How idiotic. You don’t arrest middle-schoolers for this kind of stuff. What you do is give them detention and make them write an essay on why it was a dumb idea and how they’ll never do it again. Arresting them just traumatizes them. It doesn’t make the school and students any safer, and it provides no deterrent to real threats against schools. It’s just a huge waste of time and money.
Thank you!!!
Probably the same fucks that cried foul when a kid got suspended for drawing a picture of a gun.
Edit: ambiguous statement
“But this was on TikTok and we’ve been told to hate that, so…”
or that kid who made a “don’t come to school tomorrow” joke on RUNESCAPE in the UK and got several years in prison.
Damn. I get the time-sensitive nature of threats but if you kick in the door and find nothing put him in an after school program or some shit.
literally drawing a gun, mind you.
A group of 11 year olds made an irreverent joke? My god, what is society coming to.
The police lieutenant said they needed to be held accountable in a court of law for their crimes…
Dude, they are 13 year olds making a video about a traumatic childhood reality, not threatening anyone or even making jokes about it. If you really think they were threatening a mass shooting, then you deal with that in an appropriate investigation. If you think they were joking about something bad… they are 13-year-olds, that’s what they do!!
EDIT: This lieutenant is the kind of guy who thinks it is justifiable to shoot your gun at people toilet-papering your house, which is a real event that killed a kid at the highschool I went to.
