By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI has arrested a man accused of threatening to injure and kill police officers in a post on Facebook and Instagram, Reuters reports.
The suspect, 24-year-old Jeremy Mott of Mount Vernon, is accused of posting a digital image of someone shooting a gun into a police car, followed by a message that read “the cops in Mount Vernon. … This is how they going to end up.”
The postings came just two days after a man shot two New York City Police officers in what he described on social media as an act of revenge for cop-shooting deaths of two unarmed black men this summer.
Mott is free of jail after posting bond.
“We will not tolerate threats of violence against police officers. Period,” Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement.
