A questionable post that playfully offered to take people to jail as a holiday gift leads to an apology after social media criticism.
SAN JOSE — An attempt at Twitter humor by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office linking Valentine’s Day to putting people in jail was met with social-media backlash Tuesday evening, leading the office to take down the offending tweet and apologize.
While the tweet was posted early Tuesday, it was in the evening that the tweet started receiving fierce criticism, including from the South Bay civil-rights group Silicon Valley De-Bug. The De-Bug post tagged newly installed Sheriff Robert “Bob” Jonsen and the county Board of Supervisors, and asked for their opinions about the office joking about sending people to jail.
One prominent law enforcement figure also weighed in: Alaleh Kianerci, the county prosecutor who secured the sexual-assault conviction of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner in one of the highest-profile criminal cases in recent South Bay history.
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