Man found guilty in Florida Capitol plot
Photo via Daniel Baker's Facebook account.
A Tallahassee man who was
arrested in January for plotting to violently confront would-be protesters at the Florida Capitol was found guilty Thursday on federal charges.
Daniel Baker, who made online posts about confronting supporters of former President
Donald Trump during an expected protest at the state Capitol, was convicted on two counts of sending, in interstate commerce, a true threat to kidnap or injure.
During a trial that lasted about two-and-a-half days, Baker’s defense argued that the series of social media posts that led to his arrest were “jokes.” Federal prosecutors set out to prove that “inflammatory rhetoric” Baker posted online constituted a true threat.