Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, of Los Angeles has been indicted by a grand jury on federal charges for threatening to kill President Trump, cyberstalking, and making harassing interstate calls.

Southworth is charged with posting videos calling for President Trump’s assassination, then targeted the family of the President’s personal attorney by publishing their home address and phone numbers, and leaving voicemails threatening “justice comes to your door.”

Threats against the President of the United States are federal crimes. We will not tolerate threats of political violence in the United States. My office will prosecute anyone who crosses that line to the fullest extent of the law.

🔗 F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli

When we got here, the FBI needed to move faster to keep up with 21st century criminals.

So we changed it.

Under President Trump’s leadership, this FBI is putting cutting-edge technology directly into the hands of the men and women doing the mission:

🔺 AI helping triage threat tips and identify the most serious threats faster
🔺 Technology translating and transcribing massive amounts of foreign-language data
🔺 Computer vision helping investigators cut through enormous volumes of video and evidence
🔺 Machine learning connecting data and exposing criminal networks
🔺 Biometric technology searching nearly 190 MILLION fingerprint records with 99.6% identification accuracy

We are not replacing agents and analysts — we are giving them better tools to do what they do best: find the threat, find the criminal, and get them off the street.
-DKP🇺🇸

🔗 FBI Director Kash Patel

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal calls ICE agents “fake law enforcement,” and says she will ARREST them for enforcing federal immigration law.

Have any of these DEI hires ever read the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution?

If they can even read, that is…

🔗James Woods

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trump Announces Raises for Federal Law Enforcement Officers

https://fop.net/2026/09/trump-announces-raises-for-federal-law-enforcement-officers/

🔗 National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)

This week, a disturbing video from New York City has been circulating widely. A suspect stabbed two people, one fatally. The suspect, armed with knives, was subsequently fatally shot as she appeared to move toward responding officers. Early reports suggest she may have been experiencing a behavioral health crisis, although the full circumstances remain under investigation.

The tragedy should cause us to look beyond the video itself and ask a bigger question: Are our systems adequately equipped to intervene before someone reaches a point of crisis?

We have seen the consequences of these challenges here at home as well. Recently in our community, an individual with a history of mental illness was involved in a brutal attack that seriously harmed others. Every situation is different, and mental illness should never automatically be associated with violence. But these incidents reinforce something those of us in public safety see far too often: people with serious behavioral health needs can fall through significant gaps in our system until a crisis occurs.

In Harris County, approximately 63% of incarcerated defendants have a mental health flag, and about 17% of defendants are experiencing homelessness. Jails were never designed to be our primary mental health treatment system, yet increasingly they are being asked to manage people with extraordinarily complex needs.

Meanwhile, state mental health hospitals face long delays and limited capacity. Local treatment capacity is also inadequate. Civil mental health commitments in Texas are intentionally subject to significant legal standards. And families trying to help someone in crisis can sometimes find themselves navigating a fragmented system with few options.

At @HCSOTexas, we work closely with our partners at @TheHarrisCTR and others. Together, we have developed a successful jail-based mental health competency program and expanded its capacity. That work matters—but it still cannot reach everyone who needs help.

Law enforcement sits at the intersection of many of these systems. We see what happens when they work, and unfortunately, we also see what happens when they don’t.

There is no single or easy fix. But accepting the status quo cannot be the answer either.

We need stronger community-based behavioral health services, greater treatment capacity, better continuity of care, appropriate facilities for people with acute needs, and earlier opportunities to intervene before crisis becomes tragedy.

This isn’t only a mental health issue. It’s a community safety issue.

We must remain relentless about improving systems that are too often fragmented and overwhelmed—while protecting the dignity of people experiencing mental illness and the safety of our entire community.

My condolences are with the victims and everyone affected by the tragedy in New York City.

🔗 Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Promises made, promises kept. Our southern border is locked down. 🇺🇸

🔗 The White House