New York man arrested for threatening President Luis Abinader

[Dolores]

47-year old Enrique Figueroa, a resident in New York, was arrested after threatening on social media to kill President Luis Abinader who is in New York to attend the 76th UN General Assembly. Abinader is scheduled to speak on Wednesday, 22 September at the UN.

ABC News journalist was first to tweet: “A man arrested in NYC threatened to kill a world leader attending the UN General Assembly. Enrique Figueroa was charged with threatening a foreign official and making interstate threats against Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic, a source told ABC News.”

Figueroa had been active with threats against Dominicans in the past, including against the Green March protestors in New York City in 2018.

Figueroa was arrested on Sunday evening. NBC reports that a FBI-Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and charged him in a criminal complaint Monday, 20 September...

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[drstock]

Some people just should not be allowed to use social media, the trouble and lies they spread.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Some people just should not be allowed to use social media, the trouble and lies they spread.

Free societies have risks like that. It's unfortunate I know, but it's unlikely to change and we have to deal with it.

 

[Luperon]

People familiar with the story know the reason why it even made the national news.

 

[chico bill]

People familiar with the story know the reason why it even made the national news.

Go on?

 

[johne]

Go on?

LOL. Just like a bait and click ad...."You should see Nancy Sintra now...." He might get 5 centavos a click.

 

[Luperon]

Go on?

I would assume you also know the reason this story is getting so much play. Unfortunately my opinion would not play well with the Columbia University graduates.

 

[windeguy]

Some people just should not be allowed to use social media, the trouble and lies they spread.

Against free speech, eh?

 

[drstock]

Against free speech, eh?

If it's threats, lies and disinformation, yes.

 

[bob saunders]

If it's threats, lies and disinformation, yes.

The problem lies in who make that determination. Truly objective fact checkers are rare. You may determine that something is false due to your hearing what you think is true, but often what you think is false is the real truth, and vice versa.

 

[Luperon]

The problem lies in who make that determination. Truly objective fact checkers are rare. You may determine that something is false due to your hearing what you think is true, but often what you think is false is the real truth, and vice versa.

Of course we can trust the MSM and social media to do the right thing. Just look how they shut down the evil NY Post story at just the right time (October 2020). Section 230 laws should not apply to them, they are just protecting the public from people crying fire. The great threat of this original post happens 1000's of times a day. Certain people in charge decide which become topics for the public.