Bragg, DA probing Trump, received death threat letter with white powder

[ShazzieB]

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Source: NBC News

The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News.

The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, "ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained a small amount of white powder.

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It was the latest in what a senior law enforcement source described as "several hundred threats" aimed at Bragg and his office in recent weeks. A couple dozen of the messages were considered to be directly threatening serious harm to Bragg, the source said.

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In a statement, the DA's office said the letter “was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/da-bragg-investigating-trump-received-threatening-letter-white-powder-rcna76591

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[calimary]

1. This is getting ickier and ickier.

Orangeman is really amping things up. Toward what end?

[Meadowoak]

2. ALVIN:. I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!1!!1!!!!

Betcha a MAGAt wrote that.

[orleans]

3. baby powder? powdered sugar? foot powder? bug/rodent poison? nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. As an advocate of robust hate speech laws let it be said...a country with none gets this.

The myth of hate speech laws being somehow anti free speech…it’s all come home to roost

[jvill]

5. Wut?

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[ShazzieB]

14. I heartily agree!

[Xandric]

6. Trump wants to derail his investigations

And will attempt a coup if he goes to jail.

[ShazzieB]

8. Yes, he's trying to derail all right,

All his life, he's relied on intimidation and bullying to get his way with people. It has worked for him more often than not, but he's about to find out that those are the wrong tactics to use on a DA who's getting ready to prosecute his ugly orange ass!

[orangecrush]

9. Welcome to DU

And good luck with that.

[Martin68]

7. Big mistake! You don't threaten a DA! Unless you want to piss them of and encourage them to

drill down even deeper and harder.

[purr-rat beauty]

10. The asshole has literally....

threatened Death and Destruction

arrest him already, we can handle his riffraff

[ificandream]

11. Donald apparently hasn't heard ...

... that what you say can be used against you.

[louis-t]

12. Orange menace is 100% responsible for this.

It's only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt.

[Novara]

13. I can't remember the last time someone was prosecuted for making death threats to public officials.

Everybody and their mother makes death threats these days and no one gets prosecuted for it. Everybody shrugs and looks for the next shiny object.

Death threats are not protected by the First Amendment. Making death threats is a felony. I understand it would be a real drain on resources to prosecute motherfuckers who make death threats - especially now that they're so commonplace - but this is one big reason they ARE so commonplace. No one is ever punished.

Making a death threat to a public official carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.Go after these motherfuckers.

[ShazzieB]

15. Unfortunately, I think we as a society have become desensitized to this.

Not all of us as individuals, of course, but society in general. It's a slippery slope, and it just keeps getting slipperier.

[Yonnie3]

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