One week after my lawyers filed our whistleblower lawsuit against the state of Florida, cops showed up to our house to ask my 13-year-old son about three memes he shared on Snapchat.
My son shared three images in a private chat with two of his friends that police said were being assessed as potentially “threatening.”
One was a screengrab from a music video by rapper Lil Darkie. The other two were memes critical of police in Uvalde and a “scumbag brain” meme making fun of school resource officers.
I recorded the interviews police did in our home, in which police asked him about memes (and only memes) and told my husband and I they thought it was just “teenager stuff.” Crude jokes, rap music and political commentary. All protected by the First Amendment.
Even though police determined my son wasn't a threat, the state stepped in and charged my son with felony threats of terrorism.
They claimed the memes – all of which were already popular on the internet – were tantamount to threatening to …
