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We should all be alarmed that a Sacramento man, identified by federal prosecutors as Anibal Hernandez Santana, now faces federal charges after allegedly firing shots into the lobby of KXTV/ABC10. The Justice Department says he’s been charged with possessing and discharging a firearm within a school zone and interfering with a federally licensed station, a serious escalation that demands a serious response from law enforcement.
According to court filings, the suspect fired one shot toward the station and then three shots directly into the building while an employee was inside, a brazen act that, thankfully, didn’t result in injury but could have been far worse. Prosecutors note the first shot was fired from within a school zone, which elevates the gravity of the federal counts and shows how recklessly dangerous this was.
Investigators say they found alarming evidence that points to a political motive: a weekly planner on his refrigerator marked “Do the Next Scary Thing” for the day of the shooting, along with a handwritten note in his car referencing Jeffrey Epstein and naming public figures while warning “they’re next,” and an anti-Trump book in the vehicle. These aren’t the ramblings of a harmless critic — they’re threat calculus, and prosecutors are right to treat them as such.
Local authorities initially arrested Hernandez Santana and released him on $200,000 bail, only to have the FBI rearrest him the following night and bring federal charges. His lawyer insists on innocence and claims political prosecution, but the evidence described by prosecutors — the notes, the planner entry, the pattern of behavior — cannot be waved away as mere political disagreement.
Let there be no confusion: violence aimed at the press or any institution because of political grievance is terrorism in all but name, and it must be treated that way regardless of the suspect’s professed ideology. Some local reports say investigators even examined whether the attack was connected to ABC’s own controversies, a reminder that the politicized environment our media and cultural elites have fostered can have dangerous blowback. The station attacked is an affiliate owned by Tegna, not the ABC network, but the point is broader — rhetoric has consequences.
Conservative Americans should demand two things right now: justice for potential victims and an end to selective outrage from the media class. Federal charges including interference with a radio communication station and discharging a firearm in a school zone carry significant penalties, and prosecutors say they plan to press hard — rightly so — because public safety can’t be sacrificed on the altar of partisan theater.
This episode is a wake-up call for hardworking Americans who value free speech and public safety: condemn political violence, hold perpetrators accountable, and stop pretending that threats only travel one way. Our country doesn’t thrive on threats, intimidation, or performative outrage — it thrives on law, order, and honest debate, and that must be the standard we insist upon now.
