CNN’s Miller: ‘86 47’ Not a Threat, ‘Social Media Phenomenon’ Turned It into Killing

BROWN: “All right, let‘s bring in who we just saw there, John Miller, chief CNN law enforcement analyst. You were also, John, the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the NYPD. So is this a case you would have investigated, John?”
MILLER: “You know, this is the kind of case that might have come in. We had a threat management unit that was very busy dealing with threats in New York City, and we could take those cases either to state prosecutors or federal prosecutors. But the bar is very high for what is a threat versus what is a statement versus what is a message. And when you look at this as, you know, the 8647, is that a threat? You know, 86 comes from the land of bartenders when they said, ‘You can‘t drink here anymore because you‘re a bad customer.’ Where it turned into killing, that may be some social media phenomenon, but it doesn‘t fit the legal standard of a threat that we would have taken on, or that a federal prosecutor would have accepted.”