Police go after blogger who criticized them

Posted on April 24, 2008

We read:

“An anonymous blogger in Whitewater, Wisconsin has been critical of the police chief and how he runs things. He has been critical of various aspects of the town government as well. He recently criticized government roundups of alleged illegal immigrants for instance.

Police chief James Coan did not take kindly to be criticized so he had city employees begin an investigation in order to try to find out who was publishing the blog. Coan used his position in the police department to get two detectives, the director of public works, the information technology officer and the city clerk involved in searching for the identity of the blogger — all at taxpayer’s expense.”

Coan had the blogger listed as a “suspect” even though he had broken no laws. Coan tried to bullshit his way out of the mess he created by claiming that the blogger was a “potential threat” because he was “so extremely angry at me”.

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Sounds like they didn’t find him, though. Lucky for him! More background here.

There is a lot of misbehaviour by police and prosecutors. Strange Justice documents a lot of it.

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2 Responses to “Police go after blogger who criticized them”

William Teach on April 24th, 2008 11:54 am

I wonder if the ACLU will actually help the guy out? Doing what they say they actually stand for?

Of course, the ACLU will probably check to see if the guy is a Dem or GOP, first.
Regularron on April 24th, 2008 6:16 pm

It sounds to me, this Government Thug needs to do his job, instead of intimidating someone that doesn’t agree with him. Oh I forgot, this is his meaningless job.Being a lazy bum, who couldn’t hack it in the real world. So, he get’s a coushy job, being a Government Thug.

Disgusting abuse of power. But, I’m not suprised, most of the Thugs (cops) get away with doing this type of stuff all the time.