The way federal authorities tell it, Everett Wayne Copelin had a long list of people he intended to kill: migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Black people, Jews, federal agents and supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.
In early September, the FBI learned of Copelin’s threats, which he made under the username “Alpha Top Dog Pure Blood” in posts on the right-wing social media outlet Gab. Now, federal authorities have charged the 40-year-old Amarillo resident withCopelin made his initial appearance in court Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lee Ann Reno. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice in North Texas said in a press release this week.
In a Gab post on Sept. 8, Copelin vowed to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border and “start shooting invaders with joy and honor,” an FBI agent said in an affidavit filed in court. In the same post, he said he’d shoot and kill federal agents, promising to “blow these FEDS away” because they “are letting [migrants] in here with the Jews at the State Department,” echoing the white nationalist conspiracy theory that Jews are behind migration as a supposed plot to undermine the country’s racial makeup.
A week later, he posted on Gab a call for “all strong able-bodied White alpha men” to obtain sniper rifles and “get to the border now and drop these fools.”On Sept. 25, he said he’d kill anyone with a Beto O’Rourke sticker or yard sign, adding: “I’ll hang you on a light pole at dusk.” In late August, Copelin allegedly wrote, “I love killin’ n******, especially the young ones in their 20s fucking my white women and beating on ‘em.” Around that time, he also said he was “gonna kill these bitches and blow their asses up,” referring to Internal Revenue Services agents.
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