Multiple Arrests Follow Threats of Violence Against Christians
The FBI arrested a man accused of sharing plans to attack Christian conservatives on social media.
25-year-old Ann Arbor, Michigan, resident Isaac Sissel has also been connected to several Reddit accounts with usernames such as “ShootUpTrumpRally,” “PlanningToShootTrump” and “WillShootTrumpSoon,” MLive reported.
Sissel told authorities he believed Trump was a threat and that left-wing groups were not violent enough, according to court documents.
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According to court records, the FBI National Threat Operations Center in West Virginia received an anonymous online threatening submission which read, in part, “I shall carry out an attack against conservative christan, (sic) filth in the event trump wins the election. I have a stolen ar15 and a target I refuse to name so I can continue to get away with my plans. Without a specific victim or ability to find the place I hid the gun, there’s not a thing the FBI can do until I complete the attack.”
The federal complaint stated that “Sissel said that he wouldn’t kill Trump, but if he knew someone was going to assassinate Trump that it was his duty to not intervene. Sissel said that he hated conservative Christians, who he enjoyed threatening.”
Court records indicate that Sissle had both a Washington and New York driver’s license.
Similarly, a man from Jackson, Michigan, was arrested and charged with making a “threatening interstate communication,” the FBI said. The man, Christopher Pierce, allegedly sent threatening emails to a political action committee.
Pierce allegedly wrote to the PAC: “I guarantee I can find each and every one of your [expletive] organizees. And we will turn you [expletive] inside out. . . . Now you better stop or I promise you this is badly for all of you [expletive] and we won’tinvolve [sic] the law.”
In a second communication to the PAC, Pierce allegedly said, “You will shut down your entire organization or it will be shut down for you. 90% of the members of [named organization]… are trained killers. . . . It paints targets on your [sic] backs and the backs of your families. Your call centers have been located. Don’t make these boys and girls go [sic] to work.”
This article originally appeared on American Faith, and is reposted with permission.
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