A Bay Area resident was charged in October with a felony for emailing death threats, laden with racial slurs, to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee.

“You are a psychopath,” read one email directed at Lee. “And I’m going to torture and murder you.”

Other emails mentioned killing Oakland police officers, judges and other government officials, according to police.

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Also last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 789 to address escalating threats, harassment and violence against elected officials at the state level. The bill, coauthored by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, increases security spending from a $10,000 lifetime cap to $10,000 annually.

These threats, said Bonta, are “damaging our politics and discouraging community leaders from running for offic

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