Feds arrest local right-winger on charges he threatened to kill and chop up a mixed-race couple

A national expansive assemblage has indicted a antheral who lives connected the Hyde Park/Dedham enactment connected charges of sending racially violative Facebook messages to a White pistillate who'd conscionable announced her engagement to a Black antheral and of threatening the mates with dismemberment.

Stephen DeBerardinis, 44, was arrested contiguous connected 1 number of transmitting a menace and 2 counts of witnesser intimidation.

DeBerardinis was a salient subordinate successful a "Back the Blue" rally successful beforehand of the West Roxbury constabulary presumption earlier this month, astatine which constabulary had to propulsion him retired of a scrum with protesters aft helium tried to punch immoderate of them. He responded to Universal Hub sum of the event, which included 2 photos of him, with email threats to "COME FOR YOU HARD HAHAHAHAHAHA."

According to the indictment, filed yesterday successful US District Court successful Boston, DeBerardinis felt compelled connected Jan. 6 to usage Facebook messenger to nonstop radical epithets to a White pistillate who had posted photos connected Facebook of her and her recently engaged Black fiance. The indictment says that DeBerardinis did not cognize either the pistillate oregon the man, but saw the photos due to the fact that helium was Facebook friends with immoderate of the woman's friends.

The pistillate showed the messages to her fiance, who utilized her Facebook Messenger relationship to effort to telephone DeBerardinis. He did not reply the call, but replied a infinitesimal aboriginal successful text: "DON'T FUCKING CALL ME!!!!! YOUR WHITE TRASH AND A DIRTY COCK SUCKER."

Not agelong after, helium allegedly sent the pistillate different obscenity-laden message, to which she replied, "Don't worry, I'm reporting you to the cops." According to the indictment, helium replied with:

The mates told him to permission him unsocial and that repeated that they were reporting him to police. DeBerardinis continued to connection them:

"Read up much connected maine lol ... you volition spot however maine and my unit pain niggers alive," followed by "And achromatic whores similar you well.... get rape and killed THAN we chopped disconnected assemblage parts and message them to your household lol."

Innocent, etc.

Complete indictment (4.6M PDF).