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Subject: FBI Arrests Man for Online Threat Against Indicted BART Cop
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:47:30 -0500
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FBI agents have arrested a man suspected of posting online messages threate=
ning the life of a California transit cop who was involved in a controversi=
al shooting earlier this year.
Jeffrey Weaver, 47, of Roanoke, Virginia, is suspected of posting anonymous=
comments to the popular InfoWars.com<
http://www.infowars.com/> site run by=
radio show host and free-speech advocate Alex Jones. Those comments, which=
were quickly deleted by moderators, threatened to kill Johannes Mehserle, =
a former police officer for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), who was caught o=
n video<
http://www.ktvu.com/video/18409133/index.html> last January shootin=
g a 22-year-old man in the back at point-blank range while the youth was ly=
ing on the ground.
That shooting =97 which occurred on the platform of an Oakland, California =
BART station in front of numerous train passengers =97 received widespread =
publicity and prompted violent protests and calls for Mehserle=92s arrest o=
n murder charges. Mehserle was arrested in Nevada on January 14th, where he=
said he went after receiving death threats.<
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/=
01/14/BART.shooting.arrest/index.html>
According to an FBI affidavit<
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatleve=
l/2009/06/oakland_cop_threat.pdf> (.pdf), Weaver allegedly posted on Januar=
y 5 and January 7 under the name =93FuckThePigs.=94 =93Fuck the pigs and if=
I find out who the pig is then I will kill the pig who killed him,=94 one =
of the messages read.
After another reader posted Mehserle=92s home address at InfoWars, the orig=
inal poster added a second message noting Meherle=92s address and saying =
=93now that I know who he is and where he is its only a matter of time and =
his punishment will be to watch his bitch and his baby get wasted in front =
of him . . . this isn=92t a threat its a fucking promise . . . because just=
ice will be served death wish charles bronson vigilante style. . . .=94
On January 10, the same user posted a third message to InfoWars implying th=
at he might kill another police officer in Martinsville, Virginia, who had =
killed a 17-year-old boy with a Taser<
http://www.news-record.com/content/20=
09/01/09/article/martinsville_teen_dies_after_being_tasered_by_officer>. In=
that message, the user claimed he owned a gun.
All I got to say is that I=92m within 100 miles of where this incident ha=
ppened at and reading this makes my blood boil. Maybe I should drive to Mar=
tinsville with my 9mm Glock and some teflon coated armor piercing Black Rhi=
no hollow pointed rounds and do the world a favor by ridding the world of t=
his piece of shit pig . . .
Mehserle=92s father contacted the FBI on January 8 saying he=92d found the =
threats against his son online. FBI agents subpoenaed Jones, who runs InfoW=
ars, to obtain IP addresses from which the messages were posted. They match=
ed three addresses to a Verizon account owned by Weaver.
Three years earlier Weaver, who was convicted in 1986 for selling or furnis=
hing marijuana, had also threatened to massacre employees of Cox Communicat=
ions after the company cut off his cable TV, according to the FBI. When a C=
ox representative came to the house Weaver shared with his mother, Weaver s=
aid he was so mad he planned to go to the Cox office with his 9mm and kill =
everyone. The only reason he didn=92t, the affidavit says, was because his =
mother stopped him.
FBI agents raided Weaver=92s house two weeks ago, and found a =93green leaf=
y substance=94<
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/06/weaver=
_search_return.pdf> (.pdf) and =93a glass smoking device,=94 but no gun.
According to a complaint filed by agents, Weaver admitted to them during th=
e raid that he posted the comments to InfoWars but said he was angry when h=
e made the statements and did not intend to harm anyone. He was arrested an=
d is being held without bond for threatening harm to someone through inters=
tate communication.
Jones<
http://freespeech.vo.llnwd.net/o25/pub/bio/> told Threat Level that h=
e had instructed one of his moderators to remove the threatening messages p=
osted at InfoWars, because of their incendiary nature, a week before the FB=
I contacted him.
=93I don=92t defend the terrible things the individual posted on my site,=
=94 Jones said. =93I can see where these types of incendiary things get hyp=
ed up because of the outrageous conduct of the police. But, regardless, the=
re=92s no excuse to go after peoples=92 families with death threats. This i=
sn=92t a joke when you go on a big website and post threats. Then they bitc=
h and complain when the police come to their door. The ones who really make=
the bad threats are the idiots who do it from their real computer.=94
Jones is angry that authorities focused on his site when threats against th=
e San Francisco cop were posted at YouTube and elsewhere. He said it was th=
e fourth subpoena he=92s received and he=92s considering eliminating the co=
mments section from his site as a result.
=93That=92s not me happily handing over peoples=92 IP addresses,=94 Jones s=
aid. =93This is not an enjoyable thing.=94
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<P>Three years earlier Weaver, who was convicted in 1986 for selling or=20
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