A Rosemount, MN, teacher is on leave after reportedly tweeting \u201cSo whose gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?\u201d about the Supreme Court justice. The account was removed and reported to the FBI.<\/b>
\nA Minnesota teacher is on paid administrative leave after a threatening tweet about the newest justice on the Supreme Court, according to the school district.
\u201cSo whose [sic] gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?\u201d the Oct. 6 tweet asked, according to the Star Tribune, which did not identify the teacher because she hasn\u2019t been criminally charged in the incident.
The user\u2019s account has now been suspended, KMSP reports. The instructor involved teaches special education, according to the Star Tribune.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the nation\u2019s highest court over the weekend after a rocky, contentious and lengthy battle over his nomination in the Senate \u2014 which included multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, a marathon hearing into one of those alleged incidents and a supplemental FBI investigation.
Mark A. Zuzek, superintendent of Intermediate School District No. 197, said in a statement Monday morning that the teacher will remain on paid administrative leave \u201cpending the outcome of the investigation.\u201d
Zuzek said the district got a complaint about the teacher over the weekend. He added that because of \u201cthe data practices act, we are limited to providing additional information regarding this matter.\u201d
The Dakota County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Monday that it\u2019s aware of the \u201can incident involving alleged social media use by an employee of a school\u201d in the county. The sheriff\u2019s office also said the FBI is aware and \u201cwill follow up as appropriate.\u201d
Menacing social media posts and other threats have cropped up across the country during the debate over Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while the two were in high school, has been subject to \u201cunending\u201d threats that are \u201cextremely distressing,\u201d her attorney Debra Katz told NBC.
\u201cHer family has been through a lot,\u201d Katz told NBC host Kasie Hunt. \u201cThey are not living at home. It\u2019s going to be quite some time before they\u2019re able to live at home. The threats have been unending. It\u2019s deplorable.\u201d
Other threats have targeted members of Congress.
Just last week, a Central Florida man was arrested and accused of threatening to kill Democrats and \u201cweak Republicans\u201d who don\u2019t support Kavanaugh.
That man, 53-year-old James Royal Patrick, Jr., said in Facebook posts that he had a sniper rifle and \u201cplenty of ammo\u201d to carry out the threats, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.
Patrick told authorities he was only trying to annoy liberals with the incendiary posts, and \u201cthought he could get away with it\u201d because he didn\u2019t single out specific senators, deputies said.
\u201cPeople need to calm down, and stop making threats of violence \u2014 we will not tolerate it,\u201d Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement announcing the Florida arrest. \u201cAnyone who threatens to kill a public officer or law enforcement officer will go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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