Posted on 04/06/2023 5:00:33 PM PDT by bitt
The 13-year-old son of a controversial Florida whistleblower was arrested this week on charges that he made “terrorist” threats on the Internet.
Rebekah Jones, a state employee who used her access to Department of Health data to challenge the governor’s COVID numbers, resulting in the loss of her job, posted on Twitter Thursday that her son was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after sharing Internet memes in a private chat with school friends. One, according to Jones, was a photo of an overweight man, apparently sleeping, with a caption likening him to a police officer responding to a school shooting. Jones described another meme as part of a viral series about intrusive thoughts that suggest grabbing an officer’s gun, knowing that the result could be fatal.
“Every time I see school security,” he wrote when he sent the meme, according to the police report. The Herald has seen only a portion of the report. According to authorities, he also Snapchatted a meme that the police report described as “an individual with a shaved head holding a Hi-C drink. The message on the meme was “I’m feeling so silly I might shoot up a building full of people.”
A deputy who interviewed the young man asked if he’d had any intention of carrying out a shooting. The answer was no.
At a hearing Thursday afternoon, the judge released the boy to home detention with an electric monitor. His use of the internet is limited to what is necessary for his school work and he is allowed to leave home to play soccer with his local team.
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Then Jones claimed it was for a meme.
It is just starting.
Miami herald. Nothing further needs be said.
She took her son to the station and turned him in.
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