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Trumpista Terrorist charged after allegedly threatening Harris campaigners with machete [View all]
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/machete-florida-trump-voter-intimidation-harris-rcna178075An 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.
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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