Cops Study Death Threats to Jerry Brown Via Graffiti

California police are treating graffiti threatening Governor Jerry Brown's life with the utmost seriousness, calling it a "terrorist threat." One spray-painted scrawl in Santa Ana said, "We gonna kill Gov. Brown 2/14/11," and the other "26 more days 4 Brown"—with a swastika thrown in for good measure.

"At this point," said a police commander, "we have no clue, other than it's Valentine's Day." Police are looking into other graffiti in the area indicating plots to kill Catholics, the LA Times reports. Adds the LA Weekly, citing the "elephant in the room" of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting: "Senseless or otherwise, we're spooked." (More Jerry Brown stories.)