Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status

longacre writes "A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer's Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne's MySpace 'mood' was set to 'devious' on the day of the arrest, and one day a few weeks before the trial, his Facebook status read 'Vaughan is watching "Training Day" to brush up on proper police procedure.' From the article: '"You have your Internet persona, and you have what you actually do on the street," Officer Ettienne said on Tuesday. "What you say on the Internet is all bravado talk, like what you say in a locker room." Except that trash talk in locker rooms almost never winds up preserved on a digital server somewhere, available for subpoena.'"

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Re:Fuck the Police

[Fred_A]

So you can go fight freedom?

Hasn't this been a fairly popular fight in numerous western countries lately ?

Lots of politicians are freedom fighters and, oddly enough, seem to be pretty proud of it.

(as an aside, I was watching a documentary on the militia that was set up during German occupation during ww2 last night and one of the tenants was "down with democracy, yay with order" - paraphrasing obviously... it was profoundly disturbing in many ways).

Oops, did I just Goodwin myself ?