15 year old flagged for an Instagram post that contained Eminems lyrics about school shootings.
A 15 Year Old Is Behind Bars After Posting These Eminem Lyrics
#1 Boy Arrested For Posting Eminem Lyrics
A Fresno, CA 15 year old was arrested on Monday night after school administrators flagged an Instagram post he allegedly wrote, which contained Eminem lyrics and a reference to a school shooting. The boy is facing terror charges as well as a few felony charges pending further investigations.
#2 Allegedly Made Terrorists Threats
According to The Fresno Bee, the high school student was arrested for allegedly making terrorist threats, as well as for disrupting school activity when school officials found a post he made on Instagram.
#3 How It Started..
School officials have been monitoring the students social media accounts for over a year, and this situation started when the student wrote a post on Instagram that included lyrics from Eminem's 2000 music track "I'm Back."
#4 Police Hold Conference On The Arrest
Fresno Police Chief, Jerry Dyer, initially attributed the first half of the posting on Instagram to Eminem and said that the student had written the second half of the post by himself. He later retracted that statement.
#5 What Scared School Officials and Police
It wasn't just the initial post that got the police worried, it was the commentary that was included after the post. Another student first commented on the post, saying;
"Bring me with man," the student reportedly wrote. "I got some stuff [to] settle."
From there, the 15-year-old poster reportedly responded: "Ill text you when...I got a couple idiots' blocks I could knock off."
#6 The Students Home Was Searched By Fresno Police
After getting a search warrant and combing the students home, officials found a litany of unregistered weapons including a replica AK-47 Airsoft rifle, a handgun, a .357 Magnum revolver, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition and a bulletproof vest, and a home made device for making a bomb. This was shocking to everyone involved as it was first being pushed off as a simple misunderstanding. The findings of the weapons alone are worthy of prison time.
#7 The Threat Of Terror Was Over
Due to the threat, classes were cancelled on Tuesday, but they planned to reopen Wednesday, and students were able to return to campus on Tuesday for football practice and after school activities.
#8 The Eminem Song Lyric In Question
This is a clip from Eminem's song lyric for "I'm Back" with an additional minor edit of a line by the student thrown in.
#9 So Why Were Officials Worried About The Post?
For those of you that don't follow rap or hiphop music, this particular lyric from the Eminem song references the Columbine High School massacre where 15 people died and 24 more were injured. That's enough to alert any school officials of a threat when seen posted on social media as it was.
