KCK Mayor Mark Holland said Thursday he was threatened on social media by a member of the KCK Fire Department and reported the threat to local and state law enforcement authorities.
In a statement, Holland, mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kan., said he contacted the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation about a message written on a Facebook account belonging to Chris Wing, a KCK firefighter and son of firefighter union business manager Bob Wing.
The message, written Wednesday evening, reads, “You might need security detail when you start witch hunts like so …”