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The backstory: Prosecutors said Williams called his city-owned cellphone using Google Voice on his personal phone to say he was going to bomb City Hall over its support of Israel. Williams then told police of the call, prompting the bomb squad to conduct a search. Prosecutors said there is no evidence Williams intended to carry out the threat.

Mental health: Williams was desperate to get out of an ongoing virtual meeting when he made the threat, according to prosecutors. “It was motivated not by a political agenda or violent extremist ideology, but rather by defendant’s acute personal stress and anxiety due to numerous factors,” prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing memo. Williams’ mother and nephew had died and his brother was diagnosed with cancer in the 18 months prior to t

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