Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing “pornography” to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics deployed by members of Moms for Liberty against school librarians.
Aren’t there punishments for false accusations?
At the officer’s discretion…
Do it enough times and you’ll get the officer who cares, and they’ll be so annoyed they’ll look at past calls.
I’ve had to deal with a harasser who was also making false calls to the police about me. Most cops suck, but eventually you get one who does their job.
It is Florida after all.
Filing charges on these wingnuts is their wettest of wet dreams. They get to play the victim card and call press conferences to scream about how they are maytrs for the cause and fighting the libs. It would validate their existence as they cosplayed every Fascist fantasy.
Cops don’t want to deal with this bullshit either. Take a report that will be filed and forgotten forever to placate them. You would really need to be a persistent asshole wasting a lot of their time before they are going to charge you.