KANSAS CITY, MO – A protest leader and local attorney in Kansas City issued an eerie threat to dox law enforcement officers and confront their children’s teachers or LEOs’ spouses following the arrest of a pregnant woman in the city.
Protest leader threatens KCPD officers’ families after arrest of pregnant woman stirs tension https://t.co/2nHq6wPv01 @TiaJohnsonTV
— FOX4 News (@fox4kc) October 11, 2020
While she feels as though this is some sort of “public service information” campaign, she’s actually flirting with a potential felony if she follows through.
Here’s the details.
A pregnant woman, Deja Stalling, was arrested earlier in October and protesters are proclaiming that the arresting officer had placed his knee into her back while doing so. However, captured video of the arrest doesn’t convey that conclusively.
But that hasn’t stopped the likes of local protester Stacy Shaw from lambasting the Kansas City Police Department. On October 10th, Shaw delivered a threat to police officers:
“We are going to start sharing things with your children’s teachers. You don’t think that we have extensive researchers? You don’t think we know where you’ll live?”
Shaw’s endgame is somehow trying to expose information she feels needs to be shared with the community, but going so far as to targeting school-aged children, general doxing and possible police spouses could come close to violating Missouri law § 565.090.
Namely, § 565.090 in Missouri pertains to harassment in the first-degree, which acts akin to doxing and the ilk aren’t terribly difficult to be treated as a modern form of harassment.
Shaw, apparently, is upset that local news outlets have covered this story in a manner that isn’t the most flattering to her efforts, which she wrote the following on Twitter in response to FOX4 News’ coverage:
“Nice pro-Police spin on this. A public service information campaign is a threat now? Also…There are some spelling errors that need to be corrected when you quoted me. I said ‘thinly veiled racism’.”
Even you should know that what you’re attempting to coin as a “public service campaign” in this tweet regarding your desires to dox family members of LEOs skirts awfully close to violation of § 565.090 in Missouri. I’d tread lightly Stacy and avoid a debacle.
— Greg Hoyt (@GregHoytLET) October 11, 2020
A certain savvy author from Law Enforcement Today was quick to point out to this attorney that she’d best plod gently with these sorts of threats, due to the potential calamity of actually acting on them:
“Even you should know that what you’re attempting to coin as a “public service campaign” in this tweet regarding your desires to dox family members of LEOs skirts awfully close to violation of § 565.090 in Missouri. I’d tread lightly Stacy and avoid a debacle.”
Kansas City Fraternal Order of Police President Brad Lemon aimed to calm the nerves of officers concerned over the rhetoric being spun by Shaw, with a statement that noted the following:
“We do this job and have an understanding of the danger that accompanies our oath…our families do not deserve what Shaw is threatening.”
One of the more sensible community members, Ryan Shill, caught wind of the antics courtesy of Shaw, which has simply further emboldened him in his efforts to support local police officers:
“There’s been some calls for his removal and a little bit of negativity here and there from people and we just want him to know that there are people in Kansas City who do support him and the Kansas City Officers.”
Shill has been instrumental in the hosting of Back the Blue parades in the area. Having hosted one event during the past weekend, and another that transpired on October 11th, Shill wants the local police to know that they have his and the community’s support:
“We want everybody to know in the police department that we do support them.”
Essentially, Shaw claims that people are allowing KCPD “officers to murder all these people without retribution,” but KCPD hasn’t really garnered a reputation for numerous, unchecked questionable shootings.
And when there have been questionable elements, charges against the officer transpired – such as the charging of the officer who shot Cameron Lamb.
So, the claim that KCPD officers get to shoot people in Kansas City all willy-nilly without “retribution” is a far-fetched opinion not well-rooted in reality.
But oftentimes, reality hardly ever suits an agenda-driven narrative.
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