4:21pm UK, Sunday January 16, 2011
Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner described his college as a "genocide school" and talked about "the torture of students" in a home video.
The newly-emerged footage resulted in him being kicked out of college last year for disturbing behaviour.
Although he does not appear in it, the four-minute video shows the 22-year-old walking around the campus at night, while he is heard rambling, laughing and breathing heavily.
As he walks past classrooms of Pima Community College, he says: "Alright, so here's what we're doing. We are examining the torture of students."
He adds: "I'm in a terrible place. This is the school that I go to. This is my genocide school."
He calls illegal the "war we are currently in", presumably referring to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
College dropout Loughner allegedly opened fire on a crowd in Tucson
He says teachers at the college are paid illegally and are an "illegal authority over the Constitution of the United States under the First Amendment".
He rambles about mind control and says he is "pissed off" about a "B" grade in a class and that he will be homeless because of the college.
Loughner can be heard breathing hard at one point.
"This is genocide in America. Thank you. This is Jared from Pima College," Loughner says before the video ends.
Pima Community College said Loughner was suspended after "five contacts with (campus) police for classroom and library disruptions" and the discovery of an online video he made that officials said they found disturbing.
Gabrielle Giffords remains in intensive care after being shot in the head
Loughner is charged with five federal counts for allegedly firing into a crowd outside a grocery store in Tucson on January 8, killing six people and wounding 13, including US Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
Congresswoman Giffords, who was shot in the head, remains in a critical condition but was taken off her ventilator for the first time on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a man who was wounded in the shooting rampage allegedly threatened a "tea party" activist at a town hall meeting of victims and witnesses of the attack.
James Eric Fuller, a former campaign volunteer for Congresswoman Giffords, was arrested after shouting "You're dead!" at Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries, Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Ogan said.
The 63-year-old Democratic activist, who was shot in the knee during the rampage, was charged with making threats, intimidation and disorderly conduct and was involuntarily committed for a psychiatric evaluation.
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