A 38-year-old man has been arrested in South Brunswick, New Jersey, after allegedly posting a death threat against a Florida sheriff and ending his statement with the words “In Minecraft.”
The threat, which according to local news was made by a man named Richard Golden
“Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he won’t be a problem anymore. They need to find a new guy to be the problem,” the post reads, before adding, “But shooting Chitwood in the head permanently solves an immediate problem. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him.
“In Minecraft”.
As boing boing Clues“Into Minecraft” is a way people can use “a catchphrase used to qualify a statement as not relating to the real world”. Which obviously didn’t work in this case, because as you can see in the video captured by body cameras below, it wasn’t long before police located Golden at his mother’s house and arrested him. He is now being extradited to Floriday to face “a charge of writing a death threat.”
Despite being the target of death threats, Chitwood enjoys his confrontation with the local Nazis, joking on Twitter: “What a shame. A 4-channel troll must come out of his room.”
“You came to the wrong county,” Chitwood said last month. addressing local hate groups. “I stand by my Jewish friends and am honored to be on your hit list. It’s an honor to be wanted by a bunch of punk thugs like you.”
Oddly enough, while some reports – like the one on Dexerto And boing boing– Show Golden’s alleged threat in full, including the Minecraft line, other outlets like fox leave out the reference.
