A New York man is in custody after having been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Rep. Ilhan Omar, US Attorney's office says
Patrick Carlineo of Addison, New York, threatened to kill Omar because of her Muslim faith, according to a criminal complaint and accompanying affidavit.Omar, a Michigan Democrat, is one of the first two Muslim women serving in Congress after being elected in the 2018 midterms.A call was placed to Omar's Washington, DC, office on March 21, an FBI agent stated in the affidavit.
He had initially claimed he had told Omar's office,"If our forefathers were still alive, they'd put a bullet in her head." When shown an email with the quote from the call regarding calling Omar a"terrorist" and threatening to kill her, Carlineo first replied that is not what he had said, according to the affidavit. He later admitted to authorities he may have said something like that but was unsure.
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