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...Port St. Joe, Florida where Robert Paul Alexander Edwards, 33, is facing criminal charges for drawing a “disturbing” picture (shown below) on a student’s homework assignment. The interesting thing is that the police acknowledge that they do not believe that Edwards intended to take any violent action but they criminally charged him because the picture was “disturbing.”...


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The drawing was a crudely drawn school house on fire with a person running from the flames and others standing in a line being shot (with the words “Pew, Pew, Pew” coming from the gun).

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The lack of any evidence of intent did not appear to deter police. Sheriff Mike Harrison declared “Our country has been affected one too many times with horrific school tragedies. We take matters like this very seriously.” Accordingly, Edwards was charged with a written threat to kill or do bodily injury.

It was not revealed what the relationship was between Edwards and the student.

Bruenor wrote:I was trying to figure out if this was a teacher, or relative or whatever.. then I see his mugshot..

It was not revealed what the relationship was between Edwards and the student.

I try not to immediately judge a book by it's cover, but I am certainly more cautious when they appear like this.


1 3 tattoo isn't that MS13 ?

ArcherAce wrote:How times have changed.

M-Quigley wrote:

ArcherAce wrote:How times have changed.

I think that there's a couple of differences between the two.

1. is that the cartoon is an impossible fantasy that can't possibly happen, i.e. a little boy flying an F15 to destroy a school building. The scenario depicted in the drawing could easily potentially happen now, and has happened in the past. It is a realistic type of threat, even if the police now believe that the guy didn't intent to carry it out.

2. is that the character in the cartoon is merely destroying a building, not intentionally trying to kill mass numbers of people. There is no implication in the cartoon that people are inside at the time, unlike the drawing.

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

M-Quigley wrote:

ArcherAce wrote:How times have changed.

I think that there's a couple of differences between the two.

1. is that the cartoon is an impossible fantasy that can't possibly happen, i.e. a little boy flying an F15 to destroy a school building. The scenario depicted in the drawing could easily potentially happen now, and has happened in the past. It is a realistic type of threat, even if the police now believe that the guy didn't intent to carry it out.

2. is that the character in the cartoon is merely destroying a building, not intentionally trying to kill mass numbers of people. There is no implication in the cartoon that people are inside at the time, unlike the drawing.

3. That comic wasn't (afaik) brought to school and handed to one of the staff. Kind of an important distinction, IMO.

Robert Paul Alexander Edwards, 33, was charged with a written threat to kill or do bodily injury, a second-degree felony.

He is jailed on $150,000 bond.

Edwards is the stepfather of a child enrolled at Port St. Joe Elementary School.

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“Our country has been affected one too many times with horrific school tragedies,” said Sheriff Mike Harrison. “We take matters like this very seriously.”

Although the actions in the drawing were taken seriously, Harrison said there was no reason to believe Edwards intended to carry out the threat.