Assistant Principal From Virginia and His Brother Arrested for Plotting to Shoot Police and ICE Agents (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance


Assistant Principal From Virginia and His Brother Arrested for Plotting to Shoot Police and ICE Agents (VIDEO)

Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and his brother – Screencap of Twitter/X video.

What is going on in Virginia? Is there something in the water there?

An assistant school principal from Virginia Beach and his brother were arrested for plotting to shoot police and ICE agents. Apparently, someone overheard the brothers talking about it in a restaurant and snitched on them.

How many more people out there are talking about doing things like this, who haven’t been caught?

13 News Now in Virginia reports:

Virginia Beach assistant principal, brother accused of plotting violence against ICE, police say

A Virginia Beach high school assistant principal is one of two men accused of threatening violence against law enforcement, including local police officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Virginia Beach police said John W. Bennett, 54, and Mark B. Bennett, 59, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.

John Bennett is employed as an assistant principal at Kempsville High School. A spokesperson for Virginia Beach City Public Schools said he has worked for the division since 2009 and is currently on leave.

He was arrested in Virginia Beach at 10:47 a.m. Wednesday. On the same morning, Nov. 19, Mark Bennett was taken into custody at Norfolk International Airport at 9:42 a.m. with help from airport police.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Virginia Beach General District Court, an off-duty Norfolk police officer overheard the two brothers while dining inside a Pho restaurant on General Booth Boulevard on Nov. 15.

The officer reported hearing the men talk about ICE agents “kidnapping individuals” and said the conversation led him to believe the brothers “needed to do something about it.”

See the video report below:

Police and ICE agents put their lives at risk every day in service to the country and their local communities. And yet, they have to deal with threats from people like these two wing nuts.

It’s totally outrageous.

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Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.

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