2 DECEMBER 2, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Queens man sentenced for making threats
to kill Democrats following Capitol attack
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
A Queens man was sentenced for
making violent threats online
to assassinate Democratic officials
in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack
on the U.S. Capitol.
Ridgewood resident Brendan Hunt,
37, was found guilty of his crimes in
April 2021, which was the first trial
to address the consequences of the
assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
He was sentenced to serve 19 months
in prison.
“We will not tolerate threats
to members of the United States
Congress or calls to overthrow our
democratically elected government,”
stated United States Attorney Breon
Peace. “Not only will we investigate
and vigorously prosecute these
crimes, but today’s sentence sends
a clear message that those who seek
to harm our representatives and
bring chaos to our democracy will
be punished.”
Just two days after the attack on
the Capitol, Jan. 8, Hunt posted a
video to BitChute titled “KILL YOUR
SENATORS” that included the summary
“Slaughter them all.” In the
video, Hunt made dangerous threats
calling on viewers to be violent and
saying that “we need to go back
to the U.S. Capitol when all of the
Senators and a lot of the Representatives
are back there, and this time we
have to show up with our guns. And
we need to slaughter these m—–f—–s.”
Hunt also advocated for the violent
overthrow of the federal government
in the video, stating that “our
government at this point is basically
a handful of traitors … so what you
need to do is take up arms, get to
D.C., probably the inauguration … so
called inauguration of this m—–f—–g
communist Joe Biden … That’s probably
the best time to do this, get your
guns, show up to D.C., and literally
just spray these m—–f—–s … put some
bullets in their f——g heads.” Hunt
stated, “If anybody has a gun, give me
it, I’ll go there myself and shoot them
and kill them … We have to take out
these Senators and then replace them
with actual patriots. This is a Zionist
Occupied Government.”
On Jan. 9, 2021, Hunt posted another
video where he stated “those
100 Senators should really be afraid
about going into public now” and
that “We have the first amendment,
that’s still around, remember? And
we have the second as well. There
are really only a hundred of these
weakling Senators. They are mass
murdering psychopaths who are
intent on our destruction, and they
form an illegitimate government.
Every single one of them just needs
to go.”
Brendan Hunt is accused of making online threats to kill Democratic
members of Congress before and after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol coup
attempt, according to federal prosecutors. Photo via Xrayultra Studios
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