QAnon follower gets 3 years for threatening to ‘execute’ Katie Hobbs
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Teak Brockbank was sentenced to three years in federal prison for threatening to kill then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in 2022. Photo via FBI/Justice Department
A Colorado man who wrote online about how he had the right to execute then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and made similar threats against Jena Griswold, the Colorado secretary of state, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.
Teak Ty Brockbank blamed being exposed to far-right extremism content online, including the QAnon conspiracy theory, for motivating him to make online threats.
In the criminal complaint for the case, FBI agents included posts from Brockbank that included the common QAnon catchphrase “WWG1WGA” and references to other QAnon beliefs.
Acronyms are popular among the QAnon community, and the most well known is WWG1WGA, meaning “Where We Go One, We Go All,” a phrase used as a rallying cry among the “digital soldiers” of the QAnon community.
Brockbank’s online avatar was a version of a cartoon frog that has become popular in antisemitic, conspiracy theory and racist online circles.
In August 2022, Brockbank posted on the video service Rumble, which has become a , that people like Hobbs and Griswold were committing treason for alleged election fraud. There is no evidence of widespread election fraud or election fraud perpetrated by Hobbs or Griswold. “Once these people start getting put to death then the rest will melt like snowflakes and turn on each other and we will sit back why (sic) the worst of them get pointed against the wall as well,” Brockbank wrote in a comment on a Rumble video. “This is the only way. So those of us that have the stomach for what has to be done should prepare our minds for what we All are going to do!!!!!!” Brockbank, who used to live in Cave Creek, also claimed that he had a right to “execute” Hobbs in public.
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