Anger seems to be a common theme among the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Sometimes they sucker-punch protesters in the face. Sometimes they spray political opponents with pepper spray. And sometimes they apparently threaten to kill people who make fun of Donald Trump.
This last shocking scenario was the frightening case according to police in Milton, Georgia. Forgetting that there are indeed criminal implications to playing internet tough guy, a Cumming, Georgia resident named Jason Richard Kauti, 37, was charged with felony terroristic threats via computer.
The Alpharetta Patch is reporting that Kauti become involved in a heated political discussion on Facebook which turned scary for the woman with whom he was interacting. The Patch cites an incident report from the Milton Police department which describes the following interaction:
“The woman said she saw a post made by a friend concerning the candidate and chimed in with her opinion. The report notes the victim said she thought ‘[Trump] was racist and received a lot of feedback from her statement.'”
At this point is there even a question that Trump is not a racist? At any rate, the story continues with the suspect’s outrageous response:
“The woman said Kauti allegedly made his threat by saying, ‘If we ever cross paths, I will kill you and your family.'”
Apparently threatening to kill your Facebook interlocutor and their whole family is a seen by law enforcement as taking your political speech a tad bit overboard. Milton police spokesperson Lt. Charles Barstow said of the incident:
“Upon further investigation, the detective assigned to the case was able to verify that the threats were valid and had transpired as the victim described during a political dialogue that had occurred on Facebook.”
This sounds more like a Trumpesque meltdown than it does a political dialogue. But sadly, given what we have seen and heard out of Trump and many of his supporters, are we at all surprised?
Here is the video of a Trump supporter sucker-punching a protestor.
