Jennifer Pawluck found guilty of criminal harassment after posting anti-police graffiti on Instagram

[Western Red]

Could it be Banksy? Jk

The content may be disturbing but whoever made it is more guilty of something than she is. This woman is getting punished and given a criminal record for sharing something on social media. The content seems to me like an anti police state message in the form of a gruesome depiction. However this woman is being censored and convicted for sharing it? Bleh.. this is a scary precedent being set.

Here's an article from April

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/montreal/jennifer-pawluck-found-guilty-of-criminal-harassment-after-posting-anti-police-graffiti-on-instagram-1.3046134

and a follow up one from May 14th below.

http://insurrectionnewsworldwide.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/canada-jennifer-pawluck-convicted-for.html?m=1

Quote: "A woman who posted a photo of graffiti depicting a senior Montreal police officer with a bullet in his head has received a suspended sentence. Jennifer Pawluck was found guilty in April of criminal harassment for snapping a photo of the street art and uploading it to Instagram in 2013.

The judge agreed with a joint suggestion that the 22-year-old Pawluck be given a suspended sentence, 18 months probation and 100 hours community service. She is forbidden from using Instagram, Facebook or Twitter for one year except to send private messages. Pawluck is also prohibited from posting anything about police or anyone associated with the judicial system.

Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere, a high-profile spokesman, told the court that knowledge the graffiti was being shared shook him, scared his children and forced his wife to take a leave from work."

*Sorry for the unpolished thread, put it together on my phone.

Thanks for sharing this OP, and I'd like to say that I share your concerns and have a measured approach as well. This could very well be some precedent or precursor : C-51.

But truly, we have little more to fear. Anyone But Harper (ABC) works for me. Him and his oil zombies aren't going to be back next time. There will be a coalition if needs be, I think. Trudeau will sub to Mulcair if things are going Harpers way come fall. I sure hope so anyway.

All this effrontery to the Canadian people and lands can be somewhat corrected. Sorry for getting off track.

The Police are very important hands of justice. They are individuals doing their job and actively steward society and safety. It's the books they read from that are written in stone, thus C-51 cannot go through as presented.

[canuktravella]

thats absurd we are starting to live in a nazi like run country run by corrupt politicians and scumbag cops like the ones that killed the polish guy in yvr why are they not in jail u pos pigs

[WilliesStache14]

The original artists should be charged, not her. The way I see it, she saw something interesting and decided to post a picture of it. Did the cop ever contact her and ask her to take it down? That would be a more reasonable way to handle this. Not everything you see (especially in art) is meant to be taken literally.

if she didn't post stupid crap like "one cop one bullet" then she probably wouldn't have been

[WilliesStache14]

There will be a coalition if needs be, I think. Trudeau will sub to Mulcair if things are going Harpers way come fall. I sure hope so anyway.

Didn't Trudeau already say he wasn't going to do that

[elvis15]

What history does she have? And were there any questionable hashtags or anything on the post? Just curious.

You'd already know that if the OP had had all the information in it. There's plenty of links with more detail though already in this thread.

[stawns]

thats absurd we are starting to live in a nazi like run country run by corrupt politicians and scumbag cops like the ones that killed the polish guy in yvr why are they not in jail u pos pigs

everyone complaining about living in a police state or "nazi like run country" clearly skipped history classes. Claiming that Canada is something akin to those kinds of places is absurd

[Down by the River]

everyone complaining about living in a police state or "nazi like run country" clearly skipped history classes. Claiming that Canada is something akin to those kinds of places is absurd

Isn't 'absurd' what he is going for?

[EastVanCanuck]

Oh snap Hippy got owned lol.

[EastVanCanuck]

I've had my picture photoshopped onto gay porn after pissing someone off on a fringe forum.

Everyone on the forum myself included had a good laugh about it. Obviously that's not quite the same but I've seen much more gruesome depictions of muhammad or people seen in the eyes of western governments as criminals. However only the ultra PC left ever has any objections to those. If anything this picture was a smear campaign in protest of a police state we're falling into. Like the guy said above, this is actually pretty tame. Sure crucify the guy who made it if you find it disgusting (i don't find it to be criminal) however if you think someone taking a picture and sharing the message of something controversial and aggressive (as gruesome as it appears at first glance) than you're part of the problem as to why this country is allowing its liberties to slip away. Whoever doesn't think this is censorship.. just wait until you're being charge criminally for sharing anti-government corruption information online. Because we just started along a slippery slope.

I am laughing at this very hard right. Are you insinuating that Canada is a police state or is going to become a police state? Lol. Wake up and smell the coffee bro. Take your A with the circle around it and shove it. Lol

[EastVanCanuck]

I'm just allergic to bull. Sorry.

You can share the image, that's the whole point. The picture gives context to her post, and within that context her actions are deemed to be harassment. I'm puzzled what part of this you don't understand. You can go post that picture on Twitter right now and nobody will be knocking on your door. Just avoid using threatening hashtags.

By the way, you're the one spewing rhetoric (or you can feel free to highlight any rhetoric I've spewed). Otherwise you'd be showing me the lies in the MSM right now. I don't know what the significance of posting that story before anyone else is. Certainly doesn't grand it extra credibility.

Would you really be okay with someone using your identity, name and likeness, and caption it with words implying murdering people who do the same thing as you, in an environment where what you do is seen as extremely negative? I think this is a clear case of harassment, and definitely in no way is this a case of "government" (whatever is meant by that) pressuring courts (separate domains, remember?) to find someone guilty of a made up crime. Not just that, but if the government was trying to censor something in this case, do you think it would want stories about it in every major and fringe news outlet (and the stories are in every major outlet, and I'm yet to see a single example to support your claims of half-truths)? The entire premise of your position doesn't make sense. There's a reason I am ideologically aligned with you, but disagree, eh?

To drive the point home, the picture is up on Huffington Post right now. Right here. Nothing is being censored.

Yo bro we sat, this where you got OWNED. Lol

[Offensive Threat]

if she didn't post stupid crap like "one cop one bullet" then she probably wouldn't have been

Well that statement was on another piece of grafitti she took a photo of and posted. She herself posted no actual harassing hashtags or anything else with that photo. She did post a picture of a bullet weeks earlier with the hashtag "we are going to kill" but that did not include any imagery or hint to being directed at law enforcement. Its not like any of these were in a row or anything.

I dont think these posts taken individually or as a group constitute criminal harassment in its current legal state. But its current legal state is open to broad interpretation.

[Mustapha]

If this was a man posting an image deemed 'offensive to women' he would have been tarred and feathered by now.

I don't think anyone should face criminal charges for this sort of nonsense, but what's good for the gander is good for the goose, I guess.

[elvis15]

Well that statement was on another piece of grafitti she took a photo of and posted. She herself posted no actual harassing hashtags or anything else with that photo. She did post a picture of a bullet weeks earlier with the hashtag "we are going to kill" but that did not include any imagery or hint to being directed at law enforcement. Its not like any of these were in a row or anything.

I dont think these posts taken individually or as a group constitute criminal harassment in its current legal state. But its current legal state is open to broad interpretation.

But she did:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/jennifer-pawluck-convicted-of-criminal-harassment-for-image-of-montreal-cop-shot-in-head

...

Pawluck later added the hashtags “Un flic, une balle” (one cop, one bullet) and “All Cops Are Bastards” and made sure to get the spelling of Lafrenière’s name right (she had to correct it once). She also added a hashtag linking it to Montreal police social media pages.

...

Prosecutor Josie Laplante said, after the verdict was read, that it wasn’t just the mere posting of the graffiti that constituted a threat in this case.

“On the photo there were links, or hashtags, with Ian Lafrenière’s name written in different ways and allusions like (all cops are bastards) and (one cop, one bullet) to the point where, given the context, there was criminal harassment,” Laplante told reporters.

...

[stawns]

But she did:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/jennifer-pawluck-convicted-of-criminal-harassment-for-image-of-montreal-cop-shot-in-head

my mama always said "stupid is as stupid does"