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In the email, Streever told Lyons: \u201cThe way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall,” according to Steinbaugh. \u201cEven Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Representatives for ICE declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE investigates all credible threats towards its employees and officers, including threats to the ICE Director,\u201d the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Steinbaugh argued the email was protected speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cA true threat is a serious expression of an intent to commit violence. This email doesn’t even come close,\u201d Steinbaugh said. \u201cIt’s political speech, it’s an act of petitioning your government.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Streever said in a statement: \u201cLike many Americans, I was deeply upset after the shootings in Minnesota and I felt compelled to do something. Writing a letter to the head of ICE seemed like the least I could do to express my sense of outrage. I never dreamed it would lead to a knock on my door by federal officers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Streever has not contacted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE, since receiving the warning, and he does not plan to, Steinbaugh said.<\/p>\n
Gonyea, the poll worker, believes her warning stemmed from a post she made on social media in January in which she posted a picture of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot and killed Good. In the post, Gonyea wrote: \u201cI think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted.\u201d Gonyea\u2019s post was made after Ross had already been identified by the news media and is still up.<\/p>\n
Lauren Bis, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, shared an image of a different social media post from Gonyea in which she said Gonyea shared Ross\u2019s address. Part of the post was redacted.<\/p>\n
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Bis said in a statement last week that Gonyea \u201ccommitted a federal crime by posting the address of an ICE law enforcement officer online\u201d and \u201cif you doxx our officers, we will investigate you, and you will be brought to justice.<\/p>\n
A representative for the New York Attorney General’s Office said the office is aware of the two residents’ contacts with federal agents. The representative said the office has been reviewing the interaction between Gonyea and federal agents that took place at the polls.<\/p>\n
Free speech advocates have pointed to the incidents as an example of federal law enforcement infringing on privacy and free expression. The First Amendment guarantees the right to criticize government officials, said Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU’s speech, privacy and technology project.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNobody should be tracked down at their home or hotel room by federal agents in retribution for sending an email merely expressing frustration and opposition to the government\u2019s actions,\u201d Wessler said. \u201cThis is an abuse of power and a gross attempt to chill Americans\u2019 constitutionally protected speech.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This photo provided by David Streever shows federal officers at David Streever’s home in Rochester, N.Y. in June…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":904109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[365965,5229,365964,69,365963,66858,284973,17635,365966,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,184754,184755,299692,291900,184750,184752,325469,225146,12766,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-904108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-steinbaugh","tag-america","tag-david-streever","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice-free-speech-new-york","tag-jonathan-ross","tag-lauren-bis","tag-minneapolis","tag-nathan-freed-wessler","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-32520-ap-online-other-u-s-government-news","tag-renee-good","tag-todd-lyons","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}