Sheriff Told Teen to Take Down Posts About Coronavirus, Family's Lawsuit Says

[marble falls]

Sheriff Told Teen to Take Down Posts About Coronavirus, Family’s Lawsuit Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/marquette-county-sheriff-instagram-lawsuit.html

By Mihir Zaveri

April 21, 2020, 12:07 p.m. ET

<snip>

“I am still on breathing treatment but have beaten the coronavirus,” Amyiah wrote in the third post on March 26. “Stay home and be safe.”

<snip>

According to a police report included in the lawsuit, Amyiah’s posts had made other parents at school “upset.” Amyiah would have to take the posts down or risk violating rules on disorderly conduct and be cited or arrested, according to the report.

?quality=90&auto=webp

Amyiah deleted the posts immediately. But on Thursday, the Cohoons sued the Marquette County sheriff, Joseph R. Konrath, and the officer who showed up at the home, Sgt. Cameron Klump, accusing them of violating Amyiah’s right to free speech.

<snip>

Mr. Hall told The Associated Press last week that Amyiah’s messages “caused distress and panic within the school system and law enforcement acted at the request of school health officials in a good faith effort to avoid unfounded panic.”

<snip>

[Joinfortmill]

1. WTF?

They're afraid of the truth?

[Lochloosa]

4. Yes.

[lunasun]

2. sue the school too as they requested the police without contacting the parents

$$ is the only way to get the attention of any of them
or they will do it again to someone else

[tulipsandroses]

3. How the hell is that disorderly conduct? And why was the police called?

So a child can get threatened with arrest for disorderly conduct for posting her experience with Covid19, but armed thugs and nut jobs can run around creating mayhem under the guise of " opening up their states"

This country has truly lost its way.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Put Your Bullet In Your Pocket, Barney

The sheriff didn't tell the school "Why are you calling us?" and just sent a deputy on a call?
Real professional law enforcement Deputy Five.

[captain queeg]

6. Hmmm. Why not force trump to take down his posts? Nt

[Srkdqltr]

7. I hope she breathed on them .

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. Officer Klump?

Damn...

A disciple of tRump

[Jake Stern]

9. The family is being represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

the same arch-conservative Trump humping legal crew that is suing to have more than 200,000 largely Democratic voters stricken from the rolls.

Wonder what the political affiliation of the Sheriff is.

Not saying that the family is lying but the fact that this action is being brought by WILL leads me to believe that there is more to the story than the family is putting on