Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, was taken into custody on federal charges of witness tampering, obstruction and transmitting threats. A West Virginia man and known white supremacist was arrested Thursday for allegedly targeting the Jewish community in social media posts and online comments during the trial for the Tree of Life synagogue shooter. Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, was taken into custody without incident on federal charges of witness tampering, obstruction and transmitting threats. Lloyd, a self-proclaimed “reverend” of a white supremacy movement, is accused of making several comments in May calling for Robert Bowers’ release and threatening people who served on the jury at his trial. Bowers was convicted in June of fatally shooting 11 people at the Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. He was sentenced to death on Aug. 3. In a May 14 post on the Russian social media site VKontakte, Lloyd allegedly wrote: “Free Robert Bowers Now!! … We need to support anyone who kills jews,” according to a federal criminal complaint. (…) In other posts, Lloyd allegedly threatened to publicly release the names and addresses of the jurors. In a May 17 email to local news stations, Lloyd said that people would be watching the jurors and “taking pictures of ALL cars and people who leave the courthouse,” according to the complaint. White supremacy stickers with Lloyd’s website were also found around Pittsburgh, authorities said in the complaint. One sticker included a swastika and the words “White Pride,” according to the complaint.
via nbcnews: White supremacist charged with threatening jurors on Pittsburgh synagogue shooter trial