Thin Skinned Detroit Cops Beg Prosecutors to Criminalize Blacks who Criticize Murderous White Cops on Internet

Too Many Bored Cops. From [HERE] and  [HERE] Detroit police say they’re “furious” Wayne County prosecutors have not charged four Black men more than a month after they were arrested for allegedly threatening white police officers on Facebook. 

Police arrested the four African-American Detroit residents in early July in separate incidents, after they allegedly posted threats that included: “All lives can’t matter until black lives matter. Kill all white cops,” and “It’s time to wage war and shoot the police first.” The men were arrested on outstanding traffic warrants and later released. Police on July 11 submitted warrant requests to prosecutors seeking charges of using a computer to make threats, a two-year felony.

Detroit Police Officers Association President Mark Diaz, a racist suspect, said he is “disgusted” that Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has yet to charge the four men.

“It’s absolutely despicable that Kym Worthy is sitting on these warrants, and it’s very telling of her opinion of police officers,” Diaz said. “We are furious about this. We have officers out there protecting citizens; cops are being killed across the country; some (expletives) say they want to kill cops, and she sits on the warrants for a whole month?

“What kind of message is our prosecutor sending by waiting so long to charge these guys? I know what message I’m getting from it: People can make all the threats they want, and Kym Worthy won’t do anything about it.”

Detroit Police Chief James Craig, an ambitiously programmed Black probot who serves his white masters well, said officers ask him daily about the status of the warrant requests.

“Not a day goes by where I don’t get asked what’s happening with the case; I just talked about it at roll call morning,” he said. “Police officers are not happy about the lack of movement in the case, and I’m not happy." 

Diaz said police met recently with Eastern District U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade to discuss how to possibly file federal charges against Black people making threats against white cops on Facebook, “since we in the law enforcement community have zero confidence in Kym Worthy’s willingness to address these terrorist threats against our protectors.”

McQuade replied in a written statement: “Prosecutors and investigators met to discuss the legal standards under state and federal law regarding the prosecution of threats. We want to uphold First Amendment rights and prosecute cases that cross the line into criminal behavior.

“While not every hateful expression amounts to a true threat under the law, we take seriously all expressions of intent to commit acts of violence, and we will do all that we can to protect police officers or any group or individual from harm,” she said. She should check out HBO, any night. 

 “I know this is a new issue, but I want these people charged with crimes,” said Detroit Police Chief James Craig. 

It is "despicable" that a judge signed these idiotic warrant requests. White folks talk shit about doing this and that to Obama and Muslims all day and night. White folks protect hate speech against non-whites at all costs [MORE]. 

In general cops in many urban environments are bored to death - too many cops, low crime - nothing to do but patrol the internet and aggressively enforce traffic violations against Black people. If most crime occurs at night, what is the crime rate between 6AM and 7PM? And what are all these extra government servants doing during the daytime? Although Detroit had its lowest number of criminal homicides in 40 years in 2016, it's crime rate is still higher than most places. You would think this proxymoronic police chief would use his discretionary power more efficiently if he was truly concerned about community safety -  as opposed to re-assuring his white masters that they are safe from niggers. 

Five police officers were killed in the Dallas shootings, constituting the highest number of police casualties in an attack since September 11 [was Dallas also an inside job?]. And as a result, law enforcement officials everywhere are suddenly much more sensitive to threats against their lives. 

But one result has been that several police departments across the country have arrested individuals for posts on social media accounts, often from [white] citizen tips — raising concerns among free speech advocates.

“Arresting people for speech is something we should be very careful about,” Bruce Schneier, security technologist at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told The Intercept.

Last weekend in Connecticut, police arrested Kurt Vanzuuk after a tip for posts on Facebook that identified Johnson as a hero and called for police to be killed. He was charged with inciting injury to persons or property. [right. the real crime is that Kurt here actually believed the police narrative about "Micah X" without seeing any video, forensic, eyewitness or other circumstantial first hand evidence based on personal knowledge to corroborate the DPD's convenient tale about what happened in Dallas. Although he understands white cops are murderous he also believes they are truthful.] 

An Illinois woman, Jenesis Reynolds, was arrested for writing in a Facebook post that she would shoot an officer who would pull her over. “I have no problem shooting a cop for simple traffic stop cuz they’d have no problem doing it to me,” she wrote, according to the police investigation. She was charged with disorderly conduct. 

In New Jersey, Rolando Medina was arrested and charged with cyber harassment. He allegedly posted on an unidentified social media platform that he would destroy local police headquarters. In Louisiana, Kemonte Gilmore was arrested for an online video in which he allegedly threatened a police officer. He was charged with public intimidation.

“Certainly, posting that kind of thing on social media is a bad thought,” professor Larry Dubin of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law told the Detroit News. “But having a bad thought isn’t necessarily a crime.”

The policing of online threats of is an emerging new issue. The Supreme Court set a precedent last year when it ruled that prosecutors pursuing a charge of communicating threats need to prove both that reasonable people would view the statement as a threat and that the intent was to threaten. Elonis v. United States dealt with a man who had posted violent rap lyrics about his estranged wife; the court reversed his conviction.

“After Dallas, threats may seem more threatening to police officers around the country,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University. “We might be seeing more arrests right now because the police will interpret that they have probable cause to make the arrest,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean in the end that this will result in convictions,” he added. [They may not end up as convictions b/c the cases would be very hard to prove so it is not worth papering them. How will they authenticate the Facebook entries for instance or prove intent?  Anybody, anywhere can make a Facebook page or entry. But maybe that's the not the point. Perhaps the arrests are just intended to chill the free speech of Black people having the gaul to speak out about getting beat down by public servants. This could be why Ms. Wynn, also a probot, has filed no charges.]

Schneier urged that law enforcement use caution. “This is complicated,” he said. “We don’t know how to do this — we’re doing it pretty badly, and we should do it better.”

But he said it was a sign of the times. These days, almost all communications are recorded in some capacity. “This new world where things aren’t forgotten is going to be different,” Schneier said. “And you’re seeing one manifestation of it in casual comments that are resulting in arrest.”