On March 25th, Milwaukee-based blogger Claire Van Fossen posted an article on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's website which condemned the repeated incidents of police brutality that the nation has been dealing with.

As one might expect when someone, especially a woman, challenges right wing prejudices and power trips, the haters came out of the woodwork and she started to receive an onslaught of hate emails.

[***Trigger warning: The email in the image below contains graphic language and threats***]

One email was so nasty that it stood out from the rest:



(Email address redacted)

What made the email even more shocking was that the author, David Wendt, is a Lutheran minister.

After Van Fossen started sharing the email, Wendt denied sending it, even though he admitted that it was his email address. Wendt resigned shortly after this was brought to light: