Retired NYPD cop allegedly threatened to behead Fla. pol over mosque support: Off with his head

A retired NYPD cop living in Florida allegedly threatened to behead a local politician in a deranged social media rant, landing him behind bars and facing a possible decade-long prison sentence.Rodolo Mienert, 68, was allegedly linked to a Facebook comment violently railing against Pinellas County’s Republican Commissioner Brian Scott and his recent approval of a local mosque’s expansion, according to police.“He’s a Republican’ turncoat,…off with his head!” read the comment, which was written on a post about Scott’s mosque vote and later reported to police.Another post from the account showed a Scott campaign video which was captioned “DO NOT vote for this person, he voted FOR a mosque.”They were posted by an account which had a profile picture of Bugs Bunny wielding a revolver and a bio reading “…if I pissed off a libtard today, I’m happy!! no further reply!!” with the account IP address allegedly leading to Mienert.The ex-cop confirmed the account was his when confronted by police, telling investigators he was “very vocal and not afraid to share his opinion,” Fox News reported.Mienert allegedly reiterated that Scott was a “turncoat” for his mosque vote, and was arrested.He was charged with a felony count of written or electronic threat to kill, which could send him to prison for 15 years.Mienert spent 22 years with the NYPD before retiring and moving to St.

Petersburg.He appeared at an Oct.27 County Commission meeting where the mosque measure was discussed, and told during public comments how he moved to “beautiful Florida” but feared the expansion would worsen traffic and hurt the environment.Mienert was in custody a day after his arrest — and cops said they had no tolerance for menacing threats.“Threatening to cut off the head of a county commissioner because of his vote on a land issue is intolerable and we will strictly enforce the law against anyone who makes threats of this nature,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob...