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The Washington Post reports:
The FBI has joined an investigation into a barrage of threats against Fulton County officials in recent days, including members of the Atlanta-area grand jury that voted to indict former president Donald Trump. The statement came amid growing concern about the safety of grand jurors after the names, home addresses, photos and social media profiles of some members of the panel circulated online along with threatening messages targeting them and Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis.
As soon as the indictment was published, the grand jurors’ names swirled in right-wing online forums, often accompanied by photos and personal information, including addresses. Several jurors disabled their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles. Extremists posted screenshots of the pages. Some of those threats have also targeted Sheriff Patirck Labat, who made headlines in recent weeks when he announced Trump would be treated like any other defendant in Fulton County.
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“A spokesperson for the FBI Atlanta office said that the agency is ‘aware of threats of violence’ against Fulton County officials and that it is working with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to investigate.”https://t.co/CS81knq9Oy
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) August 18, 2023
Some users on 4chan are threatening violence against the grand jurors in Georgia who voted to indict Trump after their names were released publicly in the indictment, calling the list of names a “hit list” that they’re “about ready to go Turner Diaries on.” pic.twitter.com/uIA4KhhBP0
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) August 15, 2023
NEW from me:
-Doxxing their addresses
-Threatening violence against them
-Posting their LinkedIn & Facebook pages
Users on far-right message boards are targeting the Georgia Trump indictment grand jurors after their names were made publichttps://t.co/SGUzVd24mm
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) August 16, 2023
“A spokesperson for the FBI Atlanta office said that the agency is ‘aware of threats of violence’ against Fulton County officials and that it is working with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to investigate.”https://t.co/CS81knq9Oy
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) August 18, 2023