Crime & Safety
Oakland Co. Deputies Receiving Death Threats Over YouTube Videos
Authorities are investigating threats after videos of deputies clashing with open-carry gun activists were posted online recently.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating death threats its deputies have received over confrontations they had with open-carry activists that were taped and recently posted to YouTube, according to a Daily Tribune report.
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The videos, which were posted June 2 and June 3, show Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies confronting the cameraman, claiming he’s not allowed to record the lot of the sheriff’s office or the jail.
The most contentious conflict happens in the June 2 video between an armed cameraman and a deputy at the Oakland County sheriff’s office. The deputy tells the man he can’t be filming the office’s employee parking lot and asks for identification. The man refuses, and the deputy begins going through the man’s property, looking for ID.
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In reference to the June 2 confrontation, Undersheriff Michael McCabe issued a statement that claimed the deputy approached the armed cameraman after the department received reports of someone taping buildings and cars in an employees-only parking lot near the Pontiac jail, the report stated.
“Police and military in America are on high-alert by federal authorities due to numerous credible threats to attack facilities and assassinate law enforcement officers,” McCabe stated in the release.
The undersheriff identified the who taped the confrontation as the same person who caused a lockdown at a Madison Heights school in March when he walked from Royal Oak to Madison Heights carrying a long gun and holstered pistol, the report stated. That individual—whose YouTube name is Nunya Beeswax—also taped that incident and posted it online.
The videos appear on a YouTube channel called LibertyIsEverything.com, which is run by Hell’s Saints. The group, which describes itself as a “group of patriots,” supports and fights for open-carry firearm rights in Michigan. It’s tagline is: ”If fighting for liberty is wrong, then we must be Hell’s Saints.”
VIDEO POSTED JUNE 2
MADISON HEIGHTS VIDEO FROM MARCH
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