A 38-year-old man has been arrested in South Brunswick, New Jersey after allegedly posting a death threat to a Florida Sheriff and ending his statement with the words “In Minecraft”.
threats, who the local news said was made by a man named Richard Goldenwas posted on 4chan’s /pol board, where Terrorists like the Buffalo mass shooter were also active. It targets Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who last month became the target of the far right after publicly voicing support of his local Jewish community, in response to “anti-Semitic propaganda” put forth by the local Nazis.
“Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he won’t be a problem. They have to find a new guy to solve the problem,” the post read, before adding, “But shooting Chitwood in the head permanently solves an instant problem. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and kill him.”
“In Minecraft”.
EQUAL Boing Boing shown“In Minecraft” is a way everyone can use “a catchphrase spoken as a way of judging a statement as irrelevant to the real world”. That obviously didn’t work in this case, because as you can see in the body-mounted video below, it didn’t take long for the police to locate Golden at his home. his mother and arrest him. He will now be extradited to Floriday to face “a felony charge of writing a letter of death threat”.
Despite being the target of death threats, Chitwood still enjoyed the confrontation with the local Nazis, joking on Twitter, “What a shame. A 4chan troll has to get out of his room.”
“You came to the wrong county,” Chitwood said last month, Address local hostile groups. “I stand with my Jewish friends, and I am honored to be on your hit list. It’s an honor to be hunted down by a bunch of punk thugs like you.
Oddly enough, while some reports—like the ones above Dexerto And Boing Boing—shows the full extent of Golden’s alleged threat, including Minecraft line, other store like a fox are leaving references out.
