Things have gotten a little wild in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park, Illinois, where local cops accused a former cop of impersonating a current cop on Facebook. The department also noted that a top police official had “a glitter bomb sent to him anonymously at the Police Department” and “was contacted by a suicide prevention hotline as a result of a spoofed call.”
So, in a bit of a freak-out over this alleged harassment and impersonation, the Orland Park police investigated and eventually sought charges against the former cop—who said that all he had done was to create a parodic Facebook page critiquing the current departmental leadership.
The whole case was eventually tossed by a judge, who said that the Facebook page wasn’t criminal, and now the former cop is suing the current cops for going after him.