Massachusetts teen jailed for making bomb threats in Facebook rap
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[quote]A Massachusetts teen has been jailed for a month without bail on charges of making a bomb threat after writing rap lyrics that some found threatening following the Boston Marathon bombings.
Cameron D’Ambrosio, 18, was arrested May 1 after friends saw a message he posted to his Facebook page and reported him to his high school principal.
Within hours, police picked him up and later executed a search warrant at the home of his parents, seizing a laptop and Xbox but finding no evidence of explosives, weapons or anything else to indicate he planned to act on any threat, says his attorney. He’s been held without bail since his arrest while authorities convene a grand jury to determine if there is probable cause to indict him. Prosecutors successfully argued that D’Ambrosio was a danger to the public and needed to be held without bail.[/quote]
Source:[url]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/teen-jailed-for-terror-rap/[/url]
The video in question:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbJTHkdBMc[/media]
I'm fine with jailing this guy for being a fuckwit. But taking song lyrics seriously?
oh god his name
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;40923843]I'm fine with jailing this guy for being a fuckwit. But taking song lyrics seriously?[/QUOTE]
In jail [B]without bail[/B] for a fucking rap song, hell, even murderers get bail (albeit usually high amounts)
After listening to his rap, it wasn't threatening at all. I didn't hear anything about bombs in it.
Arresting him without bail is extremely severe, especially considering the search failed to turn up anything related to murder or bomb making.
I'm fairly certain that music is protected as free speech.
What potato did he use to film that?
I wonder why they took his xbox..?
How could they successfully argue that this idiot is a danger to public?
i absentmindedly asked a teacher once if she thought kids still made bomb threats like they did in the 90's with all of the columbine shit and 9/11, because, i don't know it was pretty fuckin' common to get school called off because your schools pot dealer made a bomb threat from a payphone back in the day. anyway the teacher freaked out and thought i was making some indirect threat or something and i just didn't understand why she would suddenly act like i was 5000% more dangerous, so i threw my arms up in said a quivering voice, while waving my hands back and forth, "i'm gonna blow up the whitehouse and shoot the president"
later that day after getting in some deep shit with a teacher who correlated atheism with violence (or lack of empathy i guess) i posted "ms. ___ is a fat bitch" on the facebook
later at my expulsion hearing (i didn't get expelled) they told me people will be keeping up with my facebook and that was, i swear my superintendent said this, 'almost a threat'
[QUOTE=innerfire34;40924220]i absentmindedly asked a teacher once if she thought kids still made bomb threats like they did in the 90's with all of the columbine shit and 9/11, because, i don't know it was pretty fuckin' common to get school called off because your schools pot dealer made a bomb threat from a payphone back in the day. anyway the teacher freaked out and thought i was making some indirect threat or something and i just didn't understand why she would suddenly act like i was 5000% more dangerous, so i threw my arms up in said a quivering voice, while waving my hands back and forth, "i'm gonna blow up the whitehouse and shoot the president"
later that day after getting in some deep shit with a teacher who correlated atheism with violence (or lack of empathy i guess) i posted "ms. ___ is a fat bitch" on the facebook
later at my expulsion hearing (i didn't get expelled) they told me people will be keeping up with my facebook and that was, i swear my superintendent said this, 'almost a threat'[/QUOTE]
ur a winner
[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;40924245]ur a winner[/QUOTE]
turns out to really get someone expelled for that shit you need to make the students feel threatened as well as the teacher. everyone who was asked was like 'yeah, he said that, but it was a bad joke'. they recorded this information as 'everyone in the classroom agrees that you said those things'
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