Pirate's Cove

Now, just imagine that some sort of push by a Republican led to a Trump supporter offering money to anyone who would, say, kill a Planned Parenthood abortion doctor. Would this be splashed all over the news? Instead of mostly being a small story?

(CBS Miami) A man who offered on social media to pay $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer was arrested on Thursday, prosecutors said.

Law enforcement officials said they hope the arrest of Brandon Ziobrowski sends the message that they will not tolerate a rise in threats against immigration officers and others amid increasingly heated political debates.

“The agents and officers out there enforcing federal laws are doing their job, plain and simple,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said. “Those who disagree with their mission are of course free to say so. But there is a difference between public debate and intentionally putting others in fear of their lives.”

Ziobrowski, of Cambridge, is charged with using interstate and foreign commerce to transmit a threat to injure another person. He was arrested in New York, where he was visiting a friend.

His Twitter account was finally suspended, but not before someone in the government grabbed a screenshot

Cambridge man accused of threatening to kill #ICE agent.
Federal indicment again Brandon James Ziobrowski. #WCVB pic.twitter.com/ZD2kd4RKde

— Shaun Chaiyabhat (@ShaunWCVB) August 9, 2018

And he’s also not a big fan of the police

Ziobrowski also tweeted about his desire to kill Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain and said guns “should only be legal for shooting the police like the second amendment intended,” prosecutors say.

Perhaps some reporter could ask Democrats like Kirsten Gillibrand about their abolish ICE push.