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Stellar

(5,644 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 01:51 PM Nov 2015

Mizzou Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Threatening School



University of Missouri police have arrested Hunter Park, who allegedly threatened on social media to harm students, the police department said Wednesday in a statement.

Park, 19, is not a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, MUPD said.

The suspect "was not located on or near the MU campus at the time of the threat," police said. They found Park early Wednesday in the town of Rolla, about two hours outside Columbia.

He is being held on $4,500 bail at the Boone County Jail in Columbia, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch reports.


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Mizzou Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Threatening School (Original Post) Stellar Nov 2015 OP
Good, hope they wreck the life of this piece of shit. n/t backscatter712 Nov 2015 #1
His life suddenly got a lot more interesting exboyfil Nov 2015 #2
K&R nt Stellar Nov 2015 #3
19 and ready to join the Arian Nation in prison. Rex Nov 2015 #4
19, with a worthless mind. Tipperary Nov 2015 #5
Where are the free speech advocates now ? Truprogressive85 Nov 2015 #6
Imminent threats have never been considered free speech. nt NutmegYankee Nov 2015 #8
If you don't understand the difference between a threat and being mean let me provide an example mythology Nov 2015 #9
Who here has defended threats? n/t SickOfTheOnePct Nov 2015 #10
Who was talking about anyone here ? Truprogressive85 Nov 2015 #11
Oops Dylann Roof with dark hair malaise Nov 2015 #7

Truprogressive85

(900 posts)
6. Where are the free speech advocates now ?
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 07:53 PM
Nov 2015

He was just expressing his 1st amendment rights no ?

lock his punk ass up in jail where he should root

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
9. If you don't understand the difference between a threat and being mean let me provide an example
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 10:18 PM
Nov 2015

It's mean if I say your mother wears combat boots. But it's protected by the first amendment. You can throw me out of your house for saying it, but you can't have me arrested for it. For another example, the Republicans can stomp their feet and whine that the media is mean when they ask questions. But they can't call the police on the media for it.

It's a threat if I say I wish to harm a specific individual or group.

These are very different things. Nobody said that an actual threat was protected speech.

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