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A woman active in Quebec’s 2012 student protects has been found guilty of criminal harassment for posting a social media photo of graffiti depicting Montreal police Commander Ian Lafrenière with a bullet hole in his forehead.

Jennifer Pawluck, 22, did not create the graffiti, but posted a picture to Instagram in March 2013 along with the hashtags “un flic, une balle” (one cop, one bullet) and “All Cops Are Bastards.”

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“To see his image with a bullet hole in his forehead is worrying, even if he is a police officer,” Justice Marie Josie Di Lallo said Thursday as she read from her judgment.

Pawluck, who will be sentenced in May, now faces up to six months in jail or a $5,000 fine.

While critics in Quebec have charged she was arrested merely because of “a picture,” the case hinged largely on the notes she attached to the posted image.

“On the photo there were links, or hashtags, with Ian Lafrenière’s name written in different ways and allusions like (‘All cops are bastards’) and (‘One cop, one bullet’) to the point where, given the context, there was criminal harassment,” prosecutor Josie Laplante said after the conviction.