(Warning: Obscene language and disturbing pictures in embedded tweets.)

On April 17, Valdosta State University student protester Eric Sheppard made headlines when he was caught on video wrestling with Air Force veteran Michelle Manhart for an American flag he and other demonstrators had been stomping on.

A few days later, police found an abandoned backpack allegedly belonging to Sheppard with a handgun inside.  Authorities issued an arrest warrant charging him with a felony for bringing a weapon into a school safety zone.  According to reports, Sheppard was also being investigated by the FBI for making terrorist threats on social media.

Almost a month later, Sheppard is still on the run.  But that hasn't stopped him from threatening police, and all white people, including women and babies.  A few days ago, Sheppard sent a rambling manifesto accompanied by a short video to the Valdosta Daily Times.

From the manifesto:

Many still question the possibility of my surrendering to the people who call themselves "authorities". To Give you a Simple Answer,

No! I will Not Turn Myself Over to Any White Man and I will Ensure this With my Own Will to Self-Defend and To Annihilate those Who Come After Me. These same people who you all know as "legal officials/police officers/sheriff/detectives" or any other falsified label of 'authority' only know wickedness and devilish behavior.

You Cannot Escape this Divine Judgement. Warnings Had been Put Out by the Path-Layer Noble Drew Ali, Warnings Had been Put out by The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Warnings had been Put Out by The Prophet Elijah Muhammad, The Generals Malcolm X & Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, The Oracle Dr. Frances Welsing and of course our Great Guide The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

But the TRUE Supreme Court of Almighty A.L.L.A.H. will not be in a Building built by the Hands of White Men…Fires shall Consume Your Bodies, Heads Will Be Severed and Your Blood will Flow in the Streets.

I say, if they don’t get out of town, we kill the white men, we kill the white women, we kill the white children, we kill the white babies, we kill the blind whites, we kill the crippled whites, we kill the crazy whites, we kill the faggots, we kill the lesbians, I say god dammit we kill 'em all.


How has the "armed and dangerous" Sheppard evaded authorities?  Where are the FBI, the DOJ, and DHS?  Valdosta police chief Brian Childress suggested that the manifesto is a "publicity stunt," and so far the FBI, the sheriff's office, and the U.S. attorney's office seem to be treating Sheppard's threats as less than credible.

Sheppard also has money coming in for his legal defense, shelter, and transportation, something Chief Childress said in April would not be tolerated.  "If we find out you're harboring him, you're going to jail, we see those same posts. You go ahead and try to harbor somebody after we've issued an arrest warrant."

Heads up, Chief.  You might want to know that "The Support Eric Sheppard Initiative" Indiegogo donation page is still up, and Sheppard has a lot of hate-filled supporters. 

A woman who calls herself Nocturnus Libertus, from the Richmond, Virginia area, featured on the Indiegogo page,  would be just another "radical Feminist, semi-Libertarian anarchist, theorist, & lesbian separatist" – except she threatens cops, calls America's military personnel "terrorists," and posts a photo on her Twitter account of a 4- or 5-year-old girl, presumably her daughter, holding a "F**k the Police" sign.  On the same page, she declares, "On my gramma the first chance I get to throw a Molotov cocktail in the RVA police station I'ma do that s**t!"#NotMyFlag#F**kThePolice."

#NotMyFlag pic.twitter.com/5vas3q4HYj

— Nocturnus Libertus (@NLibertusOnline) May 5, 2015

I bring #DEATH 2 #fascists/#patriots. Fuck w/ my people & you'll #DIE by my hands #NotMyFlag #HandsOffEJ #FuckYoFlag pic.twitter.com/Ra4HiStiy0

— Nocturnus Libertus (@NLibertusOnline) May 5, 2015

Nocturnus is trying to raise $20,000, mostly for Sheppard's bail if he is "caught by the pigs."  If he manages to avoid getting picked up, she’s allocated individual amounts for shelter, transportation, and outside activists.  (I wonder how she feels now that he has threatened lesbians in his manifesto.)

Another crowdfunding site, GoFundMe, has no problem with "The Family" of Eric Sheppard soliciting for his legal defense fund, despite his fugitive status.  Yet GFM refused to allow the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police to collect money for the six Baltimore officers charged with the death of Freddie Gray.

Looks like the targeting of local law enforcement officers by groups on all sides of the ideological spectrum has made Sheppard a member of a protected class.  He already has a legal team, and earlier local reports indicated that the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam were providing cover for a guy who says he's a "terrorist towards white people."