Florida Woman Pleads Guilty, Faces Five-Year Prison Term For Threatening to Kill Kamala Harris

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Niviane Petit Phelps, a erstwhile Florida nurse, has pleaded blameworthy to threatening to termination Vice President Kamala Harris. She faces a five-year situation term. Phelps made aggregate threats to Harris’s beingness soon aft Harris and President Joe Biden were sworn into bureau successful January.

“Kamala Harris, you are going to die. Your days are numbered already. Someone paid maine $53,000 conscionable to f— you up and I’m gonna instrumentality the, I’m gonna bash the job, okay,” Phelps said astatine the clip successful 1 of respective videos she sent to her husband.

Phelps, who is Black, was arrested successful April aft a ailment was filed against her. She claimed she made the threats due to the fact that she did not judge Harris. who has an Indian parent and Jamaican father, is really Black. She besides claimed that Harris did not curse connected the Bible––instead, placing her manus connected her purse––during her swearing-in, a assertion that has been debunked.

According to The Washington Post, Phelps “pleaded blameworthy to six counts of making threats against the vice president — each representing 1 of the 30-second videos successful which she said she would assassinate Harris.”

Her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 19.

Phelps’s attorney, Scott Saul, told the Miami Herald that Phelps did not really mean to travel done connected her threats to assassinate the vice president.

“[She] was conscionable venting arsenic she was going done a tumultuous clip successful her life,” helium said, adding that “it has been important for Ms. Phelps to show her acceptance of work arsenic she begins to atone for her aberrant actions.”