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     *Members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team aren’t the only ones receiving death threats in the wake of the Don Imus scandal.

      The Reverends Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson, both leaders in the push for Imus to be fired for his racist remarks, have had their lives threatened according to the police in their respective cities.

      The New York Police Department said it is giving Sharpton protection after the activist received several death threats, the most disturbing of which occurred Friday morning during his radio show on WLIB-AM, said Charlie King, acting executive director of Sharpton’s National Action Network.

       “Someone called into the radio program and said, ‘I’m going to hunt Rev. Sharpton down and shoot him like an animal,’” King told the New York Times. The call was not taken live and was not played on the air, but staff members alerted the police after the caller hung up, King said.

      According to King, threatening e-mails and phone calls began to arrive on Monday following Imus’ appearance on Sharpton’s radio show to apologize for his remarks.      

      The number of threats increased to dozens by week’s end, then, reached a peak on Friday - the day after CBS canceled the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, and two days after his TV simulcast was dropped by MSNBC.

      Meanwhile, Chicago police say they are investigating several threatening calls to Jesse Jackson via his office, home and cell phones.      

      According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Jackson said he fielded a call Saturday morning urging him to "watch his back" and warning him to stay away from Rainbow/PUSH headquarters on the South Side.      

      A Jackson staffer received a call Friday from someone who claimed to have placed a bomb at the headquarters at 50th and Drexel. After an evacuation of the building at about 12:30 p.m. and a sweep using bomb-sniffing dogs, police found no incendiary devices.

      Jackson said he has received 10 to 12 threats dating back to Wednesday or Thursday. Although he hasn't fielded most of the calls, he said he believes there are different people behind them.

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