We’ve all seen the Facebook posts where people will either share a story or even a picture of someone they either felt or were actually followed by someone in a store. Human trafficking is of course a very real and unfortunately common occurrence so spreading awareness about sketchy people can’t be a bad thing, right?
Well in this case, a woman at a West Michigan grocery store felt she was being creeped on by a random man. She then snapped a picture of him, typed up a big long Facebook post about it and it blew up only to have it be defounded by police.
The post was shared over 8,000 times and made the rounds of social media, eventually making it over to the accused man’s wife and the man called police.
Raising awareness is usually fine, we all should look out for and protect each other. The problem here though, is the man was literally just grocery shopping with his wife and had just crossed paths with the accuser multiple times by coincidence.
This all definitely sparks the conversation about what is the line between feeling unsafe and falsely accusing someone, ruining their reputation?
In this news story, they say to warn someone and/or let police investigate before taking to Facebook and possibly ruining someone’s life.
Source: WOODTV 8
