Teenager arrested for Facebook post beaten up in prison - Polidicks

[b]Below: Picture of Justin Carter [/b] [img]http://rt.com/files/news/1f/a5/c0/00/justin-carter.si.jpg[/img] [url]http://rt.com/usa/teen-facebook-arrested-prison-628/[/url] [quote] Things aren’t getting any better for a 19-year-old video gamer who has been locked up since March for the remarks he made over Facebook. The father of the teen now says his son is being beaten up while he waits to stand trial. "Without getting into the really nasty details, he's had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection," Jack Carter told NPR. "He's been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he's depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience." Prisoner abuse isn’t anything new, but the so-called crime that’s left Justin Carter facing potentially eight years in prison could be unprecedented. He’s been locked up without trial since late March after authorities were alerted to a Facebook message that Carter says he made in jest. Only 18 at the time, Carter had just wrapped up session on the online role-playing game “League of Legends” when he got into a spat with a friend over Facebook. Speaking to KVUE news last month, his father explained how what was supposed to be a sarcastic remark posted publically ended up with an unexpected jail stint. Meanwhile, it hasn’t been a cushy time at Comal County Jail near San Antonio. Speaking to CNN earlier this week, Jack Carter described his son as “very depressed” and said “he’s pretty much lost all hope.” “He's very scared and he's very concerned that he's not going to get out," Carter said. Adding to NPR this week, the defendant’s father said his son has been “suffering quite a bit of abuse” and is “really sorry” for making what they say was a sarcastic comment. “He just got caught up in the moment of the game and didn't think about the implications," Jack Carter told NPR.[/quote]

That'll teach that TERRORIST

I like how the article contradicts itself by saying he said it on facebook when he said it ingame, and then it even mentions he said it in game.

“Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’” he called, “to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.’” In case someone was wondering what he wrote.

[QUOTE=Karmah;41316252]I like how the article contradicts itself by saying he said it on facebook when he said it ingame, and then it even mentions he said it in game.[/QUOTE] No it doesn't. [QUOTE]Carter had [B][I]just wrapped up session[/I][/B] on the online role-playing game “League of Legends” when he got into a spat with a friend over Facebook.[/QUOTE] The English is incorrect, but the article says that he had finished playing League of Legends and then got into an argument with his friend.

Not pictured: Justice

I don't understand why he's not under house arrest or something while he waits for his trial, he's obviously not a threat to anyone.

The worst thing about this is that what he said was so ridiculously over the top, so obviously sarcastic, that for anyone to take this seriously and report it to the police is just pathetic. Then for the police to read the post and take it seriously is so amazingly flabbergasting that I am at a loss for good verbs through which to display my disbelief.

[QUOTE=Bridger;41316291]I don't understand why he's not under house arrest or something while he waits for his trial, he's obviously not a threat to anyone.[/QUOTE] Yeah, being arrested for obviously sarcastic comments is fucking ridiculous

How can you even take a remark like that seriously. Just fucking HOW.

[QUOTE=valkery;41316349]Then for the police to read the post and take it seriously is so amazingly flabbergasting that I am at a loss for good verbs through which to display my disbelief.[/QUOTE] That's their fucking job. They can't just say 'oh well, this is silly let's ignore it' because there inevitably will be a case where they ignore it and shit DOES happen.

The terrorists has won thanks to our country's new found fear of everything unsafe.

[QUOTE=Thund3rdome;41316261]“Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’” he called, “to which he replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.’” In case someone was wondering what he wrote.[/QUOTE] Shakin' my head over here. Fuckin' kids these days. Is this what our forefathers fought the Brits for? He deserves everything he gets for that erroneous comma. It's like, "hey, NERD! A heart can't be both still [I]and[/I] beating! Don't you mean 'still beating,' you idiot?"

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;41316479]That's their fucking job. They can't just say 'oh well, this is silly let's ignore it' because there inevitably will be a case where they ignore it and shit DOES happen.[/QUOTE] are we really going to condemn everyone who makes a sarcastic remark to eight years in jail just on the basis that they COULD have been serious about it

I'd understand checking up on him to see if he's doing anything crazy, but going to trial with him? What the fuck

to gitmo with this terrorist pedophile cannibal fucker we can't allow these people to exist in the great USA

That canadian mum that reported him deserves to know the hell she put some random kid through, just because she's a crazy stalker. [editline]4th July 2013[/editline] the actual thing he said was on the League of Legends forums, not facebook I think.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;41316479]That's their fucking job. They can't just say 'oh well, this is silly let's ignore it' because there inevitably will be a case where they ignore it and shit DOES happen.[/QUOTE] I hear the slopes are slippery this time of year

This is just to the point that that the judge should say that the time spent in prison is time served enough, that and to be beaten up like that is to be considered child endangerment. Come on this is an obvious over reaction that the police and the system has made and should be called out on it.

I was debating over making a sarcastic comment about the whole situation, but now I'm honestly a bit afraid to do so. Nevertheless, it's complete bullshit. Investigate and see if there is any validity to the perceived threat by all means, but to lock someone up over a comment? Fucking Christ!

Happy fourth of July. Lets celebrate all of America's great accomplishments and wonderful freedoms. Hopefully the publicity of this case gets this guy out since League, one of the most popular videogames is involved.

Why don't they use this?? [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1285007[/url]

Worst thing is, it could happen to literally anyone, with no knowledge of it until 4 cops are at your door and throwing you on jail. And all just because of a comment in a forum and someone paranoid enough.

Good to see my tax dollars at work for someone is is clearly a threat to society.

That's fucked up, my girlfriend was getting harassed over Facebook for months by her abusive ex-boyfriend. I had enough and as I could never find the bastard I decided to call the police. Basically what they said was, "Oh with things like this we can't confirm it was actually him on the account doing this and since we're in Canada we would have to access the Facebook servers in the USA to confirm if it was him" Dumbass So basically fuck all was done about this abusive shit stain but this 19 year old gets jailed for a sarcastic remark fuck this gay earth

everyone who uses sarcasm on the internet should be tortured by the american justice system like this wait, shit

This is the most depressing thing I've read today. His life is going down the shitter because of a sarcastic comment taken seriously by some complete shithead who doesn't even know him. g fucking g, american justice system.

This is un fucking believable. Anyone with half a brain could see that he wasn't serious, or even with in a mile of being serious. [QUOTE]“He just got caught up in the moment of the game and didn't think about the implications," Jack Carter told NPR.[/QUOTE] He shouldn't have to if he's talking to HIS GODDAMN FRIEND.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;41316479]That's their fucking job. They can't just say 'oh well, this is silly let's ignore it' because there inevitably will be a case where they ignore it and shit DOES happen.[/QUOTE] No, part of being a responsible human being with a [i]badge and a gun[/i] is making responsible decisions. When I first started going to my University, a bunch of Freshmen found a loophole in the University e-mail system, and started using Reply All to send spam messages to a 5,000+ student listserv. One student thought it would be funny to spam the, "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?" copypasta, so our University police came to his house and investigated the incident. Obviously, the police department didn't know what the copypasta was. But, instead of arresting him and labeling him a domestic terrorist, the police questioned him over the message and talked to him about the implications of his actions. Responsible people think first. Obviously, no one was thinking in this situation. And if a University police department - aka, 20-something kids learning to become cops - can figure out "oh wait, maybe this kid isn't a fucking terrorist," then veteran cops should be able to make the same distinction.

Imagine that mother who put him there, meeting that kid when he gets free. And just whispers into his ear [I]"Lol jk"[/I]