Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer walks to her seat at a meeting between President Biden and governors from around the country at the White House on Friday. Whitmer and Biden were both mentioned in alleged threats made by a Michigan man arrested on firearms charges.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer walks to her seat at a meeting between President Biden and governors from around the country at the White House on Friday. Whitmer and Biden were both mentioned in alleged threats made by a Michigan man arrested on firearms charges.
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A Michigan man who allegedly made online death threats against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Biden has been charged with unlawfully owning several firearms, documents show.
Randall Robert Berka II, who is about 30 years old, has been charged with possessing a firearm as a prohibited person, but not with making the threats. He hasn’t yet entered a plea and has been detained pending a hearing on Wednesday.
Google submitted an online tip to the FBI after Berka allegedly made threatening statements on YouTube under the handle “@killthefeds420,” saying he wanted to kill Democrats, LGBTQ+ people, and members of law enforcement.
He allegedly wrote, “im going to kill these democrats biden deserves to die” and that he was “more than willing” to kill Gov. Whitmer, also a Democrat. He also allegedly wrote that LGBTQ+ people need to “die and be genocided.”