Posted on 01/25/2021 6:33:30 PM PST by aimhigh
A 28-year-old Tennessee man has been arrested and charged for creating a “disrespectful Photoshopped image.” He is accused of manipulating a photograph of a deceased officer’s grave and posting it on social media.
Joshua Andrew Garton was arrested and charged with one count of harassment after he reportedly Photoshopped a fake photo that depicted two people desecrating the grave of deceased officer Sergeant Daniel Baker. Baker was killed in the line of duty in 2018.
According to NBC News, the image apparently depicted two men urinating on the grave, with the accompanying text reading, “Just showing my respect to deputy Daniel Baker.” . . . .
The Tenessee Bureau of Investigation apparently was alerted to the photo and subsequently visited the gravesite where they determined the image had been faked. . . . Agents subsequently visited Baker’s gravesite this morning and determined the photograph was digitally manufactured. Further investigative efforts led to the identification of Joshua Andrew Garton as the individual who manufactured the image and distributed it on social media.”
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As distasteful and despicable as it is, a person shouldn’t be arrested for creating a photo shop.
Disrespectful, disgusting, offensive, yes...illegal? HELL NO!
I’m so glad that the First Amendment doesn’t cover poor taste. /sarc
The District Attorney needs a good talking to about Freedom of Speech. He also needs to be sued into oblivion and disbarred. These people are more dangerous then the criminals they prosecute.
If this arrest were constitutional, imagine all the arrests that could be made for anti-Trump memes.
Your comment just got to me. So funny.
Dickson County, TN. In your area?
Unbelievable.
No crime committed whatsoever.
Ads on television, as well as tv shows themselves, are more offensive.
Holy cow! When Satan’s Prom Queen Hillary finally goes to her infernal reward, they’ll give me the death penalty for what I have planned for her grave.
I’m so glad that the Former First Amendment doesn’t cover poor taste.
Supreme Court.
Actually, he didn’t. The graphic was not of the officers grave, nor was it created to be a representation of that grave, photoshopped to look like it, nor was it done after the officer was killed, and to boot, if the police had bothered to do a Google image search, they’d have found all of this out. . The image was taken from a 2009 Rap record jacket called “I P*ss On Your Grave” and some unrelated Yahoo borrowed it to use in a Tweet saying “This is what I think of this cop!”
I just happened to have run across a Michigan attorney’s YouTube commentary on this afternoon who laid all this out. As he pointed out, the Tweet was reprehensible, in bad taste, and ill meaning for the officer’s family and fellow officers, but still protected speech. . . but the graphic artist who had originally created the image eleven years ago, the guy who had NOTHING to do with slurring the dead officer, a perfectly innocent guy who had been paid to do Art, was the one they arrested!
They never went after the guy who tweeted.
USSA
"The Tenessee Bureau of Investigation apparently was alerted to the photo and subsequently visited the gravesite where they determined the image had been faked. . . . Agents subsequently visited Baker’s gravesite this morning and determined the photograph was digitally manufactured. Further investigative efforts led to the identification of Joshua Andrew Garton as the individual who manufactured the image and distributed it on social media.”
This is totally misleading. As I posted above, the original image in the Tweet was an image of a grave with two guys urinating on a grave. It was taken from a rap music album from 2009 entitled "I p*ss on your grave". The investigation at the officer’s gravesite, according to the attorney who had more info, found the image’s grave bore no relationship to the officer Baker’s grave at all, they just weren’t the same. Barton’s image did not have the offending label singling out officer Baker on it, it did have the Album title. Officer Baker’s name existed only on the Tweet to which the Twisted Tweeter attached the unmodified image.
To arrest the artist who created the album cover in 2009 for a 2018 or 2019 comment in a Tweet is beyond absurd, it’s Kafkaesque.
What is this Constitution of which you speak? I have heard ancient tales of its existence.
By the way, the record was by a rap group called “The Rites” and it was actually called “P*ssing On Your Grave”. 2009 was the correct year, but it may have been a single. Sorry, I was using my old and leaky memory.
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