“This man, Justin Carter, made a number of threats on Facebook to shoot up a class of kindergartners…He also made numerous comments telling people to go shoot themselves in the face and drink bleach. The threats to shoot the children were made approximately an hour ago.”
Comal County prosecutor Laura Bates and Comal County District Attorney Jennifer Tharp are pushing the charge despite the fact that they don’t even have the entire comment thread to provide context. They’ve also apparently found nothing else to incriminate him. They found no guns, no bombs or bomb-making materials, no written plan of attack, really no indication at all that the comments were anything more than a bad sense of humor, or just bad judgment.
Still, Carter spent months in jail.
Looks like a lot of overreaction to me.
