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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the chilling-effect dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday August 10 2020, @12:09AM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2020, @12:09AM (#1034093) Homepage Journal

    It's Klan, not Clan. Unless you're referring to some group that's not obvious to me.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Monday August 10 2020, @02:31AM

    by dry (223) on Monday August 10 2020, @02:31AM (#1034150) Journal

    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.