'I'm going to come kill the president': NC man charged with threatening Biden

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Charlotte Observer

A Gaston County man with a long history of violence is charged with threatening to kill President Joe Biden.

According to newly unsealed documents in the case, David Kyle Reeves, 27, of Gastonia, made a series of angry and erratic phone calls to the White House switchboard between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1 in which he threatened to kill the president and other federal officials. He repeated the threats in phone conversations with the Secret Service in which he dared agents to try and stop him, documents show.

“I’m going to come kill the president, I’m going to kill the Secret Service because I own this whole planet,” Reeves said in a phone call to a Secret Service special agent, according to an affidavit.

In subsequent phone calls, according to the affidavit, Reeves taunted the agents, saying his threats were protected under free speech, and that he would continue to make them.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-going-come-kill-president-164923442.html

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Threats were protected under free speech. I wonder who he got that idea from?

[magicarpet]

1. Sounds like he might need mental health issues attended to..

[ArizonaLib]

2. Free speech is not the same as dangerous dumbass

I do have sympathy and empathy for those struggling with menatl health, but I also believe in not inciting those incapable of regulating dangerous notions.

No thanks to the Reagan administtation for clearing out the mental institutions, making homelessness among the mentally ill common site.

[thucythucy]

7. Those mental institutions were generally horrible places

where the most hideous abuse was rife.

The plan under Ford and Carter was to replace them with community mental health centers and group homes that were not only more humane, and actually worked towards independence and dignity, but also cost fewer tax payer dollars.

What Reagan did was empty the institutions AND defund all the community based programs, leaving homelessness and prison the only options for so many.

A huge percentage of our prison population are people with significant mental illness.

It disgusts me that Reagan is seen as a great president by so many, when in fact his administration was the beginning of this nation's long decline into the current state of dysfunction.

[ArizonaLib]

15. Thanks! I can't agree with you more about Reagan

He ruined many things

[FM123]

22. Yep, he sure did!

[Aussie105]

16. Yes, horrible places.

And often staffed by people with their own set of problems. More so than usual, couldn't get or hold down a similar job in more upmarket facilities.
Same for old folks nursing homes.

I was a teacher, had a female student who dropped some serious hints she was interested in being 'Mrs Lash' and would I like to be a customer?
(No, I didn't take the offer up. Lips sealed, no response from me.)

Met her again 2 years later, just wandered in, same 'offer'. Loose screw still loose.

Said he was working in a nursing home. Figures!

[Turin_C3PO]

23. I've worked in several nursing homes.

Vast majority of staff are kind and dedicated to their job. The main issue is atrociously low levels of staffing. Even at better facilities, there’s rarely enough help.

[OldBaldy1701E]

20. You nailed it! (n/t)

[DBoon]

3. death threats are protected free speech?

Now where would he ever get that idea...

[Progressive Jones]

4. Inbreeding has done a lot of damage to the Red Region. nt

[leftofthestorm]

9. :)

[CRK7376]

5. Of course it would be some lunatic from my state.....

But hey, federal charges and long sentence behind bars would make my state safer with this nutbag behind bars......

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. I hear ya

Every time I read about one of these things and they mention the perp is from the south, I start quietly chanting under my breath: 'Please don't be from NC, Please don't be from NC!'

[CRK7376]

26. AMEN Brother Enterprise

[Hekate]

6. That's just deranged. The guy seriously sounds like he needs a supervised course of medication...

...starting when he gets locked up as a danger to himself and others.

[leftofthestorm]

8. Yeah

Poor guy is off his meds.

[jmowreader]

10. Mr. Reeves seems not to realize...

...that his murder would be the "perfect crime." The cops are not going to waste their time trying to figure out which of the 10,000 people in town this man has threatened since he decided to embark on his career as an asshole finally decided he'd had enough of David Reeves' shit.

[Vivienne235729]

11. How can people truly just not know that freedom of speech is not absolute?

It boggles my mind. I learned this is school. I may not remember the case but I sure remember that you can’t go around and scream fire in a theater. There are limits. With rights comes responsibility. How do people not know this?

[Judi Lynn]

12. He looks as if he has a hard time figgerin' things out.

David Kyle Reeves

Also from the original post:

In one of the calls, according to the affidavit, Reeves appeared to threaten to kill members of Congress. In another, he told the Secret Service “to come pick him up, and take him to the White House so he can punch the President in the face, sit in his chair, and stay there until he dies.”

[PatrickforO]

14. And a fine specimen of Republican manhood he is!

Seriously, though, look at his eyes. He needs help, but in a locked facility. He can't be out on the streets.

[PatrickforO]

13. Okey dokey, then! I have a friend in the Secret Service (retired), who used to work in

the WH detail, and he said when someone came up talking like that, there were two possible stops - a cell or a mental health facility.

[Aussie105]

17. Or a headshot if he actually tries something.

Secret Service guys don't mess about.

[PatrickforO]

24. Indeed. I was kind of dismayed to hear that Trump's Secret Service detail

is made up of loyalists. I don't know that, and like to think the Secret Service is above reproach, but Trump has proven no one really is. Our institutions held this time, but it was way, way too close.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. hem, in front of the secret service . threats , free speach. hmmmm?

[Vinca]

19. On the plus side, at least he acknowledged Biden is president. LOL.

I think this one is certifiable whether he's in the cult or not.

[Irish_Dem]

25. If I owned the whole planet, I would have other plans.