{"id":2953,"date":"2022-01-29T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T23:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/police-in-alabama-patrolling-facebook-and-threatening-to-arrest-people-who-post-negative-comments-daily-mail\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T23:36:16","slug":"police-in-alabama-patrolling-facebook-and-threatening-to-arrest-people-who-post-negative-comments-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/police-in-alabama-patrolling-facebook-and-threatening-to-arrest-people-who-post-negative-comments-daily-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Alabama patrolling Facebook and threatening to arrest people who post negative comments &#8211; Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>By <a href=\"\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Harriet+Alexander+For+Dailymail.com\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com<\/a> <br \/><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span>  06:46 GMT, 28 January 2022  <\/span> | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span>  07:49 GMT, 28 January 2022  <\/span> <\/p>\n<p> 252<br \/>View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>The chief of police of a small <a style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"\/news\/alabama\/index.html\" id=\"mol-12fecb90-8006-11ec-a2b7-6f4563c64cf3\">Alabama<\/a> town has been forced to resign after allegations that his force was pulling over people who criticized them on <a style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"\/sciencetech\/facebook\/index.html\" id=\"mol-12fd6c00-8006-11ec-a2b7-6f4563c64cf3\">Facebook<\/a>, and stopping people for spurious traffic violations to fill their coffers.<br \/>Mike Jones, chief of Brookside police, 10 miles northwest of <a style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"\/news\/birmingham\/index.html\" id=\"mol-12fef2a0-8006-11ec-a2b7-6f4563c64cf3\">Birmingham<\/a>, resigned on Wednesday.<br \/>The lieutenant governor of Alabama, Will Ainsworth, has requested an audit of the police force and town &#8211; home to 1,300 people.<br \/>Brookside has only one retail store and a volunteer fire department, but at least one police officer for every 144 people. By 2020, the police force made half its revenue from fines and forfeitures, according to local media.<br \/>The issues with the police have been going on for several years, and ensnared multiple local residents.<br \/>Mike Jones, chief of police of Brookside, Alabama, resigned on Wednesday<br \/>Michelle Jones has been campaigning against Brookfield police for the past three years<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Jones told <a style=\"font-weight: bold\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2022\/01\/brookside-police-patrolled-social-media-threatening-towns-critics.html\">AL.com<\/a>\u00a0that she complained to the Alabama attorney general&rsquo;s office three years ago.\u00a0<br \/>She had been pulled over in May 2019, and was fined $160 for running a stop sign &#8211; which she insisted she did not do.<br \/>Jones began criticizing the police in a series of interviews, and online.\u00a0<br \/>She said she told them, in 2020: &lsquo;The person threatened me with an arrest if I did not take down my Facebook pictures and posts of their police officers, stop sending emails to the local politicians, as well as others, and show them (Brookside police) that I understand law enforcement practices.&rsquo;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Her Facebook page is full of images of the police pulling people over.<br \/>In September 2019, she posted a photo captioned: &lsquo;ABC33\/40 &#8211; Brookside Police Department of Brookside, AL &#8211; On Interstate 22 Writing Illegal Tickets.&rsquo;<br \/>A commentator asked if she was pulled over again, and Jones replied: &lsquo;No. Working on something.&rsquo;\u00a0<br \/>Rev. Vincent Witt, a Baptist preacher and chaplain of the city of Lipscomb, said that he was pulled over in June 2019 in his brand new Cadillac, which had a paper license plate as the official one was yet to be delivered.<br \/>Witt said the officer called him a &lsquo;f****** n*****&rsquo;, and when he complained he and his sister &#8211; who was not even with him at the time &#8211; were charged with impersonating a police officer, with their faces plastered across CrimeStoppers websites.<br \/>Rev. Vincent Witt filed a complaint against Brookside police after they pulled him over and racially abused him<br \/>Lisa Ward, a candidate for Alabama senate, said she was threatened by the Brookfield police chief when she posted criticism of the force on Facebook<br \/>Will Ainsworth, the lieutenant governor of Alabama, has ordered an audit into Brookfield&rsquo;s town and police force<br \/>Another woman, Lisa Ward, a candidate for Alabama&rsquo;s senate, shared a story by AL.com about the rogue police force on Facebook, and said the police chief then tried to intimidate her.<br \/>A local man, who did not want to give his name, told AL.com that he was pulled over by police for no reason, and was reprimanded.<br \/>The man told AL.com that the officer said: &lsquo;The chief&rsquo;s pretty upset about that post you put on Facebook,&rsquo; adding that: &lsquo;any more backlash like that towards his police department and it&rsquo;ll be far worse than a ticket.&rsquo;<br \/>&lsquo;I just stared at him,&rsquo; the man said. &lsquo;I was just looking at him like, so this is what this stop is about? I was in pure shock.&rsquo;<br \/>Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd<br \/>Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday &amp; Metro Media Group<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10450799\/Police-Alabama-patrolling-Facebook-threatening-arrest-people-post-negative-comments.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com Published: 06:46 GMT, 28 January 2022 | Updated: 07:49 GMT, 28 January 2022 252View comments The chief of police of a small Alabama town has been forced to resign after allegations that his force was pulling over people who criticized them on Facebook, and stopping people for spurious traffic violations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}