Bullies in blue

A Chicago woman has said she was cyberbullied after writing on Facebook that she plans to go to the Million Woman March in Washington, D.C., to protest the election of Donald Trump. What’s newsworthy is the person she claims did the cyberbullying: A deputy sheriff from Marion County in Oregon. The sheriff’s office is now investigating whether the deputy violated the department’s social media policy according to oregonlive.com.

The wrong profile

A Las Vegas woman will spend a year in jail for creating a bogus Facebook profile of her ex-boyfriend. The Associated Press reports that Stephani Lawson filed multiple police reports accusing her ex-boyfriend of threatening on Facebook to kill her and her daughter. But the threats came from a page that Lawson made in order to impersonate her ex, and she pleaded guilty to perjury.

This was no harmless prank. The ex-boyfriend was arrested four times and charged with stalking, kidnapping and other charges.

The internet never forgets

Be careful what you say on Twitter. That’s the lesson that a Charlottesville, Va., city council and state board of education member learned the hard way this week. Wes Bellamy, who’s also a school teacher, wrote a series of tweets between 2009 and 2014 that were described as “racist, sexist, homophobic and sexually explicit in nature,” according to an AP story. Bellamy apologized on his Facebook page, but has since resigned his state board post.