Authorities arrested a Florida man for allegedly making “violent” threats against President Trump.
“Shannon Depararro Atkins allegedly made posts on social media targeting the commander in chief,” the New York Post reports.
Atkins was arrested Friday evening during a traffic stop.
JUST IN: A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly making violent threats against President Trump, police announced Saturday.
Shannon Depararro Atkins is accused of posting threatening messages on social media directed at the President. pic.twitter.com/3BerLVUD1i
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From the New York Post:
Authorities arrested Atkins after receiving a Jan. 19 tip pointing to disturbing posts the man had allegedly been sharing in the days before Trump’s inauguration.
“America needs one good bullet to be saved,” Atkins allegedly wrote on Facebook on Jan. 19, a day before Trump was inaugurated for his second term.
Two hours later the same day, Atkins confessed on his Facebook page that he’d been banished from Elon Musk’s X.
ADVERTISEMENT“I’ve been banned from “X”, because I said I hope and pray someone kills him,” he wrote in an apparent reference to Trump. “History is supposed to repeat itself. We haven’t had an assassination in years.”
He allegedly kept going, writing later in the day, “Bullets please. Please Jesus! Save America” over an image of a meme calling inauguration day a “day of mourning.”
“That gives you a flavor of some of the posts that this gentleman posted,” West Palm Beach Police Chief Tony Araujo said at a news conference, adding that the posts reflected “violent rhetoric.”
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A Florida man has been arrested for making “violent” threats against President Trump
Authorities arrested Atkins after receiving a Jan. 19 tip pointing to disturbing posts the man had allegedly been sharing in the days before Trump’s inauguration.
Via: NYPost pic.twitter.com/Kfbh0AzUOr
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WPTV reports:
West Palm Beach Police Department (WPBPD) interim Chief Tony Araujo announced at a press conference Saturday afternoon about an arrest made following alleged threats against President Donald Trump.
According to police, on Jan. 19 a man in Okeechobee gave a tip to the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Threat Operations Center reporting threats against Trump.
On Jan. 20, WPBPD detectives and the FBI began an investigation and found a series of violent posts on social media created by Shannon Atkins, 46, of West Palm Beach.
After establishing probable cause, police stopped Atkins near his home at around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24. Atkins also had three bags of cocaine on him at the time of his arrest, police said.
ADVERTISEMENTAtkins was taken to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Main Detention Center and is facing one count of written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism— a second-degree felony. Atkins is also facing a charge of cocaine possession.
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