Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles, a Michigan man, is being accused of
threatening to behead the polic officer who infamously put Eric Garner
in a chokehold. The 29-year-old wrote, "...going to personally kill and
behead Daniel Pantaleo...", on his Facebook in December. Last month, he
was arrested and now faces a charge of interstate transmission of
threatening communications. If you aren't aware of the Garner case,
here's a recap. The NYPD officer put Eric in a chokehold when he was
caught illegaly selling cigarettes. The assault caused him to die and
his death sparked national outrage. In a recent interview with
Guzman-Telles' mother, she claims that once she became aware of her
son's posts she was fearful and told him to delete them from his page.
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article was written by Doug Criss of CNN News on Fri February 6, 2015
at 1:44 AM ET. I found this story very interesting and it reminds me of
similar threats that were made against George Zimmerman who killed
Treyvon Martin last year. These occurences have time and time again
shown how angry the public gets when one of their own is killed.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/06/us/police-behead-threat-suspect/index.html
I think this is very interesting. It shows the kind of emotion that death brings people. I don't think sending out blanket threats is a good idea, because it only does more harm than good.
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