The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said it is working with local, state and federal law enforcement to investigate the threats.

Law enforcement in Fulton County, Georgia, are investigating threats to members of the grand jury that returned the indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 other associates after the grand jurors’ personal information was shared online, the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    9·
    1 year ago

    To help keep track of what’s going on

    After the indictment was unsealed, users on social media, including far-right platforms like 4chan, began to call for violence against the grand jurors and Willis, the group Advance Democracy Inc. found. The organization, which monitored the response to Trump’s indictment in Georgia, identified one post on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that included photos of some of the grand jury members.

    The indictment against Trump in Fulton County is the fourth returned by grand juries this year. In addition to the criminal charges in Georgia, the former president is also facing federal charges in South Florida and Washington, D.C., the latter of which stem from alleged attempts to stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election. Trump has also been indicted by the district attorney in Manhattan on 34 state felony counts of falsifying business records.

    • Trebach@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      So there’s little chance they’d even join their savior in prison because he could die in federal prison before ever being sent to a state prison.

  • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    If I was a very smart guy…

    I would leak a memo of fake jurors (Undercover FBI Agents), and cast my line and start fishing to see who was dumb enough to try something stupid.

    Or

    I would leak the memo of real jurors (Covered by FBI Agents already) , and cast my line and start fishing to see who was dumb enough to try something stupid.

    Moral of the story: don’t try something stupid.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Sure, but it’s expensive to protect the former grand jurors 24/7 so it seems rather likely they’ll be targeted and find themselves without adequate protection.

      • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        True…

        But,

        If I have 30-80 agents on salary, what else are they supposed to do with them? Sure they could sit behind a desk, maybe operate separate sting operations that might net 1-2 maybe 3 criminals over the course of weeks - months.

        Or I could pile everyone that wants to overthrow democracy into a few easily observable areas and wait to see who drives out to take the bait?