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[conuly]

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How kicking a trash can became criminal for a 6th grader

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Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Why am I not in the least surprised that the sixth-grader who kicked the trash can was guilty of Being Autistic While Black? He's lucky the cop didn't just shoot him dead.

If we can't get the police out of our public schools - and I suppose we probably can't - then it needs to be made inescapably clear to them that they are there only to deal with weapons, dangerous substances and adult criminals, not to enforce school rules. A school that has children arrested for 'being naughty' needs to lose every last penny of its Federal funding.

[conuly]

Why am I not in the least surprised that the sixth-grader who kicked the trash can was guilty of Being Autistic While Black?

Probably because it's not surprising.

If we can't get the police out of our public schools - and I suppose we probably can't - then it needs to be made inescapably clear to them that they are there only to deal with weapons, dangerous substances and adult criminals, not to enforce school rules.

Hell, yeah.