US man sentenced to jail for threatening president Obama

An American man has been sentenced to jail for allegedly threatening to kill US President Barack Obama.

On Wednesday, a courtroom in North Carolina sentenced the man identified as Donte Jamar Sims to six months in prison followed by one year of supervised release after he allegedly sent messages on social media revealing a plot to kill the US president before his address at Democratic National Convention in September 2012. 

The 22-year-old Florida man posted threat messages including “Plotting president Obama's Murder…Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening…The Secret Service is gonna be defenseless once I aim the Assault Rifle at Barack's Forehead,” on Twitter. 

Following his arrest in 2012, a US Secret Service agent said the man made the threats because he hated President Obama. 

“Sims stated that he published the statements because he hated President Obama,” the Secret Service agent said. 

In a separate case, an 18-year-old boy arrested for making ‘terror threats’ through his Facebook posts about the recent bombings in the US city of Boston remains in custody pending payment of USD 1 million bail. 

This is while, the results of recent polls showed that Barack Obama's approval ratings plunged. 

According to a new poll conducted by the Quinnipiac University national, scandals dragged down Obama’s approval rating compared to less than a month ago. 

The poll of 1,419 registered voters from May 22-28, also released on Thursday, showed that 49 percent of the respondents disapproved of Obama’s performance in creating jobs, up from 45 percent in a similar survey by the university on May 1. 

The poll also showed that 49 percent of those surveyed are skeptical of Obama’s honesty, down from 58 percent compared to September 1, 2011, the last time the Quinnipiac University asked the question. 

Obama’s administration has also faced sever broadside since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which collects US taxes, admitted on May 10 that it had inappropriately targeted conservative Tea Party nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny. 

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Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/31/306455/us-man-gets-jail-term-for-obama-threats/