Police State USA: Land of the Checkpoints GRAY, LA — A 15-year-old student has been arrested after uploading a YouTube video of gameplay from a phone application. Authorities said his video “terrorized and interfered with operation of his school” and charged him with offenses that could give him 20 years in prison if convicted. The boy, who has not been named, was a student at H.L. Bourgeois High school. He had downloaded a phone application called “The Real Strike” which utilizes the camera on a smart phone and superimposes a picture of a gun over the live-feed video. Whatever the camera phone points towards shows up on the screen with a graphic of a gun pointed towards it. The user can then use the app to simulate a mock shootout, and can record and share the results. The student used his phone at school to record some of his classmates, allegedly making a video of a mock shootout at school. He took his phone home and uploaded the video to YouTube. Worried parents reported him to the police and he was arrested. He was charged with “terrorizing and interference with the operation of a school,” according to WGNO. A video app that anyone can download for $2.99 and use in under 5 minutes, that harmed no one, can now be considered terrorism. policestateusa/2013/15-year-old-student-arrested-terrorizing-school-youtube-video-phone-app
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:40:06 +0000
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