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New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated]

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @01:28AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @01:28AM (#1034124)

    And the reason that you run them out like the vermin they are is because they will utterly ruin you if you allow the least degree of tolerance. Because even one bad apple will spoil the bunch.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @02:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @02:49AM (#1034158)

    Which is also why we lock up criminals... or used to.

  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 10 2020, @11:25AM

    by Opportunist (5545) on Monday August 10 2020, @11:25AM (#1034281)

    Bingo. Security is a matter of trust. You have to trust me with pretty high security clearance in your system for me to do my job. Anyone betraying this trust makes my job harder.

    There is a reason why having a police record is certainly not a letter of recommendation as some think it is. It's more a reason why you won't work anymore. Not in this town, not in this country, not on this planet.