Kill Your Kids’ Social Media Accounts
Based on a Travis County prosecutor’s belief that there was probable cause to charge Carter with a third-degree terroristic threat — which carries a penalty of two to 10 years — a judge issued an arrest warrant. U.S. marshals traced Carter to the drapery shop in San Antonio, where he worked, and handcuffed the cherub-faced, brown-haired teen. Until that point, his only brush with the law was a temporary restraining order two years earlier.
After his booking into the Bexar County Jail, authorities discovered that he actually lived in New Braunfels — Comal County. After his transfer there, his bond was increased from $250,000 to half a million dollars.
According to Carter’s attorney, Don Flanary, the 18-year-old suffered brutal attacks in the Comal County Jail during the four months he was held there.
Police records allege that, upon being booked into Bexar County Jail, Carter stated, “I guess what you post on Facebook matters.”
He had no idea.
When officers searched Carter’s home, Flanary says, they did not find the hallmarks of a lunatic.
“They found no guns in his house,” Flanary says from his San Antonio office. “They found no bomb-making materials.” He follows this up with a dash of sarcasm that’s not a far stretch from the rhetorical flourishes that put his client in peril: “They didn’t find The Anarchist Cookbook. … They didn’t find, you know, a bunch of newspaper clippings on the wall — conspiracy theories, with yarn from one place to another. They didn’t find pentagrams and candles. He wasn’t listening to Judas Priest.”
Flanary’s explanation for this is simple: His client is not a nut. But Flanary can’t say the same for the jam his client’s in. “This whole thing is totally and completely bonkers.”
Read the whole thing. Especially the part about where they held him for four months in jail, where he was sexually assaulted. Then kill your children’s social media accounts.
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