Discussion: NYPD Arrests Teen For Facebook Threats Against Cops In Photos, Emojis

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Is it threatening when someone replies to Zerlina Maxwell with gun pointed at the camera?

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It looks like the thought police.

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I honestly don’t know how to help a kid like that. That is a problem for people who have thoroughly studied the sociology. But I know what doesn’t help. Constantly arresting him. Especially for reasons such as marijuana. He might have started breaking harder laws because he was initially arrested repeatedly for marijuana possession and figured it didn’t matter any more. Maybe he is mad at the cops because of the way he has been treated. Something tells me it won’t be the cops ho get through to him.

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reads his facebook post

Was he arrested by the grammar police?

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And that’s the thing. The kid is an idiot. The kid is an idiot who, based on what little is said about him here, appears to be on a greased steep slide to a bad, bad end.

But the First Amendment doesn’t just apply to stupid old white right wing extremists brandishing guns and talking big about violence against law enforcement on the Internet. It also applies to stupid young ganged up black kids brandishing guns and talking big about violence against law enforcement on the Internet.

NYC has about the strictest gun laws it’s possible to have in Wayne LaPierre’s America (in which he allows us to live until we’re shot), but IMO a picture of a kid holding a gun doesn’t provide sufficient probable cause to get a warrant or arrest him.

And, btw, local cops monitoring FB on a routine basis? That’s a fuckload scarier than the NSA doing it. Because, unlike the NSA, local cops have people who can come arrest or shoot you for engaging in protected speech.

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And yet, still easier to decipher than any of Chuck Grassley’s tweets.

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Bqhatevwr

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Well, now they do - thanks to that threatening Facebook post!

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Do judges take prior arrests into consideration when they issue a warrant?

Edit to add: Barret Brown just plead guilty to threatening an FBI agent in a youtube video.

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Out of my area. My recollection is that they’re not supposed to, but I do know enough about judges to know that regardless of whether they’re supposed to, of course they do.

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I’m not trying to defend the kid, who may very well be a scumbag, but what was the “probable cause” for entering and searching the home??? “We were afraid of your facebook post…”

WTF…If they arrested everyone who wrote vile FB comments about Obama, half the country would be in jail…If you included everyone who wrote vile FB comments about Bush, then the rest of the country would be in jail… No one would be able to buy any of the shit we import from China…

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Yes, but how do you get into the house to do a search???

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While this is the kind of police state arrest we spent the entire Cold War excoriating communist regimes for, his English is so fucked-up I’m not sure was trying to communicate.

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Ted fucking Nugent, for example…

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25 grams of pot? OH NOES!!! Not a couple week’s worth of chilling out!!! HORROR OF HORRORS!!!

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Yes, but obv, causing the entire black community to be fearful and alarmed is perfectly ok and to be encouraged. Especially when they’re smoking better weed than you are or disrupting your effeminate brunching.

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Indeed…lots of rules are there to protect the appearance of the justice system’s integrity, but in practice go right out the fucking window and everyone knows it.

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That’s the thing here, right? Is this FB “monitoring” simply a way to bypass the 4th amendment to search people’s homes/property? It’s a scary thought to me that these kinds of searches would hold up in court.

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The kid’s lawyer should take that picture of the NYC cop as exhibit A.

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