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Queer photojournalist charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism, social media posts (www.advocate.com)

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

But who actually pressed charges? In another story it says the photojournalist had made other posts naming the editor.

Edit: sorry I think this is confusing. I meant a post she made naming an editor had been included in the complaint. Not that they had accused the editor of pressing charges. I added a comment below with a link to the story.

[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know how it works in NY, but where I am, for charges like "hate crime" it would be the police. You would report some initial incident and the cops would decide whether to press charges and what charges to press (from experience with my brother)

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But who reported her as part of the crime?

[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

I don't have access to anymore information than you do. Presumably either the NYT did or the cops found it themselves

[–] CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you link me that story? I know people at the times who would hate this

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

https://hyperallergic.com/1045489/activists-condemn-arrest-of-nyc-protest-photographer-alexa-wilkinson/

Wilkinson, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, was charged with one count of Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime. Police cited Wilkinson’s presence as a photographer at an incident of vandalism at the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan on July 30, as well as their alleged reposting of social media comments critical of Times staff members with alleged pro-Israel bias or connections.

The complaint primarily accuses Wilkinson of posting “a threatening social media message targeting the Jewish editor of the New York Times,” as summarized in a court record. Wilkinson allegedly shared screenshots of an X post that read “They hanged newspaper editors at Nuremberg.” The complaint said Wilkinson captioned the screenshots with the phrase “Looking at you [Joseph Kahn],” referring to the Times’s executive editor. Another post attributed to Wilkinson criticized conservative Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens, who has denied that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Hyperallergic has not independently verified the existence of the posts.

Last month, protesters doused Kahn’s apartment building in red paint in an unrelated action, which prosecutors referenced during Wilkinson’s hearing even though the photographer has not been charged with any involvement in that incident.