We brought you the story yesterday of threats being made to shoot on Twitter against the Portland, Maine police, with the hashtag of Black Lives Matter. Turns out it was a stranger than one might think.
A 28-year-old Norwegian national visiting Maine on vacation has been charged with threatening to kill Portland police officers.
Officials said Espen Brungodt was arrested about 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Residence Inn at 145 Fore St. by the FBI and Portland police.
Brungodt made death threats against police officers on Twitter and in emails, police said. The threatening messages were sent Wednesday morning to the Portland department and to other public safety officials in Maine, and to two staffers at the Portland Press Herald.
The email was titled “I am going to kill more police,” and said the author and an unknown number of partners were “getting our Sig Sauer MCX .223-caliber rifles ready, and very soon, my partners will head down to Portland Police Department on 109 Middle St. There they will shoot and kill as many police officers as they can.”
