Wieambilla: Indictment reveals Donald Day’s threats after police shooting
An American man praised the Wieambilla police killers, boasted that he was armed and threatened police and other authorities, court documents have revealed.
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The American who allegedly incited the Wieambilla police shooters with “Christian end-of-days” messages has been charged with threatening any law enforcement officers who came to his home in the wake of the shocking incident.
Court documents reveal Donald Day Jr, who was arrested by the FBI in Arizona last month, praised the extremist killers and boasted online that he was “an x-con who’s armed to the teeth”.
“It is no different for us. The devils come for us, they f***ing die. It’s just that simple,” he allegedly said.
The 58-year-old has also been charged over threats he made online to World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, which were allegedly sparked by the top doctor’s statement about a Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea.
In a video on BitChute, a video platform used by conspiracy theorists and far-right extremists, Day allegedly said: “It is time to kill these monsters, and any who serve them. Where are my kind? Where are you? Am I the only one? F***ing hell!”
Day had been communicating online with Gareth and Stacey Train before they and Gareth’s brother Nathaniel killed police officers Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow when they walked on to their Queensland property in December last year.
Several days after the horrific incident, an indictment alleges Day posted several videos on YouTube in which he said the Trains had “done exactly what they were supposed to do, and that is to kill these f***ing devils”.
He described Gareth and Stacey – who he called Daniel and Jane – as his brother and sister and claimed they were “harassed on a regular basis by authorities” because Nathaniel was “on the verge of revealing the extensive corruption that affected children”.
He defended them doing “what they had to do” because they would not submit “to a monster, to an unlawful entity, to a demonic entity”, according to the indictment, with Day adding that they “did exactly what their Heavenly Father would have done in the same situation”.
“That’s the only language that evil ever respects, responds to or understands, and that is the language of virtuous violence,” he said.
Day had earlier commented on a video posted by the Trains after the shooting, in which they admitted killing the police officers and added: “We’ll see you at home, Don. Love you.”
He replied: “From my core, I so wish that I could be with you to do what I do best. I hate it, that I am unable to. What can I do? I tell you, family, that those bastards will regret that they ever f***ed with us.”
“Anything that is within my range to do for you, I will not hesitate,” Day told the Trains, according to the indictment.
Days later, he referred to Australia’s strict gun laws, saying that “these are a people that are not armed, as we are in America, that at least have one resort to fight against f***ing tyrants in this country”.
“Daniel, Jane, if there’s any way possible that you are receiving this comm, I am so sorry that I’m not there to fight with you,” Day said.
“If you’re already home, our heavenly home, hold a place for us because we’ll be joining you soon enough.”
Day had been posting on YouTube since at least January last year as “Geronimo’s Bones”, and on BitChute since at least June last year as “WEAREALLDEADASF***”.
The indictment said that until February this year, he “engaged in a course of conduct demonstrating a desire to incite violence and threaten a variety of groups and individuals including law enforcement and government authorities”.
The 58-year-old – who was arrested at his home in Heber-Overgaard – pleaded not guilty to both charges of making interstate threats in the US District Court of Arizona this week.
A jury trial has been scheduled to begin in February.
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