Is Posting a Photo of an Undercover Police Officer a Crime?
Melissa Walthall, of Mesquite, Texas, was given a photo of the undercover police officer who had helped to convict a friend of hers. She did what many of us would do: She posted it to Facebook, adding the ill-considered comment, “Anyone knew this –?”
Melissa Walthall, of Mesquite, Texas, was given a photo of the undercover police officer who had helped to convict a friend of hers. She did what many of us would do: She posted it to Facebook, adding the ill-considered comment, “Anyone knew this –?”
Walthall’s friend’s brother had found the photo on Facebook, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Both have been charged with “retaliation.”
SocialTimes spoke to Hanni M. Fakhoury, a staff attorney at the Electronic
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