A Binghamton-area contractor was arrested Tuesday afternoon on hate crime charges after he called for State Senator Lea Webb to be “hung from a tree” on social media.James Crosby, 49, made the comments on a Facebook post from WBNG 12 News promoting a story from the TV station about a Juneteenth event where Webb, who is Black, was a speaker. She represents Tompkins, Broome and part of Cortland counties in the state Senate.Crosby was arrested by the Broome County Sheriff’s Office around 4:40 p.m. on a charge of making a terroristic threat, which was classified as a hate crime. The charge constitutes a class C felony. As of 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, Crosby remained in (continooka ooka OOKA OOKA OOKA!!! in next posthttps://ithacavoice.org/2026/06/lea-webb-hate-crime-crosby/https://troopers.ny.gov/news/binghamton-man-charged-after-making-threat-directed-state-senator-social-mediahttps://www.weny.com/news/binghamton-man-arrested-on-threat-of-a-hate-crime-against-nys-senator/article_f97fe20b-d220-4503-b30b-3db9d76ab6cd.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/binghamton-man-charged-5-felonies-192312840.htmlhttps://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/public-safety/2026/06/24/facebook-post-about-ny-senator-lea-webb-lands-binghamton-man-5-felony-charges/90679921007/
>>537793223In a subsequent investigation, New York State Police investigators found several illegal firearms and accessories in Crosby’s possession. He was later charged with four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the 3rd degree, all class D felonies.While Crosby is prohibited from possession of firearms altogether due to a prior felony conviction, the weapons he had in his possession are illegal for anyone to own under state law. They include an assault style rifle, a silencer and a high capacity ammunition feeding device.The Ithaca Voice reviewed a screenshot of Crosby’s original comment from June 19. The comment has since been removed from the Facebook post.“I’d be proud to hang her from a tree,” Crosby wrote.Crosby, who is white, made the apparent reference to lynching on Juneteenth, the federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned of their emancipation.Crosby appears to be one of several Facebook users who made racially charged comments on the WBNG 12 post, though his appeared to be the most incendiary.
Following the incident, other social media users began to advocate for a boycott of Crosby’s business, Crosby Home Improvements. The Binghamton City Democratic Committee also called for an investigation into the incident.The Facebook page for the contractor business is currently listed as unavailable.On June 22, Crosby posted an apology on Facebook in which he acknowledged making a comment about Webb but said he had “not intended to be racist in any way.”“I understand the harm I have caused and will work on the way I express myself,” Crosby said.In the apology, Crosby said his comment was motivated by news stories about how Webb had received free legal aid from a nonprofit law firm in a foreclosure case on her Binghamton-area home. Webb had previously secured $30,000 of state funding for the firm. State watchdogs said the relationship created an appearance of a conflict of interest.At the time, Webb said she planned to pay the firm for its services in response to a request for comment from The Ithaca Voice.Webb did not respond to a request for comment sent prior to the news of the arrest.
Multitudes of goodnicks maneuvered to mass shit reviewing his business
>>537793223She's probably cooler than you'll ever be
>>537794021Those colors are kind of distracting for construction but they're pretty fabulous for sucking on juicy scrumptious wangs
>>537794021Show us his wang anon Oh pretty please!! With a dingleberry on top
>>537793223TIME TO GET THE GANG BACK TOGETHER AGAIN
>>537793223>Free speech is a felonyAnd Jews wonder why they have been kicked out of 109 countries. >“I’d be proud to hang her from a tree,” Hypothetical. Not a call to immediate action. Hang the judge publicly for his commission of sedition and treason.
>>537795851Omg
>>537793292Kikes should be hanged from trees because they rape kids, only in Minecraft though, the hanging. Jews rape kids in real life.
>>537796057His life's already irreparably doomed by leftists' trail of ruining his business in horrible reviews. And you know they never let go.He'll probably become some callous babbling drunk
>>537795851Wall of bullshit. The KKK is a Jewish freemason pedophile organization that was made to make whites look racist. They are also obviously anti Christian and pro Jew.
>>537793223It won't hold up."True threats" require a "serious expression of an intent to commit an act of violence". And then if you do have that, you further have to prove that the speaker disregarded a substantial risk that their words would be perceived as a threat of violence to be committed by the speaker and delivered them anyway.So it fails the "true threat" category definition based on the objective content of the communication (which is the only criteria that can be used to classify it within a category of unprotected speech).
>>537796528none of that matters because he is white and she is a nog
>>537796528Hey at least his business is destroyed for forever
>>537796528He's in jew york after all, other likely states where you could get arrested for this are florida, virgina, and new jersey
>>537796436Meeoowwww>>537797436Meeoowwww!!!
