Mount Carmel, Pa. — A Mount Carmel man who is a registered sexual offender allegedly assaulted and injured his wife after she cut off Wi-fi as he was playing the
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    11 months ago

    Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

    Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

    Don’t get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That’s not what happened here and they know it!

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.caEnglish
      37·
      11 months ago

      “Terroristic threats” is a ridiculously common charge against school age children. Dozens of 10 year olds are charged with it every month in Texas

      Based on an analysis of district juvenile justice referral data we received from Brownsville ISD, the district police made 3,102 student arrests over a period of roughly two and half years from May 2021 to November 2023. That’s 135 arrests per month in the school year. Fifty-nine percent of those arrests were for felony changes.

      Of those arrests, 3.5 percent were for elementary school-aged children. From the beginning of the prior school year to November 3 this year, there have been 76 arrests of students 10 to 11 years old. Charges for terroristic threats accounted for 20 percent of those arrests. Most, 66 percent, were felony charges. There were no charges for aggravated assault for this age group.

    • xor@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it… and then they changed what the word means.
      btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it “terrorism” to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
      in some states, that is “legally” terrorism.
      (its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you’re in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)