One officer who posted to Facebook that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "needs a round… and I don't mean the kind she used to serve" and another officer who "liked" the post have been fired from the Gretna Police Department for violating the agency's social media policy.
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In today's political climate, one action or comment others don't like could cost you your job.
Read More →Powder Springs PD spokesman Dwayne Prosser said that the investigation began over the weekend when police from Manchester, NH, alerted Powder Springs police to threatening Facebook posts.
Read More →Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad said police have received a number of threats on social media.
Read More →A Russiaville, IN, man faces several charges, including stalking, after he was accused of threatening officers at the Kokomo Police Department via social media.
Read More →He Googled the phone number for the Madison Police Department, got a dispatcher on the phone, identified himself, then methodically described what he was seeing on the livestream.
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A Peoria, IL, man was sentenced Thursday to probation and released after spending 85 days in the Peoria County Jail for writing a threatening message to a then-Peoria police officer on Facebook.
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A 27-year-old man armed with two handguns approached a police officer in Wisconsin, but the incident ended peacefully, largely because an NYPD officer had alerted Wisconsin officers that the man had threatened violence against them online that day.
Read More →Massachusetts State Police sent out a safety bulletin to law enforcement agencies this week after a Boston man posted a video to Twitter saying he was going to “take a gun” and “kill” police or EMTs.
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Ebony Dickens is accused of writing a Facebook post using the name Tiffany Milan in which she called for "death to all white cops nationwide."
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