President Barack Obama is unaware that his politics have rifled an ex cop. The retired NYPD officer, former fireman and Navy retiree Michael Stephen Bowden was arrested after making vague, ominous threats that he “would like to shoot the president” because of Obama’s “not doing enough to help African-Americans.” Bowden issued these remarks to a Veterans Affairs clinic nurse while in Sprtanburg, SC. The 78-year-old retiree than said to the nurse that he would like to kill himself as well, which prompted the Secret Service to take his words more seriously than mere jesters of an old, mentally disturbed man.
The Secret Service paid a visit to Bowden’s house and talked to the former cop. Bowden did not deny issuing the said remarks and thus earned him detention by the government. Bowden instead further clarified his remarks by saying that if he had “the opportunity to put Obama against the wall and shoot him,” he would. That prompted Secret Service agents to do a full-scale search of Bowden’s residence which resulted in the discovery of three semiautomatic pistols plus a semiautomatic rifle under his bed. The agents also found a total of 13 other firearms in other locations around his house.
Despite Bowden’s son pleading for their understanding, the agents arrested Bowden on undisclosed charges. The ex-cop’s son Kerry plead with the agents saying that his father is a 78-year-old man that has survived a couple of heart bypass operations, and that lifting any object that weighs over 20 pounds would lead to intense chest pains that could only be remedied through medication.
