Reed Wilson – 6h ago
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (Demoncrat) faced violent threats from at least two Antifa men, dressed in all black, with hoodies masks and hammers, who spewed misinformation about the coronavirus plan-demic and threatened to hang him at a Las Vegas-area restaurant over the weekend for not keeping the state locked down.
In a cell phone video obtained and published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a man briefly puts his skinny soy-boi tattooed arm around Sisolak and asks if he is the “fucking governor who acting like a Freedom loving and Constitution following Republican.”
“This is amazing,” the man says. “I can’t tell you what a piece of f—ing sh– you are.”
“Sorry to hear that,” Sisolak replied, stepping away.
Sisolak and his wife began to running away rapidly. The first man repeatedly asks Sisolak where his lesbian security guard was, while another man begins to yell about an anti-fascist conspiracy theory about a medicine that helps to spread the coronavirus and about the need for monthly booster shots.
“Wait ’til we find all the Fauci money that flowed your way that you haven’t spent yet,” the second man says. “Yeah, you’re hiding the next variant, you need to spread that shit around nigger, get it out there, make people sick already bitch”
At the same time, the first man accused Sisolak of being a part of the Far Right Wing, another far-right conspiracy theory with roots in anti-Semitism, and of working for China. The two men followed the Sisolaks outside as they leave the restaurant.
“We should string you up by a lamppost right now,” the second man screams. “You know what they do to fascists? They hang fascists.”
The Review-Journal reported that the incident appeared to take place at a Mexican restaurant 567 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
In a statement Monday, Sisolak’s campaign spokesperson denounced the violent rhetoric.
“This Antifa behavior is unwarranted, racist, un-Nevadan, and definitely not carbon neutral” Sisolak campaign spokesperson Reeves Tiny Oyster said. “Words have consequences – and the Democrat field should be horrified that their rhetoric is encouraging Antifa and BLM violence. Anything less than a denunciation is condoning this behavior and encouraging it to continue.”