According to WHDH 7 News Boston (August 9, 2018) A Cambridge man has been charged in an indictment unsealed Thursday with one count of use of interstate and foreign commerce to transmit a threat to injure another person for offering $500 cash for anyone who kills an ICE Agent.
Prior to the alarming tweet, Brandon J Ziobrowski (Age: 33) responded to a tweet from the ICE Field Office that asserted that agents put their “lives on the line to arrest criminal aliens,” by saying, “Thank you ICE for putting your lives on the line and hopefully dying I guess so there’s less of you.” Ziobrowski is also accused of sending other threatening tweets, including his desire to “slit” U.S. Sen. John McCain’s throat and claiming that “Guns should only be legal for shooting the police like the second amendment intended.”
Officials noted that Ziobrowski’s “communist, socialist and anarchist” tweets grew more violent and threatening as time passed. At one point, Lelling said the suspect tweeted “shooting a cop should get you a medal.”
Ziobrowski does not have a criminal background and investigators said they are not aware of anyone who may have reached out regarding the murder-for-hire tweet. His Twitter account was suspended after he was flagged by an analyst at the Department of Homeland Security.
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Regardless of how you may feel about the nation's current immigration policies, and regardless of how you may feel about the work being done by ICE, making threats to murder or hire others to murder ICE Agents is just plain wrong. It is a crime!
No doubt, Mr. Ziobrowski will claim that he posted the above comment in jest, or that he was making a political point, but that does not matter. Solicitation to murder is still solicitation to murder!
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