Rob McKenna: Holding a fake severed head doesn’t amount to a threat
Jun 5, 2017, 8:35 AM | Updated: 1:06 pm
Comedian Kathy Griffin speaks along with her attorney Lisa Bloom during a news conference, Friday, June 2, 2017, in Los Angeles to discuss the backlash since Griffin released a photo and video of her displaying a likeness of President Donald Trump's severed head. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Kathy Griffin said that President Trump is trying to of her holding a fake severed head with the president’s likeness.
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Though the image of her holding the fake head is “grotesque” and in “poor taste,” 成人X站 Radio political analyst and former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna says it probably doesn’t meet the requirement for a legitimate threat.
As long as Griffin never accompanied the gruesome photos with verbal or written threats, McKenna says the celebrity is in the clear.
“In order to trigger the law that makes it a Class C felony … you have to utter words that encourage some sort of action, and that didn’t happen as far as I can tell,” he said.
The same could go for anyone who has burned a Trump effigy, McKenna added.
Griffin likely won’t be charged, he says.
“I think the Secret Service needs to show it takes these kinds of situations seriously,” he said.
