The videos have some common themes. It is filmed by an excitable solo protagonist. The protagonist often speaks to her fellow "patriots" and asks them to be prepared for something very big to happen. Contains threats of violence. Also, many of them have been posted on TikTok. This is a short video app that has become popular with her teens dancing.
According to, following theFBIsearch of his Mar-a-Lago,Donald Trumpsupporters threatened violence against federal agents. rapidly increasing. For extremist monitors. Warnings of civil war and veiled threats of violence against politicians are also on the rise.
Unusually, many of these threats take place openly on social media platforms such as TikTok, with no attempt to hide their identities.
His collection of TikTok videos, collated by one Twitter user, includes calls for violence against his FBI and government by Trump supporters. It included many.
"I saw what happened to Trump," one person says in a video, showing weapons and ammunition on the bed behind him. "Yes, that's where it comes in. Everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about," he adds. contains a theory.
In the days after the Mar-a-Lago raid, the FBI and Homeland Security issued a joint internal bulletin warning of "increased intimidation and violence" against federal officials, according to and CBSThe bulletin also noted that the names and home addresses of FBI agents were posted online, The Associated Press Reported
This bulletin cites one instance of online threats leading to real-world violence — AR An attack on the FBI's Cincinnati field office in Ohio by a man armed with a -15 style rifle. and a nail gun. Ricky Schiffer, 42, posted on Trump's Truth Social after searching Mar-A-Lago for supporters to "get whatever it takes to prepare for battle" before carrying out the attack He fled the scene before being shot and killed in a standoff.
In another case, the FBI arrested a Pennsylvania man on Monday for threatening violence against FBI officials. Adam Bies, 46, posted violent threats to the FBI and law enforcement on his Gab, his social media site popular with white supremacists.
According to the Department of Justice, "My only goal is to kill more of them before they fall," Beath wrote, "If you work for the FBI, you deserve to die." 45} According to the Department of Justice
According to court documents, on August 10, Beath allegedly wrote: Their [EXPLETIVE] toilets deserve to die. you declared war on us. Now is your open season.
The surge in violent rhetoric has coincided with Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice since he raided his Florida residence.
"This is an assault on our political opponents on a level never before seen in our country," Trump posted on his Truth Social on Monday. "Third World." In another post, he claimed that an "army of agents" had "raided" his home for political reasons.
Trump's raid by the FBI It is part of an investigation into the handling of classified records removed from the White House after Trump left office. Property receipts from the search, unsealed by a federal judge, reveal that the FBI removed 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago. The unsealed warrant reveals that Trump is under investigation for allegedly violating theEspionage Act
. extremist researcher. Dr. Gina Ligon, director of the National Center for Counter-Terrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) at the University of Nebraska University of Omaha, called them a "very thorny problem." I called.
“Calls for violence against government FBI-specific symbols on open platforms like Tik Tok are a serious problem, with calls for violence against US forces by ISIS supporters in 2014 and 2015 ',' she said, { .] one of the top five indicators by the National Counterterrorism Center is that someone is actually trying to mobilize for violence. One indicator of this is the public sharing of plans for specific targets. These videos do just that," she added.
A further danger of online calls for violence is the creation of a "false consensus," she added Dr. Ligon. We saw this in her 2014 with her ISIS supporters — not all people online engaged in violence, but they agreed someone should. , created the illusion that others actually gave psychological permission to do so. launch an attack. "
His FBI Director, who was appointed by Trump in 2017, Christopher Wray,has been spurred on by numerous threats and has been publicly described as "deplorable and dangerous." condemned.
"I am always concerned about threats to law enforcement," Mr. Lay said on Wednesday.