The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said the incident happened at the Castro Valley Fall Festival Sunday afternoon and ended without serious injuries. The suspect, Farzad Vincent Fazeli, was arrested on charges of making criminal threats, exhibiting a deadly weapon and possessing a switchblade.

The alleged victim, Rudy Peters, who is running for the 15th Congressional District of California, told the San Francisco Chronicle a man walked up to his booth at the festival and made a series of "disparaging remarks" about Republicans and some of the party's leadership, including President Donald Trump.

"All of a sudden we hear someone screaming, '(expletive) Trump, (expletive) Trump!'" Peters told the newspaper, adding the man also held up his middle finger.

Peters, who said he was standing with Republican state Assembly candidate Joseph Grcar, told KPIX that Fazeli then picked up a coffee cup and threw it at them but missed.

Peters, a Navy veteran, said he then threw Fazeli to the ground, at which point Fazeli pulled a switchblade from his pocket and yelled, "I'll kill you!"

Peters told the Chronicle that he grabbed a sign from a nearby cupcake booth to use as a shield but Fazeli was luckily unable to open the blade.

Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said "the knife malfunctioned" and "Fazeli fled the scene but was detained a short time later by deputies."

A supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has reportedly threatened to shoot up a "Make America Great Again" event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Law enforcement officials with the Metropolitan Police Department have opened up an investigation in response to the threat, which was posted to Twitter on Tuesday, The Daily Mail reports.

"I am coming with a gun and i expect to get numerous bloodstained MAGA hats as trophies," the Twitter account wrote to right-wing pundit Cassandra Fairbanks.

(Sep 12, 2018 10:02 PM)Syne Wrote: A bookstore is not politicians and political rallies.

And:
Brian Stelter Airs Death Threat Aimed At Don Lemon, Himself

(Sep 12, 2018 10:36 PM)Syne Wrote: No, politically motivated threats are terrorism. The RiteAid story was obviously a racial motive, where he harassed some Hispanics inside the store before ranting at the black woman. The black man in the MAGA hat made racially derogatory statements to a Hispanic...the same story also saying a Danish tourist got his MAGA hat robbed in the subway.

And CNN did cover Boston Globe threats: https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/09/02/nyt-reporter-boston-globe-employees-threat-arrest-reliable-vpx.cnn

(Sep 12, 2018 10:55 PM)Syne Wrote: Not according to the law.

(Sep 12, 2018 11:09 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:

(Sep 12, 2018 10:55 PM)Syne Wrote: Not according to the law.

The law doesn't determine morality.

(Sep 13, 2018 12:27 AM)Syne Wrote:

(Sep 12, 2018 11:09 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:

(Sep 12, 2018 10:55 PM)Syne Wrote: Not according to the law.

The law doesn't determine morality.

And? You're the only one who brought up morality.

When you were called on two of your links having already been covered by CNN and the rest not politically motivated, you had to introduce the red herring of morality. At best, it's a tu quoque fallacy that doesn't even address the central claim.