IOWA CITY – An Iowa man who claimed he was plotting to “shoot every white cop” he sees was arrested and charged with harassment earlier this month, but the charge has now been dropped.
According to a police arrest report released today by Iowa City police, 30-year-old Michael L. McCullum was arrested and taken to the Johnson County Jail this month, charged with aggravated misdemeanor first-degree harassment. However, court records now show that charge was dropped on May 19.
The trouble for McCullum started when police were notified that he allegedly wrote to a Facebook page on May 1 under a different name “I’ve thought about shooting every white cop I see in the head until I’m either caught by the police or killed by them. Ha!!!! I think I can pull it off. Might kill at least fifteen tomorrow. I’m plotting now.”
The Associated Press reported Monday that the Supreme Court “threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man prosecuted for making threats on Facebook, but dodged the free-speech issues that had made the case intriguing to First Amendment advocates.” The Pennsylvania man had “posted Facebook rants in the form of rap lyrics about killing his estranged wife, harming law enforcement officials and shooting up a school.”
Court records show McCullum was arrested, however, on May 27 on felony drug charges.
