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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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If you can DM me their name and any other identifying info you have (general city, photos, phone number, email address, social links, etc.) I can maybe provide quite a bit of info on them. I will not say how.
But I would also ask what the end game is here?
The end game is to make sure he's not a threat. But he did threaten to kill my family. So if the law needs to get involved it can. I linked the Facebook profile. https://www.facebook.com/share/17tf1oeG8S/
That's all I have on him
Unfortunately there's no real way to identify him from the profile, but this guy's almost certainly just a harmless troll.
His profile has zero identifying info and is clearly intended to be a harassment account. (literally the only post he's ever made is a sign saying "Support Your Local ICE Raids") A clear hallmark of a troll is just an account made for a clear and obvious purpose: aggravating you.
The name "Frank Rizzo" is the same as this Frank Rizzo who did things like urging supporters to "vote white", decreasing black people hired as part of the police force, raiding the Black Panther Party, general police brutality and racism, etc. A common thing trolls will do is take the name of a historical figure that somewhat aligns with the ideologies they're trolling about, and using that name or a variation of it.
If he actually intended to kill your family, he wouldn't have given you advance warning so you could prepare, and if he was local and was just stupid enough to do so, he probably would have shown up already.
Trolls incredibly frequently will just say anything they can to make you either angry or afraid, death threats included.
I'm not necessarily saying there's no threat here, but it seems to me like just a guy making a deliberately inflammatory account, using data brokers to get freely available information because you annoyed him a bit, then saying what he can to make you angry and afraid because that's why he made the account in the first place.
Edit: to clarify, I'm not trying to make light of the situation at all, I just think personally this seems like a lot of troll accounts I've seen before.
It's not entirely true that you can't identify him from that Facebook account. It's just really, really hard.
Facebook almost certainly knows who he is. Like specifically, name and all. Their data mining is VERY extensive, and he likely has other accounts.
Anyway, with a lawyer's help, you can (possibly) get a court order for Facebook to reveal what they have on the guy. They certainly have things like IP addresses and timestamps, but they also probably have name, other associated accounts, viewing history across the web (from those "share with Facebook" icons/links, even if untouched), and hundreds or thousands of additional pages.
Is it worthwhile? Probably not. But it can be done.
I hate to say it, but I absolutely guarantee the law will do nothing but show up afterwards and pick up the pieces. If he does decide to get his fat ass off the couch and come get you, you’ll have to handle him yourself.
Unfortunately I can't do much with just that.
Keep a gun close, add some cameras, but otherwise this person is probably just a POS troll.