Washington-Sana
With the escalation of violent rhetoric in the United States and the growth of extremist right-wing movements, domestic extremism has become a specter chasing Americans, led by officials, as a new report revealed the high frequency of threats received by lawmakers and judges to unprecedented levels.
The report published by Reuters showed that federal judges were the target of more than 4,500 threats last year, according to official statistics, at a time when law enforcement officials in the United States sounded alarm bells about the growing tide of threats posed by white supremacists and followers of far-right movements and the tendency of the so-called "" The supremacy of the white race.”
Director of the US Marshals Service, Ronald Davis, affirmed that the escalating domestic extremism in America is "alarming", noting that the number of threats is "steadily increasing" in parallel with the increase in investigations related to this matter.
Recently, reports have increased about the high level of threats targeting US lawmakers in light of the increase in the level of violent speech circulating on the Internet, and according to data from the Capitol Police, these threats reached unprecedented levels of about 9,600 last year, exceeding the numbers of 2020.
The American newspaper, The Hill, said earlier that the threats targeting American lawmakers are no longer limited to individuals or groups of the public, but rather come from the corridors of Congress itself and from the legislators themselves, such as Representative Paul Gosar, who published late last year an animated video in which he appears to be killing Democratic Representative Alexandria Cortez.
Recently, calls have risen on the Internet calling for violent actions against US lawmakers, including a video calling for lawmakers to be hanged in front of the White House and has been viewed more than 60,000 times.
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