David Aaron Bloyed, Threats to Kill Public Official, Texas 2024

David Aaron Bloyed, 60, of Frost, Texas, was found guilty today by a federal jury of one count of communicating a threat in interstate commerce to lynch and kill Glenn Funk, the elected District Attorney General (DA) for Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.

The conviction stems from a series of threats posted on social media following a fight between members of the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and a local bar employee in downtown Nashville on July 14, 2024. The threats, which included a photograph of DA Funk with the caption, ‘Getting the rope,’ and an emoji finger pointed towards Funk’s image, were posted on a Telegram account associated with Bloyed.

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. 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?’

‘The defendant’s heinous threats strike at the heart of our justice system and the safety of those who have chosen to serve,’ said Sue J. Bai, Head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. ‘As today’s verdict demonstrates, violent threats and intimidation against government officials and law enforcement will not be tolerated.’

‘Antisemitic hate has no place in Nashville or anywhere, and this verdict shows these hateful threats for what they are: a crime,’ said Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire for the Middle District of Tennessee. ‘Our office will do whatever it takes to defend our community, and the prosecutors who serve it, from being threatened by these hatemongers.’

At sentencing, Bloyed faces up to five years in federal prison.

The FBI Nashville Field Office and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department are investigating the case.

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