Feds arrest Michigan man who threatened to kill Jewish elected officials in the state

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The FBI coordinated with local authorities in mid-February to arrest a heavily armed man who had threatened to kill all Jewish elected officials in Michigan on social media, according to a recently unsealed criminal case.

Jack Eugene Carpenter III, a resident of Tipton, Michigan, had tweeted on Feb. 17 that he was “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,” according to the FBI’s affidavit.

Carpenter has been charged with transmitting an interstate threat, for which he could receive up to five years in federal prison, and is being held without bail in a federal court in Detroit, according to local reports. He was in Texas when he made the tweets, the FBI said.

The man appears to have been a former employee of the University of Michigan. On a Twitter account the FBI linked to Carpenter, he claimed to be a former employee of the University of Michigan who “was fired for refusing to take experimental medication,” apparently referring to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Carpenter also made references to several prominent right-wing conspiracy theories, including the █████ movement and the belief that President Joe Biden was not lawfully elected.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel says she was among those targeted in threat to kill Jewish members of state government​

 

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This is the problem with the Conservisphere. The "mainstream" outlets like Fox and many talk radio shows are bad enough, but there's a dark underbelly found in blogs, pods and some well known shows (Alex Jones for example).