Messages were posted on a social media platform on Saturday night in which threats of violence were specifically made against them. Investigators from the Special Detective Unit (SDU), which oversees threats to national security and violent political extremism, are pursuing the matter. Previous incidents included a bomb threat being called in to his family home, masked men gathering outside the property, and threats of violence being made against his wife and children.
"We don't have drivers, we don't have security details. There's a misnomer in the public that we're isolated. We go to the grocery store, we go to Home Depot, we go to big box stores. People see us. We're not in an ivory tower."
"I'm innocent #LLDuke," Eric Cleckley stated on Instagram, following his arrest for making threats during a forum for the special election to replace Trayon White.
"This is not a time to rest. This is a time to be relentless in pursuit of what is right and just," said Lee Pelton.
