Texas man latest to be imprisoned for threats to kill federal agents after guilty plea
Seventeen months. Opening fire on ICE. The keyboard was not a shield.
Summary
- Just the News reports Robert Wilson King, 36, of Dallas, was sentenced after pleading guilty in June to transmitting an interstate threat. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr gave him 17 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release.
- King posted that if he saw ICE agents in his neighborhood he was opening fire, called ICE not real cops and a secret police force with no real legal authority, and wrote kill them. Other posts told people to shoot ICE agents dead and suggested someone kill President Trump, falsely calling him a traitor.
- U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said there is no place for political violence, including hiding behind a keyboard to threaten federal law enforcement. HSI Dallas Deputy Special Agent in Charge Antwoine Jones said threats against federal officers are not protected speech.
- King is the latest 2026 sentence in the pattern. Logan Christopher Murfin, 26, of Skiatook, Oklahoma, received 21 months after a jury found him guilty of threatening to murder federal agents. Christopher Ray Plyler, 43, of Grand Haven, Michigan, received 12 months. Joseph Rocco Giancola, 73, of Cape Coral, Florida, received 6 months. The report notes Watts v. United States still distinguishes crude political hyperbole from a true threat.
Commentary
A night-shift dad still parks a patrol truck and knows a social post is supposed to mean a complaint, not a kill order on the men who knock. He did not pay the levy so a keyboard could sit while an ICE family locked a door.
Seventeen months. Twenty-one for Murfin. Twelve and six behind him. Opening fire. Shoot them dead. The linoleum in that Dallas courtroom still remembers the plea. The honest household already bought the overtime for the badge that still has to knock.
Look every working father who still kisses a badge after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if 17 months already landed on a Dallas keyboard, who still owns the next kill post a timeline tries to call speech?
Comments
King: 17 months. Murfin: 21. Plyler 12. Giancola 6. Keep the four.
I stood a gate so a threat still meant a hold. Opening fire is not a weather report.
Raybould: no keyboard shield. Jones: not protected speech. Print both.
Allied courts still treat a kill order on a badge as a crime, not a post.
Plea in June. Starr sentence. Watts hyperbole line still on the books. File the three.
I still park a truck at 2 a.m. I want the next timeline empty of a kill line.
A 17-month stamp is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A kill post on ICE is a second border around every honest porch.
Just the News printed 17, the opening-fire line, and the 2026 stack. Argue those nouns.
Track the threats. Prosecute the keyboard. A kill post is not a souvenir.
