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Eugene Volokh

Prosecution for Threats to Kill Muslims (and Blacks, Immigrants, and People from India) Can Go to Jury

From U.S. v. Demeo, decided Tuesday by Judge Sheri Polster Chappell (M.D. Fla.); compare the recent "See MAGA, Shoot MAGA" case, which reached the same result:

… Defendant commented on twenty-two different YouTube videos with death threats to various ethnic groups, including Muslims, "American blacks," immigrants, and "people from India." … [T]he Government charged Defendant by criminal complaint with violating 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which prohibits the transmission, in interstate or foreign commerce, of any communication containing any threat to injure the person of another. … The indictment … includes a chart listing the count, a summary of the communication, the communication date, and the YouTube comment ID number. The communications are listed for each count as follows:

  1. Threat to kill and eradicate Muslims off the face of the earth
  2. Threat to slaughter, eradicate, and kill every Muslim man, woman, and child
  3. Threat to kill and genocide all Muslim men, women, and children
  4. Threat to kill and genocide Muslims in their homes
  5. Threat to kill and genocide all Muslims
  6. Threat to slaughter and kill all Muslims
  7. Threat to kill all Muslim men, women, and children
  8. Threat to kill immigrants, Muslims, "American blacks," and "people from India"
  9. Threat to genocide and slaughter every Muslim
  10. Threat to slaughter and genocide Muslims and politicians
  11. Threat to genocide, kill, and exterminate Muslim men, women, and children
  12. Threat to kidnap and kill entire towns of Muslim men, women, and children by loading them on buses to a location where they will be shot in the head and sent through a woodchipper
  13. Threat to genocide and kill every Muslim in America
  14. Threat to slaughter and kill illegal immigrants
  15. Threat to kill and genocide Muslims on US soil
  16. Threat to kill and eradicate Muslims
  17. Threat to kill any Muslim found on US soil
  18. Threat to kidnap and kill Muslims by loading them onto buses, transporting them to another location, and shooting them in the head, and sending them through woodchippers
  19. Threat to kidnap and kill Muslims

You can see the text of the posts in the Criminal Complaint; just one example:

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