Virginia Woman Arrested For Trading Insults On Facebook
During the interaction, Holmes posted a picture of herself pointing a gun at the camera with the caption, “I’ll post a few actual pics of me so you know the difference when you come find me.”
Holmes took the photo down later stating that she felt the picture was intimidating, although it contained no threats.
“It wasn’t a threat. I thought it was a funny picture….What happened to freedom of speech?” Holmes asked in an interview with local news.
Before she did, someone reported the picture to Henrico police. Holmes now faces up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
Holmes was arrested under a Virginia law, passed in 2000, that criminalizes obscene or threatening language online or in public.
Kevin Carroll, president of the Virginia Fraternal Order of Police, said he wasn’t sure how common similar arrests are but said they usually result from arguments that get too personal.
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Kristin Holmes was charged with harrassment by computer.
“It’s not a matter of free speech,” he told the Daily News. “Free speech doesn’t say you have the right to insult somebody else or threaten them in any form.”
“Facebook thugging” is not a term used by police, Carroll said.
The phrase is often used online to describe feuds. It made headlines in 2012 when Towanda Kellam, the Massachusetts mother of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed by rivals, blamed the death on “Facebook thugging.”
Holmes is not the first person to be arrested for holding a gun in a Facebook post.
Police around the country have started using similar posts to catch felons who are not allowed to be around firearms, the Associated Press reported. They also help police link gang members to crimes.
Even if posts aren’t used to nab alleged criminals, they are often used against them at trial, experts said.
“Be careful what you put up on the internet,” Holmes warned. “Facebook thugging is a crime.”
Wow, you must not of read the article at all then. She didn’t feel threatened, she even traded insults back with the person, and she said she though her picture was “funny” but then took it down, but not before someone else reported it.
You know, if people had taken the person who posted about killing “pigs” more seriously, along with pictures of him with guns, two cops lives might have been spared.
This is not an infingement on the 1st or 2nd amendment.
You have the right to say and do anything you want to, but you must also bare the responsiblity of it. I would $#%&!@*ume you voted for Obama with your remark.
Only bullycrats think they should do anything they want and not have to be responsible for it. :p
also I never said she was the “villian” I said she lacked common sence.
Sharpton you want to make it all about yoooos Peoples thin here it is all about
Yoooos peoples the real racist
The real racism in AMERICA
BLACKS AGAINST THEMSELVES
Myster evil and his Kenya African entourage. Of obama
Killing and m$#%&!@* murdering
Christian blacks in his hometown
Kenya. Kenya you believe it
He says black lies matter
Hands up don’t shoot
What’s the justice where’s the protest
Against this Muslim Brotherhood
Obama regime Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Islamic anarchist
It’s breed in them from their
Arab Islamic African heritage
genocide Heritage to kill each other (Example ) Muslim Brotherhood
( ISIS an Bk ko hierm Muslims)
Just another bunch of gang thugs
An so it is in all thug gang Mentality
Just cleaning up the real filth in the world
Doing what white people can’t do without being called racist murderers
Sharpton you want to make it all about yoooos Peoples thin here it is all about
Yoooos peoples the real racist
The real racism in AMERICA
BLACKS AGAINST THEMSELVES
Myster evil and his Kenya African entourage. Of obama
Killing and m$#%&!@* murdering
Christian blacks in his hometown
Kenya. Kenya you believe it
He says black lies matter
Hands up don’t shoot
What’s the justice where’s the protest
Against this Muslim Brotherhood
Obama regime Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Islamic anarchist
It’s breed in them from their
Arab Islamic African heritage
genocide Heritage to kill each other (Example ) Muslim Brotherhood
( ISIS an Bk ko hierm Muslims)
Just another bunch of gang thugs
An so it is in all thug gang Mentality
Just cleaning up the real filth in the world
Doing what white people can’t do without being called racist murderers
WWBT
I think it’s a toothbrush.
GOING TO BE ALOT OF US GOING TO JAIL. THE OBAMA WAY.
And exactly what country do I live in? Sounds like $#%&!@* Germany or the USSR certainly is not the United States anymore.
Guess they will be after me soon, hehehe. 😛
Stupidity knows no bounds!
Wow, you must not of read the article at all then. She didn’t feel threatened, she even traded insults back with the person, and she said she though her picture was “funny” but then took it down, but not before someone else reported it.
You know, if people had taken the person who posted about killing “pigs” more seriously, along with pictures of him with guns, two cops lives might have been spared.
This is not an infingement on the 1st or 2nd amendment.
You have the right to say and do anything you want to, but you must also bare the responsiblity of it. I would $#%&!@*ume you voted for Obama with your remark.
Only bullycrats think they should do anything they want and not have to be responsible for it. :p
also I never said she was the “villian” I said she lacked common sence.
Sharpton you want to make it all about yoooos Peoples thin here it is all about
Yoooos peoples the real racist
The real racism in AMERICA
BLACKS AGAINST THEMSELVES
Myster evil and his Kenya African entourage. Of obama
Killing and m$#%&!@* murdering
Christian blacks in his hometown
Kenya. Kenya you believe it
He says black lies matter
Hands up don’t shoot
What’s the justice where’s the protest
Against this Muslim Brotherhood
Obama regime Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Islamic anarchist
It’s breed in them from their
Arab Islamic African heritage
genocide Heritage to kill each other (Example ) Muslim Brotherhood
( ISIS an Bk ko hierm Muslims)
Just another bunch of gang thugs
An so it is in all thug gang Mentality
Just cleaning up the real filth in the world
Doing what white people can’t do without being called racist murderers
Sharpton you want to make it all about yoooos Peoples thin here it is all about
Yoooos peoples the real racist
The real racism in AMERICA
BLACKS AGAINST THEMSELVES
Myster evil and his Kenya African entourage. Of obama
Killing and m$#%&!@* murdering
Christian blacks in his hometown
Kenya. Kenya you believe it
He says black lies matter
Hands up don’t shoot
What’s the justice where’s the protest
Against this Muslim Brotherhood
Obama regime Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Islamic anarchist
It’s breed in them from their
Arab Islamic African heritage
genocide Heritage to kill each other (Example ) Muslim Brotherhood
( ISIS an Bk ko hierm Muslims)
Just another bunch of gang thugs
An so it is in all thug gang Mentality
Just cleaning up the real filth in the world
Doing what white people can’t do without being called racist murderers