Weston White
01-26-2015, 01:09 AM
Brooklyn Teen Arrested For Alleged Facebook Threat To Officers Using Emoji (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/23/brooklyn-teen-arrested-for-alleged-facebook-threat-to-officers-using-emoji)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A teenage boy from Bushwick, Brooklyn has learned the hard way that you can’t just post anything you want on Facebook.
As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported Friday evening, police said not just the words that Osiris Aristy posted, but also the digital cartoon images – or emoji – led to his arrest.
Police said Aristy, 17, posted what they call threatening and harassing content.
A police informant saw a post dated Jan. 15 that read, “(Expletive) run up on me, he gunna (sic) get blown down.” The words were followed by emoji — one of them representing the head of a police officer, followed by three guns pointing at it.
Police said that is a clear threat.
“You have to take all these threats seriously,” said retired NYPD Detective Sgt. Joseph Giacalone.
Now if the above were a case of "civilian" attempting to file a report with their local law enforcement agency for perceived terroristic threats made against them under the relatable circumstances, they would be informed this is merely a form of civil harassment and that there is little that can be done for them at this time, because the threat it too vaguely stated—which follows well-established prior case law.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A teenage boy from Bushwick, Brooklyn has learned the hard way that you can’t just post anything you want on Facebook.
As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported Friday evening, police said not just the words that Osiris Aristy posted, but also the digital cartoon images – or emoji – led to his arrest.
Police said Aristy, 17, posted what they call threatening and harassing content.
A police informant saw a post dated Jan. 15 that read, “(Expletive) run up on me, he gunna (sic) get blown down.” The words were followed by emoji — one of them representing the head of a police officer, followed by three guns pointing at it.
Police said that is a clear threat.
“You have to take all these threats seriously,” said retired NYPD Detective Sgt. Joseph Giacalone.
Now if the above were a case of "civilian" attempting to file a report with their local law enforcement agency for perceived terroristic threats made against them under the relatable circumstances, they would be informed this is merely a form of civil harassment and that there is little that can be done for them at this time, because the threat it too vaguely stated—which follows well-established prior case law.