Texas man indicted for threatening to kill Rep. Maxine Waters.
TL;DR
A Texas man, Brian Michael Gaherty, has been indicted on eight counts related to threatening to kill Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and two other congresswomen of color. The threats were made in four voicemails in August and November, all of which contained threats. Gaherty made racial comments in some of the calls to Waters’ office in Hawthorne, a city in the Los Angeles area. Threats directed at members of Congress have been on the rise for years but dipped slightly in 2022.
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