Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown has unintended consequences.
In the 45-second video posted later that day, one girl enters the classroom holding a cellphone. “Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off. As the camera pans across the classroom, several girls dramatically fall back on a desk or the floor and lie motionless, pretending they were killed.
When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles. Throughout the video, which ProPublica obtained, a line of text reads: “To be continued……”
Talk about an overreaction.
When I was a kid in the 90s I used to run around our neighborhood with other kids playing “War”. I had a realistic looking cap gun western revolver made out of pot metal, much like this one.
We never had police called on us or even got stopped by them on the rare occasion they were cruising through.
Hell we used to play war with bee bee guns that looked like real fucking guns and yes we could of shot our eyes out. No one said shit. Hell most toy guns looked real. This fascism in action. Fucking ACAB. Fuck the sheriff’s office. And fuck whoever called the police.
Reminds me of one woman who threw a fit when I was a kid because we were playing with water guns. She freaked out on us like they were real.
Talk about an overreaction.
When I was a kid in the 90s I used to run around our neighborhood with other kids playing “War”. I had a realistic looking cap gun western revolver made out of pot metal, much like this one.
We never had police called on us or even got stopped by them on the rare occasion they were cruising through.
Hell we used to play war with bee bee guns that looked like real fucking guns and yes we could of shot our eyes out. No one said shit. Hell most toy guns looked real. This fascism in action. Fucking ACAB. Fuck the sheriff’s office. And fuck whoever called the police.
Reminds me of one woman who threw a fit when I was a kid because we were playing with water guns. She freaked out on us like they were real.
0 tolerance = 0 thought.
Isn’t it interesting in how “officer discretion” disappears in instances like these?