Violence

Once again threats of violence against us continues, this time in New York City.

Man arrested for threatening to attack LGBTQ community with guns, bombs
The 74-year-old man reportedly sent dozens of threatening letters.
ABC News
ByAaron Katersky
December 6, 2021


A suburban New York man threatened to attack the 2021 New York City Pride March with "firepower" that would "make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk," federal prosecutors said Monday.

Robert Fehring, 74, of Bayport, New York, allegedly sent at least 60 letters threatening to assault, shoot and bomb LGBTQ-affiliated individuals, organizations and businesses. He was arrested Monday morning and was released later that day on a $100,000 bond.

The Hill reported that this has been going on a long time and the authorities finally got around to doing something.

Robert Fehring of Long Island had reportedly been sending letters to LGBTQ+ organizations, businesses, and community members since 2013, threatening to assault, shoot, and bomb them, according to an unsealed criminal complaint.

In one letter, he threatened this year’s New York City Pride March, held in June, writing that there would "be radio-cont[r]olled devices placed at numerous strategic places,” which would do more damage than the Pulse Nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed and dozens more wounded at a gay bar in Orlando, Fla.

And when they arrested him they found,

Members of the FBI’s Civil Rights Squad and the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force executed a search warrant on Fehring’s home on Nov. 18, according to a Department of Justice news release. Photographs from a recent Pride event in East Meadow were recovered, along with two loaded shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two stun guns, and a stamped envelope addressed to an LGBTQ+ affiliated attorney containing the remains of a dead bird.

I would think after the first threatening letter they would have arrested him and not let it go on for some eight years.

In this time of increased violence and hate crimes directed at minorities I would hope that the authorities would be more proactive, the lives that they might be saving is yours and mine.