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Police officer indicted for Facebook posts
By Yang Cheng-chun and Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Greater Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday indicted a police officer on charges of threatening public security for allegedly posting offensive Facebook messages in March during the Sunflower movement protests.
The police officer, Su Sen-hui (蘇森暉), was working at the Wufeng Precinct in Greater Taichung when he allegedly posted a message on March 19 that read: “Son of a bitch. I hope you all get hit by a car and die. Were police officers the ones that passed the cross-strait service trade agreement? If they are so angry at us, why not come to a police station and have a one-on-one fight with any one of us?”
The post apparently referred to the protesters who clashed with the police on the evening of March 18 before breaking into the Legislative Yuan, the start of a nearly three-week-long occupation of the legislature’s main chamber.
The indictment said that Su grew angrier about the student-led protests after he was asked to cancel his leave days and join other police officers deployed around the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on March 20.
Another Facebook message allegedly posted by Su read: “No days off! Got to arrest those female mobsters at the legislature… Condoms packed, prepare to be brutally raped!”
As Su’s Facebook page has photographs of himself in uniform, his remarks were quickly shared by netizens on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) — the nation’s largest online academic bulletin board — enabling the threatening messages to be more widely seen online, the indictment said.
source: Taipei Times
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