La Mesa man convicted of making threats against President Obama

By David Hasemyer
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
12:35 p.m. July 28, 2009

A 47-year-old La Mesa man was convicted Tuesday of making threats against President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, ranting in an Internet post that the candidate should be shot.

In a racially laced diatribe Oct. 22, Walter Bagdasarian said the country would essentially fall apart during an Obama presidency and suggested assassination. U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Huff said Bagdasarian's tirade against Obama was a “definite threatâ€