Man identifies as bin Laden while threatening ICE agents in video

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The Department of Homeland Security has fined an Oregon man who has been protesting ICE for months, according to reports, after a new video surfaced showing him verbally describing to an officer that his wife would receive his head on a pike in the mail.

John Paul Cupp, 45, also known as Walid al-Amriki, is a prime example of the 8,000-fold increase in threats against federal law enforcement, a senior DHS official told Fox News Digital. Cupp is accused of making threats against a federal law enforcement officer after allegedly threatening to kill ICE agents and sexually assault their wives.

DHS shared a video with Fox News Digital posted to the suspect’s Instagram titled “Daddy Walid’s Come Get Bin Laden Challenge,” in which Cupp repeatedly and loudly swears identifying himself to ICE agents who responded as the deceased al-Qaeda terrorist: “I’m here to advocate for your death and the violent overthrow of the government, and you want to attack women and children.”

“Come get bin Laden,” Cupp said in the video, before loudly describing to a federal agent how his wife would receive his decapitated head in the mail. He then continued with several explicit sexual threats.

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Federal agents attempt to detain protesters outside a downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. October 5, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Cupp continued to loudly taunt the agents, saying that if they came to “get bin Laden,” their “streets would burn,” and appeared to call President Donald Trump a “Zionist overlord,” before later appearing to tell his fellow protesters that “Walid tolerates your illegal activities.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Tuesday that Cupp now faces federal charges for his threats.

“Our ICE law enforcement officers are facing an 8,000 percent increase in death threats against them as they risk their lives every day to take down the worst of the worst, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists and gang members,” McLaughlin said.

“From bounties placed on their heads for their murders, to threats against their families, to stalking and doxxing online, our officers are experiencing an unprecedented level of violence and threats against them and their families. Secretary Noem has been clear: if you threaten or lay hands on law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Portland is not Cupp’s – or “al-Amriki’s” – first alleged run-in with radical thought.

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John Paul Cupp, aka Walid al-Amriki, is seen in this screenshot. (Instagram via DHS)

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Cupp has also been associated with white supremacist and pro-North Korean groups in the United States, with an NBC News report linking dictator Kim Jong Un’s “cult of personality” to admirers in the United States like the protester.

The outlet said in 2014 that Cupp was at one point officially recognized by Pyongyang as “chairman of the Songun political study group in the United States.”

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Local newspaper OregonLive reported in October on more peaceful daytime scenes outside ICE facilities in Portland and met with Cupp — identified in the article as al-Amriki — who told the reporter he had been protesting the agency on and off since June.

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The FBI told Portland’s FOX affiliate that Cupp posted in June on the Russian social media site VK that he was “heading to shit and trolling these ICE losers after work.” It also reported that Cupp had been homeless since April and separated from his wife and three children.

In a TikTok posted to the Daddy Walid Love Bug account in November, a man appearing to be Cupp and identifying himself in the caption as “an update from Walid al-Amriki” said he had “love in his heart” and was “open to your criticism.”

“Sometimes my approach is a little too much of hitting them over the head for our young people and for an extremely emotional American public that wants to be liked and wants to know… are you on our side, and yes, I am,” he said, adding that he has taken “a lot of young people” under his “wing” as his “children” in their ideological battle.

Portland FOX affiliate reported that Cupp was remanded to the Northwest Oregon Detention Center. He could not be reached for comment.

Kiera McDonald of Fox News contributed to this report.