Republican Mayor Sends Cops To Home Of Twitter Parodist
April 19, 2014

Via Liberaland:

Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis was upset that someone created a Twitter account to make fun of him. So,  naturally he called the cops on the guy.

As a result, police raided a West Bluff home, seized property, and detained three people for questioning. The Twitter account, @PeoriaMayor, has been suspended. According to the Journal Star, the account had all of 50 posts and an equal number of followers. The Twitter profile apparently did not initially indicate that it was a parody account, but added that label in early March.

The label was hardly necessary, though, to prevent reade...

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