'Hang them all': January 6th committee members target of violent rhetoric on RW social media

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'Hang them all': January 6th committee members target of violent rhetoric on right-wing social...
Calls for violence against members of the January 6th committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found.
10:33 AM · Jun 22, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/tech/online-threats-jan-6-committee/index.html

(CNN Business)Calls for violence against members of the January 6 committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found.

Users on these platforms are openly calling for the execution of committee members, with Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney appearing to be a specific target. Calls for former Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged that were chanted throughout Washington DC on January 6 continue to be echoed online.

Determining what is just rhetoric and what might be an active threat is a challenge for law enforcement.

John Cohen, the former Department of Homeland Security Counterterrorism Coordinator and now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, told CNN that authorities cannot treat social media posts with concerning language as simply hyperbole.

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[iemanja]

1. These people need to be arrested

What complete trash they are.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Modern-day Brownshirts

But with Red Hats. Coming to a town near you.

[malaise]

5. Terrorists not trasg

they are terrorists.

[Novara]

2. Remember when death threats elicited a strong response from law enforcement?

Evidently death threats have been normalized. Ho hum, nothing to see here.

[TheRealNorth]

4. IOKIYAR

If you are a cop that kills a black man by crushing his neck with your knee, you still get round the clock protection by multiple officers.

[SheltieLover]

6. These people need to be put in steel cages & put on trial!

Ridiculous!

[onecaliberal]

7. Where is the worthless FBI? What the fuck are they doing?