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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

Wieambilla shooting: lawyers for Donald Day mount freedom-of-speech defence over alleged threats to police

A screenshot of Donald Day Jr from a YouTube video
Donald Day Jr was in contact with Gareth and Stacey Train in the lead-up to the Wieambilla shootings in which two police officers and a neighbour were killed. Photograph: Youtube

A US conspiracy theorist linked to the Wieambilla shooters has argued he was not seriously expressing an intent for violence when he said “the devils come for us, they fucking die”, and as such should be protected by the US constitution’s first amendment.

Donald Day Jr, a conspiracy theorist in Arizona, was recently arrested by FBI agents in connection with last year’s religiously motivated terrorist attack on a remote Queensland property in Wieambilla.

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