New York Daily News

Trolls stain memory of slain son

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on the case thought that was too much.

According to Pozner, Detective John Turek “yelled” at him during a “menacing” call, threatened to arrest him and triggered his diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I took the post down immediatel­y. I’m not butting heads with law enforcemen­t. My work isn’t really about that, but it bothers me,” Pozner told The News. “Why shouldn’t people be shamed when attacking others this way? I have every right to take such action to deter others from harassing victims.”

Pozner filed a complaint against Turek with Boca Raton police and sent an email to the city’s mayor. He got a letter in late August saying an investigat­ion found “no evidence” Turek violated department policy.

“At a minimum, I want Detective Turek sent for retraining,” Pozner said. “I was the victim of a really bizarre, false report, but he spun it around and turned me into the aggressor targeting her. Really all I did was post something in my defense.”

A police spokesman disagreed with Pozner’s position.

“This case was a suspicious incident and never became a criminal investigat­ion,” Mark Economou told The News.

He said Turek warned Pozner he might be in violation of a cyberstalk­ing statute if he didn’t leave the woman alone but also expressed “he was sorry for the loss of his son.”

There’s no question Pozner has received a crash course on criminal jurisdicti­ons and the law while processing his personal pain.

In June, 57-year-old Lucy Richards of Florida was sentenced to five months in federal prison for death threats against Pozner.

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