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Thursday 1 February 2024

Man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia

home and posting gruesome video online

By MIKE CATALINI online going back several cording to Angela Watson,
Associated Press years. In August 2020, Mohn communications director
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A published an online “pam- for the Pennsylvania De-
man accused of behead- phlet” in which he tried to partment of Military and
ing his father in suburban make the case that people Veterans Affairs.
Philadelphia and posting a born in or after 1991 his Investigators caught up
gruesome video on social birth year should carry out with Mohn inside the Na-
media that shows him hold- what he termed a “bloody tional Guard base, where
ing up the severed head revolution.” He also com- he was walking after hav-
has been charged with plained at length about a ing apparently jumped
first-degree murder and wrongful termination law- the fence. He had a gun
abusing a corpse, authori- suit that he lost, and en- when he was caught, Wat-
ties said Wednesday. couraged assassinations of son said. She said he has
Justin Mohn was armed family members and public never been a member of
and had jumped a fence officials. the Pennsylvania National
at a National Guard facil- In the video posted after Guard.
ity about 100 miles (161 ki- the killing, he described his The house where the body
lometers) away when he father as a 20-year federal was found is in a suburban
was arrested late Tuesday, employee and called him development of single-
hours after the killing, a a traitor to his country. He family homes. No one an-
Guard spokeswoman said. also espoused a variety of swered the door there early
The father, identified as Mi- conspiracy theories and Wednesday.
chael Mohn, was found be- This photo provided by Bucks County District Attorney’s Office rants about the Biden ad- Neighbors out walking
headed in the bathroom shows Justin Mohn, 32. ministration, immigration dogs Wednesday morning
of his home in Levittown, Associated Press and the border, fiscal pol- described Justin Mohn as
where court records said his icy, urban crime and the a regular walker in the de-
32-year-old son also lived. police her husband’s white about the government. war in Ukraine. velopment, someone they
Police said Justin Mohn was Toyota Corolla and her son In a statement, YouTube Mohn had driven his fa- recognized and described
taken into custody at Fort were missing. said the video, which ther’s car to Fort Indian- as weird.
Indiantown Gap. Police said the YouTube was uploaded and not town Gap, where he was Bart DeHaven said he
Police said Michael Mohn’s video, which was more livestreamed, was removed taken into custody, Capt. called police a handful
wife, Denice Mohn, arrived than 14 minutes long, for violating its graphic Pete Feeney of the Middle- of times since the summer
home and found the body showed Justin Mohn pick- violence policy and that town Township Police De- after Justin Mohn sat on a
about 7 p.m. Tuesday. Of- ing up his father’s decapi- Mohn’s channel was shut partment said. raised manhole cover in
ficers found Mohn’s body tated head and identifying down. Officials at Fort Indiantown a park directly across the
and bloody rubber gloves, him by name. Police said it Mohn embraced violent Gap were told late Tues- street from his home and
according to a police af- appeared Mohn was read- anti-government rheto- day that Mohn’s cellphone stared at his house.q
fidavit. Denice Mohn told ing from a script as he railed ric in writings he published had pinged nearby, ac-

Federal judge dismisses Disney’s free speech lawsuit against

DeSantis

By MIKE SCHNEIDER World governing district. the 2024 GOP presidential Winsor wrote. Disney said in a statement
Associated Press The separate lawsuit is still nomination. Without directly saying it that it would “press forward
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A pending in state court in Disney supporters had run would appeal the decision, with our case.”q
federal judge on Wednes- Orlando. the district, which provides
day dismissed Disney’s free Disney had argued that municipal services such as
speech lawsuit against legislation signed by De- firefighting, planning and
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Santis and passed by the mosquito control, for more
leaving the company’s re- Republican-controlled than five decades after
maining hopes of regaining Legislature that transferred the Legislature created it in
control of the district that control of the Disney World 1967.
governs Walt Disney World governing district from Dis- Winsor, who was appointed
to a separate state court ney supporters to DeSantis to the bench by President
challenge. appointees was in retalia- Donald Trump in 2019, said
U.S. District Judge Allen Win- tion for the company pub- in his decision that when a
sor in Tallahassee said in his licly opposing the state’s law on its face is constitu-
decision that Disney lacked so-called don’t say gay tional, plaintiffs can’t make
standing in its First Amend- law. That 2022 law banned free-speech claims chal-
ment lawsuit against the classroom lessons on sex- lenging it because they be-
Republican governor, the ual orientation and gen- lieve lawmakers acted with
secretary of the Florida der identity in early grades unconstitutional motives. Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Department of Economic and was championed by “Because that is what Dis- speaks during a campaign event at Wally’s bar, Wednesday,
Opportunity and DeSantis’ DeSantis, who recently sus- ney seeks here, its claim Jan. 17, 2024, in Hampton, N.H. Associated Press
appointees to the Disney pended his campaign for fails as a matter of law,”