“Remember folks. Never talk to a pig. Always ask for a lawyer.”
My 6 and 9 year olds have been told to never voluntarily allow police access to our property, to never agree to entry to our home, to a search, and to never speak with them or answer their questions.
They are to ask for their parents and remain silent.
They have been drilled on how to interact with state agents.
My 6 and 9 year olds have been...drilled on how to interact with state agents.
PETE: You Wash's boy?
CHILD: Yassir! And Daddy tolt me I'm to shoot whosoever from the bank!
[He pokes his rifle at the three men, who raise their hands.]
DELMAR: Well, we ain't from no bank, young feller.
CHILD: Yassir! I'm also suppose to shoot folks servin' papers!
DELMAR: Well we ain't got no papers.
CHILD: Yassir! I nicked the census man!
DELMAR: There's a good boy.
From the best movie of all time, O Brother Where Art Thou.