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Charges: Man threatened to cut off U.S. Rep. Jim McDermotts tongue
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/charges-man-threatened-to-cut-off-jim-mcdermotts-tongue/
Originally published April 28, 2016 at 5:12 pm Updated April 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm
A man who allegedly threatened to cut out U.S. Rep. Jim McDermotts tongue because he felt his own voice was being silenced is charged with intimidation and telephone harassment.
A man who allegedly threatened to cut out the tongue of U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott rattling the congressman so badly he brought a shovel to his office for protection has been charged with intimidating a public servant and telephone harassment.
Jasper K. Bell, 27, is being held on $200,000 bail after prosecutors allege he showed up at McDermotts Seattle office Friday and banged on the locked doors hard enough to shake furniture.
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During one call, he threatened to cut out the congressmans tongue because his own voice had been silenced, prosecutors allege. In another, he threatened to track down McDermott after the congressmans retirement, according to the charges.
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Bell, who was arrested around 8 oclock that evening, reportedly told police that he made the threats to McDermott in an attempt to get the representative to support Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton, prosecutors said..............
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More violence from a Sanders supporter prior to the violence in NV by Sanders fans! (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2016
OP
This sounds like a mental illness problem that was there regardless of who this man
JimDandy
May 2016
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JimDandy
(7,318 posts)1. This sounds like a mental illness problem that was there regardless of who this man
chose to support for president. Hope they get him help through the court system.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)2. I do hope he gets evaluated.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)3. "he brought a shovel to his office for protection"!
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. A threat is not violence. Banging on a door is not violence. A man hitting a woman in a bar is
violence. When will Hillary condemn it?
The man, though perhaps ill, is charged with harassment and intimidation--words--not any violent act. Hillary's supporter was charged with a violent crime.
The bullshit never ends here.