The Mayor of Peoria, Illinois had a citizen arrested and his home and place of work raided by the police because he created a parody account on Twitter that criticized him. When faced with a lawsuit from the ACLU, the Mayor stuck to his guns. He thinks the police raids were appropriate.

Mayor Jim Ardis continued to maintain Thursday that the reporting on the Twitter incident that has become a global news story has been filled with “mischaracterizations of the basic facts.”