Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook.
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Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook.
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#2While his expulsion is completely expected, arresting him? Really?
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#3The linked Chicago Tribune report
http://triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/2011/05/10/studen...
hardly provides any more detail. What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge?
AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the helpful comments. It sounds like the kid in question might be able to get the charges dismissed, with help from a competent constitutional lawyer.
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#4So, instead of cracking down drug dealers and gangs they decide to arrest a minor for making a list of how hot/ugly the girls are at his school? Glad to see the police force there is hard at work.
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#5So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
Re: Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook.
#6The linked Chicago Tribune report http://triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/2011/05/10/studen... hardly provides any more detail. What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge? AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the helpful comments. It sounds like the kid in question might be able to get the charges dismissed, with help from a competent constitutional lawyer.
>What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge?
absence of any other vaguely formulated charge that could have been stretched enough to cover this case. I mean, if the ranking list was factually incorrect, they would bring a libel.
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#7So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
When the contestants are entered against their will and described using racial slurs?
The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the kid's behaviour. If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully upset about that too...
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#8So, instead of cracking down drug dealers and gangs they decide to arrest a minor for making a list of how hot/ugly the girls are at his school? Glad to see the police force there is hard at work.
existence of drug dealers and gangs supports and promotes the police force and power increase. Getting habit of freely expressing your non conformist opinions is a path to subversion of existing power (dis)balance.
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Re: Teen arrested for ranking looks of classmates on Facebook.
#10The linked Chicago Tribune report http://triblocal.com/oak-park-river-forest/2011/05/10/studen... hardly provides any more detail. What is the basis for the disorderly conduct charge? AFTER EDIT: Thanks for the helpful comments. It sounds like the kid in question might be able to get the charges dismissed, with help from a competent constitutional lawyer.
In Illinois it is, apparently, incredibly vague:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=07...
a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly: (1) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace