Posted on 11/03/2014 2:54:11 AM PST by Libloather
Amarillo, TX - Local mother claims an officer used excessive force on her middle schooler at a football game.
14-year-old Jacob Herrera attended Sam Houston middle school's Wednesday night football game. Herrera wore a rosary outside of his clothes when officer Corporal Wilson asked him to remove it.
Marivell Chavez, a witness, says she was at the game Wednesday night and claimed while Herrera was being held to the ground, he yelled, "call my mom" and "I can't breathe."
(Excerpt) Read more at newschannel10.com ...
You are making a truck load of assumptions, are you not?
If one reads the link in post #20, one quickly realizes that the boy wearing it to honor his brother...not for the glory of God, is a sacrilegious endeavor.
It seems to me there is much lost from this news article and I am tending to side with the police on this matter.
The new MO for police murder! Suffocation! Dogpile and crush the life out of the offender then claim innocence!
I’m not surprised.
Police fail. Basic prior restraint.
about gangs? No, not at all.
I have a HS student who attends a school and we have gangs in our community. The school has cops at all sports games and events.
The school has a dress code that forbids hats and clothing with certain symbols and phrases. It is a constant struggle for authorities to make schools a safe place. Gangs cost everyone some of their “rights” to “free expression”
and geez, if a cop tells a 14 yr old to tuck it in, just do it instead of mouthing off about your “rights”. Somehow I don’t read that this yoot is wearing a piece of metal to show off his religion - story needs more details from the other side - until then we are all making assumptions
I, and millions like me are offended at what has happened in this country of politically correct insanity. Soon, the color of your shoe laces or some other absurd thing will become a symbol of some cult. If I were an attorney, I would assist that family with a MAJOR lawsuit against those who held the kid against his will. It is time to take this country back!
HE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO!
Real Catholics don’t wear their rosaries. It’s considered desecratory (I think I just made another word up!).
Kids minds are being messed with. Adults are the ones doing it namely authority figures. Now certain color bracelets mean this or that etc. Where are the adults to tech these kids common sense and history? Oh that's right their much to busy trying to get religion prohibited in school. Nature fill voids FAST.
Everywhere we look our words, symbols, institutions, etc. are being redefined away from their original meaning and purpose.
This about the Rosary is yet another example of this practice and yet another example of the all-out assault being waged upon Creation.
I was blind to it for a long time, just couldn't see it while I was playing, too. But now I wonder how can anyone be deaf, dumb or blind to it.
Up is down, wrong is right and bad is good...
He has us turning our inner warning systems off one by one and reveling in the division, conflict and chaos that results, while we each think we're doing the right thing!
I agree. Although it can be worn and can be hung from your rearview mirror, neither is standard Catholic practice.
Just the opposite for me. The more I learn about this case, the less I am on the side of the police. Overkill!!!!!
Why?
Excellent point.
This is much less about wearing a rosary, then where he was wearing it. Rosaries have been used as gang-identification symbols in Oregon, Arizona and Texas, for years now. And the gangsters invariably pretend to be religious Catholics.
“Omaha Catholic Archdiocese Chancellor Rev. Joseph Taphorn said it’s disheartening. “I don’t think Christians should have to forfeit what is the symbol for the love of Christ because a few people want to misuse that symbol,” he said. He said the corruption of something as beloved as the rosary disgusts the church.”
There is often some irony involved in this as well. For example, one student decided to wear a rosary for a legitimate family reason, except that both he and his family are Lutherans. Some “Goth” kids have been detained for wearing rosaries even though they were atheist or pagan.
A really frightening misuse of the rosary is by the followers of Santa Muerte “Saint Death”, that has a very large and growing cult in Mexico, which is even sporadically appearing in the US. They are bitterly opposed by the Catholic church, but supported by the drug cartels.
Bottom line: given the context, the police were right to act, and act forcefully.
In our local schools here on the California Central Coast kids can not wear red or blue because of possible gang affiliation. We are teaching them to surrender their freedoms for a little supposed security.
Ask yourself if a mudslime wearing a hijab would have been asked to remove it or undergone the same treatment...how about a Sikh?
I think that should answer your question.
IOW...sounds like the young man will have no problem getting the funding to attend the university of his choice after this.
That is a major lesson of government education, or any schooling, for that matter. School uniforms have been common thing for centuries, "surrendering students' freedom" for the sake of orderliness in the school. Military uniforms are like that, too.
Once that fight begins, it's a short walk to where we start violating Jesus' second Commandment and hate, not love, our neighbor, our brother or sister from the same Father.
Believers, especially from a more morality based belief, seem especially vulnerable to getting tripped up in the "love the sinner/hate the sin" challenge and are often unable to see them separately.
Sin and sinner become one, the sinner is hated and the hater then is condemned by their own thoughts, deeds and passion.
Pretty slick. Works almost every time it's tried.
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