Man Gets 6 Months for Tweeting Obama Threats

(The Root) β€” A judge sentenced a 22-year-old North Carolina man to six months in prison for threatening, via Twitter, to assassinate President Obama. During the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Donte Jamar Sims sent a series of tweets outlining specifically how he planned to kill President Obama. Sims now claims that he was high on…

(The Root) β€” A judge sentenced a 22-year-old North Carolina man to six months in prison for threatening, via Twitter, to assassinate President Obama. During the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Donte Jamar Sims sent a series of tweets outlining specifically how he planned to kill President Obama. Sims now claims that he was high on marijuana and has since written a letter of apology to the president.

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Sims' tweets, surprisingly, have not been deleted since he posted them on Sept. 3, 2013. Check them out below.

https://twitter.com/DLeague_Vet/status/242612913620283392
https://twitter.com/DLeague_Vet/status/242612792719458304
https://twitter.com/DLeague_Vet/status/242611147671490560
https://twitter.com/DLeague_Vet/status/242610121782484992
https://twitter.com/DLeague_Vet/status/242609574576803841

Read more at the Huffington Post.

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.

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