Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss President Biden's campaign stops this weekend in South Carolina to shore up support from Black voters.
A 61-year-old Texas man who threatened to kill Rep. Maxine Waters has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. Brian Michael Gaherty of Houston was sentenced Monday and fined $10,000 by a federal judge. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner applied a hate crime enhancement to Gaherty's sentence after finding that he targeted Waters, who is Black, because of her race.
official in January and admitted to threatening assault and murder against Waters in four separate voicemails, 'each of which contained a violent threat, profanity, and racist and misogynistic language,' the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Gaherty first threatened to kill Waters in August 2022, warning her to 'move' because he had a 'contract' on her life.
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