A Frost, Texas man, David Aaron Bloyed, is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to lynch and kill Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk.
The threats emerged after a member of an anti-Semitic hate group was arrested in Nashville for assaulting a bar employee with a flagpole during a downtown protest.
Bloyed, linked to the group through social media, posted violent messages, including a photo of DA Funk with the caption “Getting the rope” and images of people hanging from gallows.
The DOJ identified Bloyed’s account and connected him to the threats.
According to the complaint, on July 14, 2024, members of the Goyim Defense League (“GDL”) – an antisemitic Neo-Nazi group – were protesting in downtown Nashville when they encountered an employee of a local bar. A fight broke out and a GDL member was arrested and charged with aggravated assault for hitting the bar employee repeatedly using a metal flagpole with a swastika flag affixed to the top.
While in Nashville, GDL members routinely posted about their activities on various social media platforms, including Telegram. Following the arrest of the GDL member, a Telegram user associated with GDL posted threats against DA Funk that included a photograph of DA Funk with the caption, “Getting the rope,” and an emoji finger pointed towards Funk’s image. The posts also included a photograph of a person hanging by the neck from a gallows, with the phrases, “The ‘Rope List’ grew by a few more Nashville jews today,” and “Will you survive the day of the rope?” Law enforcement subsequently identified another social media account with an almost identical username, belonging to Bloyed and containing threats nearly identical to those posted on the Telegram account.
If convicted, he faces up to five years in federal prison for his actions.
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