Network President Calls for Federal Prosecution of Arizona Group That Threatened President Obama

The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Network

January 29, 2012
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-383-6145

Press Advisory:

 Network President Calls for Federal Prosecution of Arizona Group That Threatened President Obama

Call on Peoria, Arizona Mayor Bob Barrett to Fire Police Offcial Involved

Hutchinson Newsmaker Network President and Host of the Hutchinson Report Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Sunday, January 29, called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to immediately file charges against Peoria, Arizona Police Sergeant Pat Shearer and six other men that riddled a photo of President Obama with bullets and posted the photo on Facebook. Threatening the President of the United States is a class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. It consists of knowingly and willfully mailing or otherwise making "any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States."  According to Secret Service reports the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush.

“A group of heavily armed men including a police official no less openly taking target practice at the President and then posting the photo publicly on Facebook goes far beyond simply loose talk,  lampooning the president, voicing political disagreements,” says Hutchinson, ” It is an open incitement to kill the president and given the proliferation of guns in Arizona and the attempted murder in Arizona of former Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords this brazen act by threatening gun toting men in the state calls for swift action by federal law enforcement officials. “

Hutchinson sent a letter to Peoria, Arizona Mayor Bob Barnett and the Peoria City Council members to immediately relieve Shearer of his duties pending the Justice Department probe and call for prosecution.