Suspected 'Cop Killer' Bank Robber Had Threatened President
Source: ABC NEWS
The man suspected in a spree of bank robberies and the killing of a police officer in Tupelo, Miss., was arrested in 2010 for allegedly threatening to kill President Obama and his predecessors, a federal law enforcement official told ABC News.
Authorities today identified the suspect, who was killed Saturday in a shootout with police outside a Phoenix, Ariz., bank, as Mario Edward Garnett, 40.
An indictment said that in August 2010 Garnett allegedly posted a message to the White House website, saying among other things: "if you order a strike on Iran, I'm going to come up there and blow your brains out on national TV. You scheming hypocrite ... Netanyahu is a dead man. Damn Israel."
Six days later, he allegedly posted another message, saying: "I'm going to settle some scores on behalf of Israel and America's victims on behalf of those they continue to oppress. I'll kill president and farmer alike. You are either worth something or you are chaff."
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