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'Heavily Armed' Man Arrested After Threat To Kill Jewish Officials In Michigan
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dana-nessel-michigan-threatened_n_6400be92e4b0a96d9cd21257Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday she’d been targeted by a “heavily armed” individual whom the FBI arrested in February for allegedly threatening to kill Jewish members of the Michigan government.
A recently unsealed criminal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan last month, identified Tipton, Michigan, resident Jack Eugene Carpenter III as the author of the violent threats, issued via Twitter.
“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 they don’t leave, or confess,” he tweeted on Feb. 17, according to the complaint.
“Because I can Legally do that, right?”
Carpenter’s mother told Michigan State Police her son was in Texas at the time and had recently asked her for money to travel back to Michigan. When she refused, she said he became angry and pledged to “sell some [silver]” to raise the necessary funds instead.
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I'm so sick of these sick fucks threatening my state officials. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I think it's gotten worse because they're women.
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