John Barrineau, who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and a misdemeanor charge of racing with Herrin, was sentenced to six years. Tampa police said the Mustang had slowed to between 30 and 40 mph at the time of impact. Herrin’s Ford Mustang topped 100 mph on Bayshore Boulevard shortly before striking Reisinger-Raubenolt and her daughter in a stroller as they tried to cross the street. “We don’t have the technical capability or the funding.” “But I want to make it clear, none of this activity originated with us,” Fitzgibbons said. He thinks it was video of the sentencing hearing on YouTube that made it take off internationally. Reisinger-Raubenolt’s family declined to comment on the record for this story.Īs for the possibility that someone paid to make it appear that Herrin has more supporters on social media, Herrin’s attorney John Fitzgibbons finds it hard to believe. Some of the victims’ family deleted or hid their social media accounts to get away from all the messages and unwanted friend requests. Regardless, the phenomenon subjected Reisinger-Raubenolt’s surviving family members to inaccurate and insensitive social media posts about her and her husband and the facts of the case, which are not in dispute. A foreign outcry from non-citizens, who can’t vote, might carry even less weight. It’s unlikely that a social media outcry would have any impact on his appeal. Herrin has already been sentenced and sent to prison. “And it’s not that hard to find someone to do this kind of work for you.” He guessed that if it wasn’t authentic, it might cost around $10,000 to make Herrin go as viral as he did. Hilbert, a cybersecurity specialist and former FBI agent who focused on cybercrime. “The marketplace for it is huge,” said E.J. She knows there are some real people involved - many of them called her home from Middle Eastern countries in the middle of the night. It was “almost like an obsession, an unhealthy obsession,” Herrin’s mother said of some of the supporters who took an interest in her son. The murky reality might fall somewhere in between, but offline, the activity had a real-world effect on Herrin’s family, his victims’ family and Herrin himself. Experts who study online disinformation saw similarities to paid influence campaigns using fake accounts. To casual observers, it seemed Herrin, now 21, had a sizable number of international supporters calling for a shorter sentence. The TikTok app, a wildly popular platform for short videos set to music, said videos related to Herrin were viewed 1.7 billion times. And they were outraged.īy the end of July, there were more than 100,000 tweets about Herrin, possibly far more, with a new one coming every 30 seconds. And while the wording was often grammatically confounding, the gist was clear: The deaths of Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt and her 21-month-old daughter were tragic, but 24 years was an unfair sentence for Herrin, who was 18 at the time of the horrific accident.
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