Man takes machete to NJ mall to attack African Americans, planned damage to Midwest synagogues

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Man took machete to N.J. mall to attack African Americans, planned damage to Midwest synagogues, feds say
Richard Tobin was sitting in his car at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, holding a machete.

Tobin wanted to "let loose” with the weapon, an FBI agent would later write in court documents. “There were so many African Americans around that it ‘enraged’ him,” the agent wrote.

Tobin - of Brooklawn, Camden County - is a white supremacist “triggered by the state of the country,” federal authorities say. A complaint filed Tuesday charges Tobin with conspiring with a hate group against the rights of minorities, including Jewish people.