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by MrZongle2 2141 days ago
"...it's also a request to identify a police officer, which has legitimate purposes."

And given the context of calling a police officer a "bitch", do you think the requester was doing so to accurately file a complaint... or doing so in the hope that armed with the cop's identity, somebody would engage in harassment of that man and/or his family?

Being charged with a felony for the tweet is absurd.

But painting this as an innocent request for information is almost equally so.

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> And given the context of calling a police officer a "bitch", do you think the requester was doing so to accurately file a complaint...

To be honest, I read that tweet as fairly ordinary use of vernacular and I wouldn't assume malicious intent.