FBI shoots and kills man suspected of threatening Joe Biden
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FBI agents have shot and killed a man suspected of threatening US President Joe Biden.
The agents were carrying out a search warrant in Provo, just south of Salt Lake City, Utah , when the shooting occurred at 6:15am local time, federal officials said.
The suspect had allegedly made threats against public figures including Mr Biden , Vice President Kamala Harris and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The suspect had been identified as Craig Deleeuw Robertson.
He had allegedly posted online on Monday that he had heard Mr Biden was coming to Utah and he was planning to dig out a camouflage suit and "clean the dust off the m24 sniper rifle".
The posts indicated he did appear to own a long-range sniper rifle and numerous other weapons, as well as camouflage gear known as a "ghillie suit", investigators said in court records.
Robertson also referenced a "presidential assassination" and made other threats against US Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James, court documents state.
"The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!" authorities say Robertson wrote in a September 2022Facebook post included in the filings.
No further details were immediately released about the shooting, which is under review by the FBI.
Mr Biden is in the middle of a trip to the Western United States. He spent Wednesday in New Mexico, where he spoke at a factory that will produce wind towers, and is scheduled to fly to Utah later in the day.
On Thursday, he is expected to visit a Veterans Affairs hospital to talk about the Pact Act, which expanded veterans benefits, and hold a re-election fundraiser.
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"If you come after me, I'm coming after you!" Nothing to see here folks, no infamous dots to connect ... /s
LOL, scratch another trump voter...
Police killings, justified or not are always amusing.
maybe he'll attain trumpster martyr status like ashli babbitt did after she caught a slug...
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Speaking of the former 'president' - I just saw that Jack Smith might be going after the millions that the former 'president'/traitor stole in his 'stop the steal' 'presidential' campaign'.
Possible RICO/racketeering charges in the looming Georgia indictments. The dumb turd still can't keep his mouth shut - saying that Willis 'slept with the head of or a gang member that she was prosecuting'
The dominoes are all finally falling on the steaming pile!
Some pretty interesting comments that show the compassion of some.
Of course if it was a person of color that got shot while threatening Trump many of these same people would probably be calling for defunding the FBI, promoting major cities midnight shopping sprees, starting a go fund me page, call for the repeal of the second amendment, call for a statue of the wanna be assailant to be erected all while waiting for Al Sharpton to arrive to see who he could fleece.
Jackson Pollock also struggled to connect the dots of mental illness.
He was also an alcoholic whose reckless drunk driving killed my once upon a time girlfriend's mother.
Go divert somewhere else.
Sorry to hear that.
He struggled with bipolar disorder and alcoholism for most of his life.
Do you find mental illness significantly different from other illness?
Do me a favor and be a wanker on some other seed.
LOL
Some day the FBI wont be there if Trump and MAGA get their way.
And yet they are called fascists by those ignorant of a central police state. One can be dangerous but not a fascist.
Do we have to have a biased FBI?
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
maga trash.
Mentally ill or not, we can only wonder if this guy would have thought about killing President Biden if he hadnt been egged on by Donald Trump.
Are you sure your mind hasn't already been made up?
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That's like saying the guy who tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh was egged on by Chuck Schumer.
Hey, how come the FBI didn't kill him ????
Ask one of those F level students you have 'taught'.
She gave an ultimatum and quit. She may be cutting lawns today.
Good on 'her', sounds like a cut above the regulars' capabilities.
You don't sound like a good teacher.
Ah, her friends miss her.
I was right, the student surpassed the teacher and taught him a thing or two.
If this had been a liberal threatening to kill trmp you better believe there wouldn't be all this "oh, he's mentally ill" shit. They would call him every dirty name they could think of and wouldn't be able to find enough synonyms for evil
I expect a liberal to do more than "threaten" Trump.
And yet it’s never happened. Your expectations could better be described as wishful thinking.
Try to focus on what the FBI just did.
They shot and killed an old 75-year-old obese man, who walked with a cane, for something he said.
They see the problem here just like they see the problems with Biden.
Do you actually think that is why they shot him?
It WAS the reason they were there in the first place......................but why they shot him, probably due to barricading himself in and shooting. That would do it...................
I think they have become an extreme left wing ideological organization that NEVER should have been at his front door in the first place.
he should have been wearing his kevlar magic underwear that day...
Another human being needlessly lost his life.
Needlessly? He not only threatened to murder but chose to point his firearm at an officer. Are you just mad because he is white?
You said they shot him for something he said. That is nonsense. They shot him because they wanted to preempt him shooting them first. He was pointing a gun at them.
he volunteered when he went head first down the maga rabbit hole...
Always defending the indefensible . . . typical.
That's just crazy talk!
The FBI did the world a favor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some folks here are amused by death, it’s a tribal thing.
neighbors say that once the FBI gained access thru his living room window, because he had barricaded his front door, there were too many gunshots to count. I guess if he had surrendered to the FBI he'd still be breathing. too bad...
another RWNJ bites the dust. I'm all broken up about it
We will likely never know how this really went down. Was it suicide by cop with then agents saving their own lives or an overreaction? My experience here in NoVa is when a federal cop is involved in a shooting, they circle the wagons very closely.
We learned that when a rogue cop murdered Babbitt
alt-headline - devin nunes sets up maga patriot for FBI execution in utah
An old man who walked with a cane and posed a risk to nobody.
owning a maga hat isn't immunity from prosecution for breaking the law. he pointed a gun at an agent after barricading himself in his home and refusing agents commands to surrender. too bad.
How do you know that?
Link please?
the FBI and a number of news outlets have reported it that way. look it up yourself.
I haven't seen any witness quoted except for law enforcement, you?
yeah. it's all over the local news here in utah. I'm about 10 miles away from maga's last stand. one of the neighbors shot cell phone video. the FBI had to enter thru his living room window. after the self described "maga trumper" was subdued by the FBI, they called an ambulance, carried him out to the sidewalk, and provided first aid waiting for the ambulance to arrive, and they then pronounced him DOA. he laid on the sidewalk covered by a sheet for about 2 hours while the FBI investigation continued. he got what he wanted, his 15 minutes...
not that difficult to acknowledge trump's truth social is the media site that snitched him out...
I haven’t seen the video that shows him pointing a weapon at the agents, do you have a link.
contact the FBI, maybe there's some body cam video...
So you didn’t see that either.