New Jersey prosecutors drop charges over tweeting a cop's photo [Updated]:
Update (~4pm ET): Mid-afternoon on Friday, August 7, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office dropped its cyber harassment charges against all five defendants, the Asbury Park Press reports. These charges stemmed from an incident involving a Tweet attempting to identify a New Jersey police officer. Our original story on the situation appears unchanged below.
A New Jersey man is facing felony charges for a tweet seeking to identify a police officer. Four others are facing felony charges for retweeting the tweet, the Washington Post reports.
[...] The complaint against Sziszak claims that the tweet caused the officer to "fear that harm will come to himself, family, and property."
"As a 20 year old that simply retweeted a tweet to help my friend, I am now at risk of giving up my career, serving time, and having a record," Sziszak wrote.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:07PM (6 children)
Leftists < - > The Clan
Judging people by their profession < - > judging people by their color
Going to someones house for struggle sessions < - > burning crosses on their front lawn.
Cancel culture < - > mob justice, running minorities out of town
The democrats just changed who they hate, they didn't get rid of the hate. And they're not done judging people by their color. They do seem to want all white people to be racist with them. And they're burning bibles in the street (and churches and police stations and minority owned businesses and everything else,) so I imagine it's only a matter of time before they're unironically burning crosses again.
I reject it all.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:21PM
You forgot:
Segregation < - > Safe Space
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Sunday August 09 2020, @08:02PM
There is the significant difference that people can usually choose their line of work. Members of minority groups often don't have any choice as to whether they are seen as members of a minority group.
So they aren't equivalent.
One way in which they are similar is that both groups (professions vs. "racial" groups) is that both try to protect their members against attacks from outside, even when they consider the particular individual unworthy.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:38PM
Nice line from the Grand Old hateful prick Party. "They're the real racists!" trollololol
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday August 10 2020, @12:09AM (1 child)
It's Klan, not Clan. Unless you're referring to some group that's not obvious to me.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday August 10 2020, @02:31AM
Perhaps a Scottish Clan? University team around here use the name the Clan for their sports teams, the university is named after a Scot, Simon Fraser, and Clan refers to Scottish clans. It still causes all sorts of issues and last I heard, they were changing their name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @04:45PM
Interesting how the act of Boycott is made equivalent to Lynching in this analogy.
"I will spend my time and money elsewhere and encourage others to do the same," is not the same as, "I will string you up and watch you hang from this tree."