A social media agitator was convicted Wednesday on federal charges of threatening to kill members of Congress in a verdict that rejected his claims it was harmless rhetoric. A…
(Newser) – A social media agitator was convicted Wednesday on federal charges of threatening to kill members of Congress in a verdict that rejected his claims it was harmless rhetoric. A jury found Brendan Hunt guilty at the close of a weeklong trial in federal court in Brooklyn. Hunt,37, did not deny creating a series of menacing-sounding posts, the AP reports. But he testified that he often put them together while impaired from smoking pot with a bong and drinking beer, and that he never thought they would be taken seriously.
