(Alabama) Brookside police patrolled social media, threatening town's critics
Earlier DU threads:
• Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal 'black hole'
• Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal 'black hole
Related:
• Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigns after AL.com report on traffic trap (AL.com)
• ‘We’re going to get something done’: State leaders promise action on Brookside ticket trap (AL.com)
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Source: AL.com
Brookside police patrolled social media, threatening town’s critics
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022, 8:44 a.m. | Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 7:00 a.m.
By John Archibald
Michelle Jones made an official complaint to the Alabama Attorney’s General’s office three years ago, arguing that Brookside police stopped her out of jurisdiction, issued a bogus citation and threatened her with more charges after she criticized them on Facebook.
She thought the complaint was long forgotten or closed.
But on Wednesday morning, she said, she got a call from the Alabama Attorney General’s investigator who had worked the case after her complaint was filed in 2019,
“He informed me that my case was never closed,” said Jones, who lives in Forestdale near Birmingham.
In 2020, she had explained her case this way to the AG’s office: “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.”
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Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/brookside-police-patrolled-social-media-threatening-towns-critics.html