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Parents of a Wisconsin teenager claim the Marquette County sheriff threatened her with arrest if she didn’t delete an Instagram post about recovering from the coronavirus.

MILWAUKEE — Parents of a Wisconsin teenager claim the Marquette County sheriff threatened her with arrest if she didn’t delete an Instagram post about recovering from the coronavirus.

The sheriff wanted the post deleted because there were no confirmed cases in the county at that time, according to the lawsuit.

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