Man Charged with Making Threats Against Darren Wilson’s Life

A Washington man was arrested and is being charged by the feds for making death threats against Officer Darren Wilson. The information provided tonight by the Department of Justice does not mention Wilson by name, but there are obvious references to a “D.W.” in the criminal complaint that make it beyond clear who this individual was referring to.

Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar, according to the complaint, posted this threatening Facebook message directed at not just Wilson, but his family as well:

“Are there any REAL BLACK MEN that would love to go down to Ferguson Missouri to give back those bullets that Police Officer [D.W.] fired into the body of Mike Brown. If we’re unable to locate Officer [D.W.] then We’ll return them to his wife and if not her then his children.”

And no, that is not the only thing that this individual allegedly wrote about Wilson. The complaint also says he wrote “We need to kill this white motha fucka and anything that has a badge on” and “Ready to go and kill some cops” (that one was in reference to a photo of Wilson).

Abdul-Jabbaar is charged with three counts of making interstate threats, a charge that could get someone up to five years in prison.

[h/t NBC News]
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