death threats

Veteran author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck on stage during a recent event in New York after decades of death threats by Muslims.

Ex-Mets ace Marcus Stroman went on a recent Twitter tirade to expose his former team and make accusations that included some racist treatment from Mets fans themselves.

After rapper Bhad Bhabie, 16, hit up social media threatening to kill Disney star Skai Jackson, the actress registered for a restraining order against the teenage rapper. TMZ reports that Jackson, 17, filed in L.A. on Thursday and a judge quickly granted the restraining order. Bhabie has been ordered to stay 100 yards away from Skai, and can’t […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been indicted on charges that he threatened to kill President Donald Trump and sent letters he claimed contained anthrax. Gary Joseph Gravelle of New Haven faces charges including conveying false information about an explosive and threats against the president. Authorities say 51-year-old Gravelle last year sent […]

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says she has received death threats since her office’s decision to drop charges against actor/singer Jussie Smollett in connection with a staged hate crime earlier this year. Her office has not released any specifics about the threats, but did confirm that they included “racially charged language,” according to a statement. “We can confirm […]

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A white man from Arkansas was arrested on election day after he allegedly made more than 40 calls to CNN headquarters, some of which included death threats against CNN anchor Don Lemon, USA Today reports. Benjamin Craig Matthews, 39,  faces five felony counts of terroristic threatening, nine misdemeanor counts of harassing communications and four misdemeanor counts […]

An LAPD spokesperson said they would open an investigation into the incident after a suspicious package was left at the congresswoman's office.

"People are taking this to a whole 'nother degree," the journalist said.

April Ryan, doing God’s work as one of the few black White House correspondents, told CNN Sunday that she and her journalist colleagues in the age of Trump have “the FBI and local police on speed dial” for death threats. “Death threats, yes,” Ryan told Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources. “For asking questions […]

Senator Cory Booker is facing death threats and more police officers have been added to his security detail in Newark, New Jersey.

It’s come to this: A racist supporter of President Donald Trump threatened to murder  U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. For months, many Black Americans have talked openly about how Trump’s racially incendiary rhetoric incites his bigoted supporters to violence but conservatives always dismiss the notions as left-wing quackery. But  Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, from San Pedro, California, […]