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16-Year-Old Commits Suicide After School Cop Threatens Him with Child Porn Charges
reason.com ^ | May. 24, 2017 9:25 am | Robby Soave

Posted on 05/24/2017 1:06:36 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments

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Later it said, "At the time of the incident, the Police Department determined that the school resource officer followed proper policies and procedures," he told the Tribune. School district officials made similar remarks.

No. If a parent wasn't present, he didn't.

These resource officers (kid cops) are a monstrous concept that doesn't belong in America.

1 posted on 05/24/2017 1:06:36 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Consenting kids = child porn; consenting adults = meh.


2 posted on 05/24/2017 1:08:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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Yeah, but the cop got home safe. I bet he feels not a moment’s remorse over this. I bet none of those involved do.


3 posted on 05/24/2017 1:10:22 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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At the time of the incident, the Police Department determined that the school resource officer followed proper policies and procedures,"

Gee, Maybe their policies and procedures are bad.

I'm sick of government morons using this as an excuse for doing stupid things.

4 posted on 05/24/2017 1:12:35 PM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Zero Tolerance polices lead to Zero Intelligence enforcement.


5 posted on 05/24/2017 1:14:28 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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“We do know that the practice of employing police officers to patrol public schools is fraught with abuse. More kids are arrested, and even jailed, for behavior that would have earned them detention in saner times.”


6 posted on 05/24/2017 1:15:59 PM PDT by conservative98
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“Gee, Maybe their policies and procedures are bad.”

Ya think?

L


7 posted on 05/24/2017 1:17:10 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

The boy is named.
His mother is named.

What’s the cop’s name?


8 posted on 05/24/2017 1:17:43 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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After several incidents in the Denver area of children being railroaded by school admins and cops, local radio talk show host, Peter Boyles, came up with this idea a few years back: http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/CLICS2011A/commsumm.nsf/b4a3962433b52fa787256e5f00670a71/0a1deceb7f415e6c8725784e005a0c02/$FILE/0309HseEdAttachB.pdf


9 posted on 05/24/2017 1:18:11 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Forgotten Amendments; SkyDancer

There are two things here-the kid taking video of him having sex with a classmate and possibly showing it to friends, and the police threatening him with child-porn charges.

The kid was stupid to record it, and stupider to show it. What on earth is it with kids these days? I mean, as long as there have been boys and girls in schools, there has been the possibility and desire of sex. This is nothing new, and it is natural. But recording it? And showing it? That is just foreign to me. But I temper it by realizing young people in general, and young boys in particular, have the potential at all times to do stupid, silly, unadvisable things. This recording thing is foreign to me, but given the way things are, I can see it as just another stupid thing like shoplifting or petty vandalism.

As for the police threatening child porn charges-that is criminal and even stupider. Even a supposed honor-roll kid stupid enough to record his sex act and show it to friends is smart enough to know that would destroy his life and follow him around. Shame on them...I hope the shame of it hangs around their neck like a millstone.


10 posted on 05/24/2017 1:18:18 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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Kids are not fully capable of informed consent.

I am sorry for this young mans death. He was probably terrified. However if he showed the presumable consenting sex video to friends she may well have jumped off a garage roof too

It can’t be “anything goes”.


11 posted on 05/24/2017 1:18:51 PM PDT by Persevero (Love you guys)
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In saner times.

In saner times.

Good God. These times often seem insane to me by comparison.


12 posted on 05/24/2017 1:19:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Blah, blah, blah....

The authorities did this, the authorities did that....

But NOTHING they did can excuse the fact this kid killed himself. Not the authorities. The kid himself was responsible for what he did.


13 posted on 05/24/2017 1:19:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Geez...my dad didn’t have all of these rules when he was in high school. He could even bring his guns to school.

Maybe the libtards have it backwards with regards to real freedom?

Morals & adhering to them = Freedom
Immorality and pushing their boundaries even more = Slavery


14 posted on 05/24/2017 1:20:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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No. If a parent wasn't present, he didn't.

And then, after threatening him with a serious criminal prosecution, they let this minor leave alone. Two stupid mistakes.

15 posted on 05/24/2017 1:21:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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If convicted, his life was effectively over anyway. The limitations placed on male sexual offenders for life are very restrictive and no one cares what he did. They only care about the red dot in the neighborhood every time the local news does the “Is there a sexual predator living near your child” story every few months.


16 posted on 05/24/2017 1:22:04 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Unsurprisingly, the family filed suit. No consequences of any kind are allowed anymore, except for lawsuits.


17 posted on 05/24/2017 1:22:06 PM PDT by madprof98
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How sad for this young man and his family. I suppose, since this happened in January, he hadn’t been watching that 13-something show on Netflix, but glamorization of suicide as an easy choice is everywhere in the mass media.


18 posted on 05/24/2017 1:23:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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When she [mother] arrived at the high school in West Chicago, her son was already gone. Walgren said her concern was immediate.

Sounds like facing his mother is what made him do it.

19 posted on 05/24/2017 1:24:27 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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“This recording thing is foreign to me...”

Yeah, but I think it’s not foreign to a generation raised broadcasting their whole lives on twitter, facebook, instagram, and snapchat. If they’re not documenting it, they probably feel like “it didn’t really happen”.


20 posted on 05/24/2017 1:26:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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