A deranged man has been arrested for allegedly claiming he was planning to firebomb ICE agents at a No Kings rally in New York City.
David Cox, 54, was hit with terrorism charges on Saturday after boasting to a stranger at a gas station the night before that he planned to ‘fight ICE agents’, police said.
Cox, from Newark Valley which is 200 miles northwest of Manhattan, told the bystander at the Owego rest stop that he ‘intended to harm federal agents’, cops said.
The bystander called police, who tracked Cox’s car to Brooklyn, where he was detained at around 2.25pm while 100,000 people gathered at the rally in Midtown.
An NYPD spokesperson told the Daily Mail that Cox has been charged with making a terroristic threat, false report of terrorism, and making a threat of mass harm.
His police booking photograph has not been released. Online records indicate that Cox is married. He was taken into custody ‘without incident’, police said.
The NYPD said no firebombs or weapons were found in Cox’s vehicle.
It comes as millions of people took part in No Kings protests in liberal cities across the country this weekend, from Portland Oregon to New York City.
A deranged man has been arrested for allegedly claiming he was planning to firebomb ICE agents at a No Kings rally in New York City. The rally, shown above, took place Saturday
Millions took part in No Kings protests in liberal cities across the country this weekend, from Portland Oregon to New York City. Demonstrators gathered to protest against Donald Trump and his administration’s aggressive deportations, which they view as anti-democratic
A deranged man has been arrested for allegedly claiming he was planning to firebomb ICE agents at a No Kings rally in New York City. (Pictured: A No Kings rally in Chicago in June)
Demonstrators gathered to protest against Donald Trump and his administration’s aggressive deportations, which they view as anti-democratic and illegal.
Trump responded by sharing an AI video of himself as a fighter pilot launching manure at No Kings protesters .
He also refuted the premise of the protests. ‘They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,’ the president told Fox News.
Members of Congress, who have been locked into the ongoing government shutdown as it enters its 19th day, have been among both the supporters and critics of the rallies.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, posted on X to ‘encourage Americans everywhere, Americans who love this country, who care about our democracy, to march peacefully.’
‘I say to my fellow citizens: do not let Donald Trump and Republicans intimidate you into silence,’ Schumer added. ‘That’s what they want to do. They’re afraid of the truth.’
Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson have decried the events, saying they are likely to include ‘Hamas supporters’ and ‘antifa types.’
A ‘No Kings’ protest scheduled in New York City has dozens of sponsors, including the ‘Communist Party USA.’
The description for one of the demonstrations urges attendees to commit ‘to nonviolent action.’
‘We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events,’ organizers noted.
Pictured: No Kings protesters marching down Seventh Avenue from Times Square in NYC
In an interview to air Sunday, President Donald Trump refuted the premise of the protests, telling Fox News’, ‘I am not a king.’
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott planned to send National Guard troops and other law enforcement to Austin for its demonstration, earning blowback from Democrats.
‘No Kings’ events are expected to occur in over 2,600 locations across all 50 states.
The demonstration in Washington, DC, is set to play host to one of the largest crowds, but gatherings in other major liberal cities are sure to be sizable as well.
Organizers of the protests noted that ‘Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down.’
‘Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he’s attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings,’ the group’s leaders also noted, according to Axios.
Numerous sources in Washington, DC, told the Daily Mail that they see the impasse lasting beyond Thanksgiving.
The longest government shutdown in history came during Trump’s first term and stretched for 35 days between December 2018 and January 2019.
Around 100,000 people gathered at the anchor No Kings rally in New York City’s Midtown
Marines and National Guard troop at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on June 14
Demonstrators turned out to protest against Trump in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 14
A Los Angeles Police Department officer points a rubber bullet gun at the crowd during a ‘No Kings’ march in downtown Los Angeles, California, on June 14, when the protests spiraled
Numerous sources on Capitol Hill told the Daily Mail last week that they foresaw the shutdown stretching past Saturday, predicting that the longer the shutdown lasts, the more Democrats will be blamed for it.
‘They are putting their own folks at a disadvantage,’ one senior Senate Republican aide told the Daily Mail last week.
‘If I were the “No Kings” guys, I’d be saying we need to move this [protest] up to, like, [October] 13th or 14th,’ the aide added.
The last round of ‘No Kings’ protests took place on June 14, the day of Trump’s military parade in Washington, DC, which also coincided with his 79th birthday.
Some of the demonstrations around the country turned chaotic, including an incident with a man driving into a crowd at a gathering in Culpeper, Virginia.
On the National Mall in Washington, DC, there were only a smattering of critics – some quietly holding signs with others more loudly heckling the president’s MAGA fans who gathered for the military parade.