn is the main suspect in his father’s death, and was arrested around 100 miles away from where the decapitated head was found, after fleeing in his father’s car. Mohn has lived in the $390,000 address since moving in when he struggled to hold down a job after graduating from Penn State with a business management degree in 2014.

“We didn’t know where he was going and what his intentions were when he left here,” Captain Pete Feeney of the Middletown Township Police Department said of the efforts to locate Mohn. “Fortunately, we were able to get a location based on his cellphone.” Middletown Township Police Chief Joe Bartorilla said: "We were pretty confident that the person of interest is the person we were looking for."

Mohn has self-published multiple books, with one - which is “loosely based” on him - called The Second Messiah. He also produced and released music, in which he laments his struggles as a white male and claims his dad was jealous of him. In one song, he says: “It’s a woman’s world. Empowering only girls. Step on all the men. Kill the cock and praise the hen."

Mohn has released two albums of his eerie and depressive music (facebook)

He had a deluded belief that he was the “Second Coming King of Earth”, according to what appear to be old social media posts from the 32-year-old. "America is secretly focusing and revolving around me such that The Cult is trying to hide me and kill me while empowering The Cult, and using the media as a distraction,” he said in the social media post, which reflected the rant he posted on Youtube, which included a call to arms to fight against the Biden administration.

Alex Croft