Long Beach Student Arrested For Facebook Threats

Long Beach, California police have arrested a high school student for allegedly threatening classmates on Facebook.

One 17-year-old befriended other teens from his school on Facebook. Contrary to the kind of camaraderie or friendship you’d think the new bond might inspire, he turned around and threatened his new “friends” just days after adding them.

The irony of the whole thing? The evening before the bully’s arrest, parents at that high school attended a school-sponsored meeting about how to protect their children from cyberbulling. Sadly, it seems they had to put their learnings into practice too soon.

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