A Florida dentist who pleaded guilty to charges connected to numerous racist online threats he penned to dozens of public figures has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Richard Glenn Kantwill was arrested last summer for a months-long messaging spree in which he used Facebook and Instagram to send more than 100 threats to over 40 individuals, even after being warned by the FBI to stop.
According to federal prosecutors, Kantwill sent the threats to multiple political figures, a media personality, a pastor, an author, and an election official between September 2019 and July 2020. He also sent more threats to four public figures between April 2022 and April 2024.
The FBI said Kantwill targeted specific individuals because of their political commentary and ran an “almost year-long campaign of terror,” sending messages ridden with racist and homophobic language and praise for President Donald Trump.
According to court documents cited by WFLA, he wrote a message to a cable news channel, threatening to kill one a news correspondent and his family, by stating, “We will kidnap and kill his kids in captivity….every unkindly word he has said about [Presidential Candidate] will be another slash in his kids necks. F*** YOU [Cable News Channel]!!!!”
In a personal message to another media personality, Kantwill threatened to make him and his wife watch as he cut out his young son’s heart while it was still beating.
In a separate threat to another victim he called a “fake Reverend” and an “anti-Christ piece of s—”, Kantwill also wrote, “We are going to kill you. Torture first, then death. You won’t see Christ….because you are an immoral degenerate.”
In another message to a different victim, he wrote, “cannot wait to shoot your ghetto (expletive) in the street…you will die like every other [redacted] piece of s—.”
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