<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1660318631003,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-bf0e-d1c5-a37d-bf5fe4a70000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1660318631003,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-bf0e-d1c5-a37d-bf5fe4a70000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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“Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn’t. If you don’t hear from me, I tried attacking the FBI,” Ricky Shiffer, 42, posted on the nascent social media network Thursday after he fled the FBI field office and was engaged in a standoff with law enforcement officers off a highway about 35 miles away from the FBI’s Cincinnati field office.
Shiffer, who was wearing body armor during the attack, was shot and killed by officers after he raised his AR-15-style rifle during the five-hour standoff.
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Shiffer’s profile on Truth Social, the social media site launched in February by former President Donald Trump, was removed from the platform on Thursday afternoon.
The attack followed the FBI’s court-approved raid of Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which was reportedly to retrieve classified materials the former president took from the White House after he left office in January 2021.
Shiffer foreshadowed his attack on the FBI’s field office in multiple posts shortly after news broke of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
“People, this is it. I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me,” he wrote. “They have been conditioning us to accept tyranny and think we can’t do anything for 2 years. This time we must respond with force.”
“I am proposing war,” Shiffer added in another post. “Be ready to kill the enemy … Violence is not (all) terrorism. Kill theF.B.I. on sight, and be ready to take down other active enemies of the people and those who try to prevent you from doing it.”
Shiffer said he would continue to support violence against the FBI, even if Trump called for peace.
“I expect Donald Trump to call for peace. Donald Trump was my hero just a year ago, but we must not continue to lay down and take this,” Shiffer posted on Truth Social. “If he does call for peace, it is probably because he fears for the lives of his grandchildren and young children.”
“Don’t forget how Americans handle tyrants,” Shiffer wrote in another post.
Shiffer was pictured in Washington, D.C., during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, but it’s not clear if he breached the building. Shiffer was not charged in connection with the riot.
The FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago sparked threats from far-right internet forum boards against the law enforcement agency, as well as Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the search warrant on Aug. 5.
FBI Director Christopher Wray denounced the “deplorable and dangerous” threats made against the agency in response to the raid on Wednesday.
“I’m always concerned about threats to law enforcement,” Wray said during a news conference at the FBI’s field office in Omaha, Nebraska. “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.”
An official with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department previously told the Washington Examiner that it was “aware of the threats” made against Reinhart.
“This r******* activist judge needs to get fired, then charged with treason. Show no mercy to these f***ing monsters,” one user wrote on the pro-Trump message board, TheDonald.Win.
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“Let’s find out if he has children….where they go to school, where they live…EVERYTHING,” another user wrote in reference to the judge, Vice News reported.
In a Wednesday post on Truth Social, Trump said that the raid was “a surprise attack, POLITICS, and all the while our Country is going to HELL!”
