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CousinIT

(10,540 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 03:01 PM Oct 31

Trumpista Terrorist charged after allegedly threatening Harris campaigners with machete

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/machete-florida-trump-voter-intimidation-harris-rcna178075

An 18-year-old Donald Trump supporter was arrested and charged after police said he threatened Kamala Harris supporters with a machete outside a polling place in Florida on Tuesday.

The teen, Caleb James Williams, was part of a group of people who were at the Beaches Branch Library in Neptune Beach “to protest and antagonize the opposing political side,” Neptune Beach Police Chief Michael J. Key Jr. told reporters Tuesday night.

The group approached Harris supporters and, after an argument broke out, Williams “brandished a machete in an aggressive, threatening posture over his head,” Key said. “The group was there for no other reason but for ill intentions, to cause a disturbance.”

Williams has been charged with felony aggravated assault on a person 65 or older and misdemeanor exhibition of a dangerous weapon, The Associated Press reported, citing police records. The people he is accused of threatening are two unidentified women ages 71 and 54, police said. Williams is being held at the Duval County Jail; neither the public defender’s office nor Williams’ father returned the AP’s request for comment.
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Trumpista Terrorist charged after allegedly threatening Harris campaigners with machete (Original Post) CousinIT Oct 31 OP
I'm surprised Caleb James Williams is still in jail MagickMuffin Oct 31 #1
Good MustLoveBeagles Oct 31 #2
Self Delete MustLoveBeagles Oct 31 #3
Joy Boy needs to have it explained to him Buns_of_Fire Oct 31 #4

MagickMuffin

(17,212 posts)
1. I'm surprised Caleb James Williams is still in jail
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 03:33 PM
Oct 31


Caleb James Williams needs to be the poster boy for when you think you can threaten and intimidate people, especially the elderly.


Buns_of_Fire

(17,977 posts)
4. Joy Boy needs to have it explained to him
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 03:39 PM
Oct 31

that Florida is a "Stand Your Ground" state and he's damned lucky he didn't wind up with a couple ounces of subdermal lead.

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