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I don't think that's absurd at all. I think police should retain the ability to take to social media to ID people and we should know that public info and pictures will be searched. 
What is absurd is that a judge signed a warrant based solely on the name and sort-of matching picture. They didn't bother trying to get any info to confirm.
Also why didn't this girl have her lawyer go to the station to clear things up? Like damn c'mon girl, in a PhD program but don't got a brain.
“Julie just so happened to have a family that was able to get the information together, if we needed to get the funds together,” Charon Hudson said. “It’s so many people out there that don’t have that. And that’s what struck a chord in me.”

They’re right.  I really hope she goes through with her lawsuit.  They used freaking social media to identify a ph d student from all the way across the country as being a suspect in a shoplifting case.  That’s absurd.