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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral has been indicted pursuing an probe successful which helium is accused of engaging successful transgression actions against a Fresno councilmember and others during the COVID-19 pandemic successful 2020, a connection sent by Councilmember Miguel Arias said.
Councilmember Arias says helium was notified by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation connected Thursday regarding the incidental of Mohammad Amr Alhashemi, who is accused of engaging successful transgression actions "designed to disrupt, harass, and endanger our city," on with different radical of people.
In 2020, Arias says helium ensured entree to section authorities continued during the pandemic by utilizing Zoom for virtual nationalist participation. He says entree was captious during this clip arsenic the nationalist was not allowed to be assembly meetings successful idiosyncratic fixed wellness and information concerns.
However, helium says immoderate individuals utilized the city's nationalist remark conception to make disruption. It was suspected astatine the clip that those engaging successful threatening behaviour were not Fresnans, and did not respect the city's resident's values.
Arias says astatine the clip of the Zoom meetings helium cautioned that the FBI was monitoring their threats to those participating and that they would beryllium held accountable, but the behaviour did not halt and continued for months. He says it was yet replicated by "local extremists" who went arsenic acold arsenic to endanger him and his household astatine location and prosecute successful a nationalist insurrection successful D.C.
The councilmember says helium appreciates the enactment of the FBI successful this lawsuit making those progressive accountable.
