Missouri Man in Custody After Post-Insurrection Lynching Threat Against Black Lawmaker [View all]

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A 63-year-old man from Missouri is finally in FBI custody after continuing a years-long tradition of threatening legislators with lynching, as well as targeting them with racist and homophobic slurs.

Kenneth Hubert of Marionville, Missouri, is charged with threatening to assault and murder Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Black lawmaker from the state. According to a Washington Post report, Hubert called Cleaver’s office on Jan. 6 and left a voicemail in which he called him the n-word and said the violence happening at the Capitol would be coming Cleaver’s way next. Hubert is also accused of leaving another message the next day saying there should be a noose around the legislator’s neck.

Hubert is also charged with threatening to assault and murder Jewish lawmaker Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in a 2019 call to Cohen’s office during which he reportedly told one of the legislator’s staff members that “he has a noose with the congressman’s name on it” and planned to “put a noose around his neck and drag him behind his pickup truck.”

Hubert has pleaded not guilty to the charges, though he apparently admitted to FBI investigators in 2019 that he made the vile call to Cohen’s office because he was upset that the Democrat had criticized Trump and “wanted to respond in kind.” Prosecutors also say that Hubert admitted in January to using a slur against Cleaver and making the threatening reference to a noose.

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