Oregon Democrats demand investigation into Republican state senator who threatened to kill a...

Democrats in Oregon are demanding that a Republican state senator who threatened police be investigated.

A memo from an outside law firm retained by Oregon’s state legislature recommended that Brian Boquist, who made national news when he threatened state police last week, be barred from the courthouse until those threats were investigated. According to the Associated Press, several staff members recorded in the memo that they were “fearful and scared to come to work.”

“This member threatened to kill an Oregon state trooper,” said senator Shemia Fagan, a Democrat. “If that’s not unacceptable, then what is unacceptable?”