一名纽约州北部男子因1月6日在美国国会大厦的行为被唐纳德·特朗普总统赦免据称威胁要杀死众议院少数党领袖哈基姆杰弗里斯，纽约州警方说。
警方称，34岁的克里斯托弗·莫伊尼汉于周六被捕，并被控制造恐怖威胁。他是第一个因涉嫌政治暴力而被捕的被赦免的国会暴徒。
在刑事诉讼中，调查人员引用了据称10月17日从莫伊尼汉发送给一个身份不明的收件人的短信。
“哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)几天后将在纽约市发表演讲，我不能让这个恐怖分子活着，”根据诉状，据称有一条信息这样写道。
根据诉状，莫伊尼汉写道，“即使我被憎恨，他也必须被消灭。”。“为了将来，我要杀了他。”
起诉书称，这些短信“让收件人有理由担心被告即将谋杀和暗杀哈基姆·杰弗里斯”。
警方说，莫伊尼汉出现在克林顿镇法院，他被还押到达奇斯县司法和过渡中心，以代替10，000美元的现金保释。
他计划于周四在达奇斯县最高法院首次出庭。目前还不清楚他是否聘请了律师。
纽约的杰弗里斯说声明周二，他“感谢州和联邦执法部门采取迅速果断的行动，逮捕了一名危险的人，他对我发出了可信的死亡威胁，并意图实施。”
2022年1月6日，莫伊尼汉突破安全防线进入国会大厦，被判妨碍官方诉讼。
检察官说，他进入参议院画廊，翻阅一名参议员桌子上的笔记本，并用手机拍照。据检察官说，在暴乱期间，他说，“这里一定有我们可以用来对付这些袋子的东西”。他被指控时的法庭文件包括1月6日在国会大厦显示莫伊尼汉的视频截图。
莫伊尼汉是判决2023年2月，他和其他1500多名因1月6日的骚乱被定罪或指控的人被判入狱近两年获得赦免特朗普上任几个小时后。
“就在唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)集体赦免1600人的当天，我说特朗普总统和他的政府将为这些人发生的任何事情负责，”医学博士杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)周二在杰弗里斯(Jeffries)参加的一次新闻发布会上说。“他们有责任约束他们。”
“我们国家的政治暴力问题非常严重。感谢上帝，你是安全的，杰弗里斯先生，但我们要求司法部认真对待全国各地的这些人，”他继续说。
杰弗里斯在新闻发布会上说，“我们生活在一个极端政治暴力的时刻”，影响着那些在公共服务部门的人，同时发誓不会低头。
“当涉及到外面的这些极端分子时，你最好在谈论我时注意你的言辞，”他说。
Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter arrested for threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: Police
An upstate New York man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6allegedly threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York State Police said.
Christopher Moynihan, 34, of Clinton, was arrested Saturday and charged with making a terroristic threat, police said. He is the first pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested over alleged political violence.
In the criminal complaint, investigators quoted text messages allegedly sent from Moynihan on Oct. 17 to an unidentified recipient.
"Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” one message allegedly said, according to the complaint.
“Even if I am hated he must be eliminated,” Moynihan wrote, according to the complaint. "I will kill him for the future."
The text messages "placed the recipient in reasonable fear of the imminent murder and assassination of Hakeem Jeffries by the defendant," the complaint stated.
Moynihan appeared in the Town of Clinton Court where he was remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, police said.
He is scheduled to make his first appearance in Dutchess County State Supreme Court on Thursday. It was not immediately clear whether he had hired a lawyer.
Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in astatementTuesday that he is "grateful to state and federal law enforcement for their swift and decisive action to apprehend a dangerous individual who made a credible death threat against me with every intention to carry it out."
Moynihan was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding in 2022 after he broke through a security perimeter and entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors said he entered the Senate Gallery and paged through a notebook on top of a senator's desk and took photos with his cellphone. During the riot he said, "There’s got to be something in here we can f---ing use against these ----bags," according to prosecutors. Court filings from when he was charged included screenshots from a video showing Moynihan in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Moynihan wassentencedto nearly two years in prison in February 2023 before he and more than 1,500 others who had been convicted or otherwise charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riotreceived a pardonhours after Trump took office.
"I said on the very day that Donald Trump pardoned 1,600 people en masse without obviously studying the details of each individual case, that President Trump and his administration would be responsible for whatever happens with these people," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said during a press event Tuesday while joined by Jeffries. "They've got a responsibility to rein them in."
"We have a very serious problem with political violence in this country. Thank God that you are safe, Mr. Jeffries, but we are asking for the Department of Justice to get serious about reining these people in all over the country," he continued.
Jeffries said during the press event that "we're living in a moment of extreme political violence" impacting those in public service, while vowing not to bow down.
"When it comes to these extremists out there, you better watch how you talk when you talk about me," he said.
