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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:32PM (2 children)
I've not seen the Moltov line quoted elsewhere and the prosecutor wouldn't have dropped the charges if it were true. A quote pulled from a garbage-tier Verge article I will not link.
This is not a valid reason to start publicly soliciting for an officers personal information, it's an equivalent of the "he looked at me funny" defense for battery. If this alleged "harassment" were criminal in nature there should be a police report. We already know there isn't. Without having to ascribe non-existent threats, we're already dealing with obvious loonies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:09PM
you don;'t have to have some kind of "good reason" to want to ID a "public servant". You make your money off extorted tax dollars? i get to know who the fuck you are, you fucking thief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @02:37PM
As the other AC said, NO REASON is needed to ask for a police officers’ identity. They are legally required to identify themselves.