Feds Charge Chicago Man With ‘Inciting A Riot’ In City With Social Media Posts Encouraging Looting

Federal prosecutors have charged a Chicago man with “inciting a riot” over social media posts he made last August, encouraging Chicagoans to respond to a police-involved shooting by looting and vandalizing stores in the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 22-year-old James Massey “is charged with using a facility of interstate commerce to incite a riot in connection with looting downtown and on the Near North Side on Aug. 10. A hearing is underway.”