WATCH: Rep. Nadler questions FBI Director Wray in House hearing on Trump shooting probe
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Published 2024-07-24
The New York Democrat asked the director to describe how the FBI distinguishes between heated rhetoric versus potential for violence.
“In our view, there’s a right way and a wrong way under the First Amendment to express your views, no matter how passionate or even angry you are. And violence, and threats of violence, is not the right way,” Wray said. “We don’t care what you’re upset about or who you’re upset with, from the FBI’s perspective, when it turns to violence and threats of violence, that’s where we have to draw the line and that’s when we get engaged.”
Wray added that the agency has seen an “alarming phenomenon” over the last several years of “that kind of passion and heated rhetoric turning into actual violence and threats of violence” against public officials and law enforcement.
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