Secret Service Interrogates 13 Year Old Over Facebook Post

From the UK’s Daily Mail:

A 13-year-old boy was interrogated at his school by Secret Service agents without his mother’s permission after posting a message about Osama Bin Laden on Facebook.

Following the Al Qaeda leader’s death, Tacoma schoolboy Vito LaPinta wrote on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama should be be wary of repercussions.

‘I was saying how Osama was dead and for Obama to be careful because there could be suicide bombers,’ he said.

A week later he was sitting in class at Truman Middle School, Washington, when he was called into the principal’s office.

Vito said: ‘A man walked in with a suit and glasses and he said he was part of the Secret Service.

He told me it was because of a post I made that indicated I was a threat toward the President. I was very scared.’

The Tacoma school district admitted a Secret Service agent questioned the boy and a security guard called the child’s mother because the principal was on another call.

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