Fla. Man Jailed for Allegedly Threatening Charlottesville Candidate

A Florida resident has been arrested after allegedly making a racially-motivated threat against a prospective candidate for city council in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Hill reports.

Daniel McMahon, 31, of Brandon, Florida, has been charged with “willful interference with a candidate for elective office, bias-motivated interference with a candidate for elective office, threats to injure in interstate commerce and cyberstalking,” according to the indictment, which was unsealed on Wednesday.

Prosecutors allege that McMahon threatened an unnamed candidate with the initials “D.G.,” who is said to be an “African-American resident of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, [who] decided to run for the Democratic nomination to the Charlottesville City Council.”
“As alleged in the indictment, this defendant was motivated by racial animus and used his social-media accounts to threaten and intimidate a potential candidate for elective office,” U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen said in a statement.

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