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20岁美国大学生网称欲制造枪击案 被拘6个月
关键字: 枪击案网络谣言炸建委吴虹飞拘留美国枪击案观译据《赫芬顿邮报》报道,美国乔治亚州的一名大学生因在网上声称要制造枪击案,已被拘留半年。
现年20岁的克莱门斯在网上的“玩笑”把自己送进了监狱
这名学生名叫卡勒布·克莱门斯,现年20岁,是一名南乔治亚大学心理学专业学生。今年2月,他在自己的博客页面上发言称:“你好,我的名字是埃尔尼格,我正在计划在南乔治亚大学进行枪击。请传播这一条,看看能有多大影响,看看我是不是会被捕。”
几小时后,克莱门斯被捕了,当地警方称收到了匿名报案。根据大学学报报道,学校安全主管说,并没有在克莱门斯的住处发现任何准备枪击的迹象。
克莱门斯随后被以“通过电脑制造恐怖威胁”的罪名被起诉,并被关押在布洛克郡拘留所。据悉他的保释金金额为2000美元,然而克莱门斯的家庭无法负担这笔巨款。甚至也没有钱聘请律师,一个募捐网站试图帮助他雇用一名律师,募捐目标是5000美元,然而目前仅收到2000美元捐款。
根据乔治亚州法律,制造恐怖威胁可能被判罚金1000美元或者5年监禁。
有人认为克莱门斯的罪行并不严重,执法机关似乎有些反应过度。
“他事先已经说了他发布帖子的目的就是实验看执法机关反应的速度。这虽然是很蠢,但并不违法,”美国法律专家肯·鲍尔森这样说。
克莱门斯的母亲对记者表示:“我儿子想要在他的一生中做成一些事情,所以他才会努力上大学。我们希望有机会让一切恢复正常。”
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Caleb Clemmons, Georgia Southern University Student, Jailed Over Tumblr Remark
A college student in Georgia is still in jail six months after writing that he was going to carry out a shooting at the university he attends.
Caleb Clemmons, a 20-year-old psychology major at Georgia Southern University, posted the following message on his Tumblr page in early February: "hello. my name is irenigg and i plan on shooting up georgia southern. pass this around to see the affect it has. to see if i get arrested."
A few hours later, Clemmons was arrested after authorities received an anonymous tip, according to student newspaper The George-Anne. However, the university's director of public safety said no weapons or any signs of a planned attack were found at Clemmons' residence.
It wasn't until over a month later that school officials notified the student body about the apparent threat, and the incident had received no major press coverage until Sunday, when Gawker's Max Rivlin Nadler published an article about Clemmons.
Clemmons has been charged with "making terroristic threats via computer," a spokesman for Bulloch County Jail, where Clemmons is being held, told The Huffington Post on Monday.
The spokesman said the bond had been set at $20,000 -- an amount his family cannot afford to pay, according to an anonymous post on Clemmons' Tumblr page. (A GoFundMe page set up to help Clemmons' family hire a lawyer has raised about $2,000 of its $5,000 goal.)
Under Georgia state law, making terroristic threats is punishable by a $1,000 fine or a five-year prison sentence.
But some say that since Clemmons was probably not serious, law enforcement may be overreacting.
"He essentially said he was doing it as an experiment to see how long it would take to have authorities respond. That's foolhardy, but not illegal," First Amendment Center President Ken Paulson told HuffPost.
Paulson, who is also dean of the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University, explained that what Clemmons did is different from what's known as a "true threat," where there is a reasonable belief that a violent act will be committed.
"[Clemmons'] blog offered insightful, satirical commentary on contemporary culture," writes one commenter in Georgia Southern University's newspaper. "He often posted in character, playing a role that his entire audience understood as such."
"This kid has made my nights through his blog. I in no way have ever taken what he's said to be anything more than entertaining," said another commenter on a Change.org petition asking for Clemmons to be released.
Paulson noted that the length of time Clemmons has been in jail means that a prosecutor decided his case was worth pursuing and a judge decided against dismissing it, which is "extraordinarily unusual."
Clemmons' mother, Andrea Morris, made a heartfelt appeal for her son's freedom in a comment on Change.org.
"My son was attempting to do something with his life, by attending college. He needs another chance at making things right," wrote Morris, who lives in Smyrna, Ga. "Caleb has a little sister, 7, who misses her big brother. She wants him home."
Georgia Southern University did not immediately return a request for comment from HuffPost.
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