Washington Man Arrested For Death Threats Against Pride Event

Tyler Dinsmoor, 27, of Oak Harbor, was arrested without incident Friday after expressing his desire to kill members of the LGBTQ community on social media, according to the Oak Harbor Police Department and court documents. https://twitter.com/KIRO7Seattle/status/1537955760172199938   From KIRO 7 News:

According to court documents, Dinsmoor posted on social media that he “might not make it through this fag month,” and he “was 9mm away from fedposting two faggots at home depot yesterday.”

‘Fedposting’ is Internet slang for anything posted online that shows a premeditated planning of criminal activity.

According to the warrant issued in the case, Dinsmoor started focusing on the Anacortes Pride Parade that is scheduled to be held on June 18 and was asking people to “talk me out of it.”

At about 3 p.m. on June 14, Island County dispatch received a report of threats made by Dinsmoor.

The woman said she’s a neighbor to a rental property that Dinsmoor owns, and Dinsmoor had been coming over to fix the property after a previous tenant.

She said she had recently returned from a trip to the grocery store with her wife, and as they were walking inside with their groceries, Dinsmoor shouted, “It used to be legal to kill gay people!”