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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 Cleavers 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 Cleavers way next. Hubert is also accused of leaving another message the next day saying there should be a noose around the legislators neck.
Hubert is also charged with threatening to assault and murder Jewish lawmaker Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in a 2019 call to Cohens office during which he reportedly told one of the legislators staff members that he has a noose with the congressmans 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 Cohens 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.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/missouri-man-custody-post-insurrection-163000130.html
Harker
(14,176 posts)He's consistent.
hatrack
(59,632 posts)Marionville is a city in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,225 at the 2010 census.
Marionville is known for its large population of white squirrels.
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On April 21, 2014, the Marionville mayor, Dan Clevenger, resigned. He resigned over anti-Semitic remarks he made in the wake of the arrest of resident Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. for committing a shooting at a Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas. A 41 vote by aldermen to begin the impeachment process also prompted Clevenger's decision to resign.[11][12]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionville,_Missouri
Ah, those small-town values, held so dear by Real Americans!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Side note: I saw Emmanuel Cleaver mowing his yard one day years ago. He was already my Congressperson.
I like him very much.
Demovictory9
(32,549 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Not something I'd wish on anyone, but it appears Mr. Hubert has freely chosen that plan. But since he's gotten away with his terrorist ways for months, if not years, he may have thought he was home free and would never be brought to answer for his crimes.