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Man arrested in Oviedo [Florida] for smashing fake police Flock camera (www.wftv.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Imagine all that effort put into catching someone smashing a stupid camera, it could've been used on a pedophile or something.

You've been warned, they're high on the lookout for Flock vandals now.

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[–] h0tbeef@lemmy.zip 68 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

How can they charge him with destroying computer equipment if the camera was fake?

Bullshit charge

Does he have a bail fund?

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 58 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Meyer faces charges of grand theft, criminal mischief causing at least $1,000 in damage and damaging computer or electronic equipment.

Furthermore, nothing was stolen, so charging him with both grand theft and criminal mischief seems like a duplication of charges. Also, a fake camera is surely not worth over $1,000.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Its a "throw the scary book" level of charges that look good on a press release.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

And also trying to pressure him into a plea deal by offering to drop some of these bogus charges if he pleads guilty to one or two real charges. (They really don't want this one going up in front of a jury trial.)

[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago

Its not like one of the most unified sentiments right now for everyone is a shared hatred of flock cameras

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

It was a fake camera, but it was made of gold for some reason 🤷‍♂️

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

It's Florida the facts are how they decide they are