13
Jan
2020
Wolfgang Halbig's police encounter was due to harassment of Sandy Hook survivors, not legitimate FOIA requests.
According to a piece in the New York magazine Intelligencer, two Florida police officers paid a visit to Halbig to, quote, relay a message from police in Connecticut that he risked being charged with harassment if he continued contacting people in Newtown. This was not the result of him sending out FOIA requests. It was because he was doing things like sending Sally Cox, the school nurse at Sandy Hook, who survived the shooting by hiding in a closet, a message saying, quote, why close your eyes when you've seen blood before? You are a nurse. By any standard, that sort of message being sent by a complete stranger who's bent on denying a deeply traumatic event that you lived through, that counts as harassment.