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riversedge

(70,977 posts)
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 04:13 AM Oct 2023

Alabama man charged with threatening Fulton County DA Fani Willis over Trump election case

Source: abc news





The man left voicemail messages threatening Willis with violence.

By Aaron Katersky October 30, 2023, 4:05 PM
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Arthur Ray Hanson was charged with transmitting interstate threats to injure Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, who controls the jail where Trump was fingerprinted and photographed after he was indicted in August on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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Hanson, 59, called the Fulton County customer service line twice in August and left two voicemail messages threatening violence against Willis and Labat, according to court records.

"Watch it when you're going to the car at night, when you're going into your house, watch everywhere that you're going," court records quoted Hanson as saying in the message left for Willis.

"I would be very afraid if I were you because you can't be around people all the time that are going to protect you; there's going to be moments when you're going to be vulnerable," the message said, according to court records. "When you charge Trump on that fourth indictment, anytime you're alone, be looking over your shoulder."....................

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-man-charged-threatening-fulton-county-da-fani/story?id=104489334

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ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
8. They've always been out there
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 10:44 AM
Oct 2023

We're hearing more about it now because now the justice system recognizes how these threats manifest into acts of terror. So they're taking it more seriously, resulting in arrests, which are public record--where we can see things that were not ignored, per se, but not understood enough to see what was going on.

Sort of like how nobody knew the extent of those on the autism spectrum until DSM-IV laid out the criteria for a diagnosis. The people on the spectrum were always out there, but now we had a way to identify them.

When you identify a problem, you start to realize how much of it's out there, where it had seemed invisible before.

Grins

(7,374 posts)
9. Only one party does this.
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 01:19 PM
Oct 2023

Been collecting stories like this. I’d be cautious in betting there are no D’s also doing stu-pud like this, but nowhere near the sheer tonnage of those on the Reich.

Novara

(5,945 posts)
2. Seems to me, these threats make the case for a total gag order absolutely necessary
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 07:58 AM
Oct 2023

Everybody involved has to shut up about these cases in public. The lawyers, P01135809, everyone. News media in the courtroom can report on proceedings and motions and such but no one involved can talk about the cases, At all.

The orange motherfucker keeps whipping up these crazies and one of them is going to resort to violence rather than threats. And he knows it. Stochastic terrorism is how he operates. Too bad he can't be charged with that. He'd have been in prison for it long ago.

ancianita

(36,528 posts)
7. No, he's from Huntsville, arraigned in Alabama federal court, the jurisdiction of his alleged crime.
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 10:40 AM
Oct 2023

Historic NY

(37,497 posts)
5. Where would he possibly get the idea...from El Lardo who degrades and reviles the DA.
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 09:53 AM
Oct 2023

he"s Donnie Hate Seed.

edbermac

(15,970 posts)
6. Typical Trump cultist
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 10:39 AM
Oct 2023

In a message to Sheriff Labat, authorities said Hanson made statements that included: “if you think you gonna take a mugshot of my President Donald Trump and it’s gonna be ok, you gonna find out that after you take that mugshot, some bad [expletive]’s probably gonna happen to you;” “if you take a mugshot of the President and you’re the reason it happened, some bad [expletive]’s gonna happen to you;” “I’m warning you right now before you [expletive] up your life and get hurt real bad;” “whether you got a [expletive] badge or not ain’t gonna help you none;” and “you gonna get [expletive]ed up you keep [expletive]ing with my President.”

https://abc3340.com/news/local/alabama-huntsville-arthur-ray-hanson-ii-indicted-by-a-federal-grand-jury-trump-case-fani-willis-fulton-county-voicemalis-threatened-violence

Demobrat

(9,161 posts)
14. We all know they're out there.
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 05:03 PM
Oct 2023

Trump knows they’re out there. The judges know they’re out there. What has to happen before he is seriously shut up?

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