DOJ vows to prosecute anti-ICE protester who vowed to kill agent's 'whole family'
The DOJ plans to prosecute an anti-ICE protester who threatened an officer's family during a demonstration. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche emphasized the seriousness of the threats made, labeling them as a federal crime. The protest was part of ongoing unrest regarding conditions at an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
- ▪The protester was recorded threatening to kill an ICE officer's family.
- ▪Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that such threats are a federal crime.
- ▪Protests have intensified outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, with detainees going on hunger strikes.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that federal agents will arrest an anti-ICE protester who shouted at an officer that he and his family would be “all dead.” The man was caught on video shouting at a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at an officer who was manning a riot line confronting demonstrators. “I’ll kill your whole [expletive] family,” the man shouted in an expletive-laden tirade. “Your children, your wife, all dead.” “I have your face,” he continued. “You’re dead. Dead. Mr. Blanche told Fox News that deserved punishment.
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