A South Bend man who made Facebook threats to cause violence at a Black Lives Matter rally has been sentenced to prison.
Isaiah Deonte Jovan Beavers, 26, pleaded guilty to making a threat using the internet and sending a communication that contained a threat. He was sentenced in federal court this week to 15 months in prison and two months supervised release, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Beavers was accused of making several threatening Facebook posts inciting violence at rallies and encouraging others to be violent against police officers.
One of the posts involved a picture with information about a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally in South Bend that was set to happen Saturday night, July 9. Though the picture said the event was to be peaceful, someone posting under the username Thoty Nut shared the picture and said he would show up with bottles filled with gasoline because he wanted to “burn this [expletive] downnn” (sic). The post also had emojis of a gun, buildings and fire.
A concerned citizen tipped South Bend Police off about the post. Investigators found other threatening posts on the page and other pages connected to the account. Eventually police identified the Facebook user as Beavers, court documents stated.
Beavers was arrested by South Bend Police and FBI agents on Saturday a few hours before the Black Lives Matter rally, according to online jail records. The rally on South Bend was peaceful and nobody was arrested there.
95.3 MNC’s Krystal Vivian contributed to this story
2 comments
What a waste of time targeting this man has been for the losers in FBI and SBPD. This guy amounted to zero risk…bloviating and making ignorant statements. I want my tax dollars back you idiots
So the Black Lives Matter group can openly chant “death to the police” and no one is prosecuted for that???? We have total morons running our country and courts!