According to a news release, the sequence of events began Wednesday when employees of the Midtown-based Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta alerted security to Robertson, also known as James Lomak, prowling the parking lot. Prosecutors claimed he had just driven into the guarded portion of the plant without authorization. According to the DOJ, Robertson informed security that he wanted to talk to a high-ranking Jewish official and that he was the official spokesperson for the white race.
Prosecutors claim that after being forced to leave, Robertson drove half a mile to The Temple synagogue and told two employees he wanted to talk to a rabbi. According to officials, he then raged about the downfall of the white race and made disparaging remarks about Jews. He left because there was a police officer from Atlanta inside.
The FBI and security officers subsequently discovered recent threatening and antisemitic video posts on a number of the suspect’s social media sites, the DOJ said. According to the news release, he was spotted discussing the cultural annihilation of the white people while brandishing a black revolver in a recent Facebook post.
In response, approximately 80 local Jewish facilities received additional law enforcement patrols.
According to prosecutors, Robertson went into a Jewish Chabad building in Peachtree City on Thursday. Prosecutors claim that when employees locked themselves in an office in terror, a rabbi dialed 911.
According to the DOJ, Robertson recorded and shared the interaction on Facebook, claiming to be the official representative of the white race. He informed the rabbi that Jews were in danger of going extinct. When the cops arrived, he left.
Prosecutors claimed that Robertson uploaded another video to Facebook on Friday in which he made threats to harm Black people who openly lash out at the white man.
Although prosecutors say a warrant was obtained for his arrest that evening, Robertson resisted the FBI’s attempts to apprehend him for several hours by barricading himself inside his house. Agents at the scene discovered a gun after he eventually turned himself in, according to the DOJ.
Any comment intended to cause harm to another individual that is made over state boundaries is considered an interstate threat.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Catherine M. Salinas heard Robertson’s initial court appearance on Monday and ordered that he be detained until his next hearing on Thursday.
