- FBI agents have arrested a man suspected of posting online messages threatening the life of a California transit cop who was involved in a controversial shooting earlier this year.
- Jeffrey Weaver, 47, of Roanoke, Virginia, is suspected of posting anonymous comments to the popular 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 on video last January shooting a 22-year-old man in the back at point-blank range while the youth was lying on the ground.
- According to an FBI affidavit (.pdf), Weaver allegedly posted on January 5 and January 7 under the name “FuckThePigs.” “Fuck the pigs and if I find out who the pig is then I will kill the pig who killed him,” one of the messages read.
- After another reader posted Mehserle’s home address at InfoWars, the original poster added a second message noting Meherle’s address and saying “now 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’t a threat its a fucking promise … because justice will be served death wish charles bronson vigilante style. .
