The gunman killed Thursday by law enforcement after trying to break into federal police (FBI) offices in Ohio had posted a “call to arms” on Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social, several reported Friday. American media.
Several US media published screenshots of the account in the name of the suspect identified by Ohio police as Ricky Shiffer, 42, which read: “This is a call to arms.” The account has since been removed from Truth Social.
“I propose war,” adds the author, calling on “patriots” to go to Florida and kill FBI agents, the day after Monday’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida, an unprecedented raid that infuriates the Republican camp.
The author confesses to having attempted to break into the FBI facility in Cincinnati.
“It is true that I tried to attack the FBI”
“I thought I could punch through armored windows and I couldn’t,” he explains. “If you have not heard from me, it is true that I tried to attack the FBI, and that will mean that I was banned from the Internet, that the FBI caught me or that they ‘sent the police for …’ he wrote in a message which was interrupted mid-sentence and posted on Thursday morning, according to media reports.
The FBI had announced that an armed person had attempted to “break into” its offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, early Thursday morning. According to local media, the man, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, used a nail gun and brandished an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon, before fleeing in a car.
After a chase with the police, the man took refuge in a cornfield, where he was surrounded by the police. When they tried to stop him, he brandished his firearm in the direction of the policemen, who shot and fatally wounded him.
Source: BFM TV
