Using emojii can result in criminal charges

When I was a teenager, my friends and I would sometimes make hand grenade throwing gestures when we passed our old high school. It never occurred to us that the police might be paranoid enough to view that as a criminal act.

We live in different times today:

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A 12-year-old girl is facing criminal charges for using emoji🔫🔪. She’s not alone. ........................ The 12-year-old from Fairfax, Va., has been charged with threatening her school after police said she posted a message on Instagram in December laden with gun, bomb and knife emojis.

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