“We need to know about it. We need to be in a position to intercept those kinds of things and protect our citizens here at home,” Rep. Rick Crawford says.
The plot includes a tiered bounty system that allegedly pays people $2,000 to gather information on ICE and Border Patrol officials, $5,000 to $10,000 to kidnap or attack officials, and up to $50,000 to assassinate high-ranking officials.
The department did not release the man's identity but said he was an "unrelated subject," and not the missing shooter that federal and local authorities are still searching for.
In thousands of locations across the country and even some across the world, millions are expected to gather in protest of what they see as Trump’s "authoritarian" policies.
The "reasonable interpretation" of ShutDownDC's bounty offer "will be, at minimum, to intimidate justices, and at worst, physically harm them," said former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock.
Protests and riots have broken out across Los Angeles in response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents' arrests of illegal immigrants.
The ads violated Facebook's policy against 'organized hate.'