Good to see some of this going on. After all, if people are willing to write these type of threats on their Facebook, how much of a stretch is it to believe if they might act on them in the right set of circumstances. If more of this happens, perhaps it will make some think twice about their actions:
HUFFPO – A New York man was arrested for making a terroristic threat after he posted a Facebook status about the George Zimmerman verdict. “Kill all whites,” the post read, in part.
Remel Newson, a 20-year-old Queens, N.Y., man, was angry after a jury in Sanford, Fla., on July 13 found Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. Newson took to Facebook to air his grievances, posting a status update about how blacks cannot get justice, according to WNYC. He used the hashtag “#killall whites” and wrote, “let’s kill cops nd neighborhood watcher [sic].”
Read the full post below:
BLAC N****S CNT GET NO TYPE OF JUSTICE FUCCIN WIT DESE CRACCER’S #KILLALL WHITES DATS DA TYPE OF S**T I’M ON F**K DIS BEEF S**T LET’S KILL COPS ND NEIGHBO RHOOD WATCHER #FACTS DAT
A New York Police Department officer monitoring Facebook saw the post on July 17. Hours later, the Queens man was arrested for “making a terroristic threat,” a felony, according to WNYC. He was later charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.
Following the arrest, Newson admitted to police he “f**ked up” and made a “stupid mistake,” according to DNAinfo New York. However, his lawyer, Tasha Lloyd-Garcia, claims her client copied and pasted the “terroristic” post from another person’s profile onto his. She is “disturbed” over how the NYPD obtained a search warrant based solely off the posts.