Man who posted selfie with woman’s dying father sentenced to 60 days in jail | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/bubba-pollock-windsor-london-criminal-harassment-1.7342017

28 Comments

  1. The article paints a disturbing image. There are plenty of people I argue with online, but I would never consider trying to intimidate someone this way. I wonder how much further Bubba Pollock would have gone had he not been charged.

    > The sentencing was also attended by about a dozen supporters of Pollock, who continued to jeer at Leroux outside the courthouse.

    Outrageous.

  2. Weak-Coffee-8538 on

    What that coward did is insanely creepy and disgusting. Hope he gets treatment or an a** whopping in jail.

  3. Turbulent_Day_8298 on

    I hope this follows him for the rest of his life. The total lack of respect for another human being (and their loved ones!!) is sickening.

  4. BornAgainCyclist on

    Anyone in his friends, or family, circle that have even a sliver of empathy, for others or their own family, should be cutting this guy out of their life. Even if you don’t have that empathy, what do you think happens the first time you disagree with him?

    Someone who thinks this is a rational response to internet arguing should be kept at a far distance, I would definintely be keeping am eye on him in case anyone else disagrees on something, and for what his reaction to other situations might be…..

  5. >The sentencing was also attended by about a dozen supporters of Pollock, who continued to jeer at Leroux outside the courthouse.

    Degens, the lot of em’.

  6. Eggsaladsandwish on

    I think what he did was awful. 

    Is it worse than Swarming a homeless man and stabbing him to death? Or stabbing a high school teacher at school? 

    Our justice system would think so

  7. Dangerous_Seaweed601 on

    What, exactly, is the crime here?

    Edit: not the charge (as some have ?helpfully? pointed out).. the question is how does his conduct meet the criteria of that charge.

  8. *Hornblower pointed to a separate case against Pollock in 2019, when he was convicted of posting an intimate image without consent.*

    He sounds like a sick man. I can’t believe people were there to support him. Shameful.

  9. freds_got_slacks on

    >Hornblower ruled that an incarceration period of 60 days is necessary to “denounce conduct of this nature.”

    >Pollock was also handed three years of probation, which includes a 12-month ban from social media use.

    any idea how exactly they define and monitor “social media use”

    with it being so ubiquitous, and so easy to be anonymous, I would think this would be pretty unenforceable (except for the most oblivious internet users)

  10. When trolling online gets too real.

    His supporters are likely those same people who will do anything to own the libs, as they say. And that’s even if the take a MASSIVE L like this

  11. The fact that you can just walk into a hospital, enter the room of a terminally ill man not at all related to you and take a selfie is in and of itself upsetting.

    This guy is a dirtbag, obviously, have to end with that. If you want to retaliate because you have a hate on for drag queens, be a man and confront them to their face… don’t use their dying parent as a prop.