I Called Harrison County to Report the Harassment. Then I Waited.
I reported ongoing online harassment to the Harrison County Sheriff's Office on the evening of May 12, 2026 — handed over the receipts, asked for equal justice under the law, and offered to cooperate fully. Three weeks later: silence. Here's the call, and the questions still unanswered.
By Ryan Nichols
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The night I got out of the Harrison County jail — where I'd been held on a harassment charge — I didn't go online and try to fight it out in public. I did it the right way. I gathered my receipts, and that same evening, May 12, 2026, I picked up the phone and called the Harrison County Sheriff's Office to report the people harassing me.
Sit with that. I walked out of jail, charged with harassment, and the first thing I did that night was report that I'm the one being harassed. If that isn't irony, I don't know what it is.
This is the story of that call — and the silence that followed.
Why I went to law enforcement
People are on my personal page, tagging me over and over, every day — spreading things that aren't true, standing up fake pages in my name. I'm not guessing about this or blowing it out of proportion; I've documented it, receipt by receipt.
So I didn't try to settle it online. I took it to the people whose job it is to handle it. All I've ever asked for is equal justice under the law — and that phrase is carved over the courthouse door for a reason.
"This ain't right. This is not equal justice under the law."
What I told them
I told the dispatcher I was being harassed online and wanted it to stop. I told the deputy I'd already gathered everything — names, dates, screenshots, a clear timeline — and that I'd come in and lay it on the desk in person if that's what it took.
I also told them why this lands the way it does. I'm a United States Marine Corps veteran. I'm diagnosed with PTSD. The relentless, daily pile-on isn't background noise to me — it has a real effect, and the people doing it know that.
"I'm diagnosed PTSD. United States Marine Corps veteran. This stuff affects me mentally as well."
And I was clear about one more thing: I want to cooperate. I'm not asking for anything other than what good law enforcement wants — the bad actors held to the same standard as everyone else. I'll bring the evidence in, hand it to the investigator, and help however I can.
What they said
To his credit, the deputy who took my call was decent with me. He heard me out. He said he'd write up an incident report, that the body-cam audio of our conversation would be attached, and that the whole file would go to an investigator in the Criminal Investigation Division — who could reach out, take my screenshots and video directly, and decide where it goes.
At one point he said, in three words, the thing I'd been trying to say the whole time:
"Fair is fair."
I believed him. I still want to believe the report he described is in a file somewhere, moving through the process the way he said it would.
And none of this is my word against anyone's. I recorded the entire call. My report, the deputy's promise to document it and route it to the Criminal Investigation Division, his own "fair is fair" — every line of it is on tape. This can't be waved off as a story I made up.
Three weeks of silence
And then I waited.
It has been three weeks since that call on the evening of May 12, 2026. I have not heard back. No update, no follow-up, no contact — nothing.
So I'll ask, plainly and on the record, the questions any citizen who walks into that office and files a report is entitled to ask:
- Where is the incident report? Was one ever written?
- Where is the follow-up? Did anyone in the Criminal Investigation Division open the file?
- Were the people I reported ever contacted — or charged?
- What happened to the body-cam audio of my call — the recording the deputy said would be attached to the report?
- What happened, period?
I'm not demanding a particular outcome. I never asked anyone to manufacture a case. I asked for exactly what the law promises everyone: that a report be taken seriously, written down, and looked at by someone whose job is to look at it.
Where it stands
I did it the right way. I didn't fire back online. I documented. I called. I named the conduct, offered the proof, and said I'd cooperate fully.
And the same behavior keeps coming, with no answer from the people whose job is to apply the law evenly.
I'm putting this down calmly, on the record — not to attack anyone, but to mark a simple fact: I asked for help through the front door, the right way, and three weeks later I've heard nothing. I'll keep my receipts. And I'll keep asking for the only thing I've ever asked for here — that the law work the same way for me as it works against me.
The record, classified
- Fact. On the evening of May 12, 2026, I called the Harrison County Sheriff's Office and reported that I was being harassed online. A deputy took the report and said it would be documented, attached to body-cam audio, and routed to a CID investigator.
- Fact. As of this writing — roughly three weeks later — I have received no follow-up, update, or contact about that report.
- My statement. I believe the conduct directed at me should be taken as seriously as any other report of online harassment.
- My statement. I am not aware of any incident report, investigation, contact, or charge arising from my May 12 call.
- Documented inference. A good-faith report met with weeks of silence raises a fair question about whether the law is being applied evenly.
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