Facebook group targeted after Stanley verdict
The creator of a Facebook group called Farmers with Firearms, said he feels his group has been unfairly criticized in the days following Gerald Stanley’s acquittal.
The group’s administrator claims he’s received death threats through the page’s inbox. The page has roughly 7,300 followers.
Social media has become a firestorm for racial commentary since Stanley was acquitted last Friday, in the 2016 shooting death of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous man from the Red Pheasant First Nation.
Protests and rallies have been held across the country demanding changes to the justice system and jury process to include more Indigenous people. Despite many of those rallies promoting peace and unity, the group’s administrator says he’s had to block up to 300 people due to the level of threats on his page.