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Samuel Cundari, 30, is charged with making threatening posts on X directed at the children of two state lawmakers, gun control groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office. He's also accused of posting about a potential bomb at a Springfield LGBTQ festival.
Rack City, a faction of the Black P Stone Nation also known as the Racketeers, claims territory around West 93rd and South Halsted streets. For years, they’ve been in a violent rivalry with a Gangster Disciples faction known as the Princeton Park GDs, authorities say.
The politics-as-usual defence
The U.S. State Department issued a "worldwide caution" alert, saying it had learned of an "increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events."