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‘Punishment of Death’: FBI Arrests Michigan Man Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Jewish Officials

A Michigan man who allegedly threatened to kill Jewish state government officials was on Wednesday charged with transmitting interstate threats following an investigation conducted by the FBI and state police.

“I’m heading back to Michigan now threatening to carry out the punishment of death to anyone that is jewish [sic] in the Michigan govt if they don’t leave, or confess, and now that kind of problem,” Jack Eugene Carpenter III, who claimed to be a former employee of University of Michigan, tweeted on Feb. 18, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. “Because I can legally do that right?”

Read more: The Algemeiner