U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on Nov. 21, 2020.
A man has been arrested by authorities in New York, USA. He is accused of threatening on social media to murder congressional Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Calif.), and calling for people to violently overthrow the government.
The man is a part-Time actor and filmmaker named Brendan Hunt, who sometimes goes by the alias “X-Ray Ultra,” according to a Justice Department statement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the assistance of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, arrested him in Queens on Tuesday.
The criminal complaint against Hunt says he is accused of threatening to murder a U.S. officer, which he did to obstruct, intimidate and interfere with them in the performance of their official duties.
FBI Assistant Director William Sweeney said that before and after the riots at the Capitol on the 6th, “Hunter’s online comments allegedly made direct calls for the assassination of members of Congress.”
Sweeney added, “For others in the district who still don’t get it, if you are considering going down a similar path and ‘taking up arms’ as Mr. Hunter did, that path will only lead to jail time.”
Hunter made his first court appearance on Tuesday (19). The court ordered that he be held in custody pending trial.
The indictment alleges that between Dec. 6, 2020, and Jan. 12, 2021, Hunter made a series of online posts threatening or inciting others to murder members of Congress, including Democrats Pelosi and Schumer, as well as AOC.
The indictment also states that Hunter allegedly posted a video on Bitchute two days after the riots in Congress entitled “Kill Your Senators” and wrote in the summary line “Slaughter Them All.
In the video, Hunter allegedly said, “They’re going to follow us closely and they’re going to kill us, so we have to kill them first.”
According to the indictment, Hunter also said, “When all the senators and many of the House members return to the U.S. Capitol, we need to return there. And this time we have to show up with guns. We need to slaughter these … (expletive).”
“At this point, our government is basically a handful of traitors …… so all you need to do is take up arms and go to Washington DC, probably to the inauguration …… (expletive) communist Joe Biden‘s so-called Inauguration …… this is probably the best time to do this, grab your guns, go to DC and actually just spray these … (expletive).”
Hunter also called on President Trump to carry out “public executions” of AOC, Pelosi and Schumer, saying that if he doesn’t, then “citizens will (do).”
The indictment alleges that Hunter said, “Start the firing squads, sweep these communists away, and let’s take America back!”
Hunter will be indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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