A 74-year-old retired schoolteacher from a New York City suburb was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years.
According to prosecutors, Robert Fehring threatened to blow up the Stonewall Inn, a historic bar in Manhattan considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement. He also threatened to place explosives at 2021 New York City Pride march that would “make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” referring to the 2016 attack in which 49 people were killed and dozens wounded at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Other messages threatened to kill, shoot and bomb LGBTQ affiliated businesses and individuals, including an African American-owned barbershop in Brooklyn that Fehring wrote in one letter “is the perfect place for a bombing.”“We are disappointed in the length of the sentence, but Mr. Fehring is happy to be putting this nightmare behind him,” his attorney, Glenn Obedin, said in an email.
An FBI search of Fehring’s home last November in Bayport, Long Island, yielded two loaded shotguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in addition to copies of letters containing threats. Investigators also found a stamped envelope addressed to an LGBTQ-affiliated attorney containing the remains of a dead bird, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York.
“Robert Fehring made heinous threats against members of the LGBTQ community in locations throughout New York, including Suffolk County, for nearly eight years,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said in a statement. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of our department’s Hate Crimes Unit detectives and the diligent work of our law enforcement partners, Fehring is being held accountable for his crimes.
BradMossEsq He’s mad that he never came out.
Are you sure “he” is a “man”. Did you just assume his gender ? 😅
A these slaps on the wrist for whiteTerrorisim
Found it!
See what happens in prision.
Is that Mr. Feeny?!?!?
Now but politicians in prison for mailing counterfeit ballots
Meanwhile groomers are preying on our kids...
Republicans will have him a statue made of him soon…
Someone secretly liked dick
So much for liberal teachers.
Should Be 30 Years In Jail
The irony is he’s going to a place where picking up the soap is a bad idea. By the time his sentence is up he will happily support all LBGTQ issues. I do mean happily. Then chosen to lead the Pride Parade.
Not. Long. Enough.
His hair will look much different when he gets out of prison.
I’m getting “Closet Republican Power Bottom” vibes. Let that hate go, Henny.
Bye bye
Horrible wig. Probably shouldn’t have done what he did.
So guys like this could get access to Ak-15s in North Carolina schools.
what a sad life
Based grandpa.
He’s gay
As a society, we will never begin to control this hatred toward minority members of our society, until we get to the root cause. Is anyone working on this? Also the word 'affiliated' may be part of the problem since it implies an official membership that does not exist.
Didn’t Chuck Sumer threaten 2 Supreme Court justices by name.Forgot half the is above the law…
The hate is strong with this one
janellefiona That freak show of a person is complete with that trump wig.
What a sad ass thing to do in your retirement. Hope he learns how to be decent in prison.
Should be 30 years.
Worst wig ever.
Too short a sentence.
He’s missing orange tint.
Now that’s a sad rug. Maybe make him more attractive to the general population in the state pen?
What a Zero!
Someone tag me in his mugshot without trump's hand-me-down wig, please. Thanks.
Give him a 2nd chance. He’s elderly.
Not long enough!
The takeaway: Definitive proof that 74 year old men can be sentenced to prison…Now! do Donald Trump and his co-conspirators; For attempting to overthrow the government of the United States of America on January 06,2021.
Don’t drop the soap 😂😂😂😂
He's a failed alien experiment. I blame Truman and Ike. 🤭😊
Good. People. Need to learn that freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can violently threaten people
Why don’t they just give the old fart a pipe and rocking chair and sit his ass down. I think a lot of people have problems with the LGBTQ community because that’s their true nation. They’re just too chicken little to admit it. And not that there’s anything wrong with being you.
Looks like his lawyer was happy with the outcome too! 🤣
homophobic at it best!.
Good. I’m so sick of the hate.
Great job, sir.
. Republicans think Freedom means only they can tell you what to do! .
Some of you are as cruel as he is.
Sounds like my dad… except for all the violent threats What’s this guy’s problem?
White privilege at its finest hokey got 30 months for terrorism.
Should have gotten more.
How many months did his hairpiece get?
Hopefully he gets sent to maximum security and not club fed
These are the same people we were lectured to by Republican taking heads over and over again to respect their beliefs.
Looking at what he did and considering the likelihood he'd been getting away with who knows what for an entire career I think he should have got a 30 year sentence. Just to make sure he doesn't do it again. Ever.
Bubba can’t hardly wait to see him.
Note: school teacher (!) I think school teachers need to undergo some sort of a clearance before getting access to our kids.
I can't wait until he comes out of the closet in prison
Finally realizing that not all speech is covered under the first amendment
Maybe then Bubba will take care of him.
Bruhh