Does your local police allow Facebook comments?

Or possibly a designated public forum. There are colorable arguments in favor of both forums. But a government is allowed to close either one.

 

I don’t really have an opinion on the FB page thing.

However watching that video affects me viscerally as a parent of an autistic kid. There were plenty of instances where my kid said and did inappropriate things. Heck my bipolar daughter even bit a teacher once. We were really lucky that school teachers staff and even on site security officers always handled themselves appropriately. There were occasions where restraint was used but all instances were reasonable.

Listening to that cop talking to that kid “bite me again” makes me incredibly angry. In a bit of irony, my bipolar daughter, who at times made it difficult for teachers, now works doing ABA with autistic children and has been bitten and had large toys thrown at her head. If she can deal with it this POS cop ought to be able to. F him.

 

It is probably a function of being a smaller more rural type area people aren’t going to have the same level of experience and training as a large urban area like we do.

I never had an issue if one of my kids were restrained if it was the result of an extreme behavior. Dealing with special needs kids is tough and such people deserve some grace. If you have a special needs kid the probability is high you will have an encounter with law enforcement or child protective services or both. But in an instance like that where the kid is treated forcibly and injured and there was no provocation that is over the line.

 

I don't have a problem with government controlling what goes on their sites on private platforms. I have a problem with the platforms doing the controlling for everybody else.

 

So you have a problem with private platforms controlling what happens on private platforms.

If I started spamming the board with calls for a Democrat-FSU-Muslim sharia law, and GC decided to delete it, you have a big problem with that.

 

Did a bot just bump this thread?

 

I see no issue with them limiting comments on THEIR page. The Constitution protects you from them restricting YOUR page.

 

Yep

 

A local dept in my area had their page continuously spammed by people who didn't even live in florida, many of whose accounts had locked profiles or were spam accounts. The department deserves a heavy dose of criticism for reasons that have been discussed in valdostas police thread but spamming community activity posts and other information postings isn't the way to do it.

 

Did they post about Robert Barnes?

 

Since FB is not a required instrument of info for municipalities to use then they can manage however they want. If they don't want to deal with the heat from instances like this then don't have one at all. But like @gator_lawyer said, you can't pick and choose which issues you allow the public to weigh in on.
If people still want to say something, they can post on their own FB page or their own social media account.