A Michigan sheriff sent 2 detectives to a man's home after receiving a Facebook message that called him fat

• A Michigan sheriff sent two detectives to a man's home in April after reading a Facebook message that called him fat.
• An incident report obtained by the local news outlet WWMT said Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller thought the message was "threatening in nature."
• Fuller said he received the message after he made a post about stay-at-home orders, WWMT reported.

The sheriff in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, told his staff to investigate a Facebook message calling him fat earlier this year.

The local news outlet WWMT reported on Thursday that through a Freedom of Information Act request, it obtained an incident report from April that said Sheriff Richard Fuller ordered two detectives to the home of the man who sent the Facebook message.

The incident report said Fuller thought the message was "threatening in nature."

The message said: "Your a fat a-- who needs to go on a diet. Stop us from living. Come get me if you want me TUBBY as FAT B----."

The incident report said that when the two detectives arrived at the man's home on April 6, he denied making the post and "claimed his Facebook profile was hacked by an unknown person."

WWMT reported that Fuller "said he got the message after he made a post encouraging people to comply with the governor's stay-at-home order." The outlet said Fuller declined to comment on camera.

Anthony Flores, a former prosecutor and current professor at Western Michigan University's Cooley Law School, told the outlet that the message didn't appear threatening.

"I think elected officials have to expect this type of commentary. They can't be super sensitive to it," Flores said, adding that sending detectives to the man's home was "questionable use of resources and a bad judgment call."