‘Kill your senators’: Man convicted of threat to US lawmakers

Brendan Hunt shared a video titled ‘Kill your senators. Slaughter them all’. He faces 10 years in prison.

A jury found a New York City man guilty of threatening to kill elected officials after prosecutors linked his comments to the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol. Brendan Hunt was convicted of the federal charges on Wednesday, after a weeklong trial in federal court in Brooklyn. His defence attempted to portray the charges as overblown. According to the criminal complaint filed against Hunt on January 18, 2021, his posts threatening violence began during last summer’s anti-lockdown protests against restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19.