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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 12:55 AM Jun 2014

This man’s mug shot is heating up the Web, and that’s provoking a backlash

Many find it disgusting, especially because it’s happening on the Stockton Police Department’s Facebook page, which also remembers a recently fallen officer.

But the mug shot of a 30-year-old convicted felon has thousands swooning. Jeremy Meeks was arrested Wednesday during a gang sweep in the Weston Ranch section of Stockton, Calif., and faces five weapons charges and one gang charge, Stockton Police Officer Joseph Silva told the Associated Press.

Authorities seized four guns, two rifles, a handgun and a shotgun as part of their Operation Ceasefire mission in response to an increase in shootings and robberies in the area, police said. Silva said Meeks, who is being held on a $900,000 bond, is “one of the most violent criminals in the Stockton area.” He declined to speak further about Meeks’s criminal past.

Still, many seem more intrigued by his mug shot than his rap sheet. Meeks was booked Wednesday afternoon into the San Joaquin County Jail — and that’s when the ogling started. When police posted the mug shot of the 6-foot-1, 170-pound, baby blue-eyed alleged felon on their Facebook page, boy-watchers went nuts.

As of Friday morning, his mug shot had nearly 40,000 likes, 4,500 shares and 13,000 comments. And media all over were reporting about it, using headlines such as “Ladies love this felon’s mugshot” and writing that Meeks is “arguably the most wanted felon in Northern California … wanted by the ladies, that is.” Here’s a small sampling of the Facebook comments:

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This man’s mug shot is heating up the Web, and that’s provoking a backlash (Original Post) cali Jun 2014 OP
oh all these women are just made up, they would never be so...shallow lol nt msongs Jun 2014 #1
Another thread about this felon? Jenoch Jun 2014 #2
Not unique to this community, felons are popular among the ladies. NYC_SKP Jun 2014 #3
He cleans up good... pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #4
As confused as I am about the number swooning over him, Live and Learn Jun 2014 #5
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
3. Not unique to this community, felons are popular among the ladies.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:02 AM
Jun 2014

And he's not bad looking, I suppose.

Makes one wonder, all the abusive households and sad families in our culture on the one hand, and many lonely but really kind people on the other but they don't fit the popular culture and media portrayal of sexy or desirable.

Where are people's values???

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
5. As confused as I am about the number swooning over him,
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:24 AM
Jun 2014

I am equally perplexed at the number deriding him so viciously for unknown, previous deeds. How can anyone simply refer to a person as a "felon"? Does it negate their humanity somehow?

There are an awful lot of "felons" (meaning, those caught and convicted, not those that have committed a crime and gotten away with it) running around these days. Do they all deserve to be emblazoned with a permanent "F" on their forehead?

BTW, this was actually in response to some of the responses I read not your OP.

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