Adam Bies was arrested on Monday, August 14, 2022 for threatening to kill FBI agents. Bies was furious when investigators raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Adam Bies attacked the FBI and police in a social media post, writing:
“My only goal is to kill as many of them as possible before I die…”
According to another post:
“You deserve to die if you work for the FBI.”
Adam Bies, 46, of Mercer, Pennsylvania, was charged with influencing, obstructing or retaliating against a federal law enforcement officer. If convicted, he faces at least ten years in prison. The FBI’s domestic terrorism watchdog flagged posts from his “BlankFocus” account, according to a criminal complaint filed in his case.
One of his active posts reads:
“All the idiots who work for the FBI, from the director to their goddamn toilet cleaner, should be killed. You declared war on us, and now things are exploding.”
Adam Bies will be raving about the need for masks and vaccines against the coronavirus.
Adam Bies compared the FBI to the Nazi SS and the Soviet-era KGB. He expressed his idea on Gab, a microblogging and social networking site popular with far-right extremists. His professional website, as a self-described photographer, highlights his displeasure with the forces that are changing the American economy. Gab supports QAnon’s conspiracy theories and doesn’t manage its documentation too strictly. Some opponents have spoken out against the platform, arguing that it can incite violence.
According to arrest documents, Gab provided federal officials with information about Adam Bies’ private conversations and posting history in response to an urgent disclosure request. The federal government is concerned about a rise in right-wing violence, especially in Pennsylvania. According to reports, about 70 extremist organizations took part in the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Officials described Bies’ texts as “unprecedented”, pointing out the level of violence and his calls for “civil war” or “armed rebellion”. In light of threats to law enforcement on social media, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security announced a joint press conference last week. It was a response to the “dirty bomb” planted outside the FBI office in Washington. A Pennsylvania man named Ricky Shiffer, 42, attempted to break into an FBI facility in Cincinnati with a nail gun and an AR-15-like weapon in one such incident. However, he was killed after a confrontation with officials.
Adam Bies wrote a few hours after Shiffer’s death:
“I knew I was going to die at the hands of these police scum. My only goal was to kill as many of them as I could before I died.”
He continued:
“I refuse to spend a second of my life in their captivity.”
According to the official press release, the prosecutor in this case will be Assistant United States Attorney Jeffrey Bengel. Meanwhile, the case is being investigated by the FBI’s Pittsburgh Office, the Northern Violent Crime Task Force, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Pennsylvania State Attorney’s Office.
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn