Police: 'White pride' man threatened to 'destroy' township

Montco man charged with threatening township
By STEPHANIE FARR

Philadelphia Daily News

farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225


James Gallagher's plans to "destroy" Springfield Township in Montgomery County were written all over his Facebook, police said yesterday.

In several photos and messages posted on the social-networking site, Gallagher, 22, of the township's Wyndmoor section, boasted of his white pride, his arsenal of guns and his desire to kill people, investigators said.

"i will destroy Springfield no1 here got guns like me," he wrote, according to his arrest affidavit.

After police were alerted to the page on Sept. 2 by an observant Facebook friend of Gallagher's, a detective went undercover and requested to be Gallagher's friend so that he could see the private account, according to court documents.

A search warrant was served on Gallagher's home the day that the detective viewed the account, Springfield Township Police Chief Randall Hummel said.

"We didn't play around when we got that information," he said. ...........(more)

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My husband is a volunteer EMT out that way.

Fantastic.

Just another example of how "wrong" that DHS report on "right wing extremists" was.

:eyes:

?????

The place and the people are as laid back as you can imagine. I guess ugliness can be lurking anywhere.

:grr:

Luckily, I'm inside the Philly city limits.
The suburbs make me nervous.

He's cuckoo for caca puffs.