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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 06:13 PM Mar 2021

Missouri Man in Custody After Post-Insurrection Lynching Threat Against Black Lawmaker

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 Cleaver’s 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 Cleaver’s way next. Hubert is also accused of leaving another message the next day saying there should be a noose around the legislator’s neck.

Hubert is also charged with threatening to assault and murder Jewish lawmaker Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in a 2019 call to Cohen’s office during which he reportedly told one of the legislator’s staff members that “he has a noose with the congressman’s 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 Cohen’s 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

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Missouri Man in Custody After Post-Insurrection Lynching Threat Against Black Lawmaker (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
An equal opportunity hatemonger. Harker Mar 2021 #1
Marionville, MO . . . . hatrack Mar 2021 #2
He has probably been threatening Bro. Cleaver for years. Cracklin Charlie Mar 2021 #3
Criticism of trump warrants death?? Trump is their God Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #4
Going to prison at 63 gratuitous Mar 2021 #5

hatrack

(59,592 posts)
2. Marionville, MO . . . .
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 06:17 PM
Mar 2021

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 4–1 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)
3. He has probably been threatening Bro. Cleaver for years.
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 06:38 PM
Mar 2021

Side note: I saw Emmanuel Cleaver mowing his yard one day years ago. He was already my Congressperson.

I like him very much.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Going to prison at 63
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 06:54 PM
Mar 2021

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.

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