A second New York resident said on Tuesday that federal authorities served him with a warning over an email that authorities deemed threatening after he criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics.David Streever, of Rochester, was on a trip to Finland last week when two officers showed up to his home and handed his wife a warning notice notifying him that an email he sent earlier this year was deemed a threat, his lawyer told The Associated Press.Streever sent an email in January to Todd Lyons, who was the acting director of ICE at the time, after an ICE agent shot and killed U.S.citizen Renee Nicole Good during an immigration enforcement-related incident in Minneapolis.In the email, Streever told Lyons he was "a monstrous human being" who "will never know peace."MINNESOTA SENATE VOTES TO BAN ICE FROM WEARING MASKS, ALLOW RESIDENTS TO SUE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONSFederal officers showed up at David Streever's home in Rochester, New York, in June 2026.
(David Streever via AP)"The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall.Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness," Streever said in the email, according to Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression who is representing Streever.Federal officers also attempted to confront Streever at a New York City hotel after he returned from Finland, but hotel staff turned them away, Steinbaugh said.Steinbaugh argued the email was protected speech under the First Amendment and does not represent a legitimate threat."A true threat is a serious expression of an intent to commit violence.
This email doesn't even come close," Steinbaugh said."It's political speech, it's an act of petitioning your government."Streever said he was shocked that federal officers came to his home to question him over his email...