FBI probes death threats against Pulitzer Prize winner

[babylonsister]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17180.html

FBI probes death threats against Pulitzer Prize winner
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating death threats against Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald, after a column he wrote about black-on-white crime triggered a furor on white supremacist Web sites.

Days after The Herald published Pitts' column, Overthrow.com posted his address, his home phone number and his wife's name. Several other white supremacist Internet sites followed suit, and one gave directions to his house along with a satellite image of the neighborhood.

Pitts said that none of the threats was specific and that "nobody has come to the house." However, he said, someone leafleted his neighborhood with a flier attacking him for the column.

Pitts has received dozens of hostile phone calls at his home and about 400 e-mails, said Dave Wilson, the Herald's managing editor for news.

"An unsettling number of those were threats," Wilson said. The messages, which ranged widely in gravity, included death threats, he said.

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[MikeNearMcChord]

1. I read his article that triggered it

Here it is
http://www.miamiherald.com/285/story/125806.html\
Some money quotes
Black crime against whites is underreported? On what planet? Study after study and expert after expert tell a completely different story.

• African Americans and Latinos are underrepresented in news media as victims of crime and significantly overrepresented as perpetrators, based on crime statistics.

• Newspaper articles about white homicide victims are longer and more frequent than those about black ones.

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[BlooInBloo]

2. That's completely predictable.

[Kagemusha]

3. I recall posts to the effect of "Why isn't the FBI investigating?"

Well, that was this afternoon and this is tonight.

[BlooInBloo]

4. I actually meant the death threats were predictable, but yah to what you said too.

[muntrv]

5. I say expose overthrow.com's address and give them a dose of their own medicine.