California warehouse worker accused of arson raged online against capitalist greed

Friends say Chamel Abdulkarim grew increasingly agitated about politics in recent months, before prosecutors accused him of burning down his workplace and of comparing himself to Luigi Mangione.

In the weeks before Chamel Abdulkarim is alleged to have set fire to the warehouse where he worked in Southern California, reducing half a billion dollars of household paper goods to smoldering ash, he was in his comfort zone: posting political memes and bashing billionaires.

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