Tag Archives: death threats

Swalwell: Ex-NFL Player Threatened To “Execute” Me

San Francisco’s CBS affiliate reports: California Rep. Eric Swalwell has reported former San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller to the Capitol Police after he says Miller threatened him on social media. On Wednesday, the Democratic congressman from Dublin shared a screenshot of a direct message he says he received from Miller. The post said, “Almost time!!! Would you rather Guantanamo …

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Junior’s Meme: Put Drag Queens Into A Wood Chipper

First, a related report from GLAAD: GLAAD found 166 incidents of anti-LGBTQ protests and threats targeting drag events since early 2022, with a sharp uptick beginning in Pride season 2022 and continuing through the midterm election cycle. False rhetoric was deployed against performers in campaign ads for the 2022 midterm elections, and rhetoric escalated to violence including the firebombing of …

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TX Cultist Charged For Death Threats To Maxine Waters

Click2Houston reports: A 60-year-old Houston man has been arrested and charged after court documents show he threatened to assault and kill Congresswoman Maxine Waters last year. Brian Michael Gaherty has since been charged with transmission of a threat to injure the person of another interstate commerce. According to court documents, between August and November 2022, Gaherty called Congresswoman Waters’ office …

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Cultist Sentenced To One Year For Anti-LGBTQ Death Threats Sent To Merriam-Webster, Disney, NYC Mayor

From the Justice Department: A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield, Mass. for making threats to commit anti-LGBTQ violence against Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster, Inc. and others. Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Rossmoor, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to one year and one day in prison and three years of …

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Cultists Deluge NY Judge And His Family With Threats

NBC News reports: In the 24 hours since former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, the presiding judge and his family have received multiple threats, two sources familiar with the matter said. One official said “dozens” of threats have recently been directed at Judge Juan Merchan and his chambers but did not give an exact time frame for them. The New York …

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Catholic Site Fires Writer After DOJ Arrests Him For Anti-LGBTQ Death Threats To Human Rights Campaign

The Washington Post reports: A Maryland man has been charged by federal authorities with making threats of violence to a D.C.-based LGBTQ organization in a voice mail left on March 28, a day after the mass killing at a school in Nashville. Since the shooting, which left six people dead, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have exploited reports over the …

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Manhattan DA Deluged With Racist Death Threats

The New York Daily News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been inundated with racist death threats amid his office’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, the Daily News has learned. Included in a litany of profane, typo-laden emails sent to Bragg on the heels of Trump’s Thursday indictment were overtly racist and anti-Semitic insults and threats on …

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Trump Deletes Threat Of Violence Against Alvin Bragg

Mediaite reports: The Drudge Report, Matt Drudge’s right-leaning news aggregator ran a headline on Friday declaring former President Donald Trump threatened Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in a Truth Social post on Thursday night, which Trump deleted on Friday afternoon. On Thursday, Trump shared a link with a split-screen image of him holding a bat on one side with an image …

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Manhattan DA Gets Death Threat With White Powder

NBC News reports: The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News. The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, ““ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained …

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Far-Right Host: Execute Obama If Trump Is Arrested

“Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people. That you military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people. “And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are …

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MI Man Indicted For Threats To Kill Jewish Politicians

The Detroit News reports: A man from the Adrian area accused of threatening to kill members of state government was indicted Thursday and could face more severe punishment because a federal grand jury alleges he intentionally targeted Jewish politicians. The indictment of Tipton resident Jack Eugene Carpenter III, 41, was filed eight days after Carpenter was charged in the most …

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Michigan AG Targeted With Antisemitic Death Threats

Detroit’s ABC affiliate reports: Jack Eugene Carpenter III, 43, from Tipton, was arrested and charged with making the threats through social media. The threats were made under a Twitter account in mid-February, and he reportedly wrote, “I’m heading back to Michigan now threatening to carry out the punishment of death to anyone that is jewish in the Michigan govt if …

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Man Charged With Death Threats Against Dem Senator

Missoula CBS affiliate reports: A Kalispell man is accused of threatening to kill Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester. Kevin Patrick Smith, 45, is charged with two counts of “threats to injure and murder a United States Senator,” a felony. Smith pleaded not guilty to those charges in U.S. District Court in Missoula Thursday afternoon. In the indictment, prosecutors say on …

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New York Man Pleads Guilty To Threats Against MTG

From the Justice Department: Joseph F. Morelli, 51, of Endicott, New York pled guilty today to making threatening phone calls from his home in Endicott, New York to the voicemail in the office of a member of Congress in Washington, D.C. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of …

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Indiana Man Fired After DM’ing Threats To Swalwell

The Daily Beast reports: An Indiana man is out of his job after sending creepy threats to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, the lawmaker said. “I HOPE YOU FAMILY IS RAPED AND MURDERED,” former Patients Choice Laboratories employee Jonathan Reeser allegedly direct messaged to Swalwell, alongside more threats. Swalwell took to Twitter to post the full message and Reeser’s LinkedIn page …

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NJ Lawmakers Seek To Shield Their Home Addresses

Gothamist reports: After several threats or attacks against government officials and their families in recent years, New Jersey state legislators want to shield their home addresses from the public — over the objections of government transparency activists. Three bills moving through the state’s Legislature would no longer define a public official’s home address as a public record and would remove …

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Man Charged With Threats To Kill AZ Election Officials

From the Justice Department: A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned an indictment today charging an Ohio man for allegedly sending threatening communications to an election official with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. According to court documents, on or about Aug. 2, Joshua Russell, 44, of Bucyrus, allegedly left the following voicemail for an election official with the Arizona …

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Gay CA State Senator Gets “Groomer” Bomb Threat

Just in via press release: Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the following statement after receiving a bomb threat targeting his home and office: “Early this morning, I was informed by the San Francisco Standard and the police that someone had issued a bomb threat against me, listing my specific home address and also threatening to shoot up my Capitol …

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QAnon Man Threatened To Kill FBI Director, Dem Rep

Detroit’s Fox affiliate reports: According to a court affidavit, a call threatening California Rep. John Garamendi was traced to 32-year-old Neil Matthew Walter’s number. Walter is accused of leaving a voicemail for the congressman Nov. 3, saying, “John. Hey John. You’re gonna die John. You’re gonna die.” Police checked Walter’s Facebook page, where they say they found” numerous comments stating …

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Feds Charge Man With Threats To Murder Dem WI Gov

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: A Dane County man with a history of making threats against public officials has been accused in federal court with threatening to kill Gov. Tony Evers. Michael Yaker, 52, of DeForest, was charged last week after saying Evers is “a Dead Man Walking” and “Marked For Elimination” in emails to the governor. He later told …

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