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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonte Jamar Sims, Man Who Threatened Obama Through Twitter, Gets Sentenced
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A North Carolina man is headed to prison for threatening President Barack Obama through Twitter during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
A federal judge sentenced Donte Jamar Sims on Wednesday to six months after he pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of the president.
Sims admitted using his Twitter account, (at)DestroyLeague_D, to post five threats in advance of Obama's September arrival to speak in Charlotte, including "Plotting president Obama's Murder," "Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening!" and "The Secret Service is gonna be defenseless once I aim the Assault Rifle at Barack's Forehead."
Authorities say the 22-year-old from Charlotte told them he was high on marijuana when he made the threats. He later wrote an apology to Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/donte-jamar-sims-obama-threat_n_3355056.html
A federal judge sentenced Donte Jamar Sims on Wednesday to six months after he pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of the president.
Sims admitted using his Twitter account, (at)DestroyLeague_D, to post five threats in advance of Obama's September arrival to speak in Charlotte, including "Plotting president Obama's Murder," "Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening!" and "The Secret Service is gonna be defenseless once I aim the Assault Rifle at Barack's Forehead."
Authorities say the 22-year-old from Charlotte told them he was high on marijuana when he made the threats. He later wrote an apology to Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/donte-jamar-sims-obama-threat_n_3355056.html
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Donte Jamar Sims, Man Who Threatened Obama Through Twitter, Gets Sentenced (Original Post)
Tx4obama
May 2013
OP
No, it only causes you to rape white women and play jazz music really really fast.
DefenseLawyer
May 2013
#4
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)1. I'm new here, but...marijuana does this to people?
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)4. No, it only causes you to rape white women and play jazz music really really fast.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)5. Ah yes. It's how I learned scales.
FASTER!!
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Skittles
(153,113 posts)7. STOP IT DEFENSELAWYER
Mariana
(14,854 posts)12. Are you taking this criminal's lame-ass excuse
as gospel?
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)14. well...
If he wanted to make it even half-way plausible, he could have said "crack"
Still don't matter.
I don't see the schmuck giving aspirin a bad name.
LeftInTX
(25,135 posts)2. Good!!
I'm surprised this even made it to court!
pscot
(21,024 posts)15. If he was a white tea bagger
it probably would not have.
LeftInTX
(25,135 posts)16. Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!
I pictured a white RW racist NJ!!
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
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siligut
(12,272 posts)6. Good, keep it up and make it known
Threats against the president are illegal and will be prosecuted.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)8. But, but, but...Obama...he's...
he's a NEGRO!
siligut
(12,272 posts)9. So is Donte Jamar Sims, it seems
I thought those people stuck together.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)10. Nice italics, Hitler.
Jamar maybe was a little too used to white prezzies. Forgot himself.
siligut
(12,272 posts)11. Maybe he has Stockholm syndrome living in NC
And Obama got too uppity.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)13. We do what we can to survive.
But like you say. Don't mess with the occupants of 1600 P, no matter what flavor or sex they turn out to be.