The FBI killed a Utah man Wednesday during a home invasion raid. Craig Robertson, was being investigated by the federal agency due to several messages on social networks in which he expressed his desire to attack President Biden and several members of his Administration.
According to what the FBI has told the media, a team of agents intended to serve both an arrest and a search warrant against Craig Robertson at his home in Provo, Utah.
According to the Washington Examiner, which had access to a court document in the case, Robertson opened fire on the FBI agents, who responded and killed Robertson. The FBI reported that the agency's Inspection Division is investigating the incident.
Shoot the president
The FBI intended to arrest Robertson because of a series of messages the Provo man reportedly posted online, in which he threatened President Biden and members of his family. Also Kamala Harris, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and former President Barack Obama.
The raid on Robertson's home occurred a few days before Joe Biden's visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, just a few miles from Provo. In some messages, Robertson was aware of this visit and last Monday posted messages regarding this. "I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old Ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 Sniper rifle," Robertson posted on a social network.
Ambushing Bragg in the parking lot
For messages like this one, the FBI filed three charges against Robertson in their application for the search warrant. The charges were interstate threats; influencing, hindering and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threats; and threats against the president. Robertson posted for several years such messages on both Truth Social and Facebook.
The investigation also highlighted a message from Robertson on Truth Social in which he explained how he wanted to kill Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected . I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!.
After several weeks of monitoring Robertson's network activity, the FBI decided to visit his home in Provo to talk with him. Robertson then admitted to being behind the accounts posting the messages. When questioned about the threats, Robertson claimed that "it was a dream," before asking the agents not to return without a search warrant.
