Woman Issues Public Apology For Facebook Post About Killing White Cops

By Wesley Goheen & Rebekka Schramm

ATLANTA (CNN) -- A woman who wrote in a Facebook post that all black people should rise up and kill white police officers issued a public apology Friday, saying she meant for the post to be taken as satire.

Ebony Dickens, who went by Tiffany Milan on Facebook, posted the following message on the social media site in April of 2015:

"All Black ppl should rise up and shoot at every white cop in the nation starting NOW. I condone black on white killings. Hell they condone crimes against us. I've thought about shooting every white cop I see in the head until I'm either caught by the police or killed by them. Ha!!!! I think I can pull it off. Might kill at least fifteen tomorrow. I'm plotting now. They reading this sh** too right now. Freedom of speech tho. So when you can absolutely show me the 1st amendment where it explicitly says you can't say "kill all cops," then I'll delete my status. Other than that...NOPE! Death to all white cops nationwide."

At the time, Dickens said she felt the post was an exercise of freedom of speech, but East Point Police disagreed. They searched her condo and when they found a gun, they considered the threat to be credible.

Dickens' teenage daughter Kierra defended her mother at the time.

"I'm a hundred percent sure she didn't want to kill white officers. She just strongly dislikes them," said Kierra. "She's been mad about everything that's going on in Baltimore right now with innocent, unarmed black people getting shot and killed and white officers getting off."

Her attorney, Gerald Griggs, worked out an arrangement with District Attorney Paul Howard, agreeing to drop the charges in exchange for an apology. Leaders of two local police unions agreed as well, but on one condition. They wanted the apology to be a public one.

Friday, Dickens stood at a podium and faced six television cameras. She said she sincerely apologizes to police officers across metro Atlanta and across the nation for her Facebook post.

Dickens said it was taken out of context. She said she meant for her words to sound preposterous in hopes of sparking a conversation about race relations between white police officers and black citizens. She said she realized quickly that her plan backfired.

"I'm apologetic because I would've been devastated if something had happened to an officer at the time that this happened," she said. "That would've killed me because I didn't think about that."

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