Overview
- The Delaware County Sheriff's Office released two voicemails that were left on the county civilian hotline over the weekend and detectives opened a criminal investigation on Monday.
- The recordings use a racial slur, say “death to Islam,” and contain graphic threats to hunt, torture, and kill Sheriff Siddiq Kamara.
- The Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division and county detectives said the caller's identity is unknown but that they have the means to trace the originating number and are working to locate the source.
- Kamara, who was sworn in January as one of the nation's youngest sheriffs and the county's first Liberian‑American sheriff, said the threats strengthened his resolve and that threats of violence will be treated as crimes.
- Delaware County Council and civil‑rights groups including CAIR‑Philadelphia condemned the messages and framed them as part of a wider pattern of anti‑Muslim and racially biased incidents reported by advocacy organizations.