A West Virginia librarian was arrested after she allegedly posted videos online rallying people to assassinate President Trump.
Morgan Morrow, 39, is accused of making terroristic threats after she used ‘social media recruitment to pursue and assassinate Trump,’ per the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.
‘When you saddle up on the horse of stupidity, you have to be prepared for the ride that follows,’ Sheriff Ross Mellinger told 13 News.
Police discovered the chilling threat on Sunday and traced it to Morrow, a Jackson County Public Library worker, who allegedly posted on TikTok calling for the president’s assassination, according to the criminal complaint.
Morrow’s TikTok post was labelled, ‘Surely a (sniper) with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million,’ per the complaint.
After checking her content and the surrounding context, police concluded the statement prompted a vile call for the president’s assassination.
Investigators subsequently confronted the librarian at her residence in Ripley, where she was arrested and taken into custody.
In an interview with police, Morrow allegedly admitted that she wrote and posted the statement on TikTok, claiming it was ‘intended as a threat directed toward President Trump,’ the outlet reported.
She allegedly revealed her ‘personal reasons for wishing harm upon the President’ to police, though the complaint did not provide further particulars.
While the librarian allegedly confessed to making the social media post, she claimed she had no intention of actually carrying out the threat.
Police, however, said her statements could ‘encourage, inspire, or entice others to carry out the threatened act, regardless of whether the speaker publicly intends to personally do so,’ per the complaint.
‘We’re just trying to do our part in making sure that it’s not acted upon, and there’s no one that’s following her footsteps to try to carry out the plan,’ Mellinger told the outlet.
Emphasising that the arrest was not a political statement but an ‘active, troubling criminal investigation’, the sheriff reiterated that social media threats or posts of this nature will not be tolerated.
‘It’s okay to be critical of the government. It’s okay to be critical of things you don’t agree with.
‘But when you start promoting the violence, and you’re promoting a plan to carry out the violence and recruiting other people to carry out the plan for you, that’s clearly crossing the line,’ the sheriff told the outlet.
The Jackson County Public Library released a social media statement about Morrow’s arrest, saying her comments do not reflect their ‘values.’
Now that Morrow has been incarcerated, she can become the prison librarian.
Donald Trump is not to my liking, but neither was Joe Biden or Obama, but I wouldn’t want them dead – I wouldn’t want any human being dead, but evidently, this woman has swallowed a lot of aggression.
Of course, we all have our beliefs, but sadly, freedom of speech comes with the consequences of our words. Can you imagine if everyone were arrested for every ill thought?
The First Amendment of the US Constitution states that ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the process; or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.’ However, the authors of the US Constitution had no feasible way to allot for or even imagine the invention of the public internet and the people who would be on it.
She wasn’t saying that she was going to hire a hit man or anything like that; she was just having her say, but because it was on TikTok and other people visit the site, it doesn’t mean that somebody wouldn’t have gone on there and thought that it was a jolly good idea, because people are like sheep and they all follow, it only takes one person to carry the deed out. However, her post should have been taken down by TikTok immediately.
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