The thought police at work.

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-santa-clarita-kids-blog-threat,0,5236426.story

A 21-year old data analyst is behind bars after commenting on ESPN's website that he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them.

Eric Ting Yee was arrested Monday evening at his home in the 23000 block of Edenton Place in Santa Clarita.

He is being held on $1M bail for investigation of making terrorist threats.



Yee is described by the Associated Press as a former economics major at Yale who "withdrew from school in May of this year for undisclosed reasons" and moved back home to live with his parents.

Yee's Facebook profile says he attended Valencia High School as a teenager. And at Yale, he apparently became a member of the school's prestigious Leadership Institute.

Several weapons were found during a search of his home, they included handguns and "at least one high-capacity-type weapon," making the threats appear credible.

The threatening posts were made in a reader response section to an online ESPN story on Thursday about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair, ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Tuesday.

Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the sneakers because of how expensive they are.

 

[maxiep]

And they arrested him? Were the guns illegal?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

he wasn't arrested for a firearm violation it seems.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

all the guy did was threaten to kill a bunch of kids, i dont really see the problem...

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://www.dailynews.com/california...-allegedly-threatened-shoot-children-arrested

Yee was arrested at 5 p.m. Monday and was still being held on $1 million bail late Tuesday. He could face charges as early as Wednesday, when sheriff's detectives expect to present their case to the district attorney.

He was held on suspicion of making criminal threats, which carries a penalty of up to a year in jail, but prosecutors could file additional charges or different charges altogether.

A person can be convicted of making a criminal threat even if he has no intent of carrying it out, so long as the statement is intended to be taken as a threat. The law requires, though, that the threat be "unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific."

Harris said detectives had not authorized the release of the actual posting.
Yee "mentioned that it would be like the Aurora, Colo., shooting," sheriff's Lt. Steven Low said, referring to the July 20 shooting in a movie theater where 12 people were killed and 58 injured, the highest number of casualties in an American mass shooting.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

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[maxiep]

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GREAT movie. Butler was a total badass.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I really wish he won at the end to be honest.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Man arrested for internet comments

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/eric-yee-bail-espn-death-threats_n_1896356.html


Wow.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Papa G was a revolutionary.

{Poasted via palm pilot}

 

[Eastoff]

Papa G was a revolutionary.

{Poasted via palm pilot}

5 minutes too slow, DAMNIT!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

definitely a case of teh TAC.

The 21-year-old Valencia man arrested Monday for allegedly posting terrorist threats in the comments section of an ESPN story was charged today with a felony count of possession of an illegal weapon—an H&K M-94 assault weapon.
Eric Ting Yee drew the attention of law enforcement officials after he allegedly wrote that he was "watching kids and did not mind murdering them" and referenced the "Dark Knight Rises" July 20 mass shooting in Colorado as responses to Thursday's ESPN story about LeBron James' new $279 Nike shoes, reports City News Service. The story received some 3,000 comments, many of which remarked on the possibility of kids being killed over the footwear.