An FBI special agent indicated in a redacted affidavit that investigators had been looking into made on two right-wing social media websites — Rumble and Gab — and determined that Brockbank went by the username "Teakty4u" and made threats against numerous officials.

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"As alleged, Teak Brockbank threatened the lives of multiple public servants on social media. Among other threats, he allegedly claimed that it was ‘time’ to put two state election officials to death and that he was obligated to ‘put a bullet’ in the head of a Colorado state judge," Nicole M. Argentieri, who heads the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said in a statement. "Public servants must be able to do their jobs without fear. The Criminal Division will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute those who target public officials with threats of violence."

Brockbank wrote about his belief that people in Colorado and Arizona needed to be executed, authorities said. "The people have to take matters into their own hands," he is alleged to have written in a Rumble post in July 2022.

"We are gonna have to take care of these people ourselves. Our law-enforcement are incompetent our judges are incompetent George Soros paid for funded puppets are running our state," he is alleged to have written on Gab in July 2022. "It’s time for the American people to take matters into their own hands start eliminating those that we know are guilty!! There is no other way! Mark my words. We have to go to war with these people right now!!"