He was in the East Village when apprehended:

Frank R. James was arrested in Manhattan on a federal warrant and will face a hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court, with a police source indicating the 61-year-old suspect was busted after East Village residents spotted the wanted man and called police.

The article adds that “The motive behind the shooting spree remained unclear.”

Oh, really? Really? (More about that later.) The Daily News, the paper I linked to above, is a New York City newspaper and is a “liberal” daily. You’d think New Yorkers would want to know all there is to know about Frank James and his motives. And the paper almost undoubtedly would have said a lot more, had James been a man of the right.

The Gothamist adds an interesting tidbit:

Police officials have yet to identify a motive in connection with the shooting. But a YouTube account that police have linked to James includes hundreds of disturbing videos detailing a litany of personal grievances and violent fantasies.

In hours of monologues, the man who appears to be James describes his desire to “watch people die,” his hatred of other Black people, and his “emotionally violent” experience inside New York City’s mental health system. At other points, he praises the September 11th terrorist attacks and questions why Mayor Eric Adams isn’t doing more to address homelessness on the subway…

“We live in a violent society, where people are pushed to the edge of their f–king sanity by other motherf–kers,” James said in one video. “I can almost understand how a motherf–ker could go out here and just start shooting people for no f–king reason.”

He hates – black people? (More about that later.)

That there’s CNN’s coverage:

James has been linked to rambling videos posted on a YouTube channel…

Many of the videos that James uploaded included references to violence, including at a set group of people he believed had maligned him, in addition to broad societal and racial groups that he appeared to hate.

In that racist and rambling recording, James said the new effort was “doomed to fail” and described his own negative experience with city health workers during a “crisis of mental health back in the ’90s ’80s and ’70s.”

In a video posted last week, James, who is Black, rants about abuse in churches and racism in the workplace, using misogynistic and racist language.

After talking about community violence, James says, “We need to see more mass shootings. Yeah. … We need to see more, there has to be more mass shootings to make a n***er understand. … It’s not about the shooter; it’s about the environment in which he is, he has to exist.”

That speech was a common theme throughout James’ videos, in which he repeatedly espoused hatred toward African Americans.

Again the emphasis is on “racist” speech and the only group mentioned that James hated is “African Americans” (James is himself black), and James presents himself in these videos as a put-upon victim of society.

Then there’s the NY Times:

The motive behind the attack remained unclear on Wednesday.

But Mr. James appeared to have maintained a significant online presence in recent years, posting dozens of videos on social media. Some were featured on a YouTube channel belonging to the username prophetoftruth88, from which the police obtained a screenshot of him to release to the public. In at least one post, the man in the video identified himself as Frank James.

In the recordings, many of them between 20 and 50 minutes in length, the man offered lengthy tirades, often on subjects of race, violence and his personal life.

He disparaged Black people and particularly Black women. And he recently criticized Mr. Adams for his policies focusing on homeless people and safety in the subway system.

Are you getting the feeling that the Narrative has been decided on?

Then there’s the NY Post, NY’s newspaper of the right. Despite the paper’s being one of New York’s largest and oldest, the first Post story that my Google search showed was at the tail end of page 3 (I use a large font, so your computer may differ). But it’s just a general article about the arrest. I had to specifically search for articles in the NY Post about the arrest before I got this one:

Prior to the attack, James had posted several rambling YouTube videos where he railed against the city’s mental health services, complained about race issues and spoke violently against people who he believed wronged him.

He mentioned Mayor Eric Adams in one of his rants, in which he claims a race war will follow the Ukraine conflict.

“It’s just a matter of time before these white motherf—ers decide, ‘Hey listen, enough is enough, these n—-rs got to go,’” he says.

“And what are you going to do? You gonna fight. And guess what, you gonna die. ‘Cause unlike President [Volodymyr Zelensky] over in Ukraine, nobody has your back. The whole world is against you. And you’re against your f—ing self, so why should you be alive again is the f—ing question. Why should a n—-r be alive on this planet, besides to pick cotton or chop sugar cane or tobacco.”

So, according to James, the white motherf-uckers are going to kill all the black people.

Here’s anotherNY Post article [emphasis mine]:

The troubled 62-year-old — who was arrested Wednesday after a massive manhunt — posted the eerie, 47-second clip in July 2020 to his social media, which was full of violent threats and support for black power leaders.

More:

In one [posting], he sympathized with the cops’ shooter, career criminal Lashawn McNeil, suggesting he was only carrying out the purpose that a racist society had pushed him into.

“What can you expect?” he titled a Feb. 1 rant, blaming the “stereotypes” that “whit motherf–kers” have of all black men.

“Nothing else is encouraged, except violence,” he insisted. “I’m expected to be violent, I’m expected to be a criminal, and when I’m not there’s something wrong with me,” he claimed.

Got it? White people’s expectations force black people to be violent.

And lastly, here’s evidence that James’ hatred was fairly broad:

“F— you & your white ass too, you white racist mother f—ker”
“Slant-eyed f—king piece of sh—”
“You’re a crime against f—king nature, you Spanish speaking mother f—ker”

White people. Asians. Hispanics. But somehow the leftist press doesn’t want to talk about it.