An employee at a Navy nuclear submarine facility has been suspended after threatening to use "lethal force" against COVID-19 restrictions.
"Not sure who needs to hear this, but lethal force is justified when defending one's life, liberty, or property," engineering technician Tyler Miller wrote Oct. 13 on the "Liberty, At All Hazards" Facebook page he operates. "PSA - COVID mandates are threatening your life, liberty and property."
Miller works at a a maintenance yard for the country's fleet of nuclear weapon-armed submarines — the Trident Refit Facility at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state, according to the Kitsap Sun.
The Navy suspended Miller — who has protested against mandated shutdowns and vaccines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic -- for one month and revoked his security clearance, which is required to do his job.
"The suspension of access to sensitive and classified information is not a disciplinary action," said Mike Hatfield, a spokesman for the Trident facility. "It is a measure taken in the interest of protecting national security information."
Miller denied that his post was threatening.
"The intent has never been to cause or incite any kind of violence," he told the newspaper.
