So what.
You heard me. So what. You can’t arrest somebody unless you have a real threat. Just because somebody is odd or a misfit or weird........you have to wait until they do something hello.
Judas Priest, these journalists are idiots, total nincompoops.
Why is nobody talking about what police protection they had at this meeting? Fact is, there was none. Who’s responsability was that?
Your wrong, Communicating a threat is a felony. If this is true it will come out in court.
I believe making a death threat is considered a form of assault. Any Attorneys want to weigh in on that one?
OCGA 16-11-37(a): "A person commits the offense of a terroristic threat when he or she threatens to commit any crime of violence . . . " OCGA 16-5-90: "A person commits the offense of stalking when he or she follows, places under surveillance, or contacts another person at or about a place or places without the consent of the other person for the purpose of harassing and intimidating the other person. . . "
Either one is prosecutable here. Stalking does not require an actual death threat, only putting somebody in reasonable fear of bodily harm. Looks like we've got that here - this guy was obviously deranged and plenty of people have reported that they thought he was violent. Terroristic threats requires corroboration, but if he was making multiple death threats to various people at the school and elsewhere, just about any magistrate would issue a warrant because the threats corroborate each other.
If all these people called the sheriff's office and the sheriff's office declined to pursue a warrant, the sheriff may have a problem here. But it all depends on "what he knew and when he knew it."
Maybe it matters because the Sherriff could have prevented him from passing a background check to get a gun. Did the Sherriff take the necessary steps to prevent him from purchasing weapons? Could he have? Should he have? Smart reporters would be finding out.