by Natasha Anderson And Ronny Reyes
Police shot dead an armed man who attempted to breach the FBI’s Ohio field office in an attack he boasted about on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump‘s social media platform, just hours beforehand.
Ricky Walter Shiffer, 42, first warned on the site Tuesday that he was ‘proposing a war’ in response to the FBI’s Monday raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Shiffer called on his followers to ‘be ready for combat’ and ‘kill the FBI on sight.’
He escalated his threats by Thursday, writing that morning, ‘If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it’ll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops while.’ Ohio police confirmed he was killed later in the day.
Shiffer, sporting body armor and an assault-rifle, attempted to break into the agency’s Cincinnati field office, prompting a five-hour standoff with authorities. He fled the office and was chased onto the highway before abandoning his car by a cornfield on a country road just off of Interstate 71…
Evil works in many ways, republican or democratic