Cartoonist Targeted With Criminal Probe For Mocking Police
Found on Kirotv on Thursday, 04 August 2011
The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an "extreme abuse of power."
The search warrant says one cartoon statement "discussed a past incident that has already been investigated... regarding a dating relationship (a female detective) had with a suspect." An embarrassing revelation; yes, but criminal?
So Renton PD is not what you would call a prime example of a PD. Now they are confronted with the results and want to silence the creator.