Last December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about her cats.
“I would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from Clute, Texas wrote.
Amanda Lafrenais@AmandaLafrenaisCat #1: pwease feed me thank you
Me: ha, cute.
Cat #2: IF YOU DON’T FEED ME RIGHT NOW I’M CALLING THE POLICE I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D TREAT ME LIKE THIS I AM DISAPPOINTED I DIDN’T RAISE YOU TO BE LIKE THIS
Me: I would die for you.
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To human eyes, the post seems innocuous.
But in an age of heightened fear about mass school shootings, it tripped invisible alarms.