The organized effort, named 'Moral Monday,' has drawn thousands of people from across North Carolina each week to the building's outdoor Halifax Mall, where they beat on snare drums, wave slogan-filled signs, sing gospel spirituals, and listen to the Rev. For the past seven Mondays, protestors have entered the North Carolina State Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh to voice their concerns about bills introduced by the state's Republican majority. Tuck Taylor looks to above as she and her fellow protestors fill the second-floor gallery of the N.C. If he's convicted, he could end up spending up to five years in prison and paying up to $250,000.The Rev. ' He even jokingly asked the other person: 'the FBI will understand I was only reading for the pictures, right?' Authorities couldn't connect him with a terror group.įeds have charged Grimsley with 'transmitting a threat to injure a person' as well as with cyberstalking. In it, he said he 'yell(s) all the time about jihad' due to 'too much CSGO and nasheeds. But they also found a Facebook conversation on his laptop that makes his true intentions unclear. Whisper CEO Michael Heyward denied those accusations.Ĭops found an AK-47, four 30-round magazines and about 340 rounds of ammo in a search of his home. It's worth noting, however, that a 2014 report by The Guardian accused the company of retaining posts and user information in a searchable database.

The app is supposed to be completely anonymous, but you'll have to opt out of location services if you don't want it to receive your geographical coordinates - Grimsley might have left his active. After feds got his IP address from Whisper, they were able to get Time Warner Cable to match it with a name, a physical address and a phone number. It will only be the beginning, insha'Allah.'Īuthorities were able to track Grimsley down and arrest him on the same day he posted by asking Whisper for his IP address and GPS coordinates. Say your dua (prayers), sleep, and watch the news tomorrow. 'For too long the kuffar (non-Muslims) have spit in our faces and trampled our rights. Another user who asked for a clarification through private message contacted authorities after receiving his response:

According to the feds' affidavit, Garrett Grimsley from Cary posted the words 'Salam, some of you are alright, don't go to Cary tomorrow' written on a photo of a bearded man carrying a red flag with a black star in the center.

A man from North Carolina was arrested by federal authorities shortly after he submitted a post that sounded like a threat to the anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper.

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