Secret Service: 78-year-old S.C. ex-cop threatened to kill Obama, 16 guns found at home

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Secret Service: Ex-cop threatened to kill Obama
Authorities find 16 guns at S.C. home; son says 78-year-old 'was acting out'

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40379129/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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updated 11/26/2010 8:48:29 AM ET 2010-11-26T13:48:29



SPARTANBURG, South Carolina — A former police officer has been arrested and accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama.

NBC station WYFF reported that a sworn statement from the Secret Service says that 78-year-old Michael Stephen Bowden was arrested earlier this month.

The Secret Service says Bowden told a nurse at a Veterans Affairs clinic in northwestern South Carolina that he was "was thinking of traveling to Washington, D.C., to shoot the president because he was not doing enough to help African Americans."

He made the remark after he was asked by a mental health nurse if he was suicidal, WYFF said. Bowden later tested positive for suicidal tendencies.

[Canuckistanian]

1. And yet, he looks perfectly normal n/t

[blonndee]

2. . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9627558&mesg_id=9627558

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9633645&mesg_id=9633645

[virgogal]

3. He's obviously got mental problems but should be kept locked up.

[NOLALady]

4. I guess he figured Bush did his part

to help Black folk, especially during the end of August 2005.

[lib_wit_it]

5. I'm curious to hear more about this man's case. I'm a littls suspiciuous about his supposed

murderous rage at President Obama for his failure to help blacks. It will be interesting to find out if this man has ever been involved in or supported any sort of civil rights efforts.