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Police Facebook Posts

A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed a police inspector’s claims that he was defamed when an investigative journalism project published one of his comments on a Facebook post in a collection of social media posts by police officers that “appeared to endorse violence, racism and bigotry.”

PHILADELPHIA – A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed a police inspector’s claims that he was defamed when an investigative journalism project published one of his comments on a Facebook post in a collection of social media posts by police officers that “appeared to endorse violence, racism and bigotry.”

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