Last April, 21-year-old Cameron Herrin was convicted of using a car to hit and kill Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt (24 years old) and her 20-month-old daughter Lillia.
The case has become became a hotly discussed topic on social networks when many netizens asserted that the criminal from Florida, USA was “too cute” to be behind bars.
Cameron committed the crime at the age of 18 and had just graduated from high school at the time. He raced with a car Ford Mustang and intentionally crashed into Reisinger-Raubenolt who was pushing his young daughter in a stroller across Tampa street in the US city of Florida.
The car was moving at a speed of more than 160km/h at the time of the collision. The mother and child were taken to the emergency hospital but their injuries were too severe.
Reisinger-Raubenolt graduated from Kent State University in 2016 with a degree in nutrition. She and her husband David Raubenolt married that same year.
Since the sentencing social media accounts – mainly on TikTok Twitter and Instagram – have appeared comments from netizens expressed his thoughts that the 24-year prison sentence was too harsh.
The phrase “Justice for Cameron” began to gain traction on social networks Twitter and Facebook. Some people also called Cameron a “poor boy” who didn’t mean to kill anyone. One netizen commented that Cameron clearly “looked innocent”.
Nearly 29,000 people signed a petition on Change.org and called Cameron’s sentence “worse”. even death.”
The Tampa Bay newspaper reported that by the end of last month more than 100,000 articles about Cameron and his “unjust” sentence were posted on Twitter. On TikTok, videos about Cameron have been viewed 17 billion times and clips with the phrase “justice for Cameron” have garnered more than 26 million views.
Cameron’s TikTok account also has 2 million followers despite not having any posts. Cheryl Herrin herself, the mother of the young criminal, gave an interview to the Times and called this phenomenon “almost like an obsession, an unhealthy obsession.
Cheryl said what happened. Cameron’s supporters “followed” many of her relatives on Facebook and were flooded with their messages. Cameron’s fiancee also had her personal online account hacked by hackers.
In addition, some Cameron supporters took extreme actions by tracking the harassing prison guard’s phone number. harassed them at home and were arrested.
