Uh-oh.
In a new “documentary” produced by Jacob Wohl, Ali Akbar and Laura Loomer, it appears that Wohl reported a “death threat” to the Minneapolis Police Department that was actually from one of the fake accounts that he allegedly created for himself:
Jacob Wohl reported a death threat to the Minneapolis Police Department. Small problem: he wrote the threat to himself from a fake account he created, posing as a gay Hispanic "diversity coordinator," who does not really exist. https://t.co/o8sgpMWP8J
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 13, 2019
Here’s a side-by-side comparison. The one on the left is the threat shown in the documentary; the one on the right is the account that Twitter suspended:
In the right-wing ‘documentary’ on Rep. Ilhan Omar released tonight by Jacob Wohl, Laura Loomer, and Ali Alexander, they included this screenshot of a threat they received. There's one problem: NBC News earlier reported that Jacob Wohl created the account which sent the “threat”. pic.twitter.com/phGxZJ7V3I
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
NBC’s Ben Collins reported on the fake account back in February:
Jacob Wohl created "Drake Holmes," a "Minneapolis born and raised… diversity coordinator" with a rainbow flag in his bio.
"Drake" misspelled his own last name in his username, @drakehomes612.https://t.co/YaebbLy5eR pic.twitter.com/dqm6cI4OcK
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 27, 2019
Here’s the clip from the documentary where Wohl walks into a police station to report the threat:
Here's a video clip showing Jacob Wohl reporting threats he received to the Minneapolis Police Department, and a screenshot of one particular “threat”—but the avatar image matches a fake Twitter account NBC News and The Daily Beast reported Wohl created. pic.twitter.com/bV7EZarJk8
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
But we don’t know if Wohl actually showed this tweet to the cops or not:
Fun conspiracy theory: Maybe he showed something different to police, but they weren't as juicy as the "I'm going to shoot you and [clown tricycle honk] on your [clown tricycle honk] bodies" threat he sent to himself, so he just put that in the documentary and never told cops?
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 13, 2019
There is, however, body-cam footage and an “inventoried copy of the documents” if the MPD investigates:
Minneapolis Police records indicate officers saved and inventoried a copy of the documents Jacob Wohl provided to them when reporting “terroristic threats” and a “homeland security offense,” and MPD recorded their interactions with Jacob Wohl on body camera.
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
Wohl says in the documentary that the threat was forwarded to DHS:
In this video, Jacob Wohl claims his supposed death threat was immediately forwarded to Homeland Security — "They're not messing around with antifa here."
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 13, 2019
Which reporters will now track down:
That's a FOIA. https://t.co/6cr9Om0wfg
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 13, 2019
And we do know that Wohl and Ali Akbar filed a real police report:
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
Akbar, who goes by Ali Alexander on Twitter, is investigating:
I am — personally — chasing down the allegation that’s Jacob Wohl creates a fake account in December of 2018 that he may have used to direct comments toward himself during the trip to MN.
When I find a conclusion, I’ll make it public regardless of where the facts take me.
— Director Ali Alexander (@ali) March 13, 2019
More from the documentary:
The right-wing ‘documentary’ on Ilhan Omar from Jacob Wohl, Laura Loomer, and Ali Alexander was just released. I won't link. It contains 13 minutes of Minneapolis footage, mostly them talking to themselves. In fact, there's only about 48 seconds of them interviewing people here.
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
Needless to say, the Wohl–Loomer–Ali “documentary” released tonight contains no footage of “Sharia Police” they falsely claimed exist in Minneapolis, nor of anyone so much as being mean to them.
— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
Here's everything said about Ilhan Omar by interviewees in right wing video that aimed to end her career:
—I don't know much about her
—I met her twice
—She's held events
—She's had lots of coverage
—She's OK
—She goes too fast, has to slow down
—Marriage allegation just a rumor— Tony Webster (@webster) March 13, 2019
Editor’s note: We’ve corrected a typo in the headline of this post.
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