Posted on 08/11/2023 9:57:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A clearer picture is emerging of the 75-year-old Utah man shot dead by the FBI after they tried to serve a search warrant hours before Joe Biden arrived in the state on a re-election campaign swing.
But questions are also being asked as to whether Craig Robertson was a “credible threat”, as the FBI claims, or as neighbors in Provo, Utah, have described to local media as a man harboring anti-government views who walked with a cane and liked to bluster and tell big stories, especially on social media.
Robertson had posted threats against the president, including asking whether Utah would become famous “as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist”. He’d also urged Utah residents to fire their guns into the air when Air Force One arrived, the Deseret News reported.
Late last month Robertson posted a message: “Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can be sure to have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again.”
On 6 August, three days before Biden’s visit, according to a 37-page federal complaint, Robertson posted: “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.”
The legal complaint alleged interstate threats, threats against the president, and influencing, impeding and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat, Robertson represented a “willful true threat to kill or cause injury to President Biden”.
He had also made threats against a whole host of familiar liberal politicians and officials including California governor Gavin Newsom, US attorney general Merrick Garland, Vice-President Kamala Harris and New York’s progressive district attorney Alvin Bragg.
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Strange that the FbI altered the scene and rearranged evidence after the execution of Mr Robertson.
Where is the BODY-CAM VIDEO? Release it, FBI
I heard they drug the old guy’s body out onto the sidewalk and left it there for about 2 hours. Drug cartels hang headless corpses by their feet from highway overpasses for everyone to see. Sends the message.
Isn’t investigating this a Secret Service duty? When did it get outsourced?
FIB is special, they don't do body cams. Those are for the feds to jam up local cops.
Stasi SOP.
I’ll copy BLM.
SAY HIS NAME!
This is why you should never post on anti-social media at all. For any reason.
Met an agent at a wedding years ago. I assumed Richmond. Absolute @sshole. Arrogant as hell.
My thoughts exactly.
FEDs do not wear body cams. Not a joke. And yes, this is the same FBI and DOJ that insists local cops must or face litigation. They also do not release the names of the agents involved.
Now, if he had been a loonie liberal comedian toting around what looks like Donald Trump’s head, or had made threats against W Bush, Dick Cheney, Trump or had attacked Senator Paul, or intruded into Eric Prince’s house with your communist comrades, no FBI raid would occur...
Hypocrisy, that’s all I’m going to say.
No body cams fo the same reason that they don’t tape interviews
I heard the first time when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they would hang severed hands from lampposts after thieves had them chopped off to deter any future acts of theft.
The Secret Service has its hands full making sure that the grandchildren don’t escape from The Tater’s shower...
“…Several law enforcement agencies throughout government have piloted body camera initiatives, with the Justice Department requiring them for law enforcement officers engaged in executing search warrants and making pre-planned arrests. The recent omnibus funding package for fiscal 2022 provided agencies with new money to set up or further develop their body camera programs. Under Biden’s new order, federal officers and agents must wear cameras that are activated during activities such as arrests and searches. Agencies must allow for “the expedited public release” of footage in which federal personnel are involved in incidents resulting in bodily harm or death, the White House said
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Again, why is nobody PRESSING THE FBI for the mandated “expedited pubic release” of the video footage?
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/subcommittees
Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Justice & Counterterrorism (includes the FBI)
Minority Members
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Chuck Grassley (IA)
John Cornyn (TX)
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Ted Cruz (TX)
John Kennedy (LA)
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