A 20-year-old “tiktoker” from Miami, Florida (USA), was arrested on charges after trespassing at a middle school to talk to students about a video he wanted to post on the social platform, in addition to offer to smoke marijuana, according to local media.
Miami-based Brent Tyler Alemany trespassed at Coral Reef Senior High School in the southwest of the city and began socializing with students whom he told he was creating a TikTok video, picking up on Friday night the Local 10 television website.
There, Alemany asked the students where in the building they go when they want to miss class and if they wanted to smoke marijuana with him, the outlet adds, citing an arrest warrant.
The Miami-Dade County School Police indicated, for its part, that the aforementioned school was placed in a “red code” and that several officers appeared at the school due to Alemany’s actions.
The “tiktoker” escaped from the Coral Reef Senior High School facility but, during an investigation, the students were able to identify him through his TikTok page.
According to the Police, Alemany was arrested this Thursday at his home, where he confessed to having entered the school and talking to the students.
Alemany faces charges of theft and interference in an educational institution, the outlet reports.
Last May, the governor of Montana (USA), Republican Greg Gianforte, signed a law that prohibits the use of the Chinese application TikTok, becoming the first state in the country to restrict the popular social platform.
The Montana state Congress had previously approved a bill aimed at banning the platform, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, on the mobile devices of all its inhabitants.
Montana’s ban is the toughest approved so far by a US territory and goes beyond the ban that the federal government and half of the country’s 50 states have implemented so that public officials cannot have TikTok on their cell phones.
Likewise, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, the highest authority on public health in the country, issued a report in May where he warned of the possible adverse effects of the use of social networks in children and adolescents, warning of little is known about their impact on development.
