CNN threat: When fake news gets very, very scary
Erik Wemple, Opinion, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/01/23/cnn-threat-when-fake-news-gets-very-very-scary/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.12f0e4d52e43
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Other calls warned, “I’m smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you,” and “I have a team of people. It’s going to be great, man.” He also said offensive things about Jewish people, according to the affidavit. There’s probable cause, according to the affidavit, that Griesemer transmitted a communication that contained a “threat to injure employees of CNN.”
The same number used in the threats to CNN was used in September 2017, says the affidavit, to call the Islamic Center of Ann Arbor to make derogatory comments about the mosque. Police later contacted Griesemer’s mother, who said that Brandon Griesemer had told her that he’d called a mosque, the affidavit says. Brandon Griesemer later called the police and indicated that he had called the mosque on Sept. 19 and was “angry” during the call, according to the affidavit.
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A CNN source indicated that threats against network personnel had increased since Trump first started attacking CNN as “fake news,” with much of the nastiness coming over social media. Nearly two dozen threatening phone calls clearly triggered a heightened response from the network, which issued this statement on the matter: “We take any threats to CNN employees or workplaces, around the world, extremely seriously. This one is no exception. We have been in touch with local and federal law enforcement throughout, and have taken all necessary measures to ensure the safety of our people.”
A man who identified himself as Brandon Griesemer’s father told The Post’s Kyle Swenson, “He didn’t know what he was saying, the seriousness of it. We’re not even gun owners or anything like that. We don’t have any, neither does he.”
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