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A 44-year-old local man is facing a criminal charge because he allegedly posted on Facebook a video depicting Windsor police headquarters being blown up with a rocket launcher.

“We take this seriously,” said Windsor police spokesman Sgt. Matt D’Asti on Tuesday.

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“We felt strongly enough that this was a conveyance of a threat — and we acted on it.”

D’Asti said the video started circulating on Facebook on Sunday. It caught the eye of a member of the local media, who brought it to the attention of Windsor police.

Investigators with the major crimes branch checked out the Facebook account in question and viewed the video.

According to D’Asti, the video was made with the”FxGuru” phone app. It shows the north side of the WPS downtown station. There is an overlaid computer animation of a rocket launcher being loaded and fired at the building, with a resultant fiery explosion.

D’Asti said the individual responsible for the video can be heard speaking over the recording. “It’s just one line, really. He talks about it being ‘payback time,’” D’Asti said. “It’s a bit disturbing to watch.”