The Parma Police Department's Facebook Page Is Not Real

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Anthony put up six posts in total. He made it with the idea of making his friends on Facebook laugh. When did you start to realize that people were looking at this besides just, you know, your friends? I woke up the next day and I noticed there was like a ton. And so that's when I knew it was started to pop off.

In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I just thought, 'That would be funny.'" About a month later, he was arrested. Novak is now petitioning the Supreme Court, and The Onion submitted an amicus brief in support of his case. Their brief is written as a parody of an amicus brief.

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