Idaho officers getting death threats after arresting 31 Patriot Front white nationalists near Pride

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Idaho police said they've received death threats since arresting 31 men affiliated with white nationalist group Patriot Front near an annual LGBTQ+ event over the weekend.

Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White spoke to reporters Monday, saying that his department has fielded about 149 calls in the aftermath of the arrests. He said about 50 percent of the calls have been praise from the community, who offer their names and express pride in the department.

"And the other 50 percent — who are completely anonymous, who want nothing more than to scream and yell at us and use some really choice words — offer death threats against myself and other members of the police department merely for doing our jobs," White said. "Those people obviously remain anonymous."

Officers have also received threats of doxxing, a practice in which someone publishes personal information such as phone numbers or addresses online, White said. The majority of the threats being made appear to be from outside the Coeur d’Alene community, according to the chief.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/idaho-officers-getting-death-threats-after-arresting-31-patriot-front-white-nationalists-near-pride-event/ar-AAYpWLK

Obviously, law and order conservatives.

[Brainfodder]

1. The irony.

Death threats should be easy to trace since they are idiots?

[drray23]

2. how stupid do you have to be to threaten police officers ?

Intimidating school board members or voting officials is bad and they cant defend themselves easily., trying it on a police officer may not end well.

[ShazzieB]

22. Right?

My first thought when I read this: "Tell me you're really, really stupid, without telling me you're really, really stupid!"

[madaboutharry]

3. This is what has happened to the country.

Some people have lost their minds.

[Archae]

4. The police spoiled those boys' fun, sooo...

They are throwing tantrums.

[Takket]

5. can we, as a society, do something about death threats?

EVERYONE gets death threats now for EVERYTHING. So sick of this crap. Congress needs to come up with some ideas to crack down on this crap.

[SoonerPride]

14. Only if you are a right wing SCOTUS member.

Then they care.

Everyone else gets thoughts and prayers.

[NullTuples]

15. Nah, Addison "Mitch" McConnell said the SCOTUS protection bill won't get past his desk.

His big, "we must pass a bill by sundown" was just for the new reports that day.

[AntiFascist]

6. I would hope the FBI is on this n/t

[BlueIdaho]

7. I hope our cops remember who was on their side.

It sure as hell ain’t the rabid right.

[bahboo]

10. exactly...

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I thought death threats against the police were an automatic...

Go Directly To Jail card.

Guess not whe it comes from the right.

[Turbineguy]

9. Real patriots make death threats.

Real patriots want a corrupt idiot for president.

[Marcuse]

11. Capitol cops say, "Welcome to our world".

[Traildogbob]

12. Backing the Blue.

More like backstabbing when they get out of line.

[ancianita]

13. Don't verbal threats of death constitute assault?

[ZonkerHarris]

16. They don't have caller ID in Idaho?

[ecstatic]

17. I hope cops are taking notes about who they really should be afraid of

And it's not unarmed black folks with expired tags. Just look at the J6 footage. Magats don't give a f*ck about cops. Even cops who feel a kinship with those militant MAGA-like groups should feel alarmed right now. They are not your buddies.

[IronLionZion]

18. Good thing it's not terrorism

or anything a dangerous and violent criminal organization would do.

This might be a good time for Idaho to pass red flag laws and take guns away from dangerous people who make death threats on the blue. Since blue lives matter. They are really proving who backs the blue.

[Initech]

24. Patriot Front should be classified as a terrorist group after this!

Hey FBI, do it now before it's too late!

[Martin68]

19. They are finally reaching too far. They actually can't comprehend that they will end up in jail.

They believe their own bullshit.

[dflprincess]

20. I don't know what the law is in Idaho

but making terroristic threats is a crime in Minnesota.

[dchill]

21. Just wondering how much space there is...

...in the spectrum to the right of the average Idaho cop.

[Initech]

23. Fuck these assholes to the highest of hells.

They stopped a potentially serious terrorist attack. They should be commended. But really, fuck these terrorist assholes. I cannot emphasize that enough.

[hlthe2b]

25. Team up with FBI to form a domestic terrorism task force and track every damned one of those

threats. But Feds need to do something to make certain any of these a'holes imprisoned on charges related to domestic terrorism are not put in the jail/prison general population. Let them serve their terms in isolation.