'Deserve to die': Texas man indicted over series of violent threats to Zohran Mamdani

[TheProle]

Authorities have arrested a Texas man for allegedly making phone and written threats to New York City mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, warning the self-described democratic socialist to “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head, the Queens district attorney said Thursday.

Jeremy Fistel was arraigned on a 22-count grand jury indictment charging him with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and related charges in the case. Prosecutors allege he started sending the messages to Mamdani’s office in June and continued to do so through July.

According to the charges, Fistel allegedly left an anti-Muslim message June 18 saying the Uganda-born Mamdani wasn’t welcome in New York and warning him to watch his back and his family’s backs. He called him a terrorist.

A few weeks later, only July 8, Fistel allegedly sent a message through Mamdani’s website wishing him terminal cancer and an imminent “painful death.”[/excerpt}

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