Rockville Teen Charged with Threats of Mass Violence

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Andrea Ye, of Rockville, whose preferred name is Alex Ye, was arrested on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, by the Montgomery County Police Department."

So is this person a biological male or female?

Who cares

Does it kind of feel like MCPD wants everyone to know Ye is trans/gender nonconforming? They could have just said "Andrea AKA Alex Ye"

You don't know what MCPD said vs what the article author decided or guessed.

For better or for worse, we don't have an established linguistic culture of avoiding implicating a gender when it's is not clearly known, or just necessary to mention.

This a symptom of a broader problem in news reporting, where journalists do not provide copies or pointers of primary resources.

What you are calling a "news article" is a press release from MCPD itself, so you criticism of what you believe to be a "broader problem in news reporting" does not apply here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

I'm going to suggest that if you feel the need to write extensive fictional plans of highly realistically detailed mass murder, you should engage under close supervision from your therapist, and also provide notice to law enforcement as a show of harmless intent.

Anything less is reckless negligence to say the least. If you are not planning an attack, either you are sane enough to know it's fiction and can engage with authorities, or you are experiencing some sort of disconnect and need to be securely hospitalized.

[Anonymous]

Interesting

https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BBPLLG56933D/$file/Andrea%20Ye.pdf

[Anonymous]

There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

Agreed

[Anonymous]

It's been over a day. Why are the police stonewalling on release a complete investigation including full details validating my pet theory based on a brief news article and zero personal knowledge?

[Anonymous]

You'd think they'd have a news conference about something this important today, not tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

So Alex is a transgender man.....

The recent investigation of Ye began, according to court records, on March 3 after police in the Baltimore area were contacted by a person who said he knew Ye from their time together at a psychiatric facility and alerted police to the writings.


“The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that [the acquaintance] believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction,” investigators wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

So Alex is a transgender man.....

The recent investigation of Ye began, according to court records, on March 3 after police in the Baltimore area were contacted by a person who said he knew Ye from their time together at a psychiatric facility and alerted police to the writings.


“The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that [the acquaintance] believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction,” investigators wrote.

DING DING DING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

What's a "nickname", exactly? That's an informal term.

There is a government name the government uses for official purposes, and there is are, not legally official, known aliases that a person uses for various purposes, including business, celebrity, marriage and divorce, gender identity change, and multilingualism.
If you pull your credit report you can see your detected aliases if you've ever used them on paperwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

From the Post article: “The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that [the acquaintance] believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction,” investigators wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You'd think they'd have a news conference about something this important today, not tomorrow.

Arrest yesterday, collect notes and announce conference today, news conference tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting

https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BBPLLG56933D/$file/Andrea%20Ye.pdf

Please be careful. "Andrea Ye" isn't a notably unique name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

What's a "nickname", exactly? That's an informal term.

There is a government name the government uses for official purposes, and there is are, not legally official, known aliases that a person uses for various purposes, including business, celebrity, marriage and divorce, gender identity change, and multilingualism.
If you pull your credit report you can see your detected aliases if you've ever used them on paperwork.

Imagine if Dick Cheney got arrested. A press release would say “Richard Cheney was arrested today. “ They would not go on to say “the arrestee prefers to be called Dick”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 129-page manifesto. We've got an overachiever over here!

If you change the word "manifesto" to "diary", which is essentially the same thing, it isn't so large.