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Dangerous Tweets: FSU Player Tweets “Kill Cops”

August 2nd, 2012 by flanews

An FSU football player is raising the ire of police around the state tonight. After being pulled over for a traffic violation, FSU Defensive Back Tyler Hunter tweeted “Kill Cops.” As Whitney Ray tells us, police organizations are demanding action. They say the message could incite violence against law enforcement officers.

Banned from tweeting, FSU’s football team is paying the price for one player’s tirade against police officers. In a series of tweets, by defensive back Tyler Hunter following a traffic stop, he writes “kill cops.” Then moments later “If I said it I meant it.”

The kill cops lyric is from a rap song by “Lil Boosie,” who is currently in prison on drug convictions. The name of the song isn’t fit for TV.

The tweets have sparked outrage among Florida police officers. The president of the Fraternal Order of Police fired off this letter to FSU’s president and head Football Coach Jimbo Fisher. The letter says “to publically advocate the murder of police officers is outrageous and hateful.

Fisher responded with this letter. He banned his team from using Twitter and has Hunter in one-on-one counseling with FSU’s Chief of Police. FSU students say the punishment fits the crime.

“If he did mean it, yeah it’s great. If he didn’t, it’s still a good experience,” said FSU Junior Daniel Price.

“Jimbo is doing the right thing I feel,” said Graham Morrison an FSU Junior.

But it may not be good enough for police who saw 13 of their own killed in the line of duty in 2011, and three more killed so far this year. After Hunter finishes his sensitivity program, Coach Fisher says the sophomore will make a public apology to police.

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