ICE protester who identified as 'bin Laden' faces charges over alleged sexually explicit threats to agents
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENTThe Department of Homeland Security has condemned an Oregon man who has been protesting ICE for months, according to reports, after new video surfaced showing him verbally describing...
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WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT The Department of Homeland Security has condemned an Oregon man who has been protesting ICE for months, according to reports, after new video surfaced showing him verbally describing to one officer that his wife would receive his head on a pike through the mail. John Paul Cupp, 45, also known as Walid al-Amriki, is the poster child for the 8,000-fold increase in threats against federal law enforcement, a top DHS official told Fox News Digital. Cupp is charged with making threats against a federal law enforcement officer after he allegedly threatened to kill ICE agents and sexually assault their wives. DHS shared video with Fox News Digital posted on the suspect’s Instagram that was labeled "Daddy Walid’s Come Get Bin Laden Challenge," which featured Cupp swearing repeatedly and loudly self-identifying to responding ICE agents as the deceased Al-Qaeda terrorist: "I'm over here advocating your death and the violent overthrow of the government, and you want to attack some females and some children." "Come get bin Laden," Cupp said in the video, before going on to loudly describe to a male federal agent how his wife would receive his decapitated head through the mail. He then continued with several graphic sexual threats. ICE OFFICIAL PUTS POLITICIANS ON BLAST, DEMANDING THEY 'STOP PUTTING MY PEOPLE IN DANGER' Cupp continued loudly taunting agents, saying that if they came over and "got bin Laden," their "streets would burn down," and appeared to refer to President Donald Trump as a "Zionist overlord," before later appearing to tell fellow protesters that "Walid condones your illegal activities." In a statement to Fox News Digital, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Tuesday that Cupp is now facing federal charges for his threats. "Our ICE law enforcement officers face an 8,000% increase in death threats against them while they risk their lives every single day to remove the worst of the worst, including murderers, rapists, pedophil…