Woman arrested after threats made to kill white police

Michael King | WXIA-TV, Atlanta

Show Caption Hide Caption FB post: Black people should 'shoot at every white cop' An Atlanta area woman was arrested for a facebook post in which they say she was trying to incite people to kill all white police officers. The post comes amid protests against Baltimore police over the death of Freddie Gray.

EAST POINT, Ga. — Police in East Point, Ga., have arrested a woman they said had been trying to incite people to kill all white police officers in a social media posting.

At about 6 p.m. Monday, someone identifying herself as Tiffany Milan posted the statement on Facebook, said Cliff Chandler from the East Point Police Department. Police have identified Milan as Ebony Monique Dickens.

The Atlanta Police Department alerted East Point police of the post once they determined that it probably came from that area. East Point, in Fulton County, Ga., is southwest of downtown Atlanta.

In the post, Dickens makes numerous racist threats indicating white police officers should be killed.

Police said Dickens has been charged with one count of dissemination of information to facilitate terroristic threats. She is being held pending a first court appearance.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security also are investigating Dickens and her Facebook post.

The post comes amid the rising tensions in Baltimore and other cities across the country around black men being killed by white police officers.

More than 20 police officers were injured in Baltimore on Monday during the violence that erupted after the funeral for Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.

Gray died April 19, one week after being arrested and suffering a severe spinal injury. After Gray's funeral, protests against police violence quickly deteriorated into devastating riots.

Contributing: Donna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY.