SHSU STUDENT ARRESTED FOR UNRELATED MATTER AFTER COMING UNDER FIRE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENT
A Sam Houston State University student is under fire for comments she made on social media concerning the death of Deputy Darren Goforth, who was shot 15 times at a gas station in Cypress.
In the Tweet, Monica Foy, a junior at the university, used the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after remarking that “I can’t believe so many people care about a dead cop and NO ONE has thought to ask what he did to deserve it. He had creepy perv eyes…”
Social media post are now calling for Foy to be punished, and some are threatening not to support the university if that does not occur. The punishment, if any, is still being determined.
The University published a response:
“The individual opinion of a student does not reflect the beliefs of Sam Houston State University or its 20,000 other students. Sam Houston State is renowned internationally for its criminal justice programs and many in Texas law enforcement are proud SHSU alumni. We fully support and are thankful for the men and women who risk their lives every day to protect and serve communities across the nation. We mourn the loss of any officer and in no way condone the recent and senseless violence that has occurred in Texas and across the United States against those who have sworn to protect us.”
After the post was made public, police were made aware that Monica Foy had an outstanding warrant, was arrested, and has since bonded out of jail.
@ American You may have felt l a little different if it was your family member that got gunned down, and someone said what this woman said. What if his wife sees what she wrote…
Honestly, the school could decide to kick her out of the school for the comment and the fact she was arrested on an outstanding warrant. I doubt they go that extreme, but it is a possibility given this now has smeared them.
It’s sad folks – people are acting as though officers are our enemies. They’re not – they’re doing their job. YES there are some who abuse their positions and they get in trouble for it if we go and report them.
But shooting and killing anyone is a crime – and does NOT help endear people to your issue or complaint. Taking no responsibility for your own actions and blaming others for it also does not endear folks to your issue.
It’s going to get worse before it gets better, and that’s the biggest problem of all.
Her comments were way out of line, shows you what kind of person she is.There is no reason that should have happened to the officer, they risk their lives everyday to protect ours. I have a member of my family that is a sherrif, I thank god every day that he goes home to his family.She deserves any punishment she gets!
I am sure that his grieving wife and two small children thought his eyes were beautiful.
I made comments before alluding to the fact that this is the “new normal” Folks. We can either shrug off the perverted manner and direction that too many of these younger people are headed for, or we can decide at some point to do something about it.
I’m not sure at what point Texans started to believe that freedom of speech is something that needs to be restricted. This comment by the aptly named “Derr” only further shows how far some citizens will go to limit the rights of others. Our generition no longer wishes to live in what is becoming a police ran country. What do you think the second amendment even pertains to? The right to defend yourself against government control is what this country was founded on.
Lets be clear, her comments were deplorable. They really do show what kind of person she is. For her to say such mean and hurtful things shows a true lack of character. I could not disagree with her more.
However………she has every right to make these statements and they are not illegal comments. I suspect the warrant for her arrest became more urgent after she posted her comments. If that is the case, shame on law enforcement. As for calls for the university to kick her out, that would also be wrong. SHSU is a state university and it is not up to the state to censor her speech.
Members of the public and the student body at SHSU are welcome to disagree with her, they may even decide to give her “a piece of their mind” however when we start limiting her free speech rights, it opens the door to have ours limited.
I have to say that I do disagree here. She is entitled to her opinion, but schools do have codes of conduct, and that includes online. I was in university during the infant years of the Internet and we had strict rules regarding use – even up to expulsion from the school.
If she has violated the code of conduct that is established by the university in her comments, they’d be within their right to remove her from campus.
(BTW, Blinn now has a “free speech zone” area by the student center, as have other universities if you want to see the limitations being invoked on freedom of speech at universities).
As far as the other, the warrant was an outstanding one – not one given to her for her comments, which unless they threatened someone’s life, are within rights.
What LIKELY occurred is that because of the brouhaha caused by the whole #blacklivesmatter movement and how it has intimidated people (and it has if they could get Vice President Biden to back away from the microphone and let them take over) her comments drew an alert on her, which lead to the search and the finding of the outstanding warrant. Shaming the law enforcement for the actions of this woman and others’ bad choices is wrong.
Are you implying the second amendment gave the criminal the right to gun down an officer because you feel the US is a police state?
Either your logic is seriously flawed, or your post was typed in a hurry without consideration for what you thought you were saying.
As for freedom of speech being restricted…I don’t think that’s why she was arrested and no one is telling her she can’t say ignorant things. And let’s face it, what she said was the pinnacle of ignorance.
If people are worried about her being punished by the university for her tweet, that sort of action has already been happening in other places. Students have been expelled from Universities for racist speech. Universities are punishing students for using traditional he/her pronouns. Government entities have banned Chic Fila from certain locations because their founder expressed his belief in traditional marriage principles. As of today, a county clerk has been jailed for adhering to Christian beliefs on marriage.
#LivesMatter