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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: 2) by ikanreed on Monday August 10 2020, @02:35PM (2 children)
I get it.
But in general, though, people really don't want to be criminals and it requires a greater level of desperation than you think. Highly addictive drugs make reaching that point of desperation easier. And, as the GGP implied, a good solid third of convicted criminals are sociopaths with poor impulse control. Sociopaths with impulse control become like... investment bankers.
While I'm being totally honest, I think it's probably only about 40-50% of cops who are power hungry sociopaths who see a career that lets them be a bully. Less than that even if you count people who get into policing and don't stay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @06:52PM (1 child)
selling drugs is not "being a criminal". it's none of the government's business unless there's fraud or force involved. Also, it's not just the $x% who are power mad sociopaths that are the problem. it's the overwhelming % who are just lazy minded idiots who enforce whatever unconstitutional shit the legislature passes because they don't know their duty or the higher law. Many are callous mercenaries who don't really give a shit either way.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday August 10 2020, @07:27PM
I agree with everything you've just said and don't quite grasp why it's posted in tone as if I contradicted any of it.